Sometimes I love India.

[theweaselking]

"Magician": Magic is real and I can KILL YOU WITH MY MAGIC IN THREE MINUTES!
Skeptic: Really? Awesome! Kill me with your magic! We can televise it!


The best part: "The tantrik, unwilling to admit defeat, tried the excuse that a very strong god whom Sanal might be worshipping obviously protected him. 'No, I am an atheist,' said Sanal Edamaruku."

Comments

[flemco.livejournal.com]

The tantrik tried. He chanted his mantras (magic words): “Om lingalingalinalinga, kilikili….”

YES! KILLY KILL KILL! BOOGA BOOGA KILLY KILL KILL KILL!

What's REALLY awesome about this? There are going to be plenty of people talking about "Oh, of course that didn't work! Those silly India religions are full of that kind of hogswallop! Not like our Catholic Church here at home in the good ol' USA..."

[kadath.livejournal.com]

The Catholics don't go in for that "provable claims" shit anymore. They just separate you from Communion, which is totally worse 'cause it makes your soul all dirty. Now get in there and tithe! Papa Ratzinger needs more Prada!

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Preparation H for Kids ain't cheap, you know!

[razelore.livejournal.com]

I was really hoping for spontaneous combustion. Damn.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Wait

The problem with "sympathetic magic" is that if the other person doesn't play along, it doesn't work?

[geminiknight.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish that worked with other forms of death. I could go back to the schoolyard days of

"BANG! I shot you, you're dead!"

"NUH UH! I've got a magic forcefield that protects me from bullets, I WIN!"

[flemco.livejournal.com]

See, the reason my Money Magickxe has never worked is because the rest of the universe refuses to play along.

It's so obvious to me now!

[dgillmore.livejournal.com]

...Ah the power of belief.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Reality is what you can get away with.

[fearmeforiampink]

And that's distingushable from the placebo effect how?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you said it in pretty much the worst way possible:

The belief of the target does not mean that there is "magic" involved, nor does the disbelief of the target in anyway give him "magic" that is stronger.

Finally, no, a believer might break down into blubbering fits, seeing as he's gullible and none too bright to begin with BY DEFINITION, but there's nothing there that's going to kill him that an entirely nonmagical nearmiss with an 18-wheeler wouldn't.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

"The tantrik, unwilling to admit defeat, tried the excuse that a very strong god whom Sanal might be worshipping obviously protected him. 'No, I am an atheist,' said Sanal Edamaruku."

Ah. His Very Strong God was protecting him.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

^___^

It all comes around again

[dj-jonny-flash.livejournal.com]

1 Kings 18:27:

"At noon Elijah began to taunt them. "Shout louder!" he said. "Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened."