Uri Geller

[Endlessly Amazed]

Years ago, I cut out the Magic Uri Geller Blue Dot from the US National Enquirer newspaper and taped it to the folder containing my Ph.D. paperwork. I got the degree, and my boyfriend at the time - now husband - was horrified. Horrified. I told him it would work - and it did! Very satisfying. Go Geller!!!

 

[stu neville]

Here we go again. As per, if he doesn't score it'll be *proof* of the cutlery-botherer's power, if he does score it'll be because *we* didn't believe enough.

 

[PeteS]

"Cutlery botherer"

 

[ramonmercado]

Comes with cutlery but all of the spoons are bent.

Uri Geller's riverside palace in Sonning on Thames, England is up for sale. Listed at £7.95 million,

it's replete with nine bedrooms, cinema, gym, swimming pool, tennis court, koi pond, waterfalls, and helipad. As one would expect. But it's also tricked our with some signature Geller "magic," including a standalone meditation pyramid (top right above) and healing crystal rocks. From the Jewish Chronicle:

"I have strewn rock crystals all over my property that are millions of years old. One of them actually belonged to Albert Einstein, and that is in the rockery of our house… there is that ambiance, there's energy, there is a power of healing," he told me when we spoke in Tel Aviv this week. "Everything is energy, even rocks are energy. So definitely the person who will buy the house will no doubt live longer. I mean that seriously."

https://boingboing.net/2023/03/20/s...ling-crystal-rocks-to-lengthen-your-life.html

 

[Stormkhan]

"So definitely the person who will buy the house will no doubt live longer. I mean that seriously."
Hmmm. Definitely a selling point but I wonder how the Advertising Standards Authority would view the pronouncement.

 

[Min Bannister]

"So definitely the person who will buy the house will no doubt live longer. I mean that seriously."
Hmmm. Definitely a selling point but I wonder how the Advertising Standards Authority would view the pronouncement.

Or at least it will feel like longer given all the dusting and vacuuming involved. I quite like it though.

 

[kesavaross]

Why do people want such large houses? I'd rather have a decent cottage off the beaten track somewhere deep in the countryside.

 

[Stormkhan]

Image? Kudos? Some form of self-worth?

 

[gordonrutter]

Image? Kudos? Some form of self-worth?

Gotta have somewhere to keep all those bent spoons.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Gotta have somewhere to keep all those bent spoons.

Aren't they all stuck to his car?

 

[Sharon Hill]

This is a weird article and a bad look for the NY Times (again, with the poor reporting on paranormal topics). Geller is a fraud. Is a deliberate fraud "entertaining"? I don't think so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/business/uri-geller-magic-deep-fakes.html

See Jason Colavito: https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...er-for-profiting-from-benign-post-truth-fraud

 

[Sharon Hill]

Uri Geller is posting fake pics on Xitter and still milking that gullible cow, the media.

 

[CharmerKamelion]

Uri Geller is posting fake pics on Xitter and still milking that gullible cow, the media.
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He could end up looking very silly. Not that that has ever bothered him much before.

 

[Sharon Hill]

He could end up looking very silly. Not that that has ever bothered him much before.

All I know is that no matter what facts come out about a hyped thing, some people have imagination without limits and can make up some absurd, convoluted nonsense to justify their bullshit view. It's a skill, for sure, to resolve cognitive bias with such incredible aplomb.