@mapache11 spelling and handwriting has Notting to do with intelligence neither does the size of a persons head...all that crap was disproved years ago
@thbebokg1 ..if you are too thick to understand the irony of thbebokg1's comment, and the word she spelled wrong, then you shouldn't be posting here or probably even watching Randi's videos.
@mapache11 i was stating a fact....i suppose since your the smartest person in the world...that gives you the right to tell me what i can & cant watch on you tube... arrogant little shit...
@thbebokg1 ...you posted your comment as a question because you were indirectly telling the people that spelled genius CORRECTLY, that it should be spelled with an "o". So I corrected your mistake. It isn't our fault that you don't know how to spell the only really important word in your three word posting.
I am most definitely not the smartest person in the world, nor have I claimed to be. I just spell better than you. Ignorant, misguided bitch.
@mapache11i was saying that you thought that your smarter than everyone else...i should have guessed that you would not have got that...i can see why your patrolling this post..you make a lot of assumptions..most of witch are wrong....ps you must be high or something....you never corrected me on anything...and you said our..like we..or us....gave your self away you gang of stupid fucks
@thbebokg1 ..you said "I suppose since your (sic) the smartest person in the world..." you did not say "You think you are the smartest person in the world."
I didn't make any assumptions here. I corrected your incorrect version of "genius". You spelled it "genious". The our that I refer to is any and all that saw your post and laughed our fucking asses of at your ridiculous attempt at correcting the truly intelligent people who called Randi a genius, without the O.
@mapache11i never called him a genious or a genius...but he is a very learned man...but most places this is common knowledge...who are thes imaginary people you clam are laughing at me...and on a count of the fact that your the only person that can see and hear them...can you tell them i hate them ...and i dont think this randi guy would appreciate ignoramus such as your self throwing his name around..... like you know him in anyway ...sad
@thbebokg1 ..right you are...it was a different twit that called him the "genious"...sorry for the confusion. Now I'll just have to flame you for defending a person that can't spell genius.
@mapache11 you truly are a fool ..i was never defending anyone...spelling has notting to do with intelligence ...whos gona flame me ...you and your gang of imaginary of friends ..some thing tells me that if you did not have spell check...your spelling might take a turn for the worse too...ps this guy is only a genius when compared to other stupid americans
@thbebokg1 ...look dipstick, some people posted calling Randi a genius. Then some twit tried to correct THEM by saying that THEY spelled genius wrong. If you don't see the irony in that then you don't have any right to call me out for correcting her/him. Typos aside, my spelling is fine. Or hadn't you noticed?
The last line of your post is incongruent. " this guy is only a genius when compared to other stupid americans". How can someone be a genius AND a stupid American at the same time???
@thbebokg1 ..you were defending the person that I corrected. If you are too obtuse to see that, and not intelligent enough to see the irony in someone telling others that genius is spelled with an 'o', then you don't have any right to call me out for the correction. ps your comment "this guy is only a genius when compared to other stupid americans" is incongruent. How can Randi be both a genius AND a stupid American at the same time? By saying "other", you imply that he is one of them. DUH
@BlankPicketSign No, not really. That barrier did get broken. It is more likely that if what was measured at that hadron collider, that light simply travels slightly under the maximum speed. Perhaps light has an iensy tiensy bit of mass after all.
I think the assumption that we won't travel to the stars, remains quite safe.
@BlankPicketSign The moon is nearby. The stars are not. Fact remains, it's too far. No amount of excuses, insults, analogies, etc, is going to change that fact.
@BlankPicketSign Making comparisons like how once humans thought the world was flat and we thought we could not fly are the most dumbest comparisons you could make.
Science wasn't part of things back then. Science *IS* part of the determination whether we can visit other stars or not.
Stars are too far. The maximum speed is too slow. The amount of energy required to even reach near that speed to too great. It's perfectly logical to state that it is out of reach.
Are we not slowly discovering that Light Speed is NOT in fact a barrier?
Scientists now are finding that partials can indeed move faster than the speed of light, AND let us not forget the bending of the universe through the 5th Diminution using Wormholes, and so on.
Humanity has proven time and time again that we can break down the limits of our understanding.
There is more than one way to travel to distant stars. Teleportation, Hibernation, Faster than light travel, and so on. =^_^=.
@BlankPicketSign There is no information as of yet that the speed of light is not a barrier. Everything we've found out, backed by experimentation, in other words science, it all points to the same thing, how you can't move anything faster to the speed of light. Of course, there is the complication of relativity which gets a little weird. It's as if you have to throw out the concept of time as you know it. I can elaborate on this further, it's fascinating.
@BlankPicketSign Things we don't understand fully are open for re-interpretation and understanding.
But things like the laws of nature aren't known to be flexible at all. For instance, the conservation of energy. You can not create or destroy energy.
You can't compare things like how once people used to think the world was flat and flight was impossible. Those then conclusions weren't made scientifically.
End of day, we will, unfortunately, never visit other planets. Sad, but true.
I think you meant "Stars" >_>, Cause Mars and Europa are really close =^_^=
You are making very sound arguments, And I agree with you
Perhaps I am simply holding on to an illogical glimmer of hope that one day we will venture throughout our galaxy. Maybe I should hold on to the Science we have now, and not waste time on impossible dreams
Or maybe I just don't like using Absolute Assertions like you have been using, And prefer to say "Maybe" =^_^=
@BlankPicketSign I should have said outside the solar system, yes.
You can keep your eye on scientific discoveries for hope. Things like wormholes and folding are pseudo science pretty much. Perhaps something about quantum theories.
Ok maybe maybe. Here's something: reality as we know it including time is merely an artifact balancing on the ultimate eternal timeless random quantum state. If there was a way to reach *through* that foundation then you could reach anywhere instantly. Weird.
@BlankPicketSign ... in fact it gets really weird. First consider how the universe might have come to be. Imagine the ultimate state of nothingness not being a black empty vacuum space at all (it being something still). Imagine time merely being the movement of electrons, atoms, nothing more. Imagine the lowest possible state being a random soup of quantum particles popping in and out of existence everywhere always. They do that just because they can.
@BlankPicketSign ... then when a few particles by random happen to line up in a way that it can support an artifact that's sustainable and replicable, it could start a universe. It would spread out from a spot outwards. Then along the edges of that expanding sphere, it would deposit matter. The only thing that's in time is the movement of what matter is made up of (moving at a constant speed of light - electrons rotating etc).
Given all that. *Maybe* we could peek back into that quantum soup...
@BlankPicketSign ... but as for remaining confined in the rules and mechanisms of reality (the artifact balancing on that quantum soup), the restrictions make it impossible to cross the distance of stars for humans. Our entire existence is just way too fast. Kind of like poof-here-we-are-oops-poof-there-we-go. Like a drop in an ocean. Like a pindrop on the moon. Billions of times less even.
So, how to escape the confines of time. The problem is that we entirely operate *inside* matter so to say.
@BlankPicketSign ... almost like a computer program that can not reach outside. Perhaps something outside our state could provide a helping hand. Good grief, some might argue this is some sort of god. Crap please noone take us down that bullshit.
Anyway, I have no idea if you're following all this, but it's my explanation of how the universe can exist.
@BlankPicketSign ... now, what *MIGHT* be possible, is that one day we will discover a different type of broadcast we can pick up from outer space. An alien race way out there could have been sending out a continuous feed about everything they know and do, for others to enjoy.
We should do the same. Send out a continuous stream of knowledge, information, our lives, everything. Why not? It's like paying it forward. But it'll be a one way stream.
The logic that spiritualists aren't interested in the million dollar prize would be better supported if those same spiritualists didn't charge for their services. Randi made a good bet and I haven't seen anyone even attempt to challenge him in it. Proof enough that these people are worthless in every sense.
To anyone who reads these messeges, could you please tell mr. randi that I've been waiting for a response. it's time for me to put a stop in all this nonsense about fake psychics. I'm real and I know of and elder who came before me and he is real too. I am impervious to illness and I say that If You want the proof, it's right here trying to slap you in the face for ignoring it. I'm willing to bet my life against his Million, in my opinion the stakes couldn't be higher.
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kbernstar you sound like a sex nut who plays with santa claus butt.have you seen randi so called million dollar you jackass.i didnt think so.dont bother me again retard.
@extrateresstrial Typical raging because someone smarter than you could ever hope to be is attacking your core beliefs in pseudoscience and trickery.
I don't know why Randi bothers taking these psychics down. After all, those frauds are taking money from idiots like you who didn't deserve to have it in the first place.
@kbernstar Many of their victims are innocently mistaken. Somebody doesn't "deserve" to be conned just because they've never learned how to critically analyse something or don't have the right information. After they've got the information... well, then it's really up to them.
Not true. You wouldn't be assuming it was safe or not safe. You would be agnostic towards the condition of the road.
If you had a kid and they said they were going to stay at a friends house, and you called to confirm it was true, that doesn't mean you assumed your child was lying. You are just verifying.
I foresee a digression into semantics lol. I'm not sure if I would agree with the word 'had'.
I wasn't arguing that we don't make assumptions. I was arguing that testing something doesn't mean you have assumed a result. You do assume that your test with elucidate a reasonable result; otherwise, why run the experiment?
Philosophically, the phrase "I think, therefore, I am" is the basic assumption everyone makes (assuming my memory is accurate lol).
When you are listening to James Randy, you are definitely not dealing with art, you are dealing with the analytical. As an artist, he can definitely bore me but as someone who is into reason, I appreciate him immensely.
The next time I see someone on stage tell me a box is empty. I will now whether I did before or not ask myself if they are lying. I by the way sell clothing that melts away when it gets wet. But I don't advertise it. Some lights are set on their side. And some lights in Europe actually blink a few times to let you know they are changing. The majority of things assumed that you talk about have codes that regulate the way they are constructed. So it is different from assumption it is belief?
In Corpus Christi, TX the lights at intersections run horizontally instead of vertically. Randi pointed out there are always exceptions to the rules. Here is one of them.
Very true. I have only seen them when living in Corpus Christi though, and am assuming that they configure the light that way in all cities that have many nasty wind storms every year.
sitting there with frames the whole time with a mic that doesn't work.. that was priceless. in retrospect you can tell he gets a kick out of doing these acts.
On the topic of traffic lights, bananas are like that but he opposite. Green means "wait". Yellow means "go ahead", and Red means "where the hell did you get that banana?"
In japan the lights are different as far as i remeber. Correct if i'm wrong. Also the most important thing is give us the chance to criticise our asumptions and change it if we thing that were wrong , our just becouse we want to prove by absurd that they were right.
Yeah, he may be right about europe, but for japan, I also believe that yellow does not mean go faster, assuming they even have yellow.
I forget that detail, but sure about the first
That is true of america though. Yellow means race against the green line of the other crossing direction. Scary stuff.
I will often see cars crossing while my lanes have the green light because they decided they couldnt wait another 1-2 minutes and just had to go through the tail end of a yellow light.
I was sure he was going to come around the podium with no pants on. I assumed since he was talking about assumptions he was going to demonstrate how we all make assumptions and that some of them are false. He did but he used the mic and glasses as his demonstrator.
I like this and fairly sure I have heard/seen the traffic lights example before. On that whole traffic lights thing however...
what side of the road do you drive on? The right side of the road right? Well not perhaps if you are from where I am, the UK, here we all drive on the left. There are a few other countries that do as well, I believe Japan also uses a left side standard.
It could be life threatening to make an assumption of driving on the Right here or in Japan...
Every comment is a book report -_-
polancot1 4 months ago
@polancot1 As opposed to every comment being, "I like the part where Homer said 'mmmmm,'" or "lolz so funny wat a idot XD."
houdin654jeff 3 months ago
Even though I before had watched this long time ago, I did still make the assumption that the microphone and glasses were working.
AsbjoernBrain 7 months ago 4
well he got me to assume the same stuff, he's good at what he does, very smart man.
Dl33tTrollololo1 8 months ago
Very well explained.
Nndaia 8 months ago
I'm going to assume the 13 people that clicked dislike are idiots.
iversonmatthew 10 months ago 6
luv it when he puts his fingers trough the glasses
hayamiboy 1 year ago
what pure awesomeness :)
harrowbits 1 year ago
yellow means "go like hell"
haha so true!!!
AceofDlamonds 1 year ago 4
its much easier to preach doubt than faith but still 2 thumbs up.
Goosieboy 1 year ago
@Goosieboy theres a reason why its easier. its true
bwddwb 1 year ago 5
@Goosieboy Great wisdom!
FazaaMinAlFaraaq 1 year ago
@Goosieboy about 48% of americans make an exception to that.
MrZeroTerrorRide 9 months ago
seems to be a smart guy...but that would be a assumption now wouldint it
thbebokg1 1 year ago
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newrosenewman 1 year ago
@newrosenewman ..no, a genius. Full marks on your creative spelling.
mapache11 1 year ago
@mapache11 spelling and handwriting has Notting to do with intelligence neither does the size of a persons head...all that crap was disproved years ago
thbebokg1 1 year ago
@thbebokg1 ..if you are too thick to understand the irony of thbebokg1's comment, and the word she spelled wrong, then you shouldn't be posting here or probably even watching Randi's videos.
mapache11 1 year ago
@mapache11 i was stating a fact....i suppose since your the smartest person in the world...that gives you the right to tell me what i can & cant watch on you tube... arrogant little shit...
thbebokg1 1 year ago
@thbebokg1 ...you posted your comment as a question because you were indirectly telling the people that spelled genius CORRECTLY, that it should be spelled with an "o". So I corrected your mistake. It isn't our fault that you don't know how to spell the only really important word in your three word posting.
I am most definitely not the smartest person in the world, nor have I claimed to be. I just spell better than you. Ignorant, misguided bitch.
mapache11 1 year ago
@mapache11i was saying that you thought that your smarter than everyone else...i should have guessed that you would not have got that...i can see why your patrolling this post..you make a lot of assumptions..most of witch are wrong....ps you must be high or something....you never corrected me on anything...and you said our..like we..or us....gave your self away you gang of stupid fucks
thbebokg1 1 year ago
@thbebokg1 ..you said "I suppose since your (sic) the smartest person in the world..." you did not say "You think you are the smartest person in the world."
I didn't make any assumptions here. I corrected your incorrect version of "genius". You spelled it "genious". The our that I refer to is any and all that saw your post and laughed our fucking asses of at your ridiculous attempt at correcting the truly intelligent people who called Randi a genius, without the O.
mapache11 1 year ago
@mapache11i never called him a genious or a genius...but he is a very learned man...but most places this is common knowledge...who are thes imaginary people you clam are laughing at me...and on a count of the fact that your the only person that can see and hear them...can you tell them i hate them ...and i dont think this randi guy would appreciate ignoramus such as your self throwing his name around..... like you know him in anyway ...sad
thbebokg1 1 year ago
@thbebokg1 ..right you are...it was a different twit that called him the "genious"...sorry for the confusion. Now I'll just have to flame you for defending a person that can't spell genius.
mapache11 1 year ago
@mapache11 you truly are a fool ..i was never defending anyone...spelling has notting to do with intelligence ...whos gona flame me ...you and your gang of imaginary of friends ..some thing tells me that if you did not have spell check...your spelling might take a turn for the worse too...ps this guy is only a genius when compared to other stupid americans
thbebokg1 1 year ago
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@thbebokg1 ...look dipstick, some people posted calling Randi a genius. Then some twit tried to correct THEM by saying that THEY spelled genius wrong. If you don't see the irony in that then you don't have any right to call me out for correcting her/him. Typos aside, my spelling is fine. Or hadn't you noticed?
The last line of your post is incongruent. " this guy is only a genius when compared to other stupid americans". How can someone be a genius AND a stupid American at the same time???
mapache11 1 year ago
@thbebokg1 ..you were defending the person that I corrected. If you are too obtuse to see that, and not intelligent enough to see the irony in someone telling others that genius is spelled with an 'o', then you don't have any right to call me out for the correction. ps your comment "this guy is only a genius when compared to other stupid americans" is incongruent. How can Randi be both a genius AND a stupid American at the same time? By saying "other", you imply that he is one of them. DUH
mapache11 1 year ago
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@newrosenewman ..Your comment said "What a genious ?"....Who were you calling a "genious" if not Randi????
get your crackaddled brain to rehab if you can't remember what you are posting.
mapache11 1 year ago
Pretty safe assumption that the maximum speed one could travel is the speed of light or slightly below that.
That means we will never travel to the stars.
Pretty safe assumption I'd say.
a1mint 1 year ago
@a1mint
I believe that little barrier is being poked at right now =^_^=
We haven't "Broken" it down... but we are poking that little wall of light
BlankPicketSign 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign No, not really. That barrier did get broken. It is more likely that if what was measured at that hadron collider, that light simply travels slightly under the maximum speed. Perhaps light has an iensy tiensy bit of mass after all.
I think the assumption that we won't travel to the stars, remains quite safe.
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint
The sky is never the limit when there are foot prints on the moon.
I am unimpressed with your Armchair Analysis. I will trust actual scientists over my own preconceived notions.
I suggest you do the same =^_^=.
BlankPicketSign 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign The moon is nearby. The stars are not. Fact remains, it's too far. No amount of excuses, insults, analogies, etc, is going to change that fact.
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint
"The moon is nearby. The stars are not. Fact remains, it's too far. No amount of excuses, insults, analogies, etc, is going to change that fact."
That's what the ancients said about the moon many years ago.
Heavens... People in the 1900's thought that the horseless carriage was a useless novelty.
Your bleak pessimism and short memory of human achievement is shocking =^_^=.
Humans are amazing creatures, and again I am unimpressed with your Armchair Analysis.
BlankPicketSign 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign Making comparisons like how once humans thought the world was flat and we thought we could not fly are the most dumbest comparisons you could make.
Science wasn't part of things back then. Science *IS* part of the determination whether we can visit other stars or not.
Stars are too far. The maximum speed is too slow. The amount of energy required to even reach near that speed to too great. It's perfectly logical to state that it is out of reach.
Not pessimism, but realistic.
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint
Are we not slowly discovering that Light Speed is NOT in fact a barrier?
Scientists now are finding that partials can indeed move faster than the speed of light, AND let us not forget the bending of the universe through the 5th Diminution using Wormholes, and so on.
Humanity has proven time and time again that we can break down the limits of our understanding.
There is more than one way to travel to distant stars. Teleportation, Hibernation, Faster than light travel, and so on. =^_^=.
BlankPicketSign 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign There is no information as of yet that the speed of light is not a barrier. Everything we've found out, backed by experimentation, in other words science, it all points to the same thing, how you can't move anything faster to the speed of light. Of course, there is the complication of relativity which gets a little weird. It's as if you have to throw out the concept of time as you know it. I can elaborate on this further, it's fascinating.
But I don't waste time on delusions.
a1mint 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign Things we don't understand fully are open for re-interpretation and understanding.
But things like the laws of nature aren't known to be flexible at all. For instance, the conservation of energy. You can not create or destroy energy.
You can't compare things like how once people used to think the world was flat and flight was impossible. Those then conclusions weren't made scientifically.
End of day, we will, unfortunately, never visit other planets. Sad, but true.
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint
"we will... never visit other planets"
I think you meant "Stars" >_>, Cause Mars and Europa are really close =^_^=
You are making very sound arguments, And I agree with you
Perhaps I am simply holding on to an illogical glimmer of hope that one day we will venture throughout our galaxy. Maybe I should hold on to the Science we have now, and not waste time on impossible dreams
Or maybe I just don't like using Absolute Assertions like you have been using, And prefer to say "Maybe" =^_^=
BlankPicketSign 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign I should have said outside the solar system, yes.
You can keep your eye on scientific discoveries for hope. Things like wormholes and folding are pseudo science pretty much. Perhaps something about quantum theories.
Ok maybe maybe. Here's something: reality as we know it including time is merely an artifact balancing on the ultimate eternal timeless random quantum state. If there was a way to reach *through* that foundation then you could reach anywhere instantly. Weird.
a1mint 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign ... in fact it gets really weird. First consider how the universe might have come to be. Imagine the ultimate state of nothingness not being a black empty vacuum space at all (it being something still). Imagine time merely being the movement of electrons, atoms, nothing more. Imagine the lowest possible state being a random soup of quantum particles popping in and out of existence everywhere always. They do that just because they can.
a1mint 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign ... then when a few particles by random happen to line up in a way that it can support an artifact that's sustainable and replicable, it could start a universe. It would spread out from a spot outwards. Then along the edges of that expanding sphere, it would deposit matter. The only thing that's in time is the movement of what matter is made up of (moving at a constant speed of light - electrons rotating etc).
Given all that. *Maybe* we could peek back into that quantum soup...
a1mint 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign ... but as for remaining confined in the rules and mechanisms of reality (the artifact balancing on that quantum soup), the restrictions make it impossible to cross the distance of stars for humans. Our entire existence is just way too fast. Kind of like poof-here-we-are-oops-poof-there-we-go. Like a drop in an ocean. Like a pindrop on the moon. Billions of times less even.
So, how to escape the confines of time. The problem is that we entirely operate *inside* matter so to say.
a1mint 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign ... almost like a computer program that can not reach outside. Perhaps something outside our state could provide a helping hand. Good grief, some might argue this is some sort of god. Crap please noone take us down that bullshit.
Anyway, I have no idea if you're following all this, but it's my explanation of how the universe can exist.
a1mint 4 months ago
@BlankPicketSign ... now, what *MIGHT* be possible, is that one day we will discover a different type of broadcast we can pick up from outer space. An alien race way out there could have been sending out a continuous feed about everything they know and do, for others to enjoy.
We should do the same. Send out a continuous stream of knowledge, information, our lives, everything. Why not? It's like paying it forward. But it'll be a one way stream.
a1mint 4 months ago
This man is a genius.
VeritySeeker 1 year ago
#OMG
at the end seriously!!!
SSERIOUSLYY 1 year ago
HILARIOUS #LOL
AbdulRButt 1 year ago
A genius mind with a sense of humor, always good to see!
ShowNoMercy502 1 year ago
The logic that spiritualists aren't interested in the million dollar prize would be better supported if those same spiritualists didn't charge for their services. Randi made a good bet and I haven't seen anyone even attempt to challenge him in it. Proof enough that these people are worthless in every sense.
jacksawild 1 year ago
Awesome! What a genius mind!
coldplayISshit 2 years ago 7
I wish James Randi was my grandfather :)
ArtinEmil 2 years ago 12
@ArtinEmil Me too!
coldplayISshit 2 years ago
@ArtinEmil Me too.But I'm kinda yellow...
Lacusness 1 year ago
In Houston Green means Go, Yellow means go faster, and red means floor it.
cryingsoftly 2 years ago
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To anyone who reads these messeges, could you please tell mr. randi that I've been waiting for a response. it's time for me to put a stop in all this nonsense about fake psychics. I'm real and I know of and elder who came before me and he is real too. I am impervious to illness and I say that If You want the proof, it's right here trying to slap you in the face for ignoring it. I'm willing to bet my life against his Million, in my opinion the stakes couldn't be higher.
leutious1 2 years ago
To many assumption can make you a little parinoid.
MyFartsRock 2 years ago
You had me fooled.
Gigano1986 2 years ago
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jmailings 2 years ago
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randi is very desperate and will go to any extreme to discredit psychics,hes very vengeful and obcessed with destroying
extrateresstrial 2 years ago
@extrateresstrial Sounds more like you are butthurt that psychics don't exist.
He's offering his own million dollars to anyone who can prove they're psychic. What other skeptic offers that?
kbernstar 2 years ago 42
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kbernstar you sound like a sex nut who plays with santa claus butt.have you seen randi so called million dollar you jackass.i didnt think so.dont bother me again retard.
extrateresstrial 2 years ago
@extrateresstrial Typical raging because someone smarter than you could ever hope to be is attacking your core beliefs in pseudoscience and trickery.
I don't know why Randi bothers taking these psychics down. After all, those frauds are taking money from idiots like you who didn't deserve to have it in the first place.
fyi you spelled terrestrial wrong
kbernstar 2 years ago 63
@kbernstar Many of their victims are innocently mistaken. Somebody doesn't "deserve" to be conned just because they've never learned how to critically analyse something or don't have the right information. After they've got the information... well, then it's really up to them.
Nndaia 8 months ago
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deal with jackass and dont waste my time!
extrateresstrial 2 years ago
Wonderful. Great showmanship.
jebus6kryst 2 years ago
I have heard that in some european countries, that trafficlights go from red then back to yellow for a bit before going green.
jmosler9 2 years ago
@jmosler9 Thats true, they do that in Ireland.
TasteOfGreen 2 years ago
No. Not here in Ireland (except N. Ireland). They do it in the UK. Red - 'amber' flash - then green.
aiyic 2 years ago
I lived in Belfast
TasteOfGreen 2 years ago
@jmosler9 That's right. That's to alert the drivers that it's time to move.
BlackWaltz5 2 years ago
@ 2:20, if you tested it, you assumed it was unsafe. No matter what, you make assumptions.
WazUppU 2 years ago 2
Not true. You wouldn't be assuming it was safe or not safe. You would be agnostic towards the condition of the road.
If you had a kid and they said they were going to stay at a friends house, and you called to confirm it was true, that doesn't mean you assumed your child was lying. You are just verifying.
TXRebelOK 2 years ago
@TXRebelOK : So you assumed you had to verify your childs statement.
:)
JellOFishi 2 years ago
I foresee a digression into semantics lol. I'm not sure if I would agree with the word 'had'.
I wasn't arguing that we don't make assumptions. I was arguing that testing something doesn't mean you have assumed a result. You do assume that your test with elucidate a reasonable result; otherwise, why run the experiment?
Philosophically, the phrase "I think, therefore, I am" is the basic assumption everyone makes (assuming my memory is accurate lol).
TXRebelOK 2 years ago
Thank you :)
JellOFishi 2 years ago
JR is the man!
garytheagnostic 2 years ago 2
In China, red means go.
truvelocity 2 years ago
Yea, it means "go" ahead and get in a car accident.
Timmay123456789 2 years ago
When you are listening to James Randy, you are definitely not dealing with art, you are dealing with the analytical. As an artist, he can definitely bore me but as someone who is into reason, I appreciate him immensely.
truvelocity 2 years ago
That was a great speech.
aswolf 2 years ago
The next time I see someone on stage tell me a box is empty. I will now whether I did before or not ask myself if they are lying. I by the way sell clothing that melts away when it gets wet. But I don't advertise it. Some lights are set on their side. And some lights in Europe actually blink a few times to let you know they are changing. The majority of things assumed that you talk about have codes that regulate the way they are constructed. So it is different from assumption it is belief?
krrrruptidsoless 2 years ago
Classic Randi. If you weren't waiting for a move at the end, you clearly don't know him.
boss1001 2 years ago
@lewrites sadly true...
Proghead88 2 years ago
This is hilarious and a brilliant demonstration. Sir, you are one of the cleverest promoters of reason around.
olafsirpab 2 years ago 2
wish i had beard like that )=
poyzork 2 years ago
Brilliant video!
Hirnlego999 2 years ago
I assume that I will favorite this video.
ghostyman666 2 years ago 2
@ghostyman666 i don't know if that's an "assumption" exactly, because it concerns your own behavior, which i assume you have complete control over :)
isaachaze1 2 years ago
@lewrites so youv'e been to montreal have you.
TheCaptainLulz 2 years ago
In Corpus Christi, TX the lights at intersections run horizontally instead of vertically. Randi pointed out there are always exceptions to the rules. Here is one of them.
rtottenc 2 years ago
uh yeeah, its like that in many many cities
Orangeflava 2 years ago
Very true. I have only seen them when living in Corpus Christi though, and am assuming that they configure the light that way in all cities that have many nasty wind storms every year.
rtottenc 2 years ago
Merry Christmas to you too!
ErichoTTA 2 years ago
Reddit
BeelKeel 2 years ago
But if he wasn't wearing real glasses when everyone walked in, then he's just assuming that no one tested the chairs before sitting in them.
lazyperfectionist1 2 years ago 5
I assumed that Randi would have something intresting to say. He's astounded my expectations once more!
misternewham 2 years ago
Proving once more that James Randi is a true performer
IronMAidan 2 years ago 4
Allways a pleasure..! J.R. is the granddad you wish you had...
PistonDriven 2 years ago 6
Awesome!
ElliotWoolf 2 years ago
3:10 Should we assume that there is water in the bottle and not let say, gin? : )
Great vid.
RibbitAfterMe 2 years ago 6
Haha! Brilliant!
XorGate0110 2 years ago
odd, i'm subbed here but this didn't show up in my list :S.
anywhoo, i love this video so much xD especialy the end section. 5 stars sir! and if i could, 5 more!
QCreyton 2 years ago 2
I thought he was squinting strangely! :D
Nibor7301 2 years ago
No! I accidentally rated 1 star! Damn this easy-to-press-button!
I´m so sorry Randi! This is a 5 star video!
samuelvargthunberg 2 years ago
What have you done! How could you!
He will never forgive you!
:P
wtfisditvoorbullshit 2 years ago 2
I must repent. Good thing that Christmas is upon us. The time of forgivness right?
samuelvargthunberg 2 years ago
Once again you made me think, thanks. Hope I can get to any of your lectures somewhere, some day.
redcrowdesign 2 years ago
i actually do test chairs at theaters
ProudAtheist90 2 years ago 2
am i really the only one who tests chairs?
neomp5 2 years ago 2
@neomp5 you are not alone
MrDreamPop 2 years ago
i don't think he could lecture bullshit if he wanted to. i can only hope that i'll think so clearly when i'm 70.
or at any point for that matter.
morse3388 2 years ago 3
This man knows what he's talking about. And he's not loosing it.
I hope to stay as clear when I'm 70 as well.
Xethavosh 2 years ago
@morse3388
Agreed. Though I must say, in the year 2000, he was 72, and now, he's 81, and thinking clearly still. :)
huyked 2 years ago
haha great :)
Subher0 2 years ago
sitting there with frames the whole time with a mic that doesn't work.. that was priceless. in retrospect you can tell he gets a kick out of doing these acts.
lvecsey 2 years ago
The frames were great.
KriimIanga 2 years ago 3
Randi is legend.
I wish more people would appreciate him.
prisiv 2 years ago 4
Very true, Mr. Randi! =)
pheenix42 2 years ago
Thanks
Adipatus 2 years ago
wow he looks so diferant without his glasses.
the glasses actualy make him look younger!
celestialsalamander 2 years ago
Awesome! 5 starred and faved!
mparker18311 2 years ago
On the topic of traffic lights, bananas are like that but he opposite. Green means "wait". Yellow means "go ahead", and Red means "where the hell did you get that banana?"
Makron5 2 years ago 9
randi rules
Obelisk2290 2 years ago
I never make assumptions, and before you reply, you're wrong I don't ever make assumptions!
Makron5 2 years ago 3
@Makron5 And yet you assumed that youtube will accept your comment and display it.
startreking2007 2 years ago
Indeed
Katalyzt 2 years ago
James randi is a freaking god.
Ebrainiac1 2 years ago
"Red means stop, green means go and yellow means go like hell" LOL
iatfai0428 2 years ago 2
why are you making assumptions climate change isn't real. you sound liek an idiot
NotTooObvious 2 years ago
In japan the lights are different as far as i remeber. Correct if i'm wrong. Also the most important thing is give us the chance to criticise our asumptions and change it if we thing that were wrong , our just becouse we want to prove by absurd that they were right.
DraskyVanderhoff 2 years ago
Yeah, he may be right about europe, but for japan, I also believe that yellow does not mean go faster, assuming they even have yellow.
I forget that detail, but sure about the first
That is true of america though. Yellow means race against the green line of the other crossing direction. Scary stuff.
I will often see cars crossing while my lanes have the green light because they decided they couldnt wait another 1-2 minutes and just had to go through the tail end of a yellow light.
waltermh111 2 years ago
I love this man! I just want to give him a huge hug.
EmilyTheGreat80 2 years ago
he fooled me for sure.
HaT223 2 years ago
randi is the best!
OrGaZmO666 2 years ago 3
I hope he gets well soon. Does anyone here knows anything about hes current health condition?
CemVogelpoedel 2 years ago 2
Look at the wacko's on YT who assume the Bible is real, lol!
BiodegradeableMan 2 years ago 4
I'm in love with James Randi
andid 2 years ago
Reminds me of that line from Under Siege 2 -Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups-
micronoid 2 years ago
He makes the "troofers" look like such idiots.
DeTzardis 2 years ago 6
Why are you making assumptions that "troofers" are idiots?
vagitoe 2 years ago
@vagitoe
Because (as said in the video) everyone makes them.
Gharphield 2 years ago
Because I can, after all we all make assumptions. :). By the way Creationism is that-a-way.
DeTzardis 2 years ago
nice
he did the same thing at a lecture here in vancouver
flamethrowerabc 2 years ago
I assume the liquid he was pouring for himself at the end of the vid was vodka, too.
thebeardedone 2 years ago 13
Oh Randi... I love that man.
Clausfarre 2 years ago 2
I spotted both of them, but only because I watched the video at Nasa (?) where he did the same assumption stunt. Fooled me then :-)
theQbelek 2 years ago
I wish James Randy would come talk to the California Highway Patrol, and their gaggle of mental health experts.
Capt777harris 2 years ago
James Randi is awesome!
LtShock 2 years ago 3
he's awesome.
Im4science 2 years ago 3
If I'm ever lucky enough to attend one of Randi's lectures, I'm going make sure I check the seat first before I sit down. :)
TomMSTie 2 years ago 6
awesome! and lmao at the pants comment
alx90x 2 years ago
I thought this would be a philosophical thing about how humans *have* to make assumptions, assumptions which we call axiom, e.g. that reality exists.
borrofburi 2 years ago
Man I hope this guy lives forever.
metabog 2 years ago 14
@metabog
I assume that's not possible.
Cab0cl0 2 years ago
Obviously, I was being dramatic. :p
metabog 2 years ago
@metabog
He will...Anti-Santa will live on in the hearts and minds of us all! ;-)
WolfSyndrome 2 years ago 2
Assume? I never assume. That leads to assumptions!
OccamsView 2 years ago 4
I was sure he was going to come around the podium with no pants on. I assumed since he was talking about assumptions he was going to demonstrate how we all make assumptions and that some of them are false. He did but he used the mic and glasses as his demonstrator.
jody291972 2 years ago 3
Thank god he had pants on.
thirtysilver 2 years ago 6
Santa is quite a smart fellow.
heros2zeros 2 years ago 6
Gah! He fooled me on both assumptions, that sly old dog.
Moth366 2 years ago 3
People needed this message to understand they were making assumptions and were obligated to? Yikes...
semasiologistics 2 years ago
@semasiologistics It's frightening, isn't it?
iambecomedeath7 2 years ago
I assume that Randi is awesome!
Now I wants some strawberry jello.
JonasC22 2 years ago
@JonasC22 I always assume Randi is Amazing!!! ;) LOL
SETIat1420MHz 2 years ago 2
Good show!
SexyMelon 2 years ago
"You came in here and sat down on your chairs, DID YOU TEST THEM?"
Hehehe, Magicians :)
HiAdrian 2 years ago 2
I like this and fairly sure I have heard/seen the traffic lights example before. On that whole traffic lights thing however...
what side of the road do you drive on? The right side of the road right? Well not perhaps if you are from where I am, the UK, here we all drive on the left. There are a few other countries that do as well, I believe Japan also uses a left side standard.
It could be life threatening to make an assumption of driving on the Right here or in Japan...
DoomsdayR3sistance 2 years ago