(Apr 25, 2019 04:40 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Wow..giving up so soon? Couldn't track down your dreamed of confession of fakery by Mellowb1rd?
I'm a still a tad horrified by his selecting a nym like
mellowb1rd.
Of course, if he's got one of the "oldest paranormal channels on YouTube", then it may predate the advent of that addition/meaning to the urban lexicon. Kind of like "
Batman" being a perfectly fine surname until Bob Kane came along in 1939 and Adam West in 1966, and then after that it's "
Stop kidding around, this application has to be completed. What's your real name, sir?"
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(Apr 25, 2019 06:34 AM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Apr 25, 2019 04:40 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Wow..giving up so soon? Couldn't track down your dreamed of confession of fakery by Mellowb1rd?
I'm a still a tad horrified by his selecting a nym like mellowb1rd.
Of course, if he's got one of the "oldest paranormal channels on YouTube", then it may predate the advent of that addition/meaning to the urban lexicon. Kind of like "Batman" being a perfectly fine surname until Bob Kane came along in 1939 and Adam West in 1966, and then after that it's "Stop kidding around, this application has to be completed. What's your real name, sir?"
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Wow! Either a very bad stroke of luck, or something more sinister. He really should think of changing that user name.
(Apr 25, 2019 05:34 AM)Leigha Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe he's wearing you down. 
Sure, if you call boredom and monotony wearing someone down. You can do the same thing by incessantly repeating someone or asking why. So MR's posts have graduated to the level of grade school. Everyone be sure to congratulate him.
Read up a little more on magician glass breaking technology. There are all kinds of devices and they’re not cheap. Bologna glass is expensive too and from what i’m reading, I think real glass is used more often. Magicians are reluctant to reveal everything.
Either way a successful video guy like Mellowbird must be making some half decent money.
Take a look at some of what’s out there
https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-g...magic.html
MR has a sense of wonder, and imagination. Nothing wrong with that.
(Apr 26, 2019 04:59 AM)Leigha Wrote: [ -> ]MR has a sense of wonder, and imagination. Nothing wrong with that.
MR’s not the problem. He’s just prey for predator frauds like Mellowbird. How would you describe the fraudster’s imagination or sense of wonder?
What is it, a decade now since Mbird started the scam? It’s practically a success story. Is he hurting anyone?
“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.”
― Terence McKenna
(Apr 26, 2019 04:35 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.”
― Terence McKenna
No way I would ever think science is asking us to believe. Consider? Sure. I think many think that way knowing science has been wrong more than right over the years. Perhaps if you believe above quote to be true, it should trouble you somewhat.
Science presents us with a body of beliefs no less than religion does or any other ideology. And the Big Bang is a basic dogma of the scientific community. Among all science worshippers it is accepted as the gospel truth. But as the quote makes plain, if you can believe that, then you can believe anything. Why would anything not be possible in a universe that sprang up suddenly from nothing?
Quote:“I should point out, nevertheless, that even though incomplete data can lead to a false picture, this is far different from the (false) picture obtained by those who choose to ignore empirical data to invent a picture of reality (young earthers, for example), or those who instead require the existence of something for which there is no observable evidence whatsoever (like divine intelligence) to reconcile their view of creation with their a priori prejudices, or worse still, those who cling to fairly tales about nature that presume the answers before questions can even be asked.”
― Lawrence Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Something from nothing always a fun topic.