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Mind Reader Video...intresting
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Kevin Lang
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I think the most impressive thing about this is the ability of the crazy looking "mind reader" to speak several languages. Europe is just so quaint.
This mind reader looks to me like some crazy cultist. I have to say that I like the more civilized, almost suave approach to mental scams shown by Simon Baker in CBS' show The Mentalist to this creepy New Age, modern hippie cultist look.
A modern update of the Peter Popoff Ministries scam of the 1980s, on a smaller scale and without the exploitation of Christianity, but still similar.
This mind reader looks to me like some crazy cultist. I have to say that I like the more civilized, almost suave approach to mental scams shown by Simon Baker in CBS' show The Mentalist to this creepy New Age, modern hippie cultist look.
A modern update of the Peter Popoff Ministries scam of the 1980s, on a smaller scale and without the exploitation of Christianity, but still similar.
I agree with KL.
Nobody is a "Mind Reader"...it is a parlor trick by simply asking vague open ended questions and the gullible person will simply feed you the information that they think you are referring to?....Or in the case of Peter Popoff, he had is congregation fill out cards before they got into the theater/church and that information was feed to him from someone backstage reading the cards and passing it to him while he was onstage through a small ear receiver.
The same applies to people who claim to have ESP or claim to make predictions. They make hundreds of predictions in very vague, non-specific terms and eventually something similar happens they claim they predicted it?
The key is never say anything specific, don't give names, dates, places, etc. The more vague and non-specific, people will always be willing to fill in the blanks for you and make it sound like you read their mind or made some amazing prediction.
As for speaking foreign tongues: Europeans live in close proximity to many different countries and it is not uncommon for them to speak many different languages. When I was stationed in Germany, my landlord had a grandson (or nephew) who was 11 years old and spoke 9 different languages fluently! When I was in Paris I when to a cabaret show where the main star spoke more than 12 languages including Japanese, and Chinese, and was conversing with people in the audience from all over the world in their native languages. The only language she admitted that she did not speak very well was Portuguese.
...Rich
Nobody is a "Mind Reader"...it is a parlor trick by simply asking vague open ended questions and the gullible person will simply feed you the information that they think you are referring to?....Or in the case of Peter Popoff, he had is congregation fill out cards before they got into the theater/church and that information was feed to him from someone backstage reading the cards and passing it to him while he was onstage through a small ear receiver.
The same applies to people who claim to have ESP or claim to make predictions. They make hundreds of predictions in very vague, non-specific terms and eventually something similar happens they claim they predicted it?
The key is never say anything specific, don't give names, dates, places, etc. The more vague and non-specific, people will always be willing to fill in the blanks for you and make it sound like you read their mind or made some amazing prediction.
As for speaking foreign tongues: Europeans live in close proximity to many different countries and it is not uncommon for them to speak many different languages. When I was stationed in Germany, my landlord had a grandson (or nephew) who was 11 years old and spoke 9 different languages fluently! When I was in Paris I when to a cabaret show where the main star spoke more than 12 languages including Japanese, and Chinese, and was conversing with people in the audience from all over the world in their native languages. The only language she admitted that she did not speak very well was Portuguese.
...Rich
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Bud Williams
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Anyone see Americas Got Talent, there was a guy on there named Dittleman, and he did some cool mind reading tricks....do not know how he did it....probably on youtube....
Bill V
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I saw Dittleman. He presented it very well--an excellent showman--but most of what he did wasn't too difficult to figure out.
When he did "Let's Make A Deal", it was clear that every case had a double panel--one for "this is your case", and one for "no deal". The girls just opened the "no deal" one, and when he revealed the "this is your case" one, he opened the other panel. Similarly, when he pulled out the card of "The correct case is #4", or whatever it was, he just pulled out the correct card out of a stack of 16.
Similarly when he had Howard color his drawing--there were a limited number of color combinations he could have done, so he just chose the correct one out of a stack to reveal.
When he did the "trick" where he told everyone in the audience to picture a shape, "like a square, but not a square", and then to "picture a second shape around it", that's just knowing human nature on such assignments. Given that particular wording (emphasis on "like a square, but not a square", and on the word "around"), and the short response time required, most people will naturally picture a circle around a triangle, with the second most common being a triangle around a circle. It's kind of like when someone 'quotes' someone by saying that "he said a four letter word which I can't repeat, but it starts in 'f', ends in 'k', and isn't 'fork' or 'firetruck'", everyone's minds comes to the same conclusion of what he's talking about.
I forget what else he did--but they were all equally explainable. But very well presented nonetheless.
When he did "Let's Make A Deal", it was clear that every case had a double panel--one for "this is your case", and one for "no deal". The girls just opened the "no deal" one, and when he revealed the "this is your case" one, he opened the other panel. Similarly, when he pulled out the card of "The correct case is #4", or whatever it was, he just pulled out the correct card out of a stack of 16.
Similarly when he had Howard color his drawing--there were a limited number of color combinations he could have done, so he just chose the correct one out of a stack to reveal.
When he did the "trick" where he told everyone in the audience to picture a shape, "like a square, but not a square", and then to "picture a second shape around it", that's just knowing human nature on such assignments. Given that particular wording (emphasis on "like a square, but not a square", and on the word "around"), and the short response time required, most people will naturally picture a circle around a triangle, with the second most common being a triangle around a circle. It's kind of like when someone 'quotes' someone by saying that "he said a four letter word which I can't repeat, but it starts in 'f', ends in 'k', and isn't 'fork' or 'firetruck'", everyone's minds comes to the same conclusion of what he's talking about.
I forget what else he did--but they were all equally explainable. But very well presented nonetheless.
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