dr_dave said:

Does anybody else who tried this have any more feedback or suggestions before we finalize things?

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ShootingArts said:

I first dealt with a haunted house when I was six years old, long before my first horror movie or ghost story. Lots of things that couldn't be explained then or now! I stayed up until after 2AM to watch the end of my first horror movie. One of the wax museum movies, I forget which then. I was the only one awake or in the living room. That movie was so scary I had to hide behind my dad's big recliner to watch it!(grin) Scared me mightily.

I have had premonitions a handful of times. The first when I was fifteen, maybe sixteen. I was playing pool in a place near the house and I couldn't shake an uneasy feeling. I went the mile or two home and got my pool cue which I never normally carried.

When I got back I got my cue butt out but still didn't put it together and play with it. A little later three guys I had gotten in a fight with showed up. Also there was William, a fairly recently retired pro boxer who was seeing a dancer that was somebody's ex wife. I knew the girl slightly, and I had played pool with William many times.

Next thing I knew, William and I were against an old stage in the back of the place. I had the butt of the across my chest like a baton and William was alongside me.

Things cooled off after awhile, I was looking pretty ready with the cue and more importantly William wasn't a picnic for anyone to take on. After five or ten minutes the people in the back of the crowd were pushing forwards and the people in front were obviously leaning backwards to not get pushed into William or my cue. William beat twenty-four men arm wrestling later when things calmed down, some multiple times, some with both hands. I faded with some friends I had made that night. Funny thing, neither William or any of those men had been in the place when the uneasy feeling settled on me.

I got that same feeling a half dozen more times. Sometimes I knew why later, sometimes I never knew. However, when I got that feeling of dread I bailed without question. Sometimes we know something without knowing why. Occult probably isn't the answer, I don't know. My guess is a sense we have that isn't recognized yet. Can't rule out the occult though and sometimes it is a matter of when in doubt get the hell out!

Hu

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jay helfert said:

I never totally agreed with it. There are often other better ways to shoot certain shots. TOI is not the end-all, be-all to play better pool.

I'd recommend the Miz when he said Practice, Practice and more practice. Also Ray Martin's 99 Critical Shots. There several other great sources of Pool info that never mentions anything about TOI.

By advancing a theory like this throws everything CJ says into question. And then this childish nonsense about the Sun, the Moon and three ball combos takes the cake.

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ShootingArts said:

I read some people's writing and just hope they are doing like I used to do years ago. I would lead a person or a group I was standing in down logical steps, none of which could be disputed. Since each thing could have more than one answer it was possible for every step to be true and the end conclusion ridiculous. Yet nobody could say any one conclusion was false in itself!

I once worked alongside people of fairly low intelligence who had some strange beliefs. This was a bit weird to me. What was really weird though were intelligent, well educated people, wo had gotten some really strange ideas along the way.

I assume that most full time pool players are fairly uneducated. Probably less true of the younger generations but I think in my early days from the sixties to the eighties it was true. I don't mean to say that pool players were unintelligent, just that they had went down paths that resulted in little formal education.

Efren is a fine example. Almost certainly highly intelligent, also fairly certain he would score very poorly on an IQ test due to very little formal education. We always struggle to discern between IQ and education.

Hu

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maha said:

he is right about an advanced civilization 20,000 years ago.

its called the natives and indians and such that lived then.

they had good family values and only took from the land what they really needed not wasted all the resources. and did not need all sorts of gimmicks and gizmos to occupy their time.

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Lowell said:

The "touch of inside" thing is more offensive to me

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straightline said:

Ok I gotta ask the dumb question. What event?

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