Am I the only that thinks that James Randi looks a bit like Darwin in this video? Or maybe, just maybe, he's Darwin reincarnated. Or maybe Charles Darwin just never died and stopped aging, became immortal, adopted an american accent and a different name? All of which I highly doubt, using a little psychic trick called skepticism.
@real4real1960 "Randi should come down to africa and get ready to give up his million dollar 'prize'"
You can be tested anywhere that Randi can find someone to represent him. He prefers not to be present at the preliminary tests or even know when they are being held. So far no one has passed a preliminary test, which basically just amounts to doing what they say they can do.
@Cheespuffs45 You will see things with your eyes that beats explanation. I know what I am talking about. I would have uploaded some clips if I was in africa now, but will certainly do so whenever I go there.
@real4real1960 Just because you can't explain it when you see it doesn't mean it can't be explained.
How do you expect to communicate that you know what you are talking about when you have no proof of anything or even examples? You're all talk. Go to africa and take clips and I'll watch.
@Cheespuffs45 I like rational people like you. I can say all manner of rantings here but to me, just like you rightly pointed out will make no sense without video evidence(s).
@real4real1960 Video evidence? I've seen real dinosaurs on "video evidence". Apparently, though, they're not real. There was someone called Spielberg involved.
First time i ever became aware of what James Randi does was during his apearences on Penn and Tellers show, bullshit. A brilliant man, with a beard of pure awesomeness.
A cockroach with paper money glued to its back might be able to climb a wall, but it could not make the transition from wall to ceiling -- so I don't believe that story, at least not fullly. I love James Randi, but that story doesn't add up.
I would actually blame nature, or if you're a god believer- blame god or gods for the homosexual orientation (heterosexuality is afterall determined biologically). Your argument also fails as most skeptics of religion aren't even gays, there's just something odd about the various religions which exist with their miracles and other spiritual junk.
He's not exposing people's tricks, exactly. He's showing that claimed "supernatural" powers can invariably be replicated with trickery. And some people really do claim to possess supernatural powers--this would be offensive in and of itself, but when you add in the fact that many of them use trickery to bilk grieving people out of their money, it's really reprehensible. Your other remark I will not dignify with comment.
There is, in short, a world of ethical difference between using sleight of hand and other magic techniques to entertain and using the same techniques in a for-profit effort to portray yourself as some sort of new-age sorcerer... ESPECIALLY when you're taking advantage of the grieving, the elderly, or the otherwise vulnerable.
Randi leaves the first class of people alone, because he's a MEMBER of that class!
@BosnianReality What does that even mean? Are you mad at homosexuals? Homosexuals are awesome. And someone's got to stop the Sylvia Browne's and Peter Popoffs out there. They make money off of people's grief and misery, give them nothing in return and often do more harm than good. Faith healing stops people from going to doctors and hospitals and getting REAL help. I'd trade a thousand of those crooks for one Richard Simmons and a million of them for a James Randi.
@JorgensZelda No, I am not mad on gays, why should I be? But gays ARE targeted by various religions, so James Randi is never in accordance with any religions or spirituality, that is why he is debunking everything connected with spirituality.
@BosnianReality Actually, he's debunking these psychopaths that are peddling their lunacy to people for money. They are actually attacking common sense. I have no problem with religious people, but faith healers, crooked preachers, and psychics that prey on people's misery and grief should be run out of town by angry wombats. If psychics just read tea leaves and tarot for fun and entertainment, that would be fine, but Sylvia Browne and her ilk are scum and deserve to be exposed.
@JorgensZelda Psychopaths? The only psychopath I can see is James Randi in person, as he is psychopath by definition: A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse. James Randi is antisocial (debunks all Christians), perverted (likes cocks) and has no empathy.
@BosnianReality Right, so, Sylvia Browne, Peter Popoff, John Edwards, three people who are amoral, without remorse, criminal, they're cool, but he's a psychopath because he's gay and trying to help people differentiate between frauds, dangerous thinking and irrationality on the one hand and logical, honest, proven ideas and practices on the other. FYI, a lot of women like cocks too. Does that make them perverted? Heck, I like sex that in some places is considered illegal. Doesn't make me evil.
@BosnianReality antisocial disorder means you don't follow the rules set by society(laws). what laws does randi break? and what is bosnian reality, the fact bosnia isn't a real country?
@scottbaioisdead No man, antisocial is defined as pervasive pattern of disregard of, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. And this is exactly where Mr. Randi ends. He disregards rights of others, in his opinion he is always right, but he is minus zero for any expertise, and lacks young boy partners, which he can find only by his public exposures.
@BosnianReality " Psychopaths? The only psychopath I can see is James Randi in person, as he is psychopath by definition: A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse..."
Clearly this must be a projection of yourself, sense you are unable to diacnose anyone behind a keyboar. Your armchair-psychological analysis must of been done introspectively.
@MrMZaccone You're right, you don't understand. I didn't call him a psychopath. Notice the quotation marks around my last comments. I'm responding to some one who made such statement.
@fc007 What problems do you have? You cannot stand other people's opinion here? You seem like you REALLY have to defend the old fatherly figure of a gay Randi? He can speak for himself. Do you love him? I mean, do you have intimate attraction to Randi?
@BosnianReality "You cannot stand other people's opinion here?" --Why do you ask? are you against mine?
You seem like you REALLY have to defend the old fatherly figure of a gay Randi?--No, I just pointing out your bullshit attempt at psychology.
"Do you love him? I mean, do you have intimate attraction to Randi?"--Is this your greatest concern right now? Why are you asking? Are you preoccupied with gay thoughts? Are you going to get a kick out of an answer?
@fc007 The problem with you gays is that you are provocative. As long as you keep your sick stuff in your home, nobody will be concerned. But you are provocative and full of complexes. And then you would like depriving normal people of the right to speak against sick old gays?
@BosnianReality First you were consern with whether I was gay or not, then I ask you why where you concern about it. And now you're calling me gay. hummm?
I think this is your attempt to reach to me. It's ok, come out the closet when you feel ready. most homophobes are secretly gay inside.
@BosnianReality Dude you are a joke, what does that have to do with his concern for his fellow humans being exploited by con artists? Wake up and smell the coffee dude, this guy is doing more good than you can dream of doing in your entire life.
@Teager999 Just contrary, he is charlatan himself and he knows that, but try to expose "other charlatans". Nothing can be more pathetic. His basic belief is that nothing spiritual exist, but only for one and only reason: bible and other spiritual scriptures do not approve of homosexuals. He being homosexual has now to oppose anything what is spiritual, to prove that bible and spiritual scriptures must be all wrong. Old pathetic gay.
@Teager999 Of course he is believer, if he would not be a believer, he would never attempt to prove the opposite. He believes that nothing spiritual exist. And I am not interested in gay discussion, sorry!
What a fantastic font of ignorance and illogic you are. And that's from someone who is somewhat an amateur specialist in seeking that out on YouTube. Good job!
My dad used to do the Trick where he had a Coin travel from his Hand to under a object for us Kids to find where it traveled to. You had to have both pennys look the same especially the date.
Took a long time to figure how he did it and is hard to replcate
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.
Then go through the appropriate channels. You don't go directly to Randi, you first have to pass a test administered by a local representative, they refer you on to the institute.
If you are psychic then tell me something amazing about myself.
500Yen is a Coin not a bill, I think he may have meant 1,000Yen :p, he's so amazing though I love his presentation, he could tell me a story about a man involving a .75 cent bill and I'd be riveted :p!
I would much rather see the tricks performed and not described and would love them more if the secret was not revealed, Why does this guy insist on ruining a really great trick,,,I just dont like him, no favors around the paranoraml either, none of that NEEDS to be debunked, I wish RANDI would just disappear without a revealing explanation.
Huh, I love James Randi to death, but I gotta wonder, isn't it at least sorta fucked up that he gave this guys two best tricks away by explaining them to the world on the internet?
I wonder if the guy knew full well that Randi was going to share this information publicly before telling him.
Am I the only that thinks that James Randi looks a bit like Darwin in this video? Or maybe, just maybe, he's Darwin reincarnated. Or maybe Charles Darwin just never died and stopped aging, became immortal, adopted an american accent and a different name? All of which I highly doubt, using a little psychic trick called skepticism.
jamesdragonforce 3 weeks ago
1:01 - TIMMMAY
bennygzor 1 month ago
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TheBlackDigerati 2 months ago
Randi for the win. Congrats from Lithuania.
ivanasw1 4 months ago
He is SO likeable! I love him ^^
MrPibi 5 months ago
you can give 2 million to africa, they gonna need 4 million than you give 4 they will need 8 million and so on.
bisfal 7 months ago
@bisfal Everybody must not be as narrow minded like you. Don't think you are any better.
real4real1960 7 months ago
5 people were from russia
farhanmemon592 8 months ago
Randi should come down to africa and get ready to give up his million dollar 'prize'
real4real1960 8 months ago
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@real4real1960 "Randi should come down to africa and get ready to give up his million dollar 'prize'"
You can be tested anywhere that Randi can find someone to represent him. He prefers not to be present at the preliminary tests or even know when they are being held. So far no one has passed a preliminary test, which basically just amounts to doing what they say they can do.
chrisofnottingham 8 months ago
@real4real1960 why
Cheespuffs45 7 months ago
@Cheespuffs45 You will see things with your eyes that beats explanation. I know what I am talking about. I would have uploaded some clips if I was in africa now, but will certainly do so whenever I go there.
real4real1960 7 months ago
@real4real1960 Just because you can't explain it when you see it doesn't mean it can't be explained.
How do you expect to communicate that you know what you are talking about when you have no proof of anything or even examples? You're all talk. Go to africa and take clips and I'll watch.
Cheespuffs45 7 months ago
@Cheespuffs45 I like rational people like you. I can say all manner of rantings here but to me, just like you rightly pointed out will make no sense without video evidence(s).
Time will tell.
real4real1960 7 months ago
@real4real1960 Video evidence? I've seen real dinosaurs on "video evidence". Apparently, though, they're not real. There was someone called Spielberg involved.
Smithpolly 6 months ago
Randi is great.
tnuh55 10 months ago 2
First time i ever became aware of what James Randi does was during his apearences on Penn and Tellers show, bullshit. A brilliant man, with a beard of pure awesomeness.
deathman1021 1 year ago 15
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A cockroach with paper money glued to its back might be able to climb a wall, but it could not make the transition from wall to ceiling -- so I don't believe that story, at least not fullly. I love James Randi, but that story doesn't add up.
StevenRoyEdwards 1 year ago
"blame the world for his homosexual orientation."
I would actually blame nature, or if you're a god believer- blame god or gods for the homosexual orientation (heterosexuality is afterall determined biologically). Your argument also fails as most skeptics of religion aren't even gays, there's just something odd about the various religions which exist with their miracles and other spiritual junk.
Teager999 1 year ago
@Teager999 Nice that Randy has an attorney in you.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
OMG free seats in the audience ?!
Honk133 1 year ago
listen to this woman
duranski1 1 year ago
The cockroach was ingenius if he wouldn't have told him they were tricks he could've won James Randi's $1,000,000 award...
DodecahedronHead 1 year ago
@DodecahedronHead Randi would have just pull a 100 dollars bill out of his wallet and tell the dude to replicate that.
Still, that trick was very good.
Deadman1709 1 year ago
Amazing
HakerzTM 1 year ago
I'm afraid you are wrong. But maybe you know better.
guely55 1 year ago
Wise old Randi. Hope he comeback to Sweden soon.
guely55 1 year ago
@guely55 Sweden is full of gays, why wouldn't he?
BosnianReality 1 year ago
He looks like Charles Darwin lol
CastlevaniaDXC 1 year ago
500 yen bill glued to a cockroach... Awesome trick, but I bet it gets expensive pretty fast.
xenu4life 1 year ago
@Zeppelin901 just like u said, he is amazing =)
MrSest6 1 year ago
Failed magician gets attention by exposing magic tricks.
Magikomik 1 year ago
@Magikomik
Failed?
He was a regular on the Tonight Show, for God's sake!
What counts as "success" in your book?
UdallIn72 1 year ago
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@UdallIn72 Success is certainly not to expose other people's magic tricks, and blame the world for his homosexual orientation.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality
He's not exposing people's tricks, exactly. He's showing that claimed "supernatural" powers can invariably be replicated with trickery. And some people really do claim to possess supernatural powers--this would be offensive in and of itself, but when you add in the fact that many of them use trickery to bilk grieving people out of their money, it's really reprehensible. Your other remark I will not dignify with comment.
UdallIn72 1 year ago
@BosnianReality
There is, in short, a world of ethical difference between using sleight of hand and other magic techniques to entertain and using the same techniques in a for-profit effort to portray yourself as some sort of new-age sorcerer... ESPECIALLY when you're taking advantage of the grieving, the elderly, or the otherwise vulnerable.
Randi leaves the first class of people alone, because he's a MEMBER of that class!
UdallIn72 1 year ago
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@UdallIn72 Right, he is member of the ethical homosexual class of people.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality What does that even mean? Are you mad at homosexuals? Homosexuals are awesome. And someone's got to stop the Sylvia Browne's and Peter Popoffs out there. They make money off of people's grief and misery, give them nothing in return and often do more harm than good. Faith healing stops people from going to doctors and hospitals and getting REAL help. I'd trade a thousand of those crooks for one Richard Simmons and a million of them for a James Randi.
JorgensZelda 1 year ago
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@JorgensZelda No, I am not mad on gays, why should I be? But gays ARE targeted by various religions, so James Randi is never in accordance with any religions or spirituality, that is why he is debunking everything connected with spirituality.
A poor old gay.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality Actually, he's debunking these psychopaths that are peddling their lunacy to people for money. They are actually attacking common sense. I have no problem with religious people, but faith healers, crooked preachers, and psychics that prey on people's misery and grief should be run out of town by angry wombats. If psychics just read tea leaves and tarot for fun and entertainment, that would be fine, but Sylvia Browne and her ilk are scum and deserve to be exposed.
JorgensZelda 1 year ago
@JorgensZelda Psychopaths? The only psychopath I can see is James Randi in person, as he is psychopath by definition: A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse. James Randi is antisocial (debunks all Christians), perverted (likes cocks) and has no empathy.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality Right, so, Sylvia Browne, Peter Popoff, John Edwards, three people who are amoral, without remorse, criminal, they're cool, but he's a psychopath because he's gay and trying to help people differentiate between frauds, dangerous thinking and irrationality on the one hand and logical, honest, proven ideas and practices on the other. FYI, a lot of women like cocks too. Does that make them perverted? Heck, I like sex that in some places is considered illegal. Doesn't make me evil.
JorgensZelda 1 year ago
@BosnianReality antisocial disorder means you don't follow the rules set by society(laws). what laws does randi break? and what is bosnian reality, the fact bosnia isn't a real country?
scottbaioisdead 1 year ago
@scottbaioisdead No man, antisocial is defined as pervasive pattern of disregard of, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. And this is exactly where Mr. Randi ends. He disregards rights of others, in his opinion he is always right, but he is minus zero for any expertise, and lacks young boy partners, which he can find only by his public exposures.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality " Psychopaths? The only psychopath I can see is James Randi in person, as he is psychopath by definition: A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse..."
Clearly this must be a projection of yourself, sense you are unable to diacnose anyone behind a keyboar. Your armchair-psychological analysis must of been done introspectively.
fc007 1 year ago
@fc007 I'm afraid I don't understand your post. James Randi, a psychopath? You really must elaborate.
MrMZaccone 1 year ago
@MrMZaccone You're right, you don't understand. I didn't call him a psychopath. Notice the quotation marks around my last comments. I'm responding to some one who made such statement.
fc007 1 year ago
@fc007 Thanks for the clarification.
MrMZaccone 1 year ago
@fc007 What problems do you have? You cannot stand other people's opinion here? You seem like you REALLY have to defend the old fatherly figure of a gay Randi? He can speak for himself. Do you love him? I mean, do you have intimate attraction to Randi?
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality "You cannot stand other people's opinion here?" --Why do you ask? are you against mine?
You seem like you REALLY have to defend the old fatherly figure of a gay Randi?--No, I just pointing out your bullshit attempt at psychology.
"Do you love him? I mean, do you have intimate attraction to Randi?"--Is this your greatest concern right now? Why are you asking? Are you preoccupied with gay thoughts? Are you going to get a kick out of an answer?
fc007 1 year ago
@fc007 The problem with you gays is that you are provocative. As long as you keep your sick stuff in your home, nobody will be concerned. But you are provocative and full of complexes. And then you would like depriving normal people of the right to speak against sick old gays?
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality First you were consern with whether I was gay or not, then I ask you why where you concern about it. And now you're calling me gay. hummm?
I think this is your attempt to reach to me. It's ok, come out the closet when you feel ready. most homophobes are secretly gay inside.
fc007 1 year ago 2
@BosnianReality Dude you are a joke, what does that have to do with his concern for his fellow humans being exploited by con artists? Wake up and smell the coffee dude, this guy is doing more good than you can dream of doing in your entire life.
Teager999 1 year ago 4
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@Teager999 Just contrary, he is charlatan himself and he knows that, but try to expose "other charlatans". Nothing can be more pathetic. His basic belief is that nothing spiritual exist, but only for one and only reason: bible and other spiritual scriptures do not approve of homosexuals. He being homosexual has now to oppose anything what is spiritual, to prove that bible and spiritual scriptures must be all wrong. Old pathetic gay.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality
"he is charlatan himself"
He does not pretend to have magical powers, therefore not a charlatan.
"His basic belief is that nothing spiritual exist"
If there is no evidence for it, then belief in them is not required.
"but only for one and only reason: bible and other spiritual scriptures do not approve of homosexuals."
Not all scripture condemns homosexuality, the Abrahamic religions do however (even though they condone slavery of the evil non-believers).
Teager999 1 year ago 14
@Teager999 Of course he is believer, if he would not be a believer, he would never attempt to prove the opposite. He believes that nothing spiritual exist. And I am not interested in gay discussion, sorry!
BosnianReality 1 year ago
@BosnianReality
What a fantastic font of ignorance and illogic you are. And that's from someone who is somewhat an amateur specialist in seeking that out on YouTube. Good job!
MsCoralline 1 year ago
My dad used to do the Trick where he had a Coin travel from his Hand to under a object for us Kids to find where it traveled to. You had to have both pennys look the same especially the date.
Took a long time to figure how he did it and is hard to replcate
Boy I love Magic
kolb49 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
Then go through the appropriate channels. You don't go directly to Randi, you first have to pass a test administered by a local representative, they refer you on to the institute.
If you are psychic then tell me something amazing about myself.
AlRasuwl 2 years ago
Silly Randi, tricks are for kids. ^__^
blindhunt3r 2 years ago 2
500Yen is a Coin not a bill, I think he may have meant 1,000Yen :p, he's so amazing though I love his presentation, he could tell me a story about a man involving a .75 cent bill and I'd be riveted :p!
Freki619 2 years ago 3
There is such a thing as a 500Yen bill. Perhaps it's uncommon or no longer printing but they have existed.
lindafay1 2 years ago
@lindafay1 cool stuff, yeah I stand corrected. Apparently they did have 500 yens printed back in the 70's thanks for the correction!
Freki619 2 years ago
Just a note though, it may be like how we have $1 bills but also $1 coins. The coins are uncommon but do exist.
lindafay1 2 years ago
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I would much rather see the tricks performed and not described and would love them more if the secret was not revealed, Why does this guy insist on ruining a really great trick,,,I just dont like him, no favors around the paranoraml either, none of that NEEDS to be debunked, I wish RANDI would just disappear without a revealing explanation.
crittertv 2 years ago
Bitterness, anyone?
m0ufin 2 years ago
Excellent!
GetMeThere1 2 years ago
awesome
MoreSciFiThanScience 2 years ago
absolutely genious!
KarinMikazuki 2 years ago
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Huh, I love James Randi to death, but I gotta wonder, isn't it at least sorta fucked up that he gave this guys two best tricks away by explaining them to the world on the internet?
I wonder if the guy knew full well that Randi was going to share this information publicly before telling him.
ogjimkenobi 2 years ago
its clearly an audience member filming...
Danen3 2 years ago
maybe its like a magic lecture.
cheetmeister 2 years ago
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amateur magician are often the most stupid ones.
tuberesistance 2 years ago
me neither he is awesome and he speaks in a very entertaining way
Gud3n2 2 years ago 4
I'll never get tired of listening to this man
Zeppelin901 2 years ago 142
@Zeppelin901 I know what you mean, now every time I see him talk I make sure there are lenses in his glasses...
o0DaftPunk0o 1 year ago
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I more amazed by the 500 yen note. I pretty sure they don't exist lol (well since 1982 I think)
alexkx3 2 years ago
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xion101 2 years ago
Excellent video! Thanks. Randi is the best.
qwer4o 2 years ago 42
@qwer4o Best in what? White beard?
BosnianReality 1 year ago