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Smash Mouth One evening, a week
or two back, Im surfing the craps message boards.
Im sitting in the living room with my sons, who have just popped the
movie Shrek into the
VCR. Just as I stumble across a thread from a
dice influencing skeptic, the opening scene of the movie begins to play. If youre not familiar with the movie, the
opening scene has the title character getting ready for his day. In the background, a song was playing by a band
called Smash Mouth. I smiled an evil
smile to myself and was VERY tempted to write a friggin SMASH MOUTH
reply to this so-called skeptic on the message board.
But, I heeded my own advice from a previous article,
It's Not Up For Debate and refrained. For those of you who did engage this skeptic with
discussion (as I was sorely tempted to do), I urge you to read or reread the debate
article. ANYWAY .. In my opinion, someone who publicly announces, especially on a message board, that theyre skeptical about something, generally really isnt, theyre just looking to stir things up. A skeptic to me is someone who is unconvinced on a theoretical matter and is willing to do theyre OWN legwork to prove or disprove the theory in their own mind. I was once skeptical about dice setting and thats what I did. When I first observed someone setting the dice, it intrigued me so I did my own research, did my own experiments. I didnt get on-line and say, SOMEBODY PROVE TO ME THAT DICE SETTING IS
REAL! Over the course of
several weeks, I searched newsgroups and message boards for threads on the topic. I performed an experiment in my garage where I
slid one, then two dice, down a ramp and onto the floor to see if they would roll on axis. When that appeared to
have some validity, I took the next step and began throwing the dice on my living room
floor, again taking copious notes on whether they were remaining on axis. In short, I proved TO MYSELF that dice influencing
had some promise. The rest is history
.. So, to those of you
who are tempted to debate with these skeptics, I urge you to refrain. Its human nature for us to try to sway
others to believe in what we believe, but youll find it quite frustrating, because
most skeptics are passive by nature, waiting for you
to prove it to them
. and in the end, no amount of proof
will satisfy most of them. What we do with
the dice IS exciting, but
were not missionaries, and theres no unwritten directive to Spread the
Word to the unbelievers. Save your energy. Refrain from the SMASH MOUTH message board
exchanges. Your time would be used more
wisely at the practice table anyway, and will ultimately be much more satisfying. You WILL
indeed run across those who ARE willing to meet you half way, and are
earnestly interested in the concept of dice influencing.
I dont consider them to be skeptics, I look at them as just being
open-minded. For THEM, give them ideas
on how they can prove it to themselves. Anyway, back to
Shrek. Im pretty sure the band Smash
Mouth might know a thing or two about dice influencing.
Why? Heres an excerpt of
the lyrics from that opening song from Shrek.
All that
glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold Cheers to all of you "shooting stars" out there! ~woof~ |
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