fighting ignorance?

Here’s a clip of the bust: Link and a brief synopsis of the incident: Link

Randi came out and surprised Geller. He replicated all of Geller’s tricks. But Geller refuses to sign a contract for testing under controlled, but mutually agreead upon, conditions.

I take it you didn’t actually read the threads.

Has spring break started already?

More specifically, you’ve proven that none of those reindeer can fly, at least part of the time.

Since no one seems to have done this yet: How did Uri Geller bend spoons?

Er…no…Geller is discredited by using information from two people: “Geller debunkers Ben Harris and James Randi, both professional magicians and the latter a winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant.” Neither of them is a “fake”; both are real stage magicians.

Geller is (presumably) a fake psychic*. If he claimed to be a stage magician, he would also be a real stage magician. If he proved in a controlled in a controlled environment that his feats were legitimate psychic events rather than “tricks”, he could then be considered a real psychic…and probably make a hell of a lot more money than he’s already making. Hell, he could make tons more money than he’s currently making by playing the lottery; it was $300 million plus recently.

*Why? Because currently there is no objective evidence that psychic powers exist.

Well, we all have to believe in something Anyone else want a beer? :smiley:
Luckily, I doubt sir** screwball321** is old enough to become an active member.

I believe I’ll have one.

Such lack of riches would be why his motor is a Rolls Royce and he boasts about making millions from oil companies. (Both links are to pages on his own website.)

[sub]Not that I trust any statements from him about his vast wealth - and in recent years he’s been reduced to appearing on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! on British TV, which is a good indication of a C-list name on the slide.[/sub]

Well, the sign on the door does say, “Please, don’t gush.”

Or possibly that those reindeer didn’t want to fly at that moment in time, as it would blow the cover for the rest of reindeer-kind.

This shows astonishing self-sacrifice on the part of those reindeer. I hope Santa pays them well.

i have read one of your posts and it is pretty dumb and you dont use punctuation especially paragraphs which means it sound like you are babbling without breathing and you will find that doing this discredits you in the eyes of people who have to read this stuff before they even look at what you write which is full of inaccurate assumptions and illogical arguments and irrelevencies and you think that someone who claims to have supernatural powers and appears on television and sells books is not doing it for the money even though you obviously dont understand economics nor the fact that any competent stage magician can do what he does which means that he could only prove he was really using psychic powers but he wont agree to be tested so we can only draw our own conclusions from that and while i dont think life is simple or meaningless i do think your post is pretty much both of those and if youve read this far i congratulate you at least i did until you claimed there was evidence to support these claims of amazing powers when you cant even give a single reference to back up what you say which is pretty poor around here because we are dedicated to fighting ignorance although that doesnt mean we want to do harm to you you see its an expression meaning we like a cite to back up any allegations or claims you make so its a figure of speech and i wonder if you know what that means and going back to the claims yes im sure there are people who believe in psychic powers and they pay a lot of money but never get anything like the gullible souls who send money to nigerian bankers or who think they must send on chain letters or they will get bad luck from breaking the chain and who gasp with astonishment when you send them to snopes which is a website that debunks claims but i suppose you wouldnt be interested in that because you just rattle off your stream of thought and expect us to take you seriously well we arent impressed :stuck_out_tongue: and its a shame because there are some really smart people here and you could learn a lot from them but you will need to keep an open mind and check your facts and it would help if you used grammar and proof read what you type which is why there is a preview post button :cool: and then you could give a better impression of yourself and do better that saying fighting ignorace with ignorance would be a better slogan when your slogan is obviously frightening ignorance with incoherence :smiley: and that was a joke based on what you wrote which has been the point of this post and i only have one more thing to say which is

Oh come on glee…pins and needles here, out with it!!!
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i can see where you are coming from. but, why do it only for a small gain? he is not filthy rich. that would be pointless in the eyes of a con-artist.
Perhaps that depends on what you consider “filthy rich.” Check out:
http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/GELRSKP.htm
There, Geller tells an interviewer that his psychic powers have earned him (and this was some years ago) “$50 million or more.” Where I come from, if that’s not filthy rich it’s at least a bit soiled. Since Screwball’s main point seems to be that Geller must be the real thing because he doesn’t make money from it, so why else would he do it, I think Screwball is faced with concluding either (1) Geller was lying about the $50 mill, (2) Geller in fact is getting filthy rich, or (3) the interviewer is lying in his recounting. As to the last choice, to continue Screwball’s logic, why would the interviewer lie? He’s not getting rich from this.

Clearly glee has an onion on his belt.

Well, it was the fashion at the time.

I have it on excellent authority that Geller is a fake, and I don’t need any genius-grant winners to prove it.

The spoons themselves told me.*

Sailboat

*It’s true! Well, it’s as true as Geller’s claims, and you’re ready to believe those.

You are, shall we say, incorrect.

Haha!