was uri geller a fraud?

[saint808]

or did he have mysterious powers?

 

[Robert Jan]

He was for real. duh.
he telekinesed my bike into a chair too

 

[saint808]

i want eery mental powers... i couldn't even bend a spoon with my thumb tho...

 

[the nature boy]

Rule number 1 for the nature boy:

Never trust a guy named Uri.

Rule number 2:

Never stick a bowling trophy up your ass unless you have specially trained professionals in the immediate vicinity.

 

[WODIN]

It's not that your bending the spoon. It is simply realizing that the spoon is not there.

 

[TheProject]

It's not that your bending the spoon. It is simply realizing that the spoon is not there.

Got it. There is no spoon.

 

[saint808]

damn... i still see the spoon but the metal girders on the construction site across the street are bending... i guess that is progress.

 

[HappyScrappy]

is he related to sarah michelle gellar? I'd do her.

 

[SofaGeorge]

A friend of mine sat next to Geller years ago on a plane. My firend was the flight surgeon for Delta Force, very smart guy, and a research scientist. He handed Geller a spoon and said, "Do it." He didn't give Geller and time or space to switch spoons or remove the spoon from view. Geller bent the spoon easily while looking at it.

My friend said it could have been a trick, but he marked the spoon so he knows it was the same one... and the spoon was not damaged. (This is significant bacause the "explanation" for how Geller did this was that he used a nearly broken spoon.)

His final comment:

"I couldn't spot how he could have faked it."

Footnote - My friend was a doctor in two branches of the military. He finished his career in the Navy. One day the Navy sent him a kid that they wanted drummed out on a psychiatric discharge. The kid claimed to have been kidnapped by UFOs and the UFOs implanted a chip in his brain so that they could "educate" him at night. My friend said, "Well, if you want me to drum him out for being dellusional... first we have to establish that it IS a dellusion." So, he set out to test the kid's knowledge that the UFOs had supposedly given him. He found the kid could discuss on the doctorate level any subject: math, physics, chemistry, music, philosophy, etc... The kid also claimed he had been taught to write in the alien language. My friend had him write down a lengthy speech he dictated (in the language)... then he took the paper away and repeated the same speech. The kid wrote this wierd glyph symbol stuff. Then my friend gave the pages to the military crytograpers. They came back and said that it was indeed a language. The kid had practically duplicated the first page. The kid also claimed he could diagnose diseases and injuries by "looking" at people. My friend found that the kid was 96% accurate on "invisible" conditions (conditions you can't see.) My friend said that the other 4% could be stuff we are missing. The strangest part of all was that the kid would sit in his room drawing pictures of the "home" world. My friend sent out a stack to me. It was some pretty funky but very believable designs for homes and buildings... and towns.

 

[HappyScrappy]

wasn't that a movie?

 

[WODIN]

Take a spoon and slowley rub your thumb on it. You create.....HEAT....do i long enough and the spoon will bend. This doesn't apply to wooden, plastic or iron spoons.

 

[danielson]

enough energy to bend the spoon by rubbing though


i dunno....as special powers go that ranks up there with the guys on mystery men. he was investigted by the CIA....that doesn say much though

 

[HappyScrappy]

it is threads like these that make me question the fate of our world.

I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying you are morons.

 

[saint808]

it is threads like these that make me question the fate of our world.

I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying you are morons.

yeah yeah yeah... next thing you will be telling me we actually put a man on the moon.