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Greene backs up every statement he makes with so much evidence that the bibliography to each of his books is large enough to use as a crude, but effective weapon. Some would say that over-complicates things. I say it just makes the case all the stronger. Anyway, RSD have some interesting...

Two things. First of all, I've quietly taken steps to atone for my mistakes in the past. Outside of RD, who here has tried to apologize for acting like a ****wit in this thread? Second, are you trying to suggest that my sins excuse those of another?

Echoing store-bought opinions does not mean one has a point. Well, that's not strictly true either. A lot of those places are going downhill these days. Did I forget to mention that the lack of non-verbal communication means that we tend to filter communication through the lens of...

Well considering I frequently find myself having to defend unpopular opinions, maybe it's just me being a softy by feeling sympathetic. Admitting to a mistake is one thing. Making amends is another. How many of these jackals do you think will apologize? No, I'm saying it's an unfair...

93% of human communication is non-verbal. In text, an average of 40% of meaning gets lost. It never occurred to anyone to ask him to develop the thought? Hmm, that's strange... I said that last sentence as a question. As if I didn't already know the answer. Case in point. Most of you...

Yeah, which makes the insults that Wangruo has had slung at him pretty ****ing self-righteous and hypocritical. And is the stick really so far up our asses that a guy wanting to flirt with magic is actually worthy of outrage? Look at this thread. Look at it and tell with a straight face...

Implying that there is still something wrong with it? And herein is a cognitive dissonance I see with magicians. We take ourselves so damn seriously that if someone uses a trick as a way to flirt, they need to be burned at the stake. While at the same time, most of us turn a blind eye to the...

No. They're really not. What they did was juvenile, ignorant, and holier-than-thou. They weren't out to help this guy, just to make themselves look good. They don't need to be told they're better than this, they need to be smacked upside the head and told that what they did was unacceptable...

Allow me to expound on what Cyril brought up. Four years ago, I watched a documentary about the Holocaust called Night and Fog. There were photographs and archival footage of concentration camp prisoners working slave labor to create goods for the German war machine. Men were snuffed out in...

Two questions. 1. Who are you? 2. Why do you hate punctuation? Pretty much. Because what is the internet if not an angst receptacle? I have to hand it to the flourishing community though. They have turned De'vo into the magical equivalent of furries. Which is to say he causes...

I tried reading this thread, but the self-righteous moralizing made me vomit. You *******s owe me a new keyboard. Use magic to meet people. That's fine. Just make sure they still want to hang out with you when you put the cards away. You want to flirt? Try this. Build up the drama for...

Hence my above-mentioned realization that I was just looking for excuses in an attempt to be taken seriously. However, I think part of my bias may have been because I had never actually seen anybody else pull it off. I mentally filed it off as unfeasible before I had the chance to think about...

I took a couple days to let this stew in my head. I started to think that maybe I was just looking for excuses not to perform for kids. I remembered a Christmas party I did a couple years ago. One of the effects I did was to show two blank billets and ask a child what they wanted for Christmas...

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the nature of art, where magic fits into that, and what kind of statements are being made in the modern zeitgeist. And yes, I did type all of that while sipping a cognac, stroking my goatee, and wearing a mortarboard. I've been thinking about...

Like I said, I was being really optimistic. I'm not sure what combination of controlled substances led me to that, but there you have it.

The number of questions he asks isn't what concerns me. It's that he doesn't seem to pay attention to the answers. If you don't understand causality, then yes it would be strange. It doesn't surprise me that most magicians still fail to consider that it's not the incidental prop that's...

You're actually saying a complete beginner should invest the huge amount of money it takes to buy Art of Astonishment? Don't take this as me knocking Paul's material, but you're so full of ****. That's not trying to run before you can walk, that's trying to run a ****ing triathlon before you...

I think maybe 1 in 10 people here, and that's a pretty optimistic estimate, has ever performed a straight mentalism act.

I don't think that's how the saying goes.

Sounds a bit like fishing for method.