People would come by and tap on the window, How is that suicide murder coming? Pretty good, thanks. I felt drowsy earlier today.

We could really use a Drug and Magic Remedies Act here in the States.

The amazing Nan-di

is this the same one from 2 years ago, or is this a new one? Either way, i love it when silly beliefs are shown up in public. Now if we could just get someone to test the transformation of communion wafers on live tv.

When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly

Really? What is it with Indian people? They're like geniuses and retards at the same time.

Smarshmallow: The amazing Nan-di

Lol...so when does Mr. Rationalist come out of the closet?

If they claim to be performing miracles then you know they are lying. The gurus keep people from developing their individuality. I agree with the rationalist guy, he is doing good work.

This is so glorious.

Hope this guy doesn't invite Santa on his show.

Well I think it's pretty obvious that this man is secretly practicing sorcery, and is so powerful that he can counteract the chants.

We must burn him at the stake!

I was once in a car with this person with whom I got into a huge argument. They dropped me off at home, and as they drove away, I pictured in my head over & over their car exploding...

...well, their car didn't explode, but after they got about two blocks away, a drunk drive ran into them & totaled their car. (they were uninjured though). I didn't hear about it until later, but couldn't help but giggle to myself.

/story = cool, bro

niloroth: is this the same one from 2 years ago, or is this a new one? Either way, i love it when silly beliefs are shown up in public. Now if we could just get someone to test the transformation of communion wafers on live tv.

Thsi is the same one from 2 years ago, but earlier, only places like JREF paid any attention, now it's getting a little MSM attention.

For some reason, every time I challenged a woo artist to do the same trick, the same results occurred.

Next up, Benny Hinn!

This happened almost 2 years ago, this is not news. Why are people recycling old news from Reddit and Digg?

He should stand trial for attempted murder. Either he tried to kill the host or he knew his mystic powers were a fraud.

I remember I had bought some nice running shoes and went to a party. When I went to leave, my shoes were gone. The only guy who could have taken them ended up in a car accident that night and eventually died from his injuries.

I hope he enjoyed my shoes for the 20 minutes or so he had them.

justoneznot: eally? What is it with Indian people? They're like geniuses and retards at the same time.


I bet that's the same thing they say about us...

This story was awesome though. Any day someone can humiliate a lying jackass mystic is a good day. A world without superstitious ignorance is a looooooong way away, but every step in that direction is good to see. This guy deserves the hero tag.

maddogdelta:
Next up, Benny Hinn!

In my younger days I worked at the ACC doing ushering. Free concerts and hockey/basketball games, what could possibly go wrong right?

Well You also have to work these spiritual events like "Benny Hinn". The guy is an OBVIOUS fake. Like many others. But what is spectacularily disturbing about Benny Hinn (while wearing a diamond ring so big i could see it from several hundred feet away) was that he would announce to the crowd that "if you truely wanted to be healed you need to open up your wallets and reach past the 5$ and the 10$ and the 20$ bills and give me your 100$ bills or checks for larger amounts". He ACTUALLY said this plane as day.

I was so disgusted by him that I took a walk over to one of the exit doors for smoking to talk to a friend. And I kid you not there was about 500 people all with very serious and obvious illnesses(think crutches, wheelchairs, missing limbs, cancer)with family members trying to push their way into the event to get "healed".

It was at that point that it hit me to how easy it was to exploit the sick and scared.

Whatever horrors that man has coming to him in the future is WELL deserved.

"The immediate goal I have is to stop these fraudulent babas and gurus," says Mr Edamaruku, 55, a part-time journalist and publisher from the southern state of Kerala. "I want people to make their own decisions. They should not be guided by ignorance, but by knowledge.

"I'd like to see a post-religious society - that would be an ideal dream, but I don't know how long it would take."

It's not going to happen. Look at our country with Pentecostals rolling on the floor and speaking in tongues. Yet we are supposedly better educated. Yet we are still superstitious. Some religious people think you can grow back missing limbs if you just believe deeply enough.

Humans are just plain crazy.

justoneznot: Really? What is it with Indian people? They're like geniuses and retards at the same time.

Name one group of people who have produced great scientists but don't have any religious nutjobs among them.

"The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash."



Say what you will, but those gurus know how to party.

justoneznot: When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly

Really? What is it with Indian people? They're like geniuses and retards at the same time.

After working with them for a few years, I've learned that they have only one thing going for them: their single-mindedness. The way they are educated doesn't really allow for branching thought. I'd say, all variables taken out, there is no difference in intelligence between any of the nationalities.

Not saying they're stupid, just that their focus is very narrow. They can't switch jobs just because they're bored like we can in the states. That's why many of them seem a bit lost at first when tasked with something outside their training; kinda like union workers.

schattenteufel: I was once in a car with this person with whom I got into a huge argument. They dropped me off at home, and as they drove away, I pictured in my head over & over their car exploding...

...well, their car didn't explode, but after they got about two blocks away, a drunk drive ran into them & totaled their car. (they were uninjured though). I didn't hear about it until later, but couldn't help but giggle to myself.

/story = cool, bro

burn the witch.

Smarshmallow: Name one group of people who have produced great scientists but don't have any religious nutjobs among them.

Mid-20th-century Germany. All their nutjobs were good old-fashioned racists.

FarkinHostile: "The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in hash."

Say what you will, but those gurus know how to party.

FTFY

Another Uri Geller. Great. Let's pool some money and give him a free trip to Saudi Arabia.

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At least the guru got laid; it was worth it.

haha...Sybarite is also one of Dictionary.com's word of the day today.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scanners

Smarshmallow: justoneznot: Really? What is it with Indian people? They're like geniuses and retards at the same time.

Name one group of people who have produced great scientists but don't have any religious nutjobs among them.

Athiests

Scenario: You ask a co-worker if he can help you find a hit man. He goes to the police. An undercover detective contacts you claiming to be a hit man. You agree to a fee, but stipulate that the murder must be accomplished solely via mental telekinesis, he agrees, you pay him, and then the S.W.A.T. team bursts in and arrests you.

Question: Are you guilty of solicitation for murder?

fta:
Rationalising India has never been easy. Given the country's vast population, its pervasive poverty and its dizzying array of ethnic groups, languages and religions, many deem it impossible.

interesting sentence. i see what it did there.

Pundit Surrender is also a really interesting choice of name for a guru.

enad58

Name one group of people who have produced great scientists but don't have any religious nutjobs among them.

Athiests

Complete win. Of course, till the "Atheist is a religion" folks drop in.

tillerman35
Scenario: You ask a co-worker if he can help you find a hit man. He goes to the police. An undercover detective contacts you claiming to be a hit man. You agree to a fee, but stipulate that the murder must be accomplished solely via mental telekinesis, he agrees, you pay him, and then the S.W.A.T. team bursts in and arrests you.

Question: Are you guilty of solicitation for murder?


Do you believe it can be done? Yes.

The act of actually hiring the hitman is good enough, regardless of means.

FarkinHostile: enad58

Name one group of people who have produced great scientists but don't have any religious nutjobs among them.

Athiests

Complete win. Of course, till the "Atheist is a religion" folks drop in.

this

The Guru should have converted to Christian Science.

They pray for people, and then they die.

FarkinHostile: enad58

Name one group of people who have produced great scientists but don't have any religious nutjobs among them.

Athiests

Complete win. Of course, till the "Atheist is a religion" folks drop in.


Or the "atheists are not a group" people (like this one).

enad58: Athiests

Who brought the funny guy?

Ok, I should have specified ethnic groups.

Being Athiest somehow doesn't prevent people from having wacky beliefs, though. Look at Bill Maher and his stance on homeopathy.

Some Athiests are okay with woo as long as you don't call it God.

WhoGAS: justoneznot: When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly

Really? What is it with Indian people? They're like geniuses and retards at the same time.

After working with them for a few years, I've learned that they have only one thing going for them: their single-mindedness. The way they are educated doesn't really allow for branching thought. I'd say, all variables taken out, there is no difference in intelligence between any of the nationalities.

Not saying they're stupid, just that their focus is very narrow. They can't switch jobs just because they're bored like we can in the states. That's why many of them seem a bit lost at first when tasked with something outside their training; kinda like union workers.

I worked with a Pakistani engineer years ago (close to India geographically anyway). A product was not working right. I saw a broken connection on a cable. He insisted it was a firmware problem. As he worked on it, the last connection broke and the switch assembly fell off into his hand. I asked what he thought the problem was. He STILL said it was firmware.

Smarshmallow: enad58: Athiests

Who brought the funny guy?

Ok, I should have specified ethnic groups.

no, the mistake was using the term "religious nutjob" when that's only one flavor of nutjob

GilRuiz1




Been saving this one for you. I figure you can use it.

FarkinHostile: GilRuiz1

Been saving this one for you. I figure you can use it.

whoa

Did he strum his pain with his fingers? Sing his life with his words?

FarkinHostile: GilRuiz1

Been saving this one for you. I figure you can use it.


Augh! My eyes!


/Rule 34 strikes again!