Monroe Institute

[Nonpareil]

Newbie injercting here but, having quickly blasted my through this thread, I have to ask the obvious question...

Has anything beyond bending spoons been claimed? I'd hate to attend classes and dedicate a lot of my free time to an institute like this only to have the only positive proof of my abilities being that of a known proven parlor trick.

Or am I missing something?

No, that's about the size of it.

It's a rather common thing among nonsense peddlers. It doesn't matter if what they're selling, be it parlor tricks or false medicines or anything else, is known and proven to be phony. They don't care, because they know that a great number of people are very, very silly, have never heard of these explanations before, and wouldn't care if they did.

It's like phishing. The Prince of Nigeria scam is so famous now that it's practically a joke, but it still happens, and still works on occasion, because there's one born every minute.

 

[JesseCuster]

The Prince of Nigeria scam is so famous now that it's practically a joke, but it still happens, and still works on occasion, because there's one born every minute.

I remember an article I read about a gentlemen from Florida who was defrauded to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars by one of those Nigerian scams. When reading the articlle I was screaming in my head "what the **** is WRONG with you!" as he agreed to all sorts of stupid agreements.

 

[xterra]

Well I've learnt something from this thread: Americans don't call cutlery cutlery, they call it flatware, which in the UK is another word for plates.

Pixel42, in most parts of the US, it's more complicated than that. There are:

flatware: metal eating utensils

silverware: silver-alloy eating utensils (I don't know about gold ones)

cutlery: sharp-edged (as opposed to flatware or silverware) knives

dishes: plates, cups, saucers, bowls, serving pieces, tureens, etc.

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