It appears from Anita's homepage that she has a new forum on the way.

What's the betting Anita manages to get a forum up and running a damn sight quicker than she ever managed to provide the raw data from her studies?

It must be driving her mad that she has no communication with any of her beloved skeptics.

Of course interestingly her forum could end up attracting overall a less skeptical crowd than the JREF. It will be interesting to see how Anita behaves towards the believers.

Will she express herself as the hardcore science and evidence-based skeptic she claims to be? Which wil risk scaring them away?

Or will she put her skeptical tendencies 'on hold' to encourage the attention she may well get from the less skeptical-minded?

Should be entertaining.

That's one forum I'll definitely pass up...there's painful and then there's excruciating. But, hey, maybe she'll get visited by everyone who believes she is a demi god. Which, and I'm just making a wild guess here, means she'll be talking to herself.

Now, if Akhenaten wants to start the "Proud War Monger of Death" forum, I'll get on board for that one.

It reminds me of (and this is interesting as I was reminded of it yesterday in another JREF thread) of a poster a while ago called Lucianarchy.

Lucianarchy was a believer who claimed all sorts of nonsense for himself (hmm sounds familiar). These claims reached a highpoint of nonsense when he posted a word and claimed it was a prediction about something happening in Ireland... blah, blah, blah. This discussion thrashed on for ages to VfF levels of stupidity.

In the end Lucianarchy was, guess what, banned (like we kept telling Anita - we've seen this all before many times).

Lucianarchy's response?To set up his own little forum.

It was very sad to see it a couple of months later - all the areas and discussion forums he had set up... and almost all still empty.

Posted By Daylightstar on 27 Apr 2010 02:12 AM
Or girl talk

LOL! OMG J-Patz is da HOTST!
 

Posted By Daylightstar on 26 Apr 2010 01:39 PM
The negative attention is what sustains her "conviction".
If she "is able" to withstand (disregard) all that, her imaginary powers must be true.

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan

The problem she has is that she conned herself...

Posted By Moss on 27 Apr 2010 06:11 AM 

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan

The problem she has is that she conned herself... 

Exactly. And she wants to continue doing so. She's definitely unwilling to  give up being "extraordinary" in her own little world.

Posted By desertgal on 27 Apr 2010 07:31 AM

Exactly. And she wants to continue doing so. She's definitely unwilling to  give up being "extraordinary" in her own little world.

That's what I think is the real tragedy here. She has the potential to be someone remarkable but her dysfunctional behaviour keeps her from achieving it. All the time she spends on defending her indefensible claims... meh.

Posted By Moss on 27 Apr 2010 12:10 PM

That's what I think is the real tragedy here. She has the potential to be someone remarkable

just out of interest, in what way?

Her knowledge of actual science, when she tries to properly discuss it, appears surprisingly shaky at best. For all her claims of being a wonderful science student she has never demonstrated an actual understanding of the scientific terms she likes to toss about. I suspect she studies hard for exams and does well, but doesn't have any depth of understanding - as evidenced by her constant jumping from science subject to science subject (claiming each is her absolute favourite... at that particular moment).

The kooky Science Geek persona appears (to me anyway) to be an affectation, a bit of a character she has created to further the image of being special and interesting.

Yet curiously she seems to avoid the Science and Mathematics forum on the JREF like the plague.

And as we have seen she has no more paranormal ability than a potato.

So what particular way do you think she might have potential to be 'remarkable'?

(Or did you simply mean in the way we all have the potential to be remarkable if we focus our enrgies in a productive direction that enthuses us? In which case I agree - she certainly has energy and single-mindedness. If only it could be channelled into something productive...)

Posted By Ashles on 28 Apr 2010 10:30 AM

(Or did you simply mean in the way we all have the potential to be remarkable if we focus our enrgies in a productive direction that enthuses us? In which case I agree - she certainly has energy and single-mindedness. If only it could be channelled into something productive...)

This is how I agreed with it as well.
However, I don't think she'll be remarkable in science....at all. Mark Edward's advise of getting a real estate job might be a much better choice.