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Okay, I started trying to write a short story, and suddenly I realised...I wasn't writing from the point of view of a character, I was writing as myself, I always was. My views on the world, my inability to understand certain feelings such as respect, my inability to receive any positive feedback fr...

I'm what you'd call a "False until proven true" kinda guy. "Innocent until proven guilty" and what-not. Ghosts lack any solid proof. People have called me strange for 'not believing in anything spiritual', but my reply will always be "If it requires belief, it should automat...

...it's showing now, system's just been revealed.

All I can say is: Derren's a dick, and I'd pretty much figured it out at the coin example XD

EDIT: Seeing the ending, clever bastard. I'm betting he did that for all of the possible horses and it was just an unseen swap of the ticket XD

When I'm sad, I listen to sad music to cheer me up. When I'm happy/neutral, I just listen to whatever, though typically sad music. Songs which cheer me up: Three Days Grace - I hate everything about you Evans Blue - Beg Life of Agony - Love to let you Down Disney Lion King - Be Prepared

http://www.newscientist.com/ This place is supposed to be good, found a few things about Hypnosis. Not willing to say what I think about them. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6385-hypnosis-really-changes-your-mind.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15921415.500-you-are-feeling-very-ver...

Unless Hypnosis is the true placebo and only when such a 'state' can be achieved is the Placebo effective?

Just throwing that out there, not saying whether I agree or not.

[to be tread in a pirate voice] Yar, Derren be a genius says I. [end pirate voice]

He managed to get the NLP community to spread his fame for him without compromising his ethics.

I got a card for £20 at Waterstones, which is a huge book store. I'm stuck between: A programming book (I'm thinking OpenGL) (these cost a LOT of money though, good ones cost at least £40) A book on 'Hypnosis' (not a lot of these) A book or two of Magic/Mentalism (These can be scarily cheap in compa...

You called a Magician dependable when their business relies on the lies they tell and the misdirection they utilise XD

My favourite quote from a certain stage hypnotists book which I don't think was ever finished (not Ant). Very often, I believe the subjects con themselves into believing that they are hypnotized. Self delusion, basically. They think they are hypnotized and they consequently act in a manner that they...

I know plenty of stage hypnotists who swear it isn't real. My own view is somewhere in between the two. When we can't even agree on what Hypnosis is supposed to be, it's hard to comment really. I see Hypnosis as an effect, like a Magic trick is an effect. Hypnosis is just the word we give to it to m...

...that was painful to read...

It takes misunderstanding GCSE biology concepts to the extreme.

The complete saying is
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, I'm pretty much going to fall for it every time."
Well, that's my version of it at least

Narcissism?

Magic -> Mentalism -> Hypnosis Seemed like a natural progression of one to another really :D In trying to learn Magic I became fascinated by the seemingly mind-reading tricks, which I preferred to watch and perform much more than the 'pull-a-rabbit-out-your-arse'. Also I liked tricks with as little ...