Sceptic challenges spiritualist to kill him

[Mich the Tester]

Cool stuff this. Some spiritualist ‘guru’ claimed on TV in India that he could kill a man just by his 'mystical powers'. So some chap in the audience said ‘alright then, kill me’. He tried and tried of hours, with predictable results, at least, predictable for a sceptic.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7067989.ece

[NotAllThere]

One reason is that Indian politicians nurture and shelter gurus to give them spiritual credibility, use their followers as vote banks, or to mask sexual or criminal activity

Thank goodness for British democracy.

[Mich the Tester]

I liked this bit; 'The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash. '

Yeah, I have special powers after a good shag and a few bevvies too.

[stek]

Some of the Bobs at last ClientCo claimed that you don't need to eat at all and they'd personally witnessed people who never eat or drink anything.

These guys were Jains and didn't anything with a root! No garlic or onion or spuds! Only stuff that had fallen off trees.

[Mich the Tester]

Some of the Bobs at last ClientCo claimed that you don't need to eat at all and they'd personally witnessed people who never eat or drink anything.

These guys were Jains and didn't anything with a root! No garlic or onion or spuds! Only stuff that had fallen off trees.

This explains why a lot of Bobs believe a database doesn’t need a data model, big projects don’t need version control and clients don’t need to test anything before implementing it.

[DimPrawn]

This explains why a lot of Bobs believe a database doesn’t need a data model, big projects don’t need version control and clients don’t need to test anything before implementing it.

Plenty quickness that way.

[northernladuk]

I liked this bit; 'The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash. '

Yeah, I have special powers after a good shag and a few bevvies too.

The morning after a night out like this I could kill anyone with the smell of my horrible body most of the next day!!!

[TimberWolf]

I liked this bit; 'The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash. '

Yeah, I have special powers after a good shag and a few bevvies too.

...could only be done at night, outdoors without witnesses, a knife....

[EternalOptimist]

I seem to remember the breatharians. they claimed you can get all of your bodily needs from the air

oxygen, food and water.

One of them went out into the outback iirc, to prove it. she died pretty quick.

[Mich the Tester]

I seem to remember the breatharians. they claimed you can get all of your bodily needs from the air

oxygen, food and water.

One of them went out into the outback iirc, to prove it. she died pretty quick.

There was once a Yorkshireman who believed that all these expeditions to climb Everest were a big over the top southern woofty poofty exaggeration and that he could stride to the top with nothing more than a tweed jacket and a sturdy walking stick. So off he went and was found a year later. I don’t think they bothered defrosting him.