Talk:Medium

message: The trouble with calling it phenomenon was that some here believe that this necessitates inserting criticism into the definition, so we might as well avoid that.
Also, if a medium is a medium, he/she does serve as a channell for spirits, so it isn't correct to say that a person is a medium when they say they are.  It's a matter of definition, not truth.
::"why was it deleted by previous contributors instead of correcting it?"
The reason is probably that many here on wikipedia  do not want this kind of stuff spread around.  It gets really emotional. Martinphi (Talk Ψ Contribs) 21:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So, to you, parapsychology is the explanation for mediumship?  Well, I'll leave it.  No harm in it. Martinphi (Talk Ψ Contribs) 01:15, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm saying parapsychology is the only science capable of explaining mediumship phenomena until there is a record of scientific evidence of a mediumship phenomena that can't be explained by parasychology, in which case it would be a natural phenomena for the realm of natural science. I don't think there is any such natural scientific evidence on record. Oicumayberight 01:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If parapsychology can explaim mediumship, then it is a natural explanation- it is science.  Parapsychology doesn't do non-scientific explanations.  Most people would say parapsychology can't explain mediumship. Martinphi (Talk Ψ Contribs) 02:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just making the contrast between natural science and social/behavioral science. When you talk about phenomena, it's sciences job to explain even when they don't get around to it or don't explain it adequately.  As most of the design subjects I'm interested are not in the realm of natural science either, I understand what you mean about science not being able to explain adequately. So we have to work with whatever laws the social and behavioral sciences give us and hope they are adequate. The only way to improve it is to improve the science. Oicumayberight 02:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends on how you define success. I took the red pill. Oicumayberight 06:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Yeah yeah, OK.  So did I.  Still, what I meant is, we know nothing, but we still survive, and we have technology and we can see billions of years back in time, and we can cure some disease even though we don't know much about the body or how to manipulate it etc.  I mean, life expectancy used to be between 17 and 30.  A little knowledge seems to go a long way.
I like that about the red pill.  I'll use it (: Martinphi (Talk Ψ Contribs) 06:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Parapsychology meaning

message: To avoid an edit war, let's discuss why parapsychology may be a better umbrella for mediumship than paranormal. Since parapsychology studies the paranormal with a broader scope, medumship is also studied by parapsychology. It's misleading to narrow the scope of term usage.  It implies that there are evidence of mediumship that cannot be explained by parapsychology. The world has yet to see such evidence. Oicumayberight 18:11, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Parapsychology vs Paranormal

message: I came here to find out what exactly medium means in oil painting but it is not mentioned here. Should be added I think. -- PyroPi (talk) 02:54, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds more like a dictionary definition, which wouldn't be found here unless there's an actual article about it. Check the Wiktionary definition here -- item 6 under "noun". --Auntof6 (talk) 03:51, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medium in painting