African shaman performing levitation

magi said:
And you *really truly* believe that dogs can make themselves heavier... because it was an evolutionary advantage? Why not horses?
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Of course horses can. Ever had one standing on your foot? No, I can't prove it but I know because it certainly feels like they're getting heavier so it must be true.
 
Spektator said:
Yair, did your avatar just get heavier, or am I imagining things?
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How can it get heavier if it is not wearing the AFRICAN robe found only in AFRICA worn by holy shamans?
Obviously you don't know what you're talking about.

P.S. - 1 more post for the 300.
 
This is great fun. I'm going to start a thread with a video from "I Dream Of Jeanie" to prove that genies really do exist and can perfrom magic. Will anybody doubt my sincerity?
 
This is great fun. I'm going to start a thread with a video from "I Dream Of Jeanie" to prove that genies really do exist and can perfrom magic. Will anybody doubt my sincerity?
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That's a good idea. I mean if it's on youtube and the title says that it's a Jeanie, who can doubt it?

Regards and happy 300th post,
Yair
 
insidespace said:
I watched the video again, and I am more impressed than ever. He does not play to the camera at all. He is engrossed in his prayers. This might be some demonstration to his G-ds. I can't imaging how important this is to him, yet we are here treating it as a parlor trick. We should be ashamed.
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After reading your posts I feel the need to clear up a few things before you raise them as evidence of the paranormal. Let me know if there's anything you're not clear on and I'll try to explain.
  • You see a person walking down the street. You look away for a while and look back. The person didn't stop walking and teleport, they've just continued to walk.
  • You see a cat on a fence. It hasn't floated there using anti-dog-magic, it has jumped.
  • If you go to sleep on your side and wake up on your back, you haven't been kidnapped by aliens. You've rolled over.
  • When the trees sway back and forth it's not an example of telekinesis; it's windy.
  • If, in the morning, you have memories of fighting demons and having sex with big-breasted women, it didn't actually happen. Instead, you dreamed it.
  • People don't actually get smaller when they walk away from you, that's just perspective playing tricks.
  • If you're watching TV it sometimes appears that people are talking to you. Don't worry, you can see them but they can't see you.
  • If you pick up a baby and it suddenly gets lighter, it's not applying quantum-bio-anti-dog-gravity. It's likely been sick on your shoulder.
 
I'm catching up reading insidespace's comments, and have a question. Do threads "age" and become deleted at some point?

I ask....this is classic, and should be saved; just way to funny.
 
baron said:
If, in the morning, you have memories of fighting demons and having sex with big-breasted women, it didn't actually happen. Instead, you dreamed it.
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No, it did actually happen (the sex with the big-breasted woman). She's my wife. :p

Regards,
Yair
 
insidespace said:
And I might ask, if it is faked, where exactly is the wire? How thick? How long? Made where? How strong? Who is holding it up, a bird? Who is involved? Another Shaman? Where did they get that robe? Nobody has a robe like that laying around, except maybe a Hollywood actor. So, tell me it was made in Hollywood and I will retract everything I said. If not, I tend to think WYSIUG.
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obviously it is a see-saw with a dog on the other (hidden) side making itself heavier thus forcing the shaman's end rise.
 
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The fact that the cameraman would not film the back of the shaman is an indicator that it was not wires, but the see-saw method being used. A good wire setup should allow you to film anywhere.

The fire probably also helps to hide any shadows, along with it's theatric value.

Also, when he falls down, I can see that he has something bulky around his waist.
 
Copperfield is so much better at levitation. This guy is clearly a faker (or fakir)
 
Madalch said:
What you seem to think is Tigger is actually writing- it's the words "Wonder Woman".

Ah- can't expect you to have noticed that, you were busy ogling the picture of Wonder Woman.
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Yikes - an olive short of a martini, I am. I only began to pay attention to the glass several seconds into the clip. The fuzzy letters sure looked like the paws and tail of tigger. At the beginning of the clip it is clearly "Wonder Woman".

Of course, it could be the martini thats to blame in the first place. I'll hav to perform a few more tests to be sure.
 
yairhol said:
I think I get it now. The handles of the utensils cancel out the weight of the head of the utensils right? or no?

Yair
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I was only half-way there. Alkatran got to the real point - torque. The center of gravity is on the glass-side of where the forks attach to the toothpick, but the forks are wedged on, applying a downward twist to the toothpick. The video is set up to make you believe the forks/toothpick are delicately balanced on the rim of the glass with the other side of the toothpick balancing out the forks. I have a plastic hummingbird that balances with its beak on my fingertip in the same manner.

Yaaay for your 300+ posts!
 
insidespace said:
Yeah well, true to form it seems like everybody has a different "explanation" for the Shaman. One says wires attached to his thorax. Another says a see-saw with unseen people. He is lit and he is not. His robe can be bought in Africa (like I said , only in Africa said the poster). So, I did *NOT* say the robe was made by aliens or by G-D. I said it is from Africa. I have *never* seen a robe like that, though I have been in all 50 states, except Nebraska. (I was actually going to go to Nebraska just to say I have been in all 50 states -- and that DOES include Hawaii and Alaska in case you were doubting me -- but I never really thought it was worth it because in this day and age of fast travel, going to all 50 states is not that big a deal). So, it is an African Robe, as we all agree. Now, we know this is not some Hollywood production with fake dinosaurs and car crashes. This is not Star Wars come to Earth or whatever fakery is involved. This is not the Harry Potter flying magician. This is a barefoot Shaman, a holy priest probably, who has a book or something that he can read in a now-dead language, that probably teaches him which sacred plants (growing only in Africa, by the way) will allow him to reach the transcendental stages of levitation (abbreviated TSL).

Everybody asks *ME* "how does he do it?" Well, I offered some explanations earlier, like in analogy to dogs who can make themselves heavier, why can't a Shaman, with enough sacred plants, make himself "lighter?" Where do you think the word "high" came from, indicating a state of drug ingestion. Is that a coincidence? Could that be the real explanation? The jury is out on that one!!!!!!
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The dog does not (surely someone has already explained this to you) "make itself heavier", it "sets" (stiffens) it's muscles. Since that makes it inflexible, it is much harder to lift BECAUSE it's body does not bend and change center of gravity as it is picked up. I have been doing that as a "bar trick" for years: 1) relax and ask a reasonable size guy if he thinks he can lift you, 2) let him - it will be easy unless he has arthritis, 3) bet him That he won't be able to lift you again, 4) stiffen/tighten all your muscles (contract them) when he prepares to lift 5) collect on the bet.
 
So if you can change your center of gravity by tensing your muscles, then maybe a Shaman who has studied this all his life, and has sacred plants at his disposal, plus has a clear and unobstructed mind, unobstructed by Wal*Mart signs and muffler shops, why can't he move *his* center of gravity "up" a little? I'm not sayin he can fly in formation with canada geese, only that he can slide a little "upward" away from the dirt.

Since time immemorial, mankind has looked to the heavens and wished he (or she!) could fly. It is the oldest dream of mankind. Icarus and Daedalus wanted to fly, and they lived a long time ago. So, why were the ancients so convinced they could "fly?" And by "fly" did they mean flap their wings? No, that is for the birds (no pun intended). The Shaman flies by repelling the dirt with his feet (a possible explanation, static electricity). Not by flapping. In all the dreams of mankind, except Daedalus, have you ever seen flapping? No, and my dreams of flight are not flapping flight.

So, why should we, with our limited understanding and our primitive machines, which look to superior intelligiences like childs' toys, think that *WE* have the final word or the inside track on non-flapping flight? Conceit.
 
magi said:
Innerspace:

If you were driving your canoe down a four-lane highway, and all the wheels fell off, how many pancakes would it take to fix your sister's doghouse?
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None, because ice cream doesn't have bones.
 
insidespace said:
So if you can change your center of gravity by tensing your muscles, then maybe a Shaman who has studied this all his life, and has sacred plants at his disposal, plus has a clear and unobstructed mind, unobstructed by Wal*Mart signs and muffler shops, why can't he move *his* center of gravity "up" a little? I'm not sayin he can fly in formation with canada geese, only that he can slide a little "upward" away from the dirt.

Since time immemorial, mankind has looked to the heavens and wished he (or she!) could fly. It is the oldest dream of mankind. Icarus and Daedalus wanted to fly, and they lived a long time ago. So, why were the ancients so convinced they could "fly?" And by "fly" did they mean flap their wings? No, that is for the birds (no pun intended). The Shaman flies by repelling the dirt with his feet (a possible explanation, static electricity). Not by flapping. In all the dreams of mankind, except Daedalus, have you ever seen flapping? No, and my dreams of flight are not flapping flight.

So, why should we, with our limited understanding and our primitive machines, which look to superior intelligiences like childs' toys, think that *WE* have the final word or the inside track on non-flapping flight? Conceit.
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Absolutely hilarious. Keep it coming!!

And don't forget: If pigs had wings, they could fly. If they ate magic herbs, had very big wings, could move their centre of gravity to the Moon, adjusted their weight so they could not be stolen from caves, and had lotsa static electricty in their tiny hooves. Oh, and little helicopter blades on their beenie caps.

Or, then again, maybe not. :covereyes
 
insidespace said:
So if you can change your center of gravity by tensing your muscles, then maybe a Shaman who has studied this all his life, and has sacred plants at his disposal, plus has a clear and unobstructed mind, unobstructed by Wal*Mart signs and muffler shops, why can't he move *his* center of gravity "up" a little? I'm not sayin he can fly in formation with canada geese, only that he can slide a little "upward" away from the dirt.

Since time immemorial, mankind has looked to the heavens and wished he (or she!) could fly. It is the oldest dream of mankind. Icarus and Daedalus wanted to fly, and they lived a long time ago. So, why were the ancients so convinced they could "fly?" And by "fly" did they mean flap their wings? No, that is for the birds (no pun intended). The Shaman flies by repelling the dirt with his feet (a possible explanation, static electricity). Not by flapping. In all the dreams of mankind, except Daedalus, have you ever seen flapping? No, and my dreams of flight are not flapping flight.

So, why should we, with our limited understanding and our primitive machines, which look to superior intelligiences like childs' toys, think that *WE* have the final word or the inside track on non-flapping flight? Conceit.
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May I mamoo dogface to the bannana patch? I shibley nibley on the tomorrow goozie.

I got it... he wasn't levitating. He drank some of the magic soda made by Willie Wonka, the kind that almost got Petie and Grammpa thrown out. It's a know fact (cus I just made it up on the internet, and you read it, so therefore it's true) that shananamen cannot burp or fart, so they must lift. They stay lifted until their faithful dog wills some heavy weewee psychically towards them, because they are into the vibrations of the cosmos.
 
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