Merged Jim Callahan's MDC claim

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chillzero said:
There's no evidence that I have seen that Jim Callahan has taken any steps to directly contact James Randi, and ensure that he is aware of this challenge. I suspect that if he did, Randi would state that agreement to do this would be under the terms of Randi's challenge, but that if the two fit together, there's no reason for it not to go ahead. As long as the terms of Randi's challenge are met, I can't see why marketing it in this format should be an issue for Randi (apart from a possible desire to remove the unnecessary 'flim-flam').
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Actually Chillzero, Randi has adrdessed Jim's challenge. Search the Swift on Oct 26, 2007 under "Nine Silly Rules." You should find that you were spot on with your thoughts as to what Randi would state.

It would be great to see Mr. Callahan take the MDC, but I think we all know he can't. Being identified as producing his effects with trickery would eliminate any of the mistique he needs for his career to be successful and would hurt him financially, at least in the short term while his failure blows over. He's very good at what he does though and I'm sure will continue to be successful in his presentations.
 
Jim's "challenge" is ridiculous. He claims he is testing the JREF by having them let him take their test under his rules. The man is delusional. I've compared it elsewhere to a high school kid wanting to set the questions for his own exam.

Jim's challenge is nothing more than a publicity stunt. He will never apply, and he will never win a million dollars.

Jim Callahan has no "paranormal" ability.

Chris
 
He doesn't have time to take the test anyway,what with all the phoning secret service agents and YouTube videos that never recieve any positive comments.
 
Why would they not.

Everyone must.

Strange Randi should back off when i am offering to give him what he wanted.
 
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Biscuit said:
You are a very silly man Jim and you have no paranormal abilities.
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It's not even about paranormal abilities. Jim's semantic game goes far beyond that. The first thing he would have to do (which I can guarantee you: He will never do it) is first make the following clarification:

What is a "Paranormalist"?
Is it
1) Someone who has supernatural powers
2) Someone who creates the illusion of having supernatural powers (in other words, an Illusionist)


The word "Paranormalist" is a word he made up. It can't be found on any dictionary; and serves him the purpose of never leaving clear on what side of the line he is (Is he an Illusionist or is he a person with Supernatural powers?). For example: on the interviews after what happened at the Criss Angel show, Callahan's argument made it look like he was just an illusionist who claimed to have no supernatural powers. But he plays with this line over and over on different occasions, never making a true statement and thus managing to play with everyone (Even during the show, he wasn't showing consistency. If he doesn't claim to have supernatural powers then why does he get so upset? Why can't he just say "look man, I can't tell what's in your envelope because I do not have supernatural powers, okay?").


So again, until we clarify what a Paranormalist is, Jim is just playing semantics games with Jim.



And now a non-paranormal prediction: Jim will not clarify what a Paranormalist is.
 
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