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Another "Chi" demonstration

Adressed to the thread in general:

Pause the video around 1:22 and I'm pretty sure I can see a lump pushing up the block. It make take a few tries to stop it at the right frame.
 
Direct questions for Hypernicus

Nothing can be proven by avoiding A==A. Which means Chi can't avoid the laws of this universe.

A direct answer to direct questions would be appreciated. Perhaps the lack of information in your postings and the quick resort to hostility (your third posting on the forum) led me to the wrong conclusion.

1) Do you believe Chi force is real?
2) Do you believe the video demonstration in the original post is real or fake or are you not sure?

While googling the word Hypernicus I found footprints of a member of The Astral Pulse Forum with that name. Is the JREF Forum Hypernicus the same person as The Astral Pulse Forum Hypernicus?
 
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Debunking while following the Magician's Code

On this forum, most people do not explain the tricks IF magicians use the same/similar tricks. I prefer knowing also, but that's not how it works here.:)

Thanks for pointing this out to me. It's a nuance of the JREF I hadn't really thought much of. Since Randi is a magician it's clearly his wish that the ways tricks are done by magicians remain concealed. However, it would seem to exclude a useful debunking tool to have to say "magicians can do these tricks but I won't tell you how." If I replicated the whole setup in the OP Chi video and made my own video duplicating each and every feat, and I'm sure I could, would that debunk as effectively as expaining how they were done?

Randi has many times explained every detail about how many frauds perform their acts, (Popoff, Geller, et. al.).

I guess choosing between "this is a magician's trick and I won't tell you how it's done" and "here's exactly how he's faking it" is a judgement call based on one's interpretation of the magician's code.

Does one have to follow the magician's code if one is not a magician?
 
Does one have to follow the magician's code if one is not a magician?

No you don't. Who's to stop you revealing secrets to your friends?

But in this forum, your comments maybe edited.

Plus, I'd love to challenge this Chi grandmaster to a 1vs1 UFC matchup.
 
It could, and it could also sound like something else. This case happen to be someone chose one of the ways to interpret it and argued out from the one-way he selected and claimed it to be true. Which means he don't believe in A==A.
Uhh, Hypernicus, you're apparantly new here, but this applies to everywhere: You are going to be taken on face value. That's really a good thing, but occasionally, you may be misunderstood. In such cases, all you have to do is clear up the misunderstanding, like posting "Ahh, you may have interpreted my post to mean A, but I meant B". Quite simple, and nearly always clears up matters.

Hans
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruB0yghbcUY

It's very simple to see that this old guy is using simple trickery to do these tricks. However, there are the usual believers ready to defend the man. Why do people blind themselves to the deception and fall for this kind of nonsense?

Now that I've seen it, it looks incredibly faked. I am fairly sure I could rig a similar debo with some thred, glue and some magnets.

It's quite telling that the water-bowl moves in jerks, rather than smoothly. Unless, of course, chi is lumpy...
 
Now that I've seen it, it looks incredibly faked. I am fairly sure I could rig a similar debo with some thred, glue and some magnets.

It's quite telling that the water-bowl moves in jerks, rather than smoothly. Unless, of course, chi is lumpy...

Don't try to overthink it: the falling bricks are probably just unstable, and he does some theatrics until they fall of their own accord.

The jar trick is the most challenging to reverse-engineer. Unfortunately, the image quality is so crappy, it's hard to see what's even happening. My guess is that the glass is very thin, and there's somebody under the table who smacks it with a mallet. The cloth can be rationalized as a safety measure, but it's probably very heavy, and prevents the hammer strike from scooting the pieces across the table.

As mentioned above, the fact that the water sloshes is a sign that the bowl itself is being tugged. Probably by a wire.



These tricks look a lot like the crap Yellow Bamboo was trying to pull a few years ago, and are not unlike the tricks performed by Indian God-men such as Sai Baba.
 
Aside from the breaking jar, that's got to be one of the least impressive displays I've seen. Never seen a magician break a jar like that, but that's probably only because I don't get many opportunities to watch magic acts. Imagine if Randi wasn't bound by that magician's code, he'd probably have a few hundred methods to tell us.
 
What tricks are those?

Trouble is, around these parts those are fighting words. My googling research and analysis of his posts leads me to believe that Hypernicus is a young woo computer programmer from India (not that there's anything wrong with that).

This inspires me to share my revised recipe for raw mouse:

1) Tempt mouse with Chi (formerly cheese).
2) Play with until bored.
3) Swallow.

This one went back down its hole before we had a good play. More will come.
 
I've seen people do the bowl-moving thing using monofilament fishing line.. that doesn't show up on camera like a wire might. As long as the light's not too bright it's practically invisible.

Wouldn't that have resulted in a smoother motion than in the video? As pointed out, the jerky motion was consistent with a magnet pulling from underneath. Fishing line also would have required that assistant be visible to the news crew. My suspicion is that the tricks were accomplished without the news crew's knowledge. Perhaps the hallway was roped off to keep the news crew from looking under the table.
 
Fishing line inside the board?

I can't tell if the bowl is metal or plastic. If it's metal I'd go with a magnet, if plastic a wire or fishing line. Either way there's no occult power involved.

It's possible that the wooden board they placed on the table under the bowl conceals the fishing line, feeding it into the near end, run under or inside the board, then out at the far end and down under the table where the assistant hiding below is pulling it jerkily because of his cramped situation.

That's my final guess at how they did it.
 
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The existance of a chi force could be "proven" just like any other force of nature.
When we generally talk about force as in this context it always refers to the laws of nature. That means it is not something a man can just simply grab and use it by his own free will. The laws of nature with unhuman forces works totally seperated by a mans will. It is not like one can grab the forces of lighting and use it by free will, or grab the forces of the wind and use it by free will.
If Chi can be proven someone has to step up and do so. No one has ever done so nor ever will do so, because it doesn't comply with A==A.
 
Perhaps the lack of information in your postings and the quick resort to hostility (your third posting on the forum) led me to the wrong conclusion.
Perhabs you still have problems reasoning by use of logic since you still make allegations without making arguments from them. People who can't make arguments cannot think logical, and those who can't are no better to talk to than a plant. Plants can't make arguments either, but they will do a better job by not saying anything at all which is better than reading a bunch of lies and nonsense. Those who make allegations without making arguments from it have a almost 100% certainty to sooner or later turn to personal attacks. Only genuine psychopath do that.

As you start by saying 'perhabs' means that you haven't thought it over and logic is not in the picture of your conclusion. When someone conclude something that isn't built on logic then it is not knowledge. Further more you conclude logical fallacies to be hostile. Only genuine psychopath will claim that because his philosophy is built on psychosis. Psychoses: deliberately ignore facts. Therefore he can't fight back with reasoning and will always make false statements.
 
Agreed, but who here doesn't make arguments?
Almost any forum or 'serious' chatting places on the Internet. The vast information out there one is seeking in about facts and reasoning on the Internet is just simply rubbish. I turned to this forum because James Randi is a man who can reason. No one as I read still hasn't by 25-30 years won any money, because the simple fact a man can't just simply grab the laws of nature and use it by free will. I have read a lot of great stories that are true, but none has been repeated. So I can't rule out that there is something, but that something hasn't turned up again with the same person. I don't mean someone should jump 60 meters and land on their back and survive once again, but simply use their free will to repeat something unexplainable that happened to them like reading some strangers mind and say it out loud as the strangers mind occured while others people overheard it and the strangers family or acquainted heard it too. That was just an example out of many 1000s that has happened.
 
Uhh, Hypernicus, you're apparantly new here
And?

You are going to be taken on face value.
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That's really a good thing
Why don't you tell more about it, or are you also 'facing' problems making arguments?

you may be misunderstood
And those people are also good at doing a Straw Man?

In such cases, all you have to do is clear up the misunderstanding, like posting "Ahh, you may have interpreted my post to mean A, but I meant B".
You mean I have to think for them as well?
 
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Trouble is, around these parts those are fighting words.
By simply asking "what tricks are those"? How would you come to that extraordinary conclusion? Please, by all means, now is the chance to make arguments so you can clear it up once and for all, for everyone in the world, that asks a question like: "What tricks are those?" are fighting words, and not appreciated (by you only?).

My googling research
Everytime someone is faced with logic they feel the urge to do a research on the person. The matters that are discussed are nearly as important as the person who can think logical. There for the ones who are not using reasoning always wants to know more about the person to try to learn more about what reasoning really is all about. Ref: Mr. Scott in the same thread.

analysis of his posts leads me to believe that Hypernicus is a young woo computer programmer from India (not that there's anything wrong with that).
More allegations without making arguments, and of course the lack of logic. I have said it before; those who can't make arguments are very poor at reasoning and thinking logical. After that he says "there is nothing wrong with that", as if that falsely accusation has to do anything with anything in this thread.
 

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