He missed a very important part of the story... If your going to prove people wrong at least show us how you did it! Not to mention another important peice of info I would have liked to know, did he tell these people what he was doing to them after it was all said and done?
I sympathise with Derren. I, too, felt slightly depressed at the end, not for the people who have their beliefs that sustain them (as irrational as they may be), but for Derren himself who would desperately like to believe in something that he cannot because he has trained himself too well for that. How lonely it must be to be that observant, to always be the observer, even when other people feel they are connecting with him. He's put himself on a one-way street, only one direction to go.
I think part of the reason why everyone just accepted it for fact is group think. And yeah, Derren obviously doesn't like debunking cold reading with people who have truly lost someone they loved. Honestly, I don't blame him. It would sadden me to have to give people false hope as well.
Hehe, those "cold readers" are hilarious! Why is it so difficult for the "ghosts" or "spirits" to tell the cold reader their names, why do they only give the cold reader the first letter and why don't they tell the cold reader who they're related too? Do they offer some "explanation" for that to the believers? Hehe, it's incredible that such a simple and dumb scam can fool so many! (I know that Derren debunks cold readers and psychics, by the way) : )
Okay, something I feel the need to mention. Even though there are scams and people out there that will play with and off others beliefs and emotions Derren was technically doing the same. Brown is a master mentalist and was bringing all of his talents to bear. I still think he is brilliant, but don't be so hard on those that fell for his tricks. You probably would to.
The carriage driver at the end pretty much summed it up.
Or, as the old Stephen Roberts meme goes: "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Good stuff. Thanks to nwrvega for sharing this entire video.
yeah it takes a lot of skill to be that quick, he's been in this kind of knowledge for about 20 years now. a lot of time !
names ? ever tried to say err in your mind without moving your tong ? try it now, you can't, you'll have to move your tong a little bit, well if you try harder you'll be able to say it and you'll hear the "R" from inside your mind without your tong moving but that would be more like remembering the sound of the word not saying it. it's because of the way we've...
It takes a lot of skill in getting clues quickly from people I get that bit but how does he get so fast to certain things like names, there's obviously no magic it's just incredible, shows you scarily how easy it is possibly to manipulate other people
continued ... learned to read back in school. (and by the way that's why we can't read a page fast like reading a photo).
so, he encourages his "amm let's say subjects" to imagine and remember the name of the dead by playing around with different names so that the subject luckily says the name to her/himself and consequently moving her/his face muscles in a way that speaks some chars of the name.
that's what I think is going on and i may be wrong.
@ethanoximoxi thanks for taking the time to try and describe it, if it really is the reading of minute muscle twitches when it comes to trying to gather names or the proprietary letters of names then that truelly is a skill that must take a long time to master
a man once -lived in the islamic world nearly 1000 years ago- was able to read one page as a whole like reading a photo or a scene... in other words: one page took him no more than one second.... he read 75,000 books till his death. he wrote several others which contain mostly religious BllSht.
but the point is: he managed to silent that sound inside his head. incredible isn't it.
this shouldn't be legal. to manipulate people's feelings and abuse them. even if you want to make a point. it's outrageous. and everybody who does this should be incarcerated, starting with the top political figures, media and marketing people and ending up with this guy. it's simply morally wrong.
Where do you think he got that information about people? Did he guess? He's recieving information about people but his belief tells him that it's fake. What an irony! Funny though.
@MarxKnewBest: It's a really interesting point that Jesus might have been an illusionist. I think he certainly had some awesome skills of manipulation and marketing, but it was actually the apostle Paul who converted a significant amount of people to christianity a long time after Jesus was dead. If you developed your hypothesis into a proper thesis though, I think you'd find there were plenty of other people doing a similar thing, e.g. Lukuas. No serious academic thinks Jesus didn't exist.
I wish people would stop calling eachother ignorant. It's just a relative concept. We're all more ignorant than Stephen Hawking about astro physics and less ignorant than almost everyone else about our hobbies, passions and loved ones.
Absolutely outstanding how my brain react on this, even knowing that this is not true, unbelievable what our brain is capable for, and how we are striving into lying ourselves. Btw, I'm an atheist, and by default I don't believe in this crap, and yet...outstanding. I've learned even more now.
The issue with this "experiment" is that none of these so called "professionals" would actually dare call-out Derren as fake, while he's doing as good of a job as he is. That's tantamount to calling yourself a fake in the eyes of the camera and all these people present. It's better for these professionals to appear gullible, than to indirectly admitting they know their own tricks through calling Derren out.
and there are millions of people that are in the same situation as me, SO PLEASE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT ALL RELIGIONS ARE SCAMS OUT THERE TO TAKE YOUR MONEY.
@sitecomable do you people troll any vaguely skeptical, humanist, atheist or evolutionary video in shifts? does it pay by the hour? how well does it pay? or is it just some missionary thing, where you work but don't get paid?
@JohnSmithAprilMay i know you aren't seriously thinking that i get paid for any but for the people who do think its serious. i just happend to see this and i read all the comments about people saying: this proves that every religion is a scam, God doesn't exist this proves it or stuff like that and i just wanted to let everyone know that not everyone is scamming, 99% isn't. and dont try to be funny next time, just come with serious arguments.
@JohnSmithAprilMay and for the people that dont get it I am not getting paid, just like you are not getting paid to search the internet and rip on every religious video. no one is getting paid to do that.
I am a Christian (protestant) and my religion doesn't have a negative influence on my life at all.I go to church for FREE and no one is pressuring me to give money or to buy stuff, no one will treat you different if you don't give money. They will lovingly receive you wither your black,brown,white,etc and you can stay as long as you want the money that is given is just for maintenance costs and the rest of the money is given to charity. They will also show step by step were the money is going.
This just shows us that derren brown is good at manipulating people, it doesn't prove that these religions are fake. Just because there are a lot of religion scams does not mean that there aren't people with these religions that truly have your best interest at heart and aren't scamming you for your money.
@sitecomable this show proves it is perfectly possible to trick people into thinking like you do. To "willingly" accept God while still being manipulated in their beliefs, so the beliefs are passed on and get stronger.
Once the believers get numerous, they get to change the country they're in and burn witches.
Whereever manipulation is possible, there is room for abuse.
Wether you are less subjected to the manipulations or not does not make those less horrid.
@Xgya2000 i can see how you think that the religious world is just based on manipulation, that every single religious person is manipulating for money or power,
believe it or not but there are people that REALLY BELIEVE and try to convince you,
there are bogus religious people that want money
there are even non-bogus religious people that manipulate, by fearing you into believing (which is VERY VERY wrong), because they think that God would want that, but what can I say we are all just human.
@Xgya2000 You can not claim at all (you think that they are) that higher-ups are just better scam artist than regular, they don't live in villa's, they dont have a million on there bank. You cant blame the religion for the abuse, all my religion says is: treat others like you want to be treated, dont steal, dont kill and stuff like that. if someone commits a crime in the name of his religion that he is just using that as scapegoat to justify his actions.
But you speak of "your" religion like it's not any known religion. Simply looking at the contradictions and the deaths in all found holy books tells that "don't kill" is not a really profound statement.
Just saying that higher-ups are more likely to be corrupt than otherwise. The Pope's hiding of pedophile priests tells much about this.
If anyone says he commits a crime because of his religion, assume that without religion, he wouldn't have had a scapegoat. Thus, religion = bad?
@Xgya2000 the deaths in holy books are wars, which were more than 2100 years ago before the bible was written. just because there are stories of war doesn't mean the bible approves of it, the bible also says listen to your government, so if you go to war and you have to join, than the government is responsible. What i think the bible means is don't go out and kill your neighbour because you dont like him or you want something from him.
@Xgya2000 from wiki:''Pope John Paul II e declared in 2001 that "a sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue by a cleric with a minor under 18 years of age is to be considered a grave sin, With the approval of the Vatican, the hierarchy of the church in the United States claimed to institute reforms to prevent future abuse including requiring background checks for Church employees and volunteers, while opposing legislation making it easier for abuse victims to sue the Catholic Church''
@Xgya2000 He would have had a scapegoat something else. If i use atheism as scapegoat to kill a religious person, without atheism i wouldn't have had a scapegoat so atheism=bad .
Atheism is not a belief system. You cannot say "something" told you to kill that religious person, whereas you can claim insanity (or religious faith) in any trial and have a chance to get a lesser sentence.
Claiming atheism does nothing in the case of scapegoating, whereas people killing in the name of religion (wether you call those fatwas of crusades does not matter) CONGRATULATE the killers! (or at least, it has been done many times in the past)
@Xgya2000 Crusaders are from medieval times,they killed people that had different believes which is just ignorant. everyone was ignorant in that time. I don't think.it really happens nowadays that God tells someone to kill someone, so they either are insane or use it as scapegoat all i can say about that is it sucks that it happens and those people that claim this will probably spent the rest of there lives in a nuthouse.
@Xgya2000 i said: ''if someone commits a crime in the name of his religion that he is just using that as scapegoat to justify his actions.'' i didn't mean scapegoat in the juridical sense.
Atheists support the scientific theory for the creation of the universe dont they? if not how do you think everything started? but your right about: ''the fact the earth is round...''
I didn't mean official genuine scientists, i mean scientists that are scamming or just regular scam artists.
About the scapegoat: have you heard anyone EVER say he commit something horrible in the name of atheism? ("I did this in the name of atheism"). Some people create books and videos for atheists, but never for atheism.
Atheists simply think a god wasn't there. What could have happened is not part of atheism.
At some time in the past, people were killed because their scientific proof did not agree with god.
@Xgya2000 if I were an atheist, i support the evolution theory and i would gather people in one place and ask for money to get prove for the evolution theory and I keep the money for myself, should we say people can use atheism for abuse therefore we should bane atheism. There are a lot of facilities that can be used for abuse, scammers that use religion to scam will just move to something else. Probably less than 5% of all the abuse has religious reasons,banning religion won't stop abuse.
Atheism has nothing to do with the theory of evolution, or the fact the earth is round, or any other interesting theories, like the atomic theory, or the theory of gravity.
The fact scientists get money for working towards understanding the universe a little better is nice. It just makes them more likely to complete their jobs. None of them ask the population directly for "charity" though. All of them get paid for their respective skills by entreprises that need them.
@Xgya2000 there are bogus religious people just as there are bogus doctors but just because there are bogus doctor doesn't mean that there aren't doctors that want to help you.
I wonder if these people he's getting endorsements from are scam artists too, and that's why they don;t ask... if it were me running a business, and I saw derren brown performing these scams, I would endorse him in a heart beat, even after knowing he was a scam artsist, because i know that he would bring in a lot of money, and a lot of devote followers.
(((heavy sigh))) Thank you Derren for making Americans look like boobs to the rest of the world. As an American I really resent you using words like 'highly respected', 'prominent' and 'influential' to describe these fools. We are not ALL gun toting, bible thumping idiots.
@neesygurl61 the rest of the world doesn't need Derren to make all the targets he attacks in this programme look like "boobs" (and that's all he's doing).
@jeezor It's not just Americans bub. People all over the world having been falling for crap like this since the first human figured out that he could bullshit his neighbors into giving him what he wanted.
The guy at the end represents the typical cynical modern man who thinks he is smart because he criticises religion not knowing that in a way he has a religion of his own, capitalism, speaking of what is only material (See, smell and taste) and rejecting the other equally important aspect of life, spirituality.
A grand explanation for why the U.S. is such a "religious" country. I hate thinking how many people are walking the streets I inhabit with such tenuous reasons for believing what they believe. Andre Breton was right: "Chistopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen." The end result would be the same, but we'd cut to the chase much faster.
Its good to know that Derron Brown actually has a conscience and do this for entertainment value instead of exploiting weak minded and gullible people which he demonstrates clearly in this show that he has the potential to do.
As a mixed minority male...I find that blacks and hispanics are more apt to go along with supernatural and pseudoscientific beliefs. Just go to one of our churchs lol.
Women are known to react more to this. They care more for those they have lost. Men don't want to admit to those they have lost or that others have "spiritual" powers.
heres how i think he did each stunt (just guesses)
Psychics- Either used sumliminal cues to prompt drawings, or examined room they would be drawing in before hand, since people would most likely draw items readily available
Coming to christ- Either A: the first girl was an actor, and her "conversion" gave everyone else enough doubt to unconsciously want something to happen to them, or, all the people including the first girl, wanted something to happen, so their bodies made it happen.
Dream catcher- he switched chairs with her to see her desk, photographs, notes calender, etc. Since people often dream about real events and people, he just guessed things he saw, or less likely, he used subliminla cues when he met her the first time to giver her the box, causing dreams.
Health reader- peobably read her many books, she probbaly included disdain for medecine and medical history in them.
tlking to the dead-he admits cold reading, and he may have also observen them before the event
Interesting. Still didnt give me the satisfaction that i wanted. He shows that he can make people believe in him, but he doesnt show and tell how he does it. Thats frustrating. I wanted to see and understand more of HOW he does it. The technique and why people chose to believe him.
Yes, thats probably the reason. Still frustating thou ;). But on the other hand, his program should probably be more interresting to watch if he did, more watchers = more money etc. Take care.
The last guy has got it figured out. I'm surprised anyone in America can see through religion in that way. Well this is pretty enlightening. The human mind is a very complex one, and I never knew anyone could have such powers by manipulating the presence of mind. My hypothesis is that if the historical Jesus Christ existed, he was an illusionist or mentalist, well ahead of his time, convincing those near to him he had extraordinary powers like Brown just did here.
@MarxKnewBest : The historical Jesus probably never existed considering that every miracle or atonement credited to him had already been credited to other pagan gods at and before that time. There are also no accounts of Jesus written in the present tense. All writings about him are in past tense. Someone as important as the son of god performing miracles, you would think would create quite a stir all around the mediterranean and have been recorded by scribes and historians from many kingdoms.
@radtech1989 You know it...btw, all the accounts are after the fact (at best). Most of the time, they're "edited" decades to centuries afterwards. HMMM. Of course, gullibles buy it (literally) 24/7/365.
@radtech1989 Although I too doubt the existence of a historical Jesus, nothing you described really has to do with a "historical" Jesus. "The son of god performing miracles" is the mythical Jesus, which almost certainly did not exist. A historical Jesus would likelybe a poor mason who became a local religious leader, something that would never have drawn much attention in a time period from which almost all written accounts are about the rich and powerful. Even so, he still may not have existed.
@radtech1989 I have no credentials in history but I agree. I'm thinking if jesus is all made up then how far does the bull spread? Is pontius pilatus also a made up character. Which historical documents can conclusively exclude any doubts that there actually was a criminal called jesus. Anyway its irrelevant in todays world, might as well ignore it just like we ignore all those other ferry tale pedophile prophets.
@radtech1989 i'm not arguing for either side, just bringing up the fact that there were roman records of a man called Jesus from Nazareth who was executed by crucification 33AD.
Yeah, but that´s all there is...there are record of a wandering priest called Jesus who got offed by his ideological enemies when he stirred up too much. At that point of time MANY so called "messiahs" travelled through the whole middle east, as a messiah was prophezised, quite a number of them ended being crucified not just Jesus.
We don´t know a lot about the historical Jesus but chances are that he was quite progressive for his time but nothing supernatural.
@radtech1989 Few historians have written about him and his death, the details and who escapes me save a Roman Historian Josephus I think is the correct reference. Decades later and not first had witnesses. Many of the stories were those told orally as tradition and the limiting of actual books.
@radtech1989 The fact that Jesus was a historical figure isn't under dispute by anyone. Who He is, that's under debate. Though it must be fun to be able to make up facts...wish I could do that and still sleep at night ;P
@radtech1989 There is a differance between jesus and jesus christ...jesus's life is based on josephus, the teacher of righteousness from the essene community, who IS recorded as being crucified by the romans....the crucified christ however is not historical.
@MarxKnewBest 18 people gave this comment a thumb up. Their other thumb is up their asses. Marx knew best, I assume you are refering to Karl Marx? Maybe you are familiar with a Karl Marx that I am not aware of. Marxism is a recipe for tyranny. Liberals are such dullards.
@MarxKnewBest What do you think is more possible about the Jesus thing. Was he a magician, or was he simply a great teacher, whom amazing miracles were attributed to. I'm willing to bet he never did those things but the stories were just passed down along the generations. Then the tales just got bigger and grander
@Kruezoraxe Yes but then again, the tales didn't have much generations to go down before being recorded since the gospel of John was written by Jesus's cousin. But then again, had Jesus been a charlatan, would he have agreed to die on the cross for his lie? Was he just crazy then? Maybe. But his message is still one of the most profound in the story of humanity. Love your neighbor like yourself. Most important sentence in history.
@GregTom2 There were plenty of other people aroun that age who had miracles attributed to them. Apollonius for one. I don't think he was crazy nor a charlatan, rather a great moral figure who had miracles attributed to him. Example: The messiah had to be born in the place of David i.e. Bethlehem. There never was a census so Joseph never had to go there, so Jesus was not born there. But the census story gives me conclusive hard evidence for at least one falsely attributed story.
But you're right, his message was wonderful. As was Buddha's. As was Lao Tsu's. As was Socrates's. As was Kierkegaard's. As are the rules of hunter gatherer tribes. Any religion which claims to have unique moral teachings are blinded to the possibility that maybe someone else agrees with them.
But Jesus was a great figure and one of the best examples of how one should act. I do wish that people nowadays blessed the poor as much as he did. We're back to heralding the rich.
@metalsusa1 We know so little about Jesus that I think it's pointless to pick and choose. After all, he's also the "cast the first stone" guy. I don't think any one teacher has all the answers. I disagree with Jesus on some things, Buddha on some others, Gandhi on quite a few, Mother Theresa, Socrates, Nietzsche, Kant, etc etc. But I would be a different person if I wasn't so well read on morality and made my own decisions about what is right.
@Kruezoraxe What's up Kruezoraxe? Well, I'm just conveying what the bible claims to be revealed truth. B.T.W. Jesus was sent only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, his message was only for the Jews. The last 12 verses in MARK (the first gospel and heavily borrowed by MATTHEW and LUKE) do not appear in the earliest copies of MARKS GOSPEL. They include Jesus's remarks to preach my words to all nations. Jesus's main message was the end of days was at hand, drop everything and follow me.
@GregTom2 Actually his central message, to only the Jews mind you, was take no thought for the morrow(don't worry about tomorrow) the end is at hand. 1967 years ago. OPPS!
he asks pretty random stuff that could be connected with many many things. so the person fills in the holes with his own knowledge of what happend. its all because of the peoples belief in him
he does profiling of the participants which makes him know more about the people than the video shows - hence able to suggest many more 'good' guesses that wouldn't have applied to most people.
dont be too quick to believe in what he presents too.
thats also what he wants you to think too
be skeptical, even of his shows - ask "is that real?".
No human, he works for the South African H.M.T.I.I.T.A. agency.
...and yes-I agree that its silly for any agency to call itself "humans mother takes it in the ass" however I hear they are infact pretty good at what they do.
I'm not impressed with the experiment, although I am dazzled by Darren's skill, as I always am. It is not surprising that the "psychic experts" endorsed him, and it does not mean that they are knowingly fraudulent themselves. Anyone inclined to believe in something, and not suspecting Darren's skills, would be convinced by such amazing performaces. Given that he is so good, why would be hard to fool the "experts"?
Of course, maybe they endorsed him just because he is good for their business.
That`s Derren`s whole point. These people don`t use a scientific approach to the "evidences" they are presented with.
There is no thought of empirical science in the alternative buisness, it`s the seeing is beliving approach. Which any illusionist, magician or other proffessional conman will tell you is a dangerous way to make up your world view and belief system.
He's right too...It's a good scam because it requires no evidence, and it glorifies the one attribute it requires, which is faith. So that a person of faith is seen as a person of good character, rather than ignorant.
Atheism is a scam because it requires no evidence...
God does require evidence, but sadly, even if presented with it, people scoff at it rather than seek the truth.
"So that a person of faith is seen as a person of good character, rather than ignorant." - So, it seems to me you're almost WANTING that person to be ignorant, and wanting the trick to be that he just seems like he has good character. Well I'm sorry to tell you but this does not apply to everybody all of the time.
@jmann114 Atheism is the absence of belief that any deities exist. Please explain why this would require any evidence. Do you believe in fairies simply because there is no evidence that there are no fairies? i guess that's the fairy denier scam. How about those scam artists that say there is no big foot?
Look, there needs to be evidence that a god exist, NOT that a god doesn't exist. Atheism is the default position, NOT a scam.
I care about the truth. Please provide any evidence you may have.
@jmann114 BTW, why did you say, "even if presented with it, ... rather than seek the truth"? You seem to be implying that seeking the truth can only result in finding out that there is a god. Do you think this is honest? For ex., what can you tell me about physics, chemistry, evolution, psychology? Are you really being honest when you question if others seek the truth and be ignorant about these subjects? I'm not saying you are, but if your not, how can you be confident about truth?
No, I actually mean more things than just God. There's a lot of things people deny even if presented with evidence. It's like a thief trying to find a cop. He will willingly always go to the wrong places.
I am not ignorant about those subjects, it is just... this is what people do all the time. GOD ISN'T REAL. WE HAVE PHYSICS... AND... UHHH... BIOLOGY... UMMM... CHEMISTRY. YEAH ALL THAT STUFF. WHY WOULD GOD BE REAL?
@jmann114 I agree. It happens all the time. People are presented with evidence and they deny it. I see it all the time with Evolution. There is massive amount of evidence, yet some people don't accept it.
As far as i know, there is zero evidence of the existence of any god. If you have any, I would love to hear it. And if it isn't valid evidence. I will tell you why.
First, define your god and then tell me how you know it exist.
God is the only God. Our creator. a God of wrath, and a God of love. the Father of Christ. The Alpha and the Omega.
Read the Bible. There are thousands of prophecies dealing with Christ, both messianic and dealing with nations, textual evidence, scientific evidence, and so on. Prophecies are fulfilled every day. Look at near death experiences. Howard Storm for example.
The fulfilled prophecies and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ should be enough for anybody.
@jmann114 I took Bible as literature in college. I don't recall any prophecy being fulfilled, besides the usual vague comments which lead to subjective interpretation of people who paint a targets around bullseyes. Be specific on the absolute best evidence found in the Bible. Keep in mind that writing a prediction in a book and then writing that that prediction was fullfilled in the same book is NOT good evidence. The same argument you're making is made by Muslims with the Quran. Is theirs true?
Hm lets see. The prophecy that Christ would be born and declared the Son of God, crucified and would be resurrected? Guess they didn't teach that one in college did they?
Read the book of John. Read the book of Revelation. Do your homework.
@jmann114 Did you not read what I said? How do you know there was even a Jesus? I guess you believe in Harry Potter too since it was in a book. You clearly don't know what evidence means.
I did read about Jesus. Is not good evidence. Sorry. People who actually have read other books about other religions, science, etc. can better weight in on what is factual or fairy tales. Please, read anything other than the Bible.
I don't know if I felt as uncomfortable as he did, probably not, but definitely uncomfortable
Golkarian 1 month ago
lol i'm learning to cold read and after trying out the tricks myself, i was surprised to see how the techniques derren's using actually works.
animals0feel1pain2 2 months ago
@animals0feel1pain2 don't use it for deception :)
Golkarian 1 month ago
That guy at the end made the whole fucking show.
Rayzorbladez 2 months ago 2
awesome dude at the end.
ImATurtlexx 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Not as good as the stuff in the Mindreading Exposed ebook
yeeeeahdroppingteam 3 months ago
lol
supersman2000 4 months ago
Damn I'm a skeptic and everything and know Derren's faking it but part of me feels like believing it's genuine it looks so accurate
Nemesis000000 5 months ago
If he told us how he did it, you'd say "ah, but that wouldn't work on ME". Believe that you can be fooled, enjoy the trick, don't ask for spoilers.
VidkunQL 5 months ago 3
carriage driver at the end summed it up best!!!
The72koenig 5 months ago 16
@The72koenig Yep! I also got a bit down with how Derren felt at the end but then this man got the final saying and I had quite a laugh! ^-^
MeThacha 2 months ago
He missed a very important part of the story... If your going to prove people wrong at least show us how you did it! Not to mention another important peice of info I would have liked to know, did he tell these people what he was doing to them after it was all said and done?
AlexCondella 6 months ago
@AlexCondella 4:26
Slashdeath97 5 months ago
@stargate353 In all the instances here, Brown used variations of the same technique (cold reading).
For a deeper explanation, check out the video by Dawkins in which he intervierws Brown:
watch?v=Xswt8B8-UTM
sincristo 6 months ago
I sympathise with Derren. I, too, felt slightly depressed at the end, not for the people who have their beliefs that sustain them (as irrational as they may be), but for Derren himself who would desperately like to believe in something that he cannot because he has trained himself too well for that. How lonely it must be to be that observant, to always be the observer, even when other people feel they are connecting with him. He's put himself on a one-way street, only one direction to go.
FlashJack85 7 months ago
I want to start a religion or religious cult so that I can make a bundle of money. Got any ideas?
comingatchu 7 months ago
@comingatchu Christianity, wait, damn it's already been done
LurchibaldBioshock 7 months ago
I think part of the reason why everyone just accepted it for fact is group think. And yeah, Derren obviously doesn't like debunking cold reading with people who have truly lost someone they loved. Honestly, I don't blame him. It would sadden me to have to give people false hope as well.
animefangirlH 7 months ago
You can see how doing this and making these ppl cry is bothering Derren. Especially when he is cold reading and its total bullshit.
xrisku 7 months ago
This same ability to be so easily fooled is why working class Americans keep voting Republican.
BlameRepublicans 8 months ago 4
Hehe, those "cold readers" are hilarious! Why is it so difficult for the "ghosts" or "spirits" to tell the cold reader their names, why do they only give the cold reader the first letter and why don't they tell the cold reader who they're related too? Do they offer some "explanation" for that to the believers? Hehe, it's incredible that such a simple and dumb scam can fool so many! (I know that Derren debunks cold readers and psychics, by the way) : )
winterstellar 8 months ago
Of course Jesus exists, he cleans my pool every week.
kimjoh560 8 months ago 3
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy.
Sarusource 8 months ago
Derren Brown is good with black women.
ssdu3 10 months ago 29
Okay, something I feel the need to mention. Even though there are scams and people out there that will play with and off others beliefs and emotions Derren was technically doing the same. Brown is a master mentalist and was bringing all of his talents to bear. I still think he is brilliant, but don't be so hard on those that fell for his tricks. You probably would to.
TorsilClimber 10 months ago
The carriage driver at the end pretty much summed it up.
Or, as the old Stephen Roberts meme goes: "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Good stuff. Thanks to nwrvega for sharing this entire video.
Rurne 11 months ago 4
After watching this amazing video i want to punch the "psychic" John Edward right in his lying face.
metalsusa1 11 months ago
He makes that fraud Derek Achora look like a rank amature at this cold reading caper...
boob72 11 months ago
haha "we're gonna get in because we've got a swipe card!"
aufschnittzel 1 year ago
derren brown is my new savior haha..let's start a religion..the guy it the end was hilarious
JACKSCHEESYSMILE 1 year ago
Question everything....
after this...
most certainly.
TzernohSyeme 1 year ago 2
@TzernohSyeme excellent,a further step into knowledge and reality,nice to see people take note and think
VaiRoth 1 year ago
@VaiRoth I got hold of his books. :)
Can't wait what else he has to say.
TzernohSyeme 1 year ago
God dammit, I cried a bit at the end for that short haired black woman. And for the way Derren's hurting when he lies to her.
Mortenen 1 year ago
@PocusUK
yeah it takes a lot of skill to be that quick, he's been in this kind of knowledge for about 20 years now. a lot of time !
names ? ever tried to say err in your mind without moving your tong ? try it now, you can't, you'll have to move your tong a little bit, well if you try harder you'll be able to say it and you'll hear the "R" from inside your mind without your tong moving but that would be more like remembering the sound of the word not saying it. it's because of the way we've...
ethanoximoxi 1 year ago
So this is all basically confirmation bias?
lazyperfectionist1 1 year ago
It takes a lot of skill in getting clues quickly from people I get that bit but how does he get so fast to certain things like names, there's obviously no magic it's just incredible, shows you scarily how easy it is possibly to manipulate other people
PocusUK 1 year ago
@PocusUK
continued ... learned to read back in school. (and by the way that's why we can't read a page fast like reading a photo).
so, he encourages his "amm let's say subjects" to imagine and remember the name of the dead by playing around with different names so that the subject luckily says the name to her/himself and consequently moving her/his face muscles in a way that speaks some chars of the name.
that's what I think is going on and i may be wrong.
ethanoximoxi 1 year ago
@ethanoximoxi thanks for taking the time to try and describe it, if it really is the reading of minute muscle twitches when it comes to trying to gather names or the proprietary letters of names then that truelly is a skill that must take a long time to master
PocusUK 1 year ago
@PocusUK
a man once -lived in the islamic world nearly 1000 years ago- was able to read one page as a whole like reading a photo or a scene... in other words: one page took him no more than one second.... he read 75,000 books till his death. he wrote several others which contain mostly religious BllSht.
but the point is: he managed to silent that sound inside his head. incredible isn't it.
ethanoximoxi 1 year ago
this shouldn't be legal. to manipulate people's feelings and abuse them. even if you want to make a point. it's outrageous. and everybody who does this should be incarcerated, starting with the top political figures, media and marketing people and ending up with this guy. it's simply morally wrong.
zarehara 1 year ago
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lashkaretoiba 1 year ago
Where do you think he got that information about people? Did he guess? He's recieving information about people but his belief tells him that it's fake. What an irony! Funny though.
MrBonnerful 1 year ago
@MarxKnewBest: It's a really interesting point that Jesus might have been an illusionist. I think he certainly had some awesome skills of manipulation and marketing, but it was actually the apostle Paul who converted a significant amount of people to christianity a long time after Jesus was dead. If you developed your hypothesis into a proper thesis though, I think you'd find there were plenty of other people doing a similar thing, e.g. Lukuas. No serious academic thinks Jesus didn't exist.
samwise1985 1 year ago
I wish people would stop calling eachother ignorant. It's just a relative concept. We're all more ignorant than Stephen Hawking about astro physics and less ignorant than almost everyone else about our hobbies, passions and loved ones.
samwise1985 1 year ago
Absolutely outstanding how my brain react on this, even knowing that this is not true, unbelievable what our brain is capable for, and how we are striving into lying ourselves. Btw, I'm an atheist, and by default I don't believe in this crap, and yet...outstanding. I've learned even more now.
cvrle77 1 year ago
The issue with this "experiment" is that none of these so called "professionals" would actually dare call-out Derren as fake, while he's doing as good of a job as he is. That's tantamount to calling yourself a fake in the eyes of the camera and all these people present. It's better for these professionals to appear gullible, than to indirectly admitting they know their own tricks through calling Derren out.
PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD 1 year ago
he is a genius and I truely love derren, but I kinda felt sad bout that lady crying..
still, brilliant :)
BritishRulez 1 year ago
how does he know...
unless they work for them
TheArsenal1900 1 year ago
@TheArsenal1900 its called cold reading.
diceskull 1 year ago
and there are millions of people that are in the same situation as me, SO PLEASE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT ALL RELIGIONS ARE SCAMS OUT THERE TO TAKE YOUR MONEY.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable @sitecomable and a dusty old book called the bible doesn't prove there is a christian god........touche? :D
JoeNumberwang 1 year ago
@JoeNumberwang your right it doesn't prove there is, but thats why its called a belief.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable do you people troll any vaguely skeptical, humanist, atheist or evolutionary video in shifts? does it pay by the hour? how well does it pay? or is it just some missionary thing, where you work but don't get paid?
JohnSmithAprilMay 1 year ago 3
@JohnSmithAprilMay i know you aren't seriously thinking that i get paid for any but for the people who do think its serious. i just happend to see this and i read all the comments about people saying: this proves that every religion is a scam, God doesn't exist this proves it or stuff like that and i just wanted to let everyone know that not everyone is scamming, 99% isn't. and dont try to be funny next time, just come with serious arguments.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@JohnSmithAprilMay and for the people that dont get it I am not getting paid, just like you are not getting paid to search the internet and rip on every religious video. no one is getting paid to do that.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable Amen to that!
freakman707 1 year ago
@sitecomable Why not? No matter how hard you believe in something, It doesn't make it true. Derren Brown PROVED (with evidences) the fraud.
StBarthelemy1572 1 year ago
I am a Christian (protestant) and my religion doesn't have a negative influence on my life at all.I go to church for FREE and no one is pressuring me to give money or to buy stuff, no one will treat you different if you don't give money. They will lovingly receive you wither your black,brown,white,etc and you can stay as long as you want the money that is given is just for maintenance costs and the rest of the money is given to charity. They will also show step by step were the money is going.
sitecomable 1 year ago 2
This just shows us that derren brown is good at manipulating people, it doesn't prove that these religions are fake. Just because there are a lot of religion scams does not mean that there aren't people with these religions that truly have your best interest at heart and aren't scamming you for your money.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable this show proves it is perfectly possible to trick people into thinking like you do. To "willingly" accept God while still being manipulated in their beliefs, so the beliefs are passed on and get stronger.
Once the believers get numerous, they get to change the country they're in and burn witches.
Whereever manipulation is possible, there is room for abuse.
Wether you are less subjected to the manipulations or not does not make those less horrid.
Xgya2000 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 i can see how you think that the religious world is just based on manipulation, that every single religious person is manipulating for money or power,
believe it or not but there are people that REALLY BELIEVE and try to convince you,
there are bogus religious people that want money
there are even non-bogus religious people that manipulate, by fearing you into believing (which is VERY VERY wrong), because they think that God would want that, but what can I say we are all just human.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable
I do not think every religious person does that, but I can claim most higher-ups are there because they do it better than most.
But it does not change the fact that as long as people will be set in places such as churches, there will be abuse.
Remove religion, and abuse disappears.
About the doctors: once they are found out, they cannot practice anymore. Once a pedophile priest is found, he is brought to a different church.
Xgya2000 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 You can not claim at all (you think that they are) that higher-ups are just better scam artist than regular, they don't live in villa's, they dont have a million on there bank. You cant blame the religion for the abuse, all my religion says is: treat others like you want to be treated, dont steal, dont kill and stuff like that. if someone commits a crime in the name of his religion that he is just using that as scapegoat to justify his actions.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable
But you speak of "your" religion like it's not any known religion. Simply looking at the contradictions and the deaths in all found holy books tells that "don't kill" is not a really profound statement.
Just saying that higher-ups are more likely to be corrupt than otherwise. The Pope's hiding of pedophile priests tells much about this.
If anyone says he commits a crime because of his religion, assume that without religion, he wouldn't have had a scapegoat. Thus, religion = bad?
Xgya2000 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 the deaths in holy books are wars, which were more than 2100 years ago before the bible was written. just because there are stories of war doesn't mean the bible approves of it, the bible also says listen to your government, so if you go to war and you have to join, than the government is responsible. What i think the bible means is don't go out and kill your neighbour because you dont like him or you want something from him.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 first of all I am a protestant so we dont have a pope or priests, but the pope isn't hiding pedophile
sitecomable 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 from wiki:''Pope John Paul II e declared in 2001 that "a sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue by a cleric with a minor under 18 years of age is to be considered a grave sin, With the approval of the Vatican, the hierarchy of the church in the United States claimed to institute reforms to prevent future abuse including requiring background checks for Church employees and volunteers, while opposing legislation making it easier for abuse victims to sue the Catholic Church''
sitecomable 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 He would have had a scapegoat something else. If i use atheism as scapegoat to kill a religious person, without atheism i wouldn't have had a scapegoat so atheism=bad .
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable
Atheism is not a belief system. You cannot say "something" told you to kill that religious person, whereas you can claim insanity (or religious faith) in any trial and have a chance to get a lesser sentence.
Claiming atheism does nothing in the case of scapegoating, whereas people killing in the name of religion (wether you call those fatwas of crusades does not matter) CONGRATULATE the killers! (or at least, it has been done many times in the past)
Xgya2000 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 Crusaders are from medieval times,they killed people that had different believes which is just ignorant. everyone was ignorant in that time. I don't think.it really happens nowadays that God tells someone to kill someone, so they either are insane or use it as scapegoat all i can say about that is it sucks that it happens and those people that claim this will probably spent the rest of there lives in a nuthouse.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable
I agree about the fact it was medieval thoughts that created all those beliefs.
So you agree people that claim God speaks with them should go to a nuthouse.
Xgya2000 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 i said: ''if someone commits a crime in the name of his religion that he is just using that as scapegoat to justify his actions.'' i didn't mean scapegoat in the juridical sense.
Atheists support the scientific theory for the creation of the universe dont they? if not how do you think everything started? but your right about: ''the fact the earth is round...''
I didn't mean official genuine scientists, i mean scientists that are scamming or just regular scam artists.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable
About the scapegoat: have you heard anyone EVER say he commit something horrible in the name of atheism? ("I did this in the name of atheism"). Some people create books and videos for atheists, but never for atheism.
Atheists simply think a god wasn't there. What could have happened is not part of atheism.
At some time in the past, people were killed because their scientific proof did not agree with god.
Xgya2000 1 year ago
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sitecomable 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 if I were an atheist, i support the evolution theory and i would gather people in one place and ask for money to get prove for the evolution theory and I keep the money for myself, should we say people can use atheism for abuse therefore we should bane atheism. There are a lot of facilities that can be used for abuse, scammers that use religion to scam will just move to something else. Probably less than 5% of all the abuse has religious reasons,banning religion won't stop abuse.
sitecomable 1 year ago
@sitecomable
Atheism has nothing to do with the theory of evolution, or the fact the earth is round, or any other interesting theories, like the atomic theory, or the theory of gravity.
The fact scientists get money for working towards understanding the universe a little better is nice. It just makes them more likely to complete their jobs. None of them ask the population directly for "charity" though. All of them get paid for their respective skills by entreprises that need them.
Xgya2000 1 year ago
@Xgya2000 there are bogus religious people just as there are bogus doctors but just because there are bogus doctor doesn't mean that there aren't doctors that want to help you.
sitecomable 1 year ago
I wonder if these people he's getting endorsements from are scam artists too, and that's why they don;t ask... if it were me running a business, and I saw derren brown performing these scams, I would endorse him in a heart beat, even after knowing he was a scam artsist, because i know that he would bring in a lot of money, and a lot of devote followers.
fodabonita 1 year ago
And the one guy that gets it is the carriage driver!
GermanChocolateCake 1 year ago
nice derren its a great experiment whoooo
jescy05 1 year ago
Chris Angel eat your heart out
penbus492 1 year ago 28
6:01 :) this guy is right
jeezor 1 year ago
how the heck did he get the elevator thing???
SecularSwede 1 year ago
(((heavy sigh))) Thank you Derren for making Americans look like boobs to the rest of the world. As an American I really resent you using words like 'highly respected', 'prominent' and 'influential' to describe these fools. We are not ALL gun toting, bible thumping idiots.
On the other hand, I was slightly entertained. :)
neesygurl61 1 year ago 3
@neesygurl61 the rest of the world doesn't need Derren to make all the targets he attacks in this programme look like "boobs" (and that's all he's doing).
ryko26 1 year ago
@neesygurl61 Well, i like boobs. Boobs are nice. Why is making Americans look like boobs a bad thing?
jeezor 1 year ago
@jeezor It's not just Americans bub. People all over the world having been falling for crap like this since the first human figured out that he could bullshit his neighbors into giving him what he wanted.
GermanChocolateCake 1 year ago
@neesygurl61 I think he meant that they were respected and looked up to in their respective communities, not by Americans as a whole
Isosyth 1 year ago
The guy at the end represents the typical cynical modern man who thinks he is smart because he criticises religion not knowing that in a way he has a religion of his own, capitalism, speaking of what is only material (See, smell and taste) and rejecting the other equally important aspect of life, spirituality.
bukkake999 1 year ago
@bukkake999 Religion does not equal spirituality.
backthisway 1 year ago
A grand explanation for why the U.S. is such a "religious" country. I hate thinking how many people are walking the streets I inhabit with such tenuous reasons for believing what they believe. Andre Breton was right: "Chistopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen." The end result would be the same, but we'd cut to the chase much faster.
SubconsciousGatherer 1 year ago
Its good to know that Derron Brown actually has a conscience and do this for entertainment value instead of exploiting weak minded and gullible people which he demonstrates clearly in this show that he has the potential to do.
Derren Brown for me is in some aspects, a hero
sensur1 1 year ago 2
lol at the random guy at the end ;D
xXrerunitXx 1 year ago 2
I loved the guy in the end XD.
Etyde 2 years ago 3
its interesting he read only women
randikajamai 2 years ago
@randikajamai it's interesting he reads black women
1212625bear 2 years ago 4
@1212625bear
As a mixed minority male...I find that blacks and hispanics are more apt to go along with supernatural and pseudoscientific beliefs. Just go to one of our churchs lol.
edthewave 1 year ago
@edthewave
-,- .......hmmmm I'm hispanic and well nvm lol
RAULO3 1 year ago
Women are known to react more to this. They care more for those they have lost. Men don't want to admit to those they have lost or that others have "spiritual" powers.
TwistingWays 1 year ago
heres how i think he did each stunt (just guesses)
Psychics- Either used sumliminal cues to prompt drawings, or examined room they would be drawing in before hand, since people would most likely draw items readily available
Coming to christ- Either A: the first girl was an actor, and her "conversion" gave everyone else enough doubt to unconsciously want something to happen to them, or, all the people including the first girl, wanted something to happen, so their bodies made it happen.
darkblade1600000001 2 years ago 2
Dream catcher- he switched chairs with her to see her desk, photographs, notes calender, etc. Since people often dream about real events and people, he just guessed things he saw, or less likely, he used subliminla cues when he met her the first time to giver her the box, causing dreams.
Health reader- peobably read her many books, she probbaly included disdain for medecine and medical history in them.
tlking to the dead-he admits cold reading, and he may have also observen them before the event
darkblade1600000001 2 years ago 3
@darkblade1600000001
"she probbaly included disdain for medecine and medical history in them."
And if not, alien abductions and the such often go hand in hand with beliefs in conspiracy theorists, alternative medicines, etc...
xxxFaustusxxx 1 year ago
Interesting. Still didnt give me the satisfaction that i wanted. He shows that he can make people believe in him, but he doesnt show and tell how he does it. Thats frustrating. I wanted to see and understand more of HOW he does it. The technique and why people chose to believe him.
varfordogjesus 2 years ago 3
@varfordogjesus
I think that the reason for him not explaining is simply related to business. The less he explain - less risk for competition.
chiggevara 2 years ago 3
Yes, thats probably the reason. Still frustating thou ;). But on the other hand, his program should probably be more interresting to watch if he did, more watchers = more money etc. Take care.
varfordogjesus 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing.
TonyBtheEG 2 years ago
I would very much like to see proof that jesus was a real person. im xchristian after much study. Try Truthsurge the jesus myth on youtube
bigjon1359 2 years ago
5:21 to 5:26 look at the black dude in red on the first row, he's sleeping, lol!
tommytalks77 2 years ago
The last guy has got it figured out. I'm surprised anyone in America can see through religion in that way. Well this is pretty enlightening. The human mind is a very complex one, and I never knew anyone could have such powers by manipulating the presence of mind. My hypothesis is that if the historical Jesus Christ existed, he was an illusionist or mentalist, well ahead of his time, convincing those near to him he had extraordinary powers like Brown just did here.
MarxKnewBest 2 years ago 43
@MarxKnewBest : The historical Jesus probably never existed considering that every miracle or atonement credited to him had already been credited to other pagan gods at and before that time. There are also no accounts of Jesus written in the present tense. All writings about him are in past tense. Someone as important as the son of god performing miracles, you would think would create quite a stir all around the mediterranean and have been recorded by scribes and historians from many kingdoms.
radtech1989 1 year ago 61
@radtech1989 You know it...btw, all the accounts are after the fact (at best). Most of the time, they're "edited" decades to centuries afterwards. HMMM. Of course, gullibles buy it (literally) 24/7/365.
davemelnick 10 months ago
@radtech1989 Although I too doubt the existence of a historical Jesus, nothing you described really has to do with a "historical" Jesus. "The son of god performing miracles" is the mythical Jesus, which almost certainly did not exist. A historical Jesus would likelybe a poor mason who became a local religious leader, something that would never have drawn much attention in a time period from which almost all written accounts are about the rich and powerful. Even so, he still may not have existed.
BrocTheMagnifico 10 months ago
@radtech1989 I have no credentials in history but I agree. I'm thinking if jesus is all made up then how far does the bull spread? Is pontius pilatus also a made up character. Which historical documents can conclusively exclude any doubts that there actually was a criminal called jesus. Anyway its irrelevant in todays world, might as well ignore it just like we ignore all those other ferry tale pedophile prophets.
scientiavictoria 9 months ago
@radtech1989 i'm not arguing for either side, just bringing up the fact that there were roman records of a man called Jesus from Nazareth who was executed by crucification 33AD.
BiOAtKtv 8 months ago
@BiOAtKtv
Yeah, but that´s all there is...there are record of a wandering priest called Jesus who got offed by his ideological enemies when he stirred up too much. At that point of time MANY so called "messiahs" travelled through the whole middle east, as a messiah was prophezised, quite a number of them ended being crucified not just Jesus.
We don´t know a lot about the historical Jesus but chances are that he was quite progressive for his time but nothing supernatural.
NKA23 8 months ago
@NKA23 i just wanted to point out that jesus existed. I'm not saying anything about his powers, real or imagined.
BiOAtKtv 8 months ago
@radtech1989 Few historians have written about him and his death, the details and who escapes me save a Roman Historian Josephus I think is the correct reference. Decades later and not first had witnesses. Many of the stories were those told orally as tradition and the limiting of actual books.
JackJivewriter 8 months ago
@radtech1989 The fact that Jesus was a historical figure isn't under dispute by anyone. Who He is, that's under debate. Though it must be fun to be able to make up facts...wish I could do that and still sleep at night ;P
EtripsTenshi 6 months ago
@radtech1989
Ahhh the pagan gods myth.
I love that one.
jmann114 6 months ago
@radtech1989 There is a differance between jesus and jesus christ...jesus's life is based on josephus, the teacher of righteousness from the essene community, who IS recorded as being crucified by the romans....the crucified christ however is not historical.
diggsdad 6 months ago
@radtech1989 there is a theory that our ancestors misinterpreted Aliens(who messed with dna to create humans) as gods
Eliandor100 5 months ago
@MarxKnewBest 18 people gave this comment a thumb up. Their other thumb is up their asses. Marx knew best, I assume you are refering to Karl Marx? Maybe you are familiar with a Karl Marx that I am not aware of. Marxism is a recipe for tyranny. Liberals are such dullards.
DoublePrimo44004 1 year ago
@MarxKnewBest Spot on about Jesus,never thought of it like that
VaiRoth 1 year ago
@MarxKnewBest What do you think is more possible about the Jesus thing. Was he a magician, or was he simply a great teacher, whom amazing miracles were attributed to. I'm willing to bet he never did those things but the stories were just passed down along the generations. Then the tales just got bigger and grander
Kruezoraxe 1 year ago
@Kruezoraxe Yes but then again, the tales didn't have much generations to go down before being recorded since the gospel of John was written by Jesus's cousin. But then again, had Jesus been a charlatan, would he have agreed to die on the cross for his lie? Was he just crazy then? Maybe. But his message is still one of the most profound in the story of humanity. Love your neighbor like yourself. Most important sentence in history.
GregTom2 1 year ago
@GregTom2 There were plenty of other people aroun that age who had miracles attributed to them. Apollonius for one. I don't think he was crazy nor a charlatan, rather a great moral figure who had miracles attributed to him. Example: The messiah had to be born in the place of David i.e. Bethlehem. There never was a census so Joseph never had to go there, so Jesus was not born there. But the census story gives me conclusive hard evidence for at least one falsely attributed story.
Kruezoraxe 1 year ago
@GregTom2
But you're right, his message was wonderful. As was Buddha's. As was Lao Tsu's. As was Socrates's. As was Kierkegaard's. As are the rules of hunter gatherer tribes. Any religion which claims to have unique moral teachings are blinded to the possibility that maybe someone else agrees with them.
But Jesus was a great figure and one of the best examples of how one should act. I do wish that people nowadays blessed the poor as much as he did. We're back to heralding the rich.
Kruezoraxe 1 year ago
@Kruezoraxe You do realize Jesus promoted eternal punishment for sinners don't you. I can think of better examples of a moral teacher.
metalsusa1 11 months ago
@metalsusa1 We know so little about Jesus that I think it's pointless to pick and choose. After all, he's also the "cast the first stone" guy. I don't think any one teacher has all the answers. I disagree with Jesus on some things, Buddha on some others, Gandhi on quite a few, Mother Theresa, Socrates, Nietzsche, Kant, etc etc. But I would be a different person if I wasn't so well read on morality and made my own decisions about what is right.
P.S. This is coming from an atheist
Kruezoraxe 11 months ago
@Kruezoraxe What's up Kruezoraxe? Well, I'm just conveying what the bible claims to be revealed truth. B.T.W. Jesus was sent only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, his message was only for the Jews. The last 12 verses in MARK (the first gospel and heavily borrowed by MATTHEW and LUKE) do not appear in the earliest copies of MARKS GOSPEL. They include Jesus's remarks to preach my words to all nations. Jesus's main message was the end of days was at hand, drop everything and follow me.
metalsusa1 11 months ago
@GregTom2 Actually his central message, to only the Jews mind you, was take no thought for the morrow(don't worry about tomorrow) the end is at hand. 1967 years ago. OPPS!
metalsusa1 11 months ago
Derren is really good at what he does.
Paxmax 2 years ago 6
Very cool, lol. I love the psychanalistic experiments on humans.
piknictable 2 years ago 2
mee tooo, i love this guy, my friends hate him though...^^
naturecollision 2 years ago
@naturecollision How can anyone hate Darren :P
damppp 1 year ago 2
its pretty obvious how he does it.
he asks pretty random stuff that could be connected with many many things. so the person fills in the holes with his own knowledge of what happend. its all because of the peoples belief in him
nyg8128 2 years ago
thank you darren for exposing the frauds like john edwards
xva232 2 years ago 41
@xva232 and some middle-aged jew 2000 years ago names jesus
superhornet59 1 year ago
he does profiling of the participants which makes him know more about the people than the video shows - hence able to suggest many more 'good' guesses that wouldn't have applied to most people.
dont be too quick to believe in what he presents too.
thats also what he wants you to think too
be skeptical, even of his shows - ask "is that real?".
he openly admits he is primarily an entertainer.
58mph 2 years ago
The guy at the end is the best. All religions are scams.
zilvova 2 years ago 8
how cool is that guy at the end :D
agentschnitzel 2 years ago 6
haha he is a legend!
reincarnation89 2 years ago 2
It's just amazing how random Derren's 'messages' are, but in the given setting they have an effect I would never have anticipated.
Schensue 2 years ago
No human, he works for the South African H.M.T.I.I.T.A. agency.
...and yes-I agree that its silly for any agency to call itself "humans mother takes it in the ass" however I hear they are infact pretty good at what they do.
MightySaturn5 2 years ago
how did he know it was Lucy.
cold reading doesn't get that specific, right?
mossyburger 2 years ago
3:33 lol
Moniconis 2 years ago
Damn I just said this was easy to do on the last part, but some of these reads are really incredible.
provenmac 2 years ago
ahahaha
jimboybaboy 2 years ago
this video needs banana
xtruder02 2 years ago 2
Buh nah nah 8D
kiikasi 2 years ago
I'm not impressed with the experiment, although I am dazzled by Darren's skill, as I always am. It is not surprising that the "psychic experts" endorsed him, and it does not mean that they are knowingly fraudulent themselves. Anyone inclined to believe in something, and not suspecting Darren's skills, would be convinced by such amazing performaces. Given that he is so good, why would be hard to fool the "experts"?
Of course, maybe they endorsed him just because he is good for their business.
pgan002 2 years ago 4
That`s Derren`s whole point. These people don`t use a scientific approach to the "evidences" they are presented with.
There is no thought of empirical science in the alternative buisness, it`s the seeing is beliving approach. Which any illusionist, magician or other proffessional conman will tell you is a dangerous way to make up your world view and belief system.
wotg 2 years ago 6
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UniweriaZekt 2 years ago
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God is in spirit
Joy
happiness
love
kindness
life
There is no anwser for the begining of life and there is no answer what is at he end of space or what you say is the heavens
we will never have the technique of understanding what we are all here for
we live and then we die it is a process that will continue
wen790 2 years ago
I missed the sign @ 4:57 when I watched it the first time.
SidJustice1 2 years ago
He knows how to read people, think quickly, and have confidence. I love this guy lol.
raleelee88 2 years ago
6:00 "I think God is a scam and a hoax, but it works. It's actually a good one."
q1s3d45g6 2 years ago
He's right too...It's a good scam because it requires no evidence, and it glorifies the one attribute it requires, which is faith. So that a person of faith is seen as a person of good character, rather than ignorant.
covega79 2 years ago 3
@covega79
But Atheists do the same thing.
jmann114 6 months ago
@jmann114 Same what?
covega79 6 months ago
@covega79
Atheism is a scam because it requires no evidence...
God does require evidence, but sadly, even if presented with it, people scoff at it rather than seek the truth.
"So that a person of faith is seen as a person of good character, rather than ignorant." - So, it seems to me you're almost WANTING that person to be ignorant, and wanting the trick to be that he just seems like he has good character. Well I'm sorry to tell you but this does not apply to everybody all of the time.
jmann114 6 months ago
@jmann114 Atheism is the absence of belief that any deities exist. Please explain why this would require any evidence. Do you believe in fairies simply because there is no evidence that there are no fairies? i guess that's the fairy denier scam. How about those scam artists that say there is no big foot?
Look, there needs to be evidence that a god exist, NOT that a god doesn't exist. Atheism is the default position, NOT a scam.
I care about the truth. Please provide any evidence you may have.
covega79 6 months ago
@jmann114 BTW, why did you say, "even if presented with it, ... rather than seek the truth"? You seem to be implying that seeking the truth can only result in finding out that there is a god. Do you think this is honest? For ex., what can you tell me about physics, chemistry, evolution, psychology? Are you really being honest when you question if others seek the truth and be ignorant about these subjects? I'm not saying you are, but if your not, how can you be confident about truth?
covega79 6 months ago
@covega79
No, I actually mean more things than just God. There's a lot of things people deny even if presented with evidence. It's like a thief trying to find a cop. He will willingly always go to the wrong places.
I am not ignorant about those subjects, it is just... this is what people do all the time. GOD ISN'T REAL. WE HAVE PHYSICS... AND... UHHH... BIOLOGY... UMMM... CHEMISTRY. YEAH ALL THAT STUFF. WHY WOULD GOD BE REAL?
jmann114 6 months ago
@jmann114 I agree. It happens all the time. People are presented with evidence and they deny it. I see it all the time with Evolution. There is massive amount of evidence, yet some people don't accept it.
As far as i know, there is zero evidence of the existence of any god. If you have any, I would love to hear it. And if it isn't valid evidence. I will tell you why.
First, define your god and then tell me how you know it exist.
covega79 6 months ago
@covega79
God is the only God. Our creator. a God of wrath, and a God of love. the Father of Christ. The Alpha and the Omega.
Read the Bible. There are thousands of prophecies dealing with Christ, both messianic and dealing with nations, textual evidence, scientific evidence, and so on. Prophecies are fulfilled every day. Look at near death experiences. Howard Storm for example.
The fulfilled prophecies and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ should be enough for anybody.
jmann114 6 months ago
@jmann114 I took Bible as literature in college. I don't recall any prophecy being fulfilled, besides the usual vague comments which lead to subjective interpretation of people who paint a targets around bullseyes. Be specific on the absolute best evidence found in the Bible. Keep in mind that writing a prediction in a book and then writing that that prediction was fullfilled in the same book is NOT good evidence. The same argument you're making is made by Muslims with the Quran. Is theirs true?
covega79 6 months ago
@covega79
Exactly, you took Bible as literature in college.
Hm lets see. The prophecy that Christ would be born and declared the Son of God, crucified and would be resurrected? Guess they didn't teach that one in college did they?
Read the book of John. Read the book of Revelation. Do your homework.
jmann114 6 months ago
@jmann114 Did you not read what I said? How do you know there was even a Jesus? I guess you believe in Harry Potter too since it was in a book. You clearly don't know what evidence means.
I did read about Jesus. Is not good evidence. Sorry. People who actually have read other books about other religions, science, etc. can better weight in on what is factual or fairy tales. Please, read anything other than the Bible.
covega79 6 months ago
@covega79
Again, Bible prophecy. Pay attention to it. The Bible isn't just one book. It is many.
Of course, anything other than the Bible. Lol.
God Bless. I'll pray for you.
jmann114 6 months ago