[gpws]

Recently I saw the movie The Prestige,
and it said that we don't want to figure it [the magic trick] out because we don't really want to work it out, we aren't really looking, we want to be fooled.

That reminded me of 9/11 and Peak Oil, EROEI, pyramid scheme,

Why illusions are so hard to figure out.??

The answer is sometimes right before our eyes but we choose not to see, we want to believe in quantum teleportation, in physic powers, in remote viewing, in zero point energy, pyramid orgone, warp slipstream, perpetual motion/energy machine, in magic, in illusion, we want to be fooled.

See what I mean. Try to figure this out without cheating.... If you cheat of course the answer is always simple in retrospect, but how many of u can figure out how these tricks are done without cheating? (hint: there are no props, cheats, replicates involved, no setup, etc... WYSIWYG. Work backworks..... )


Quarter Through Soda Can
[web]http://www.youtube.com/v/0TQhnTfHbYQ[/web]


KAOS performed by daniel garcia
[web]http://www.youtube.com/v/xx8RE7C9tyk[/web]

Axis Change
[web]http://www.youtube.com/v/lRKLfxejAiY[/web]


Revolution Coin Vanish
[web]http://www.youtube.com/v/CAHQHPSP8jg[/web]

Have you thought about asking a magican to make the omnium multiverse cease to exist!?!?[[[[

Magican's can't really do anything!! Its all a cheat! Once you know the method the trick becomes NOTHING to you anymore...
The answer is always SO SIMPLE, yet you can't figure it out....

Maybe we all fall in love with MYSTERY and ILLUSION and no one really WANTS the truth in the first place? Maybe we love to be fooled and lead on and teased and tricked? Maybe Bush is giving us exactly what we really wanted in the first place??

Maybe that is the nature of existence itself?!? Maybe the reason we are not supposed to figured it all out yet is because it will ruin the show?! Maybe we are all the ONE GOD that choose deliberately to forget and live a trillion mortal lifes for the fun of it? Maybe the cosmic infinity wants to play a ultimate game of hide and go seek???

But still, what is the ESSENCE OF 'IT'??

[PenultimateManStanding]

I'm going to watch that later tonight. btw here's another famous illusion: I was watching a religiously inspired documentary about the miraculous balance of conditions that make life on Earth possible. It was pointed out that the blend of gases in our atmosphere are just right for life, etc. No mention of the fact that early life evolved in an atmosphere with no oxygen. Oxygen was the pollutant of early lifeforms. Eventually it killed off most of the early denizens of Earth.

[lateralus]

Have you ever wondered why children, who from around 18 months to 3 years of age, live in a world of fantasty, only to grow out of this by the age of 8? Age 8, by the way, is usually the age that children are led to religion.

Jacqueline Woolley, psychology professor at the University of Texas wrote a great piece on this.

Science has stripped the 'mystery' from the everyday.

Once the trick is revealed then the 'mystery' loses meaning and we all want, deep down, to feel that the 'mystery' is not merely an illusion.

I'm watching hockey right now, playoffs and all, and drinking beer. That's all the thoughts I can share right now. Priorities ya know.

[frankthetank]

That movie had a crazy ending... Didn't really see it.

Nikola Tesla was a genius.

I really like the comparison between the two.

[gpws]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'T')hat movie had a crazy ending... Didn't really see it.

Nikola Tesla was a genius.

I really like the comparison between the two.

[Newsseeker]

A while back I was e-mailed a ball circulating around another ball and depending upon what ball you watched the other ball would turn colors or there would appear to be many balls. Eyes are not perfect and can be fooled. It is pretty cool to watch illusions, though.