|
Temptress
Butterfly


Registered: 01/31/06
Posts: 143
Loc: Texas - where else?
Last seen: 17 years, 9 months
|
why does amazing randi hate believers?
#5466959 - 04/01/06 10:05 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
i didnt evenm know who this guy wuz before i came here but his name kept popping up. seems he is a mean odl man afraid of death and wants people to show him the other side.
-------------------- i have less ego than you do!
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 13 days
|
Re: why does amazing randi hate believers? [Re: Temptress]
#5466970 - 04/01/06 10:08 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|

He seems more like a man seeking truth to me, creating an oppurtunity for people who believe in bullshit to step up and substantiate their bullshit claims.
But, then, this thread wasn't going anywhere anyways. 
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
Temptress
Butterfly


Registered: 01/31/06
Posts: 143
Loc: Texas - where else?
Last seen: 17 years, 9 months
|
Re: why does amazing randi hate believers? [Re: fireworks_god]
#5466981 - 04/01/06 10:12 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
many peeple have special powers. why do u call that bullshit?
-------------------- i have less ego than you do!
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 13 days
|
Re: why does amazing randi hate believers? [Re: Temptress]
#5467013 - 04/01/06 10:29 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Define "special powers".
For instance, I can play some kick ass riffs on my guitar. Is that a "special power"?
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
PhanTomCat
Teh Cat....


Registered: 09/07/04
Posts: 5,908
Loc: My Youniverse....
Last seen: 14 years, 11 months
|
Re: why does amazing randi hate believers? [Re: fireworks_god]
#5467131 - 04/01/06 11:13 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Ever seen the old Ralf Machio~ movie "Crossroads"...?
-------------------- I'll be your midnight French Fry.... "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
|
MarkostheGnostic
Elder


Registered: 12/09/99
Posts: 14,279
Loc: South Florida
Last seen: 3 years, 2 days
|
Re: why does amazing randi hate believers? [Re: Temptress]
#5467172 - 04/01/06 11:30 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
I grew up in the 60s watching 'The Amazing Randi' when he was a guest on the Sunday kids' show 'Wonderama' which aired from New York City (I grew up in NJ). He was a stage magician and escape artist. He later retired to the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area (a few miles north of where I live), and in his later years took on the persona of the great stage magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz), who, after having been deceived by 19th century spiritualist charlatans, when on a crusade against spiritual phoneys. Houdini, however, who had an inordinate attachment to his mother, sought for 'real' spiritualists to help him contact her beyond the grave. James Randi (Randall James Hamilton Zwinge) appears to be a secular Jew with no spiritual sensibilities at all. Houdini was also Jewish, and I mention this (having been raised in a rather secular Jewish home) because people who identify themselves as Jews, yet who have no conscious spiritual life, often demonstrate a kind of pathological enmity against anything spiritual.
-------------------- γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself
|
SneezingPenis
ACHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!111!

Registered: 01/15/05
Posts: 15,427
Last seen: 6 years, 8 months
|
|
I know this is non-sequitir, but Matthew Barney, creator of the Cremaster Cycle, has an odd attachment to Houdini, and Im not 100% sure on this, but he feels he is somehow connected, or either a reincarnation of Houdini.... Houdini must be the new jesus....
|
BlueCoyote
Beyond


Registered: 05/07/04
Posts: 6,697
Loc: Between
Last seen: 3 years, 16 days
|
Re: why does amazing randi hate believers? [Re: Temptress]
#5467747 - 04/01/06 02:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
I think, he tries his last big magical trick here. If I see it right, even if he claims to test the person, in fact he tests the 'occurrence' itself, making it a proof something supernatural exists. This would, of course, be really a big thing, what would bring far far more than 1 million dollars. And Randi then will have his hands into that. But, trying to prove something supernatural is quite a really good thing to do, even I think and assume it is against some 'supernatural' law
|
Booby
Agent Mulder

Registered: 09/14/05
Posts: 3,781
Last seen: 14 years, 1 month
|
|
Quote:
MarkostheGnostic said: demonstrate a kind of pathological enmity
Pathological or psychopathic enimity by and between religions, races, sexual-orientations and even genders is the normal state of affairs. Why? "As above, so below" infers the gods are psychopaths.
-------------------- Let it not be remembered That mycelium eats detritus and dies But that life in all it's glory Counts mycelium to be on it's side.
|
|