James Randi vs. The Supernatural
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The Amazing James Randi uses his knowledge of magic to expose the supernatural and he wants to give you a million dollars! What is Randi's million dollar challenge? How did Randi expose Uri Geller?
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Raise a cup for Randi, as of nine days ago on October 20th 2020 he passed away. A true man of logic and honesty
God bless this gentleman 🙏
Who in the end couldn't disprove anything substantial. Like the afterlife or God. Just one big fat opinion. And opinions are like...
@@sfvpeckerwood Just like how you can’t prove it does exist.
@@sfvpeckerwood Ahhh, but he disproved much. That is why his name will live on long into the future, and yours, evidently, will not.
@@DJF7819 No he didn't. He drank water with homeopathy in it expecting that to prove to people it had no effect. No one could see or feel how it effected him later on other than him. Yet they all believed him because of that demonstration. That's how dumb they were and people like you are.
James Randi: "Magic isnt real."
Also James Randi: Looks like a wizard
Me: I feel like this is the trick....
The Prestige.
he calls himself a conjurer which is a fake. goof
Master of illusions
Dumbledore
@@secretunknown2782 kek :333
Fooling people is much easier than trying to convinc them that they were fooled
I've tried to tell people who vote the same thing.
True
You cant even convince a person he bought the wrong game console(not that I care about this just an example).People hate accepting they were wrong.
havocgr1976 that’s subjective and not even a good synonym of an argument.
@@Nmdixon-cu7vm ??Where is the synonym??Ιts science, psychology to be more specific.We are ALL like that.Our brain will even try to ignore facts that are against what we believe is absolute truth.
I was dating a girl, 4 dates, it was going really well. She was late to the 4th date because her “psychic” held her up. I laughed so hard I cried. She got extremely angry and left and wouldn’t talk to me after that. Dodged a bullet there.
You saved yourself from a hellish relationship
@@Talia.777 maybe she was really psychic, and she could predict when you were about to come? who knows!
@@nickclark18 🤣😂😂
Hahhahahahhahaah, I think at that point is better to use your hand.....
It reminds me the episode of the big bang theory "What, why u are angry? Did not your psychic told u, that my reaction would be that?"
Guy: "How did you do that!?! Randi, dry as a bone and without missing a beat "Very well, I thought."
He uses that line all the time.
@@777thetruth2 But it's a great fuckin line, my friend.
How did he do it?!?!?!?!?
Fun fact: Uri Geller actually hosted a show in germany a couple years back called "the next uri geller", a talent show for magicians. So yeah, he's still famous and making more money than ever...
During breaks he performed tricks where you put a spoon on the top of your TV and then he used his "psychic powers" to push it down. At a viewer count of about 3 ~4 million, some spoons are obviously going to fall down and they had viewers record the phenomenon and showed them after the breaks, getting more and more people to believe in this nonsense.
I think this kind of abuse is what Randi is trying to stop and he has my utmost respect for that
Herman Manly *mentalists not magicians. And even bigger scam!
And the biggest scammer actually won the show. With a very poorly performed trick that even the biggest idiot could see through. Maybe that's the reason there was no second season of this bullshit.
0x777. What show? Surely you're not talking about the guy with the psychic computer? That was an April fools day joke on people. If you bothered to check it out you'd know that, because they both tell the audience at the end genius. I am presuming you're talking about the million dollar challenge he's got going that NOBODY has won despite it being on offer for many years, they've ALL been proven fake, just like Uri Geller was. Other than that I have no idea what "show" you're raving about.
It's a response to Herman Manly, about the Next-Uri-Geller show.
0x777. My apologies, you are absolutely correct. My only excuse is age and having watched too many con man type videos, I'd also only just watched that video James Randy and some guy did where they pretended he'd made a computer program that he could use to read peoples minds and they went through all the tests and pretended he'd actually won the million dollar reward he has on offer. It was all done very convincingly right up to the end where he apparently forgot to date the cheque and hey bingo, it was on April first and they'd worked together to make it all look real. It was surprisingly convincing. I had that show fresh in my mind and stupidly didn't double check back on what you were actually responding too. My bad, sorry.
like trying to watch a movie with that "friend" that talks every few seconds but way way worse
Especially from these 2 little soy fairies.
even worse cause it’s like that friend pauses the movie every time he wants to say something
@@PeacePills.my wife won't let me have the remote during family TV time for that very reason. ☹️
James Randi is literally my hero. I donated 250$ to the documentary about his life that was made through KickStarter. I have a quote by him as my desktop background and now him and my first RUclips subscriber WheezyWaiter whom I have been watching since 2008 are together in a video... It's just mindblowing, I don't know what else to say. Thanks for making my whole year here.
It must have been your psychic ability that got you to subscribe to wheezywaiter, you knew he and Randi would meet. Go get that money.
me too I used to believe in that mumbo jumbo shit and ghosts and demons but after reading about dialectical materialism and watching Randi exposing these frauds I knew it's all bs
FathomLordKarathr v
FathomLordKarathr did he ever debunk aliens or UFO's?coz I can't find any!an if he has,what was the two flying disks I saw close up in daytime??with witnesses??
FathomLordKarathr he fake
Randi is directly responsible for me pulling my head out of my ass and thinking critically. We communicated through email and he strongly challenged my supernatural beliefs, not by telling me I was wrong, but by telling me to look at the evidence and draw my own conclusions. He was right. This man is a treasure.
Those 2 ruined the whole interview.
At least they arranged, conducted and published it. But yeah, the cutaway format is a bit annoying.
"I'm an amateur philosopher I guess, but I've managed to make a certain impact on the world and I'm proud of that"
You don't know how much I needed this quote in my life
Notice how he flips thru both books at the beginning, and from the first book he specifically says choose the most unusual word from the FIRST line. He simply picked page 91 because it the word "entangled" was the most unusual or complex that he found out of the other pages he scanned though, thus given the set of conditions he imposed, that word was the most probable candidate for someone to choose. At this point he already has the word chosen in his mind, and drops the first book on purpose, and flipping thru the second book was just a show. It doesn't matter when the other person tells him to stop, he will say he stopped at page 91 regardless, or in otherwords behaving as a fake 'random' number generator that always gives the same result. The other chap could have busted the trick by looking exactly at what page number he stopped at and getting the word based on that real random page number (as long as its not page 91) or instead of chosing the word "entangled" on p91, choose a word like "the", or something opposite of the conditions he imposed, if it was on first line of that page. There: magic trick exposed!
exactly. couldnt agree more more. and this just goes to show how easily the vast majority of the populous can be fooled! 'choose the most obscure word from the first line of page 91'....i mean, how obvious could you be!
He wasn't claiming he was really magic. He said it's a trick. That's the point. 😅
I love randi. He’s an absolute hero in my mind. I’ve seen first hand how hope can cause someone to believe in the ridiculous. And people that exploit this are complete scum bags.
@Jeff C Um what lol
@Jeff C the guy said Randi is a “hero in my mind”. How can you possibly dispute the guy’s own opinion of Randi? He didn’t say Randi is objectively a hero. What kind of snotty killjoy tries to dispute an opinion? Lol so ludicrous.
@Jeff C the guy said Randi is a “hero in my mind”. How can you possibly dispute the guy’s own opinion of Randi? He didn’t say Randi is objectively a hero. What kind of snotty killjoy tries to dispute an opinion? Lol so ludicrous.
" I’ve seen first hand how hope can cause someone to believe in the ridiculous" - see also every religion/cult in history
@Jeff C So who is your biggest hero?
RIP James Randi. Truly one of the greats, not just as a magician but also as a human being.
He still alive is t it
It's important to remember that "debunk" is not a term Randi uses. He prefers to be scientific in his approach, assuming that the claims people make are possible/true until disproven.
Indeed
His keeping an open mind makes him a rationalist rather than a skeptic.
Dr Randi is wonderful to expose people who make people think they have been healed while taking their money.
He’s also not a doctor.
What?
Randi was not a doctor. He was a masterful illusionist, conjurer and escapologist who dedicated much of his life to testing the claims of those who claimed to have psychic, 'sensitive' or supernatural abilities.
He was always very quick to admit that he was not a scientist.
I just discovered this guy but I absolutely love what he did for society lol
Ghosts are real
That is what I told my teacher: "I do not feel powerful to take the exam today:("
James Randi is a great man. His work of exposing frauds and charlatans has possibly saved thousands of people from getting duped off their hard earned money
I dont think he saved anyone.Those idiots will keep believing no matter what. Even if you present them with infinite evidence.
M H agreed how the old saying goes takes one to know one..
Thousands? Maybe millions
I doubt that. People don't like being proven they're wrong, specially when its something stupid
Its a shame really, but people seem to need to believe in the super natural, look at religion. Bunch o nutters.
James is a hero and a legend...I remember watching him on TV over 25 years ago with his magic and him completely slapping all the fakes in the face by exposing them. there’s a lot more videos of him debunking these fakes that aren’t on RUclips cause they’re so old.
Plot twist: this is Merlin time traveling trolling everybody lol 😂
R.I.P James randi, the legend 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Besides being able to rip off people by taking their money, there are some psychics who do harm by "predicting" where a missing child/person may be, whether they're alive or dead, or claiming to be in contact with deceased loved ones... which is really emotionally manipulative. I respect this guy.
James Randi is my hero. I had the great pleasure of meeting him several times, and having lunch with him once. His influence has spread far and wide. I have learned to look for evidence before accepting as true that which seems unlikely. Carl Sagan was another leading mind in the skeptical movement, if I can call it that. So many now have taken up the reins, which is a good thing, I believe.
😳👌
This was perfectly paced and edited. Perfect length of time for a YT video. First time on the channel, wont be the last. Great content.
It’s my first time of seeing this video and he is 91 in real life.
He died on 20th Oct 2020 sadly 😔
I literally just watched An Honest Lair yesterday. How awesome to be able to work with such an amazing man.
Randis line about people NEED to believe remind me of "The Wizard's First Rule" from the Sword of Truth series: "People are stupid - they will believe in a lie they either want to be true, or fear to be true" (the actually "rule" is longer and explains it a bit more, but that's the gist of it).
Andreas Tarandi Good series. I remember reading The first three books back in the late 90's I think.
The good stuff is easily becoming my favorite RUclips series. You guys are super rad.
A couple of corrections. Uri Gelller appeared on The Tonight Show in August, 1973. And Johnny Carson's intent was not to _expose_ Geller as the fraud he is. Instead, Carson (a skeptic and former magician) asked Randi for advice on the best way to ensure that Geller give a demonstration of his alleged 'powers', with controls added to thwart any potential for "trickery".
Sadly, while Geller failed miserably, of course, it only burnished his career. Rather than look at Geller as the fucking charlatan he is, many in the public believed that, if he were a trickster, he would succeed every time. The fact that he failed gave credence to the notion that it must be real, otherwise he would have succeeded. You see how deeply delusion runs.
Likewise, Randi rejected the notion that he was a 'debunker' of supernatural claims. He was a skeptic and over decades his skepticism was proven correct 100% of the time. Had Randi been presented with incontrovertible evidence of the supernatural, he would have accepted it.
James Randi has been my favorite human for almost 30 years. Thank you very much for making a video on him.
He does it by looking at the book page 0:24 and reads a word and notes the page it’s on then when flicking through the next book he lies about the page number. Then says which type of word. ie- one that isn’t a usual word. A great trick though, I had to rewind a few times to see what he did. I’m sure Randy is one guy that wouldn’t mind a trick being exposed.
aaaa niceee
Was not a trick was to show that no one has this type of power to predict words from people’s mind ...
He does tricks just to people find how they are done 😉
Nope.
you're a hero
But why he writes it upside down?
I just watched Randi's documentary on Netflix, everyone go and watch it! So good!
Apart from Geller, one of Randi's biggest haters was so-called 'psychic', the late Sylvia Browne. Browne serves as a great example of why it's not all about money.
On _two separate occasions_ Browne, on daytime TV shows, told the parents of missing Shawn Hornbeck (who disappeared in 2002) and Amanda Berry (one of the girls who went missing in Cleveland) that their children were dead. Of course, Browne was wrong. Shawn was found in 2007 and Amanda escaped in 2013.
Lol, that was honestly very stupid to determine herself so strongly. She could have said they were at some strange place or whatever the f comes to her mind. Instead she said they were dead, which is the predication with the highest potential to backfire.😂
RIP Mr. Randi ☹️
He will surely be missed. RIP, james randi
HOW THE BOOK TRICK IS DONE
Randi takes the guys book, he opens it wide bending the spine so that the guy is most likely going to stop at that page. He notes the page number, page 91 in this case, and selects a word that would not occur in the top line of every novel. The trick relies mainly on Randi getting the guy to stop on that predetermined page. Notice how the guy opens to the exact place that The Amazing Randi first examined when he brought over the books?
Now when Randi is flipping his book he must aim for a place that appears to be similar in thickness to page 91, and in this way he secretly guides the guy to the page he has chosen. Notice how Randi pretends he dropped the book in order to get another try at arriving at a believable place? Randi lies to the guy when he tells him he's on page 91 of his red book. This is the page Randi first opened to when he examined the other guy's book and chose the page and the word that are to be guessed.
The upside down writing is just more of Randi's charming flair that never fails to amaze.
Siapa yang kesini ,gara² pesulap merah?,
wkwkkw pada kepo sama james randi
Hadir
"Real psychic" needs to carry with it the connotation of "seedy scammer."
“As long as we don’t confuse our need to believe, as evidence for our beliefs.” Can’t stress how important these words our, especially today.
James Randi is a true psychic, he can easily predict that real psychics don't exist and can't with the current human physiology.
Before I saw this I thought Santa Claus was a fake
Santa isn't fake! There is much more physical evidence of historical Santa than there is of historical Jesus... even Santas grave has been found...
@@Zohnorg What are you on about?
RIP James
You were right no one will win the one million
RIP JAMES RANDI. YOU WAS A GREAT PERSON ❤❤
I have a friend who after years of knowing her suddenly announced she was "Psychic" sat in a "development" circle for all of 3 months. Got business cards made up. As nice as she is as never told me anything WOW! regarding messages from deceased relatives. She gets regular bookings for baby showers and "Psychic nights" She's so generalised it's unbelievable, but people still book her. RIP James x
I'm from Poland in my 30's so I never heard about James...now I'm a huge fan !!! World needs people like him !!
There's a psychic going around right now to make believe in your own natural beliefs, one hell of a magic show on the TV the trick is called the virus, making people believe in something that's not there......
9:45 "Hey V-Sauce, Michael here!"
This made my day, thanks 😭
Classic I still use that music in my videos
I'm just sad James Randi is nearing the end of his life because I greatly miss the work he's done over the years of exposing these charlatans.
RIP
James Randi was an inspiration to me and what I do on my RUclips channel as both a Skeptic and Magician. He will be missed.
I met James at a TAM convention years ago and took the opportunity to sit and chat with him.. What an awesome guy he was.
He looked at the top of page 91 in the black book. He saw a few words stand out. He wrote 3 of them (upside) down. He "slipped" as "stop" was said too early for him to hit page 91 of the orange book, but second time managed to fake landing there. Sure enough, "entangled" stood out. There were other options on the paper. Which the upside down maneuver took attention away from.
I want to know how that trick in the beginning worked.
@@vizvizvizvizviz I absolutely adore how you took the time to answer a 3 year old comment
@@vizvizvizvizviz He does it by looking at the book page 0:24 and
reads a word and notes the page it's on then
when flicking through the next book he lies
about the page number. Then says which type
of word. ie- one that isn't a usual word. A great
trick though, I had to rewind a few times to see
what he did.
How am I only finding this channel?!
***** Glad you found us!
+The Good Stuff me too.. I see that one dude on mental floss..
Scott Boyd no you'r not. By fantastic fate I found it too. Or somehow by mind controle? Something fishy is going on here. Perhaps I like James Randy? What is it? My logical mind can't figger it out! Is it magic afther all? LOL
Red pill time...
James would be amazing to photograph, one of my favourite people.
i think i have seen you somewhere
Just discovered James Randi yesterday and can’t stop watching all the stuff he’s done. I love him he’s an awesome, intelligent, likeable guy and not scared to confront these so called psychics! Also can we just talk
About the Wookiee impression for a second!! 😲😲😲 wow they should totally give you a role in a star wars movie 😂
RIP King. Your work makes the world a better place.
Now it's June 2020. What the "Incredible Carlos" said about how easy it is to create a cult, is in full display on the evening news. Thanks for the heads up Mr. Orwell.
WOHOO! YAY! yay-yay! new episode! and with the Amazing Randi, no less!
More exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!
Orin Sorinson !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love The Amazing Randi. Ever since I saw him on a happy days rerun when I was a child.
So sad of the news of his death, Great man.
The spoon trick is super simple. You have to prep the spoon beforehand by bending it back and forth repeatedly so it weakens the metal. Just before it breaks, it's ready. The warmth of your fingers will now be able to "melt" it into bending and, ultimately, into breaking
RIP Good sir.
there was a guy from africa a few years ago who claimed he could "cut trees down just by staring at them intensely" and a large crowd gathered all around the tree, I started looking for any signs that the tree had been tampered with, or cut in any way, or even weakened. the man began his "trick" by staring at the tree for a good 20 minutes, everyone was staring at the tree, as it groaned and cracked and swayed from the strong wind that day, suddenly, a different tree, an enormous tree in the distance just happened to fall, and everyone looked over to see what was going on, and apparently that man made off with several peoples purses and wallets and even some suitcases while everyone was distracted for that 20 minutes and no one has seen him since
“The need to believe is still there” hence all of the dumb memes and infographics on Facebook that people actually believe.
The disappointing part is that if there ever were psychic powers and the million was won, that person would mysteriously disappear the next day and the government totally wouldnt be responsible.
The question is, would the government give you a luxurious home and a vast sum of money if you agreed to work for them or would they kill you out of fear you would take a better offer from the enemy?
The quality of this video is gold in a market for twigs. Y’all deserve millions
“A professional spoon-bender”?
Exactly my point!!!
So many powers,just for bending spoons?
Give me a break..
There is a place for supernatural and paranormal belief. It's called fantasy. Fiction is a wonderful way to completely saturate our need for belief in magic.
this is an 11 minute version of An Honest Liar....
like.... exactly...
TheEllenMellon Might be hard to believe but we've never seen that doc. Great minds think alike?
+The Good Stuff ....And fools seldom differ.
+Paul L nice one LOL
Not exactly. Some rather important stuff from the end was left out....
@@TheGoodStuff "One phone call would've brought the whole thing down" is literally a quote from the documentary, An Honest Liar.
That man is a legend, and a superhero too.
He exposes scammers who steal money with lies.
People dont believe psychics but do believe a carpenter came back to life
Whats this? a letsplay reaction video to their own interview?
A magic trick to turn a 10 minute interview to several 10 minute videos?
There’s an alternate version of Harry Potter written with Harry taking a completely scientific approach to everything called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Lots of breakdowns early on.
Jeremy Saklad I frickin' love HPMoR. So sad it finally came to an end recently. I like it better than the canon series sometimes.
Everyone needs James Randi in their life. People just "need" to believe, because they think it validates some stupid fantasy they have about reality.
Yes, because the way the world really works is a million times more interesting than any fantasy the human mind can make up.
Mr Messy Yo. You gonna pass that pipe or what?
Mr Messy Yo. You gonna pass that pipe or what?
Sounds like ya'll take psychology too seriously. As a Lacan fan and David Lynch fan, I am completely aware of the role of fantasy. People just want to believe in the supernatural because they believe it validates their delusional beliefs about god.
Mr MessY; while philosophy is all well and good, try caring for a newborn creature without accepting reality. Don't feed it until your "interface" cues you in instead of listening to their cries or watching a clock. Try not cleaning them because it's all an "illusion."
Walk across a road against traffic and see how "illusory" your "interface" is with the world.
Reality is what we detect with our senses, that's what they're FOR. The rest is mental masturbation. Interesting as hell, but not really useful.
No offense intended to philosphers.
*sees the first interjection
*clicks off video
Click 10:08
6:36 I just want to add, after this aired his career was not only successful it exploded. He became a short lived phenomenon.
I need knowledge. I do not wish to believe. That said however, I also enjoy being mystified by what I do not know or understand. It fascinates me to no (or know) end. But I do not want to believe what I do not know is something it is not.
After that high five I instantly left. Another case of YTbers thinking they must be cool by screaming or doing something annoying.
I couldn't deal with the acting, forced joking and little sarcastic comments as well. Borders between cringey and just completely unnecessary.
James Randi is a treasure but the other two are just cringe
"just shut up and watch the trick" - best advice ever given.
I am not religious and therefore very comfortable seeing shows like this that authenticate my cynicism and disbelief in anything supernatural.
These youtubers think the story is all the better for their “quirkiness” and the repetitive violin plucking music.
After hearing what the next episode is about I'm wondering if there was a person in a gorilla suit somewhere in this video. That would be soooo smart!
ruclips.net/p/PLaxpujmz7Q07SNo83sSJBVyTLV1QNKdk2 Best Compilation of Bioenergy spirit demonstrations: Qi, Prana, Shakti, Kundalini, Shen, N/om, Chi
...but dont take it too "spiritualy". Those are mostly very good reliable ways to help people and cure them, but it is all based on the physiology, actually.
Awesome! I literally just watched the documentary about James Randi (An Honest Liar)
Good stuff
I know this was a while ago, but is there any chance you remember the name of the episode?
Unsinkable rubber ducks: sounds like many of our politicians!
A lot of people don't get this but, Randi is not disproving any of the supernatural, he is simply disproving the scammers of it and their misconceptions of what it is.
R. I. P.
I wish I had super powers to bring Randi back and trade his life with a worthless one e.g. Cardi B.
There are enough thots but there is only one Randi.
I like this comment
Why do I feel like these believers are all the people who fell for Tump being a patriot .🤣😂
When the need to believe increases the ability to see truth decreases
The world needs more Randy's. 😊
The "cult of personality" is VERY real, and still VERY much a thing. It's even easier today than ever to create a literal cult of followers. In fact, cults have now become the biggest business in the entire US thanks to social media. They just call them "influencers" and "content creators" nowadays.
People will see this, think "wow how do people believe this stuff" and then go unironically fly their MAGA flag.
Uri geller has officially admits to being a fraud
Source please.
Feminist Rights source? Take your pick....... The man has come out and admitted that he was faking it.
Again, in case it wasnt clear, please supply a link to his admission he faked it all along and I will stand corrected. ruclips.net/video/pN_AC9KHlM8/видео.html is not an admission of anything.
Feminist Rights I don't know why you that video up, that was stupid af, now uri geller admitted to a German interviewer to being a fraud. Magische welt 2007
Yep. It's like that great poem 'Lamia' by the immortal John Keats. Lycius falls in love with this beautiful nymph, Lamia. They're about to get married, but she doesn't want his teacher, the stern philosopher, Apollonius, at the wedding. But he shows up anyway, concerned that his young charge is about to ruin his life. Apollonius looks at Lamia, and the spell is broken. She's not a beautiful woman anymore, but the serpent she's always been. James Randi was our Apollonius of Tyana. A thankless job, exposing frauds and scattering illusions, but the truth demands it ! Thank you, James. I hope you're in a realm of real magic, being entertained as you entertained us ! Thank you The Good Stuff ! I'm a new subscriber !
The fact that he asked for “objective evidence” of the supernatural, which by definition exists beyond the observable laws of science, tells me all I need to know about this guy. Lmao
And your post tells me all I need to know about you.
You're putting yourself on the wrong side of a contradiction. Saying the supernatural "exists beyond the observable laws of science" means it doesn't exist in any meaningful sense of the word.
"Supernatural" is in itself a contradiction, because if some phenomenon has any effect, any tiniest miniscule effect on the world, whether it's a ghost knocking a cup over or a god answering prayers or a psychic reading your mind, that means the method by which it effected the world is also somehow natural and can be traced back to it's causes, using what you call "the observable laws of science". If any of these were proven to be true they would not be supernatural by definition.
By saying it's impossible for someone to gather evidence or understanding of the supernatural, you think you're protecting the possibility it might be true, but you're really showing there's no way for it to be true.
@@GaryIV existing beyond what we can observe does not mean beyond existence, and does not mean without an impact on the material and physical realm.
@@GaryIV there is more noumenal knowledge we will never be able to gather evidence on or understand than phenomenal events we will be able to observe and attempt to understand. Besides, science is not an objective means of analysis either way... saying something is beyond scientific exploration does not mean it does not objectively exist, you have mistakenly decided to view science as an objective and final means of interpretting the world around us
@@GaryIV you assume our extremely limited, parochial, and highly subjective perspectives allow us the means of discovering all there is to know about this world? lol...
I wish James was there when Jesus walked on water 😜😝😀😁
Hijax Large Size Stilts...XD
James would be a follower of Jesus I'm sure! 😂👌🏻
Seeing is believing?
What does the blind person believe?
Whatever the talking Elephant says.
Nice question
They trust no one
Talking "Elephant"..."pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
So, anyone have any ideas about that book trick?
+Stephen Kamenar Pretty easy to see actually, if you look at the video when he is handed the book he checks the first line inside on a random page and picks the most unusual word. Everything else- mere distractions. He says to Greg precisely what page to open the book from what line to watch and what kind of word to look for. Had to watch it like 4 times to get it and if I didn't specifically see him looking in the book before they started the trick I would not have figured it out. Disappointingly easy trick :D.
+Harri Pakosta ! you're right. What a slick trick. Since they're only allowed to pick a word from the top line, and you're saying "choose the weirdest word there" I guess you'll almost always pick the same word.
+Harri Pakosta actually I just looked at some books though, there's quite a few words on the first line... it seems like this would only work about half the time
I wrote at the top I didn't want to give it away but yeah Harri is right
I disagree that this trick is "disappointingly easy".
That this trick is so easy makes this trick great.
Because you can repeat the trick without any problem.
It is a great trick!
RIP James. August 7, 1928 - October 20, 2020
James Randi is the best. Thank you for debunking URI Geller