>Geller has claimed his feats are the result of paranormal powers[13] given to him by extraterrestrials.[36] The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) was a prominent early critic of Geller.[11] Skeptics such as James Randi have shown that Geller’s tricks can be replicated with stage magic techniques.[15][16][17][37][38][18]
Meet the self-described alien psychic, a conduit for space computers, and enemy of the Amazing James Randi.
Geller’s illustrious deeds include suing an english speaking American in a Japanese court for an insult that only translates in Japanese culture, suing nintendo for appropriation of his image as the Pokemon Kadabra, moving to a haunted scottish island with buried Egyptian treasure, and also Einstein’s magical orb, and being BFFs with Michael Jackson, who was his best man at his 22 year wedding vow renewal.
Gallium spoons
Crazy that Soundgarden wrote a whole song about him
“Einstein’s magical orb”
what?
new dnd spell
Don’t fucking tell my DM, there’s enough timey wimey bullshit in our current campaign.
RIP James Randi. Legend.
One of the memories I will forever hold dear, was when I visited James Randi’s personal library and he performed a trick with me.
He used to have a library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I had gone there with a secular humanist meet-up group. We all sat around a table in a room with bookshelves on every wall. At one point, James Randi decided to do a trick and he looked across the table to me and asked me to pick any two books of similar size. It took me a while, as I got sidetracked browsing the shelves, reading the many interesting titles he had.
I eventually picked the books and passed one to him as he instructed, then sat back down. He then flipped through pages in the book he had and asked me to say when to stop. He then noted the page number and told me to open to that page in the book I held - but not to open the book widely, keep it close to my eyes, and not let anyone else see it. While merely peeking at the page, I was told to pick a single word from it, remember that word, then close the book.
He then began writing. As the showman he was, the writing first looked like nonsense. He even paused at one point and said, “You were debating between two words.” Which was true - the word I picked was a number, but I had debated on which number to select. He then kept writing, and when he was done I knew he had gotten it right but wrote it either backwards or upside down (I can’t recall which.) But nobody else in the room knew that yet. He pretended to have messed up and written nonsense, before acting like, “Ohh, wait” and revealed the answer.
There were no mirrors in the room, nobody else saw the page, and he got it right on the mark. I’m still impressed to this day.
The man was a rivoting storyteller and performer, even into his later years. It was an honor to be able to meet him, let alone to get to experience his magic personally.
I know someone who took part in Uri Geller’s TV casting show back in the day. He’s a nice, eloquent guy, but also a complete charlatan. Today, he’s a successful management consultant, which I’ve always found very amusing because it’s so telling.
Randi is the goat
to the best of my knowledge, Randi is the goat
The theory best supported by evidence is that Randi is the GOAT.
Lmfao
In November 2000, Geller sued video game company Nintendo for £60 million over the Pokémon species “Yungerer”, localized in English as “Kadabra”, which he claimed was an unauthorized appropriation of his identity.
recently he has relinquised that word, and pokemon tgc made kadabra cards pretty recently, in the last few sets.
I think it’s more the spoon, Uri being best known to me as the guy who claimed to be able to bend spoons with his mind. “Yungerer” is kind of close to the japanization of Uri’s name too.
You got my hopes up. Thought this fucking charlatan had died.
There’s still time to prank order a pizza to his haunted magical island.
The guy is surprisingly hard to stab.
