Absolute 100% pure Kentucky double malt Balderdash!!draqon said:spoon bending thing is so easy to do...cause the spoon is very thin in that region so rubbing it with fingers heats up the metal and it becomes very flaccid.
Yes, I have sat at a table with a friend and watched him bend a knife by staring at it - It scared the life out of the both of us, and he refused to dabble in any more of these sort of things again. I carried on messing around with these sort of things for a while, but all that seemed to happen for me was that all my mechanical watches always seemed to stop. To this day I have to wear a digital watch. I don't know what causes these things to happen, but for me the experiences were real
True. Or even both.because there really is no psi ... OR because Randi is also a fraud
Doc these are just the same lame excuses you made at the beginning of this thread a couple of years ago. You even mentioned Wolf Messing then as well.You can't win the prize from Randi because the prize doesn't exist except in the minds of gullible people who actually think Randi would honestly give money away-- ever. The way his prize is worded, he doesn't *have* to pay anyone. Jesus could turn water into wine in front of him and Randi could call it nothing but a stage trick and send Jesus away without a thin nickel. An honest person with true psi abilities wouldn't win anything either.
And for those who think I'm wrong, just consider the fact that the prize offer has been around for over eighteen years now and no one has won it. While it could be because there really is no psi (neither true nor likely) OR because Randi is also a fraud (much more true and very, very, likely). It's a shame that the great Wolf Messing died before Randi came up with that fake offer; he would have gotten the money from him in a way that would have convinced the most block-headed skeptic.
The Doctor
There is nothing mystical about it. It is just a simple magic trick.There is something that I want to know. If someone picks up a spoon, just like anyone else, and about half the time it develops a kink, without doing anything at all to bend it, is there any "natural" explanation for this? I can't see how anything that I do when I pick up a spoon can put a sharp kink in it right in the middle, with a bend of about ten degrees. Since paranormal stuff doesn't exist, there must be some physical cause for it that we don't understand. I don't see how it's possible myself.
There is nothing mystical about it. It is just a simple magic trick.
One day I was getting pissed off because people kept calling me while I was trying to cook dinner. After what turned out to be the last call, I went back to the kitchen to check on the steak I was cooking and found that the fork I was using was all bent and twisted out of shape-- like the way I felt.
When I do it, all I do is pick it up with one hand. I do not do anything whatsoever to try to bend it. Can there be a known physical cause for the bending?
When I do it, all I do is pick it up with one hand. I do not do anything whatsoever to try to bend it. Can there be a known physical cause for the bending?