Folks, it's all a trick

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 06 Sep 2001, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Talisman	06 Sep 2001
'Lo all, (I'm gonna just type until creaky computer crashes. And this is just as opinionated as I can make it to encourage discussion. I really don't know all the know there is to know, honest.) Consider the difference between a stage magician and a psychic. In front of the magician's stage is a table, and on the table a common deck of cards covered with a glass bell jar. A person from the audience (this person absolutely has to be above reapproach, 'cause if a confederate is used it's a cheap trick) is invited to life the bell jar, mess through the deck and select one card, putting it in a pocket or purse.) Then the magician pulls a rabbit out of a top hat -- a hat you just know had to be empty. He then puts a woman in a box and saws her in half. Then he tells the person in the audience what card they selected. Folks, I don't want to disillusion anyone, but they are all tricks. He really didn't saw that woman in half and then reassemble the bloody, mangled bits. Honest. Your job, as a member of the audience, is to be entertained, amazed, and to try to figure out how he dunnit, how he performed the trick. If I come to one of you for a tarot reading, and first I take a deck of cards and select one of them sight unseen and prop it against my computer, then challenge you to "prove" your psychic ability by identifying that card, I am not asking for your intuition, insight, or whatever you call your psychic ability. I am asking you to perform a magic trick. Hey, if you can do it, it's a great trick. I knew a guy once, a stage magician, who just might have been able to pull this off. But it doesn't have anything at all to do with what I consider "psychic" or "tarot." I think asking you to pull this off would be a waste of somebody's time. You, the reader, unless you're entertained by this kind of nonsense. Or me, the person who wanted the reading. Folks, it's all a trick. Talisman

.dc	07 Sep 2001
talisman... the card by your system. *distorts face a bit, channeling the power of the web into her" the Fool? seven of penticles? i'm wrong? damn... *smile* .dc ..this has been a humorous post. if you feel you have read this post in error, then that's your deal now is it?...

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