Magic, Does it exist?

Published on August 24, 2006 By Moderateman In Misc

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-1871), The British performer J N Maskelyne and his partner Cooke. Harry Houdini (real name Erich Weiss, 1874 - 1926), took his stage name from Robert-Houdin .

magicians such as James Randi, P. C. Sorcar, Doug Henning, David Copperfield, Lance Burton, Penn and Teller, Derren Brown and Chris Angel.

All these men perform the most mind altering illusions and feats of magic, that cannot be explained by science.

Now my question is, are these performers doing "TRICKS?" or are they real magicians? How can Chris Angel walk on water in front of hundreds? While he is walking on water there is a young lady swimming beneath him. Tricks? or Magic?

Your view?

Comments (Page 2)

Moderateman

on Aug 24, 2006

Reply By: ShovelheatPosted: Thursday, August 24, 2006
I've always been a fan of Scooby-do. I like the explanation behind the illusions

rut ro...

Moderateman

on Aug 24, 2006

Reply By: Dr. GuyPosted: Thursday, August 24, 2006
I would like to see someone explain his walking on water in a pool with people swimming underneath him.

Plexiglass.

don't you think the young people swimming under him would have noticed?

Dr Guy

on Aug 24, 2006

rut ro...

Rank rue Raggy!

Dr Guy

on Aug 24, 2006

don't you think the young people swimming under him would have noticed?

WHo were those people?

Moderateman

on Aug 24, 2006

#20 by Dr. Guy
Thu, August 24, 2006 7:45 PM

don't you think the young people swimming under him would have noticed?

WHo were those people?

they were a bunch of people using the pool doc, could have been plants but I doubt it, the age spread was to wide, kids around 10 to 12 teenagers, young people and old farts like us.

foreverserenity

on Aug 24, 2006

~snif~ snif~

just checking to see if I put on deodorant this morning...

I don't know how they do what they do, but I believe they're illusionists too. That are they signed a pact with someone!

lifehappens

on Aug 25, 2006

Anything we don't understand can be labled as magic. "Ohhhh look at the magic pictures in the box.....they move." (laugh if you want, but to someone without that knowlege, it would appear to be a trick or magic) or "wow, he is walking on water..."

Therefore, if we used more than just 10% of our brain, can you imagine the magic we could do?

jennifer1

on Aug 25, 2006

Is it? how do you know it's not real magic?

We have programs in the UK that show how the tricks are done, aren't they just the bad boys in town! LOL

Magic exists in many forms but not with the magicians.

cactoblasta

on Aug 25, 2006

So long as people are gullible, bloodyminded and totally unwilling to bother examining something themselves magic exists in this world. It's the inevitable biproduct of ignorance and the refusal to understand what's really going on.

It may exist but that doesn't make it real.

The stubborn belief in things that aren't real is one of the most appealing components of human nature and probably my favourite character flaw. I'd hate to live in a world where magic didn't exist; everything would be so unspeakably dull.

Dr Guy

on Aug 25, 2006

From the 3 Tenets of Arthur C Clarke.

3 - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Shovelheat

on Aug 25, 2006

I can levitate birds...

Moderateman

on Aug 25, 2006

Reply By: ShovelheatPosted: Friday, August 25, 2006
I can levitate birds...

oh yeh? I can cause fish to breathe underwater.

Moderateman

on Aug 25, 2006

Reply By: foreverserenityPosted: Thursday, August 24, 2006
~snif~ snif~

just checking to see if I put on deodorant this morning...

I don't know how they do what they do, but I believe they're illusionists too. That are they signed a pact with someone

yup that pact is with the company that pays them to perform. heh heh

Shovelheat

on Aug 25, 2006

I can cause fish to breathe underwater.

WOW!

(U got mail 2)

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 25, 2006

I would like to see someone explain his walking on water in a pool with people swimming underneath him.

Do you know for a fact the people swimming beneath him aren't working for him?

Angel himself claims to be an illusionist...he's a VERY talented illusionist, but he has never claimed, to my knowledge, to have any "magical" powers.

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