ugh...watching that was painful.
reminds me of my time running a metaphysical shop with my girlfriend at the time.

she had got it in her head that she wanted to take the shop in a new direction which was in the form of similar "miracle" cures such as this.

the arguments we had were epic!

i just didnt see a need nor a reason.we already had massage therapy,aroma therapy and reiki.we made our own lotions and soaps and had a massive line of candles.why would she want to delve into supplements? that were unproven and possibly dangerous?

well,i lost that argument and after a few months i understood her reasoning=money.
good lord our customers would spend a fortune on these supplements,which made all kinds of claims (all with zippo research to back those claims up),and all unregulated.

and our customers SWORE that these bullshit remedies worked and that they felt better,more energetic and clear-minded.placebo effect on steroids.

of course my girlfriend would never actually admit that profit was her motive.that would go against her own professed morality,but that is what it was:greed.

that was the beginning of the end for our relationship.i was sincerely attempting to help people and her behavior was a disillusionment that my moral compass just could not assimilate.

i am a man of faith,and every aspect of my life is directed by that faith,from politics to personal interactions,and i had lost faith in her.

i find it reprehensible and disgusting to profit off of people when they are the most fragile and vulnerable,and i refuse to engage in that form of vile practice.

*promote the grifting!

There's actually a kind of pineapple, often called Kona White, that has incredibly low acid content and is super sweet even without the miracle fruit to help. They're pretty hard to find, though, if you aren't on Hawaii.

It's a f**king miracle. White Norwegian men have suddenly 100% stopped committing rapes.

Ahhh. No spinal chord separation, so not a total internal decapitation. Amazingly lucky in many ways, but not the miracle I thought the title implied.

The miracle of birth

This is awesome

Magicians will go to amazing lengths to get a trick to work. However, the key part to just about all tricks is distraction. Not just to make you look away when a clever switch is made, but a well designed trick is a distraction in itself. It'll make you think that the amazing thing happening is one thing when in fact the amazing thing already happened when you didn't know amazing things were happening and now it's making the faux amazing thing look even more amazing!

Your idea with the ink disappearing on the card is a great example. You're trying to work out how the card ends up blank when he put the signed card on the table when the signed card was never put on the table. The card on the table is blank simply because he put a blank card on the table. The switch had already been made and you're looking for a solution to something that was never a problem

Magicians prey on you assumptions, and they're brazen, and a lot more skilled than you'd think. You won't work a lot of the stuff out because you'll think the way it's done is impossible, that no one could actually do what the magician is doing. Fan some cards out in front of someone and ask them to pick one at random. A good card magician can force you to pick a certain card and you'd never suspect it. I'm given to believe that Paul Daniels can do this behind his back. It's not easy to do and most people don't believe it's possible, so if you can do it you're performing the miracle at the very start. Everything after that seems incredible. You're looking for a trick that's already happened.

I love magic. I love being fooled. I enjoy the challenge of working out how things are done and wish I had the time to learn to do it properly.

Ewww-ah ... I mean fascinating! *related=http://videosift.com/video/The-miracle-of-birth-Surinam-Toad-style

The miracle of birth: Surinam Toad style has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals.

No, no, no it's wizard magic. Stop denying the truth and join the majority in our moral duty to behold miracles. The earth, the sun, the tides go in, and the wizard detects all keys. Every public transportation has a wizard. It's just common knowledge, dude. Grow up -- Accept the miracle!!!!!

YOUR WAY OF THINKING TRANMOGRIFIES THE MIRACLES OF GODS AND WIZARDS INTO MUNDANE BULLSHIT. Doesn't life shine brighter and carry dutiful meaning when we belive in miracles and predestined immaculate key detection?

I was really excited about this, but they only seem to be for red/green - my dad has monochromacy. For a minute there, i thought woah what a miracle, i have to get it. Sad come-down, folks..

Even if it cost twice as much as the Occulus, it would be a miracle. This is something that costs several thousand dollars at best.

Which is the same as saying: No one gives a shit.

Also... the tone of this presentation video is just terrible.

I think you missed his point.
Religion/faith healing repeatedly CLAIMS credit for 'miracle healing' (which is any healing their non-medically trained mind can't explain), sometimes for ANY healing, including most healing of the blind. Before now, they have had a near monopoly on 'healing the blind' (although it should be said that it's never been done with a verified incurable 'blind' person, or even as a 'blind test'...pun intended.)
I thought he was refuting those repeated assertions.

He may very well be. But his religion has nothing to do with making a blind man see.

However, religion does try to take claim on "miracles" and "cures", when in facts, it's nothing but bullshit. Science actually helps a blind man see. Religion doesn't. Science cures people of their illnesses (some of them at least). Religion doesn't.

Science helps us quantify, predict AND change the observable environment. Religion is man's struggle for power over others using superstition and ignorance while at the same time people stick their heads in the sand pretending that the end isn't really the end. It knows nothing. It makes up everything and if necessary denies reality even in the face of opposite evidence.

The Latin American countries have some other qualities in common with Greece, I agree they are a good example.

The thing is though that the humanitarian crisis caused by The Austerity has been either almost as bad, or as bad as these disorderly collapses.

Apart from that one point, I largely agree with you here.

As much as I would love to see Syriza pull off a miracle, even with the will of the people to end the culture of patronage I wonder how on earth they would manage it.

I don't actually think Tsipras or Varoufakis really understood how difficult Schäuble or Dijsselbloem would be to deal with, but based on their party platform they were quite compelled to act as they did, so I vote politics.

Life.

If you need someone to tell you what is the meaning of your life to you, there is a long journey inwards you have failed to make. Most don't do it because of fear and are just happy to be empty shells built upon the ideals of others. It is not really your life then, is it? The journey is fucking scary one and one can not trust upon gods to make it thru. You can have them as companions, for solace but not as guides or helpers.

BTW, you will never find the whole answer and the one told to you by someone else is not it either.. No one knows the answer and wondering about that is the most wonderful thing to have. This puts your inner morale in to question: do you have it or are you relying on someone else to tell it to you? How is that any better, to ruin one of the most wonderful part of your life which is asking questions all the way to your grave. My journey thought me that my moral is the same with or without religion, only thing that changed was that the outside matched the inside; there was no more pretending to be holier than i am. I'm true humanbeing now, full and i can enjoy the miracles of life as they really are.