James Randi has died

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 18:31

Yadda said:
@NVP it's me - we've already been over that.

Bloody stoners...

Yadda · 25 Oct 2020 at 19:16

SexyGreyFox said:
However the believers of Uri Geller only watch him doing magic tricks making a claim he's an Alien where Alex Jones believers could be harmed by the stuff he spouts.

I agree that some BS is more harmful than others. Once you buy into it though, it can be a very slippery slope.

NVP said:
*snip*

Lol. Fair play.

TurtleTwo · 25 Oct 2020 at 20:50

SexyGreyFox said:
Aren't you clever, even my 6 year old niece can use Google.

Aren't you slow old man? I already posted it was a rhetorical question later on in the thread.

dirtychinchilla · 26 Oct 2020 at 08:07

NVP said:

I NEED MONEY

TurtleTwo said:
Aren't you slow old man? I already posted it was a rhetorical question later on in the thread.

That's rude

NVP · 26 Oct 2020 at 08:34

SexyGreyFox · 26 Oct 2020 at 09:35

dirtychinchilla said:
That's rude

Funny though

FNG · 26 Oct 2020 at 15:12

As Tim Minchin once said "If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFO6ZhUW38w

TurtleTwo · 26 Oct 2020 at 22:31

SexyGreyFox said:
Funny though

Yadda · 27 Oct 2020 at 11:39

FNG said:
As Tim Minchin once said "If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFO6ZhUW38w

Funny.

I'll stick some tags around it so it's easier to see.

Lysander · 27 Oct 2020 at 11:49

SexyGreyFox said:
Funny though

I'm respecting your responses more these days.

Hellsmk2 · 27 Oct 2020 at 22:33

NVP said:
lol bit defensive, I was not defending Gellar I was condemning Randi

That's not exactly true now is it, considering the live performance sabotage...

He made a career debunking fraudsters, not entertainers. Fraudsters.

I'm not sure what you're hoping to achieve by trolling a death thread. Whatever floats your boat I guess.

Very sad to hear of his death.

NVP · 28 Oct 2020 at 03:25

Trolling a death thread? I'm sorry you're unable to follow the conversation. If I troll, you won't even know about it

So was Uri a "fraud" or an entertainer? What about Dennis Rodman?

SexyGreyFox · 28 Oct 2020 at 09:34

Uri was 100% a fraud.
He earned money by pretending to first be an Alien with his ship orbiting Earth and claimed his powers were real.
The Alien bit fell away after a while.

NVP · 28 Oct 2020 at 13:41

Ok, so Randi was needed to prove to the public that the guy with the Israeli birth certificate who "bends spoons with his mind" wasn't an alien?

Give people more credit.

Randi may have been some great fella and exposed some who took advantage of others... but his obsession for Uri appears nothing more than initial superiority that turned into raging jealousy.

I'm yet to understand the justification otherwise.

adolf hamster · 28 Oct 2020 at 14:36

NVP said:
Give people more credit.

we live in a world where people genuinely believe:
the earth is flat
covid is caused by 5g
aliens exist
people can talk to the dead and vice versa
god can heal cancer
homeopathy works
etc etc

granted of the people randi pursued uri wasn't as dangerous as say the homeopaths or psychic surgeons, all uri did was get stupidly rich off his claims.

Lysander · 28 Oct 2020 at 15:05

adolf hamster said:
we live in a world where people genuinely believe:
aliens exist

I think anyone with a brain believes there's a strong possibility that aliens exist, hence the existence of SETI.

Also it's looking increasingly possible that there is/was life on Mars [even single-celled organisms qualify, though it would be nice if it were intelligent life].

Gerard · 28 Oct 2020 at 15:08

adolf hamster said:
we live in a world where people genuinely believe:

aliens exist

Seriously? All the billions of planets out there and you think we're the only planet with life?

adolf hamster · 28 Oct 2020 at 15:16

Lysander said:
I think anyone with a brain believes there's a strong possibility that aliens exist, hence the existence of SETI.

Also it's looking increasingly possible that there is/was life on Mars [even single-celled organisms qualify, though it would be nice if it were intelligent life].

Gerard said:
Seriously? All the billions of planets out there and you think we're the only planet with life?

ahh good ol' gd homing in on a single phrase.

i believe whilst it's possible we're alone in this universe it's statistically very unlikely there isn't some form of life out there we'd call sentient, whether we ever meet it or not is a different story.

however my post was meant to be referencing the tin-foil hat wearing area-51 storming "aliens took muh dawg" kind of CT nut.

Lysander · 28 Oct 2020 at 15:19

adolf hamster said:
ahh good ol' gd homing in on a single phrase.

Yes, I did notice that I did this. It's quite funny.

I fully believe that aliens, of the intelligent variety, do exist and are out there. They may have visited us historically, or they may currently coexist with us but in an alternate dimension.

SexyGreyFox · 28 Oct 2020 at 16:54

NVP said:
but his obsession for Uri

He had an obsession with anybody who conned people, not just Uri.

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