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Eddie Punch

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  1. As long as we both arrive at the same end, i.e. concluding that the bombers were murdered, then each one can except the others way of thinking. I have no problem with "test of reality or logic" as a method of problem solving in it's own right. I'm just not worried about people think when they reject "intuition" because it does not conform to their logical methods and therefore must be deemed to be invalid. Somehow the police in London have come to believe that it was not a "suicide mission" on Sunday the 17 July. The first time I saw "suicide bombing" on the BBC News Website my intuition told me "this is not right" and that was last Saturday the 9 July. I have a history of ESP and am well aware of the pros and cons of the issues involved.
  2. Good Morning, It is Sunday Morning, 11:23 am, European Time The London "Met", the Metropolitian Police, has just announced that they no longer believe that the bombers were suicide bombers. They are now saying that the bombers had "no wish to die" and that they were murdered. I heard this on the radio news at 11:00 local time. Apart from posting here I have been bombarding British Newspapers with my original post. Last night I got through to the Ant Terrorist Branch of the "Met" myself. They listened and said "We can not deal with ESP reports but thank you for calling" but this morning they seem to have changed their tune. My original post here was on the 14th, that's Thursday. Maby, maby, I've helped the "Met" to get closer to solving this one. I hope so. BurgessLau: What do you say to this ? It would interest me very much to hear what you have to say. Eddie Punch
  3. I would say they believed they had an at least ten to fifteen minute time span between leaving the train at say Paddington or beyond and the bomb going off much further down the line. One minute as you propose would be too much of a risk because minor delays can always (and do) happen on the underground. I'm sure that trains spend more time traveling between stations than stopping at stations so the odds were in favor of the bomb going off between stations as a matter of course. Even if the bomb went off at say Edgware Road station and no a few yards beyond it as happened then the bomber would have still been killed because he would have planned to get off at at least the next station, Paddington. Also there is the question of why would a suicide bomber be needed in any case on a train ? Where we have seen suicide bombers in Sri Lanka, Israel and more recently in Iraq, the bomber tried to get as close to a specific, stationary target, i.e. a shopping mall, at a political rally as near as possibly to and VIP targets or an Iraqi police recruiting center. An underground train is very obviously not a stationary target at all. The target actually comes to the bomber ! All he has to do is get on, plant the bomb, get off and the bomb is already on target and there is nothing to gain by having the bomber on board which is why I say they were all murdered. By writing this reply I have indeed used "facts of reality and logically inferred conclusions," to support my claim but I still say it is based in the first instance on my intuition. Eddie Punch
  4. At 8:53 a.m. I promise you all tube trains in London will be packed. The exact place of the trains (between stations at precisely 8:53 a.m.?) at this time is irrelevant.
  5. I do not understand the epistemology of this conclusion. You hold a belief, and it is a result of an "intuitive feeling"? How does your approach differ from mysticism? Would it not be a better procedure to start with facts of reality and logically infer conclusions, all within the context of objective knowledge? ------ Thank you for the questions: "facts of reality and logic" and "objective knowledge" run on a totally different track to my "intuition". "intuition" becomes mysticism when the "intuitive feeling" is analyzed and attributed to an "outside source" i.e. "I got a message from my granny who died ten years ago". Also mysticism implies “mystery”, “something from beyond”, “from the other side”. I avoid this approach at all costs and trust my "intuition" without any logical analysis at all. This makes it difficult for many people to except my intuitive feelings but I can't worry about that and no, I don't have to put my intuition to any tests of reality or logic in order for it to be validated. It is accepted my whoever wants to accept it and rejected by people that feel so inclined to do so. I may get a point across to some people and I know I will not get across to others. "Would it not be a better procedure to start with facts of reality and logically infer conclusions, all within the context of objective knowledge? " No it would not be "better", it is simply a different way of coming to a conclusion.. One is based on "trust" and the other on "proof". We know that these two words are not interchangable. This may make a good topic in it's own right but I don't want to cause a thread drift here. The topic here is "Terrorism and Islamic Fundamentalism". send me an email if you wish. [email protected]
  6. Although the bombers may have been British, I do not believe that they were knowingly "suicide bombers". My intuitive feeling is that they were given the bombs to plant believing that they were to leave the trains before the explosions happened, i.e. the "Edgware Road Bomber",Mohammed Sadique Khan, would have believed that he was to plant the rucksack containing the bomb by placing it on the floor of the carriage and slowly shuffle away from it towards the door of the train and alight at say Paddington leaving the unexploded bomb behind to go off at some point west of Paddington. He and the others were deceived into carrying bombs set to go off much earlier than they were told, thus turning them into both tools and victims of a higher level of the organization for whom they were operating. In short they were murdered by the people they were working for.
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