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Reading this thread makes it easy to tell who here does magic for a living and who doesn't.

Again, you're making things personal unnecessarily. But in regards to your accusation, you know the old cliche. You don't need to be a good actor to tell a bad one. Yes you are, because you keep coming back to complain about me instead of doing something useful. You may not think it, but...

Not a joke, but an incredible simulation. Just a fair warning, fellas... You're all making this very personal unnecessarily. And if you keep this up, someone's going to start reporting posts. You can either act like adults, or continue painting yourselves into a corner. Your choice.

Then it was my fault for overestimating you. I do? And if nobody cares, then why am I such a polarizing figure? Believe me, I'm not your enemy. But you need to stop being superficial long enough to consider what I may really be saying. In my previous post, there was a huge clue that you...

If you acknowledge that you have nothing to prove, then that's probably the smartest thing you've said to me yet. Understand that was a compliment. You opened your mouth. Yes you do. Shifting the burden of proof doesn't help anyone or anything. It actually hurts your case by making you...

I've read up on the subject. I just find there are topics infinitely more useful to me and worthy of my time.

And yet... here you are. Let's mind our language, shall we? I haven't made any personal attacks because I'm not interested in fighting. But if you would like to start... well, it's out of my hands what happens from there. I've not seen evidence to prove me wrong. This is the internet...

You can't. NLP is a hokey pastiche of body language and vocal tone analysis mixed with a few conditioning exercises and a handful of linguistic principles that magicians have been using for eons. He's weaving another layer of deception.

I love it when people take generalizations personally. Why bother asking me such a question if you're just going to dismiss me immediately afterward? Meaning there's at least one person here who knows what I'm getting at. Or at least has an idea of what I'm getting at.

I seriously doubt that anybody here was thinking that. They practice constantly because they haven't performed for anything outside of a webcam since day one.

The ironic thing is that Derren was lying.

Lovecraft is on my list of required reading for anyone who wants to do magic with a darker edge. His storytelling was equaled only by his friend and contemporary Robert E. Howard.

Nothing worth reading past this point. I hate it that everybody here seems to assume that the rest of the world is dumber than them and they never bother looking for subtext.

Good guess, but no.

If you can find 6 hours in the day to practice, that means you're not performing.

You're kidding, right?

The answers in this thread make it abundantly clear to me why manipulation artistry has yet to catch on in the entertainment industry.

Not really, no. No one has figured out just yet what I'm getting at. You're dancing around the message, but always keeping it just out of reach.

That wasn't my point. We can talk like altruists looking out only for our audiences all day. But in the process, we're going to miss everything else.

The fact of the matter is that most of the people here can't deliver that kind of experience. For all the big game talked by those with a counterargument, I doubt that many of you are out there in the real world performing as often as you would like us to think. And you're not as in tune...