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Uri is a God...

For those football fans amongst us surely you remember how in Euro 96 he made the ball move before Gary McAllister took his penalty against David Seaman.

Oh my God...........as i eat my cereal my spoon is bending, and my bl**dy watch has stopped!!

Johndoe wrote:Uri is a terrible person. He has made a fortune from pretending to be the real deal and scammed many people from their hard earned cash.

I think the most we can say for certain is that he exploits the ambiguous interface between believing and suspending disbelief.

Badly remembred Jerry Sadowitz quote: "Are you Uri Geller? I'm a big fan of yours. I've got all your spoons!"

Well, it made me laugh, anyway...

I guess a lot of you don't know about Uri's business dealings. He is not just an entertainer. He sells his pyschic services to gullible small businesses and has helped send several companies under through advising high risk strategies which his powers told them to go for.

Then there is Uri the spirtualist who preys on rich bereaved old ladies.

Then there is Uri the Healer who can help cure all kinds of ailments and advises people to ignore the advice of medical science. For £200 you can take his master class and become a healer yourself and thus spawning a whole flock of people believe they can heal you better than your doctor can.

Uri as an entertainer. Fine.

Uri as a thieving b***** who preys on the vunerable. Not fine.

Unfortunatley, though, gulibility is not a crime. It's how politics works...

I know it's hard to stand by and watch people get taken in by a charlatan, but I've come to realise that the best way to counter it is to ignore the purveyors of such rot, and instead teach people to question cosmic shortcuts in general. Despite that, some people simply choose to believe. That's okay. It's just my opinion, but I reckon people have to be free to make their own mistakes. After all, if they realise you were right, they might listen to you next time

Actually, have you ever noticed the voiceovers in Brown's stuff always have subtle digs at charlatans and their devotees? I know he's got a mass market book coming out later this year that looks at the methods employed by people to make you part with your cash for cosmic shortcuts, so perhaps he's been playing a long game and is about to come to his point. It'll be intresting to find out.

Well said John Doe, Mr Geller should be hanging alongside Masked Magician. Let me tie the knots { could be tricky little b*ggers}
Hang' em. lol

p.s wanna fly like Mr Copperfield... paypal me £4.000 lol

I work with ppl who are learning disabled, one 'swapped his brand new settee to a guy {scum} down the street for an old bit of tat. Point. At least Geller's entertaining but heh spot the difference.

You are all laughing and joking about Uri but there is a little girls who died from curable cystic fibrosis because Uri told her to ignore the doctors. (Expetive deleted by Mods. John, no matter what your feelings are, there's no need to use gutter language on a public forum).

And just where does all of this information come from about Uri?

If it's from the press then you're perhaps just as gullible for believing what you read in some of the papers, than the people are who pay for his so called non entertainment activities.

I'm no fan of Geller but to be fair you need to know for sure that what you're writing comes from a reliable source before you start spreading some of the stuff that's being written.

As an example, would a little girl be consulting with doctors over a serious health issues and would a little girl be in a position to make a decision such as the one claimed and understand the consequences? I think not. It is far more likely that her parents took Geller's advice if there is some truth in this but this is not what is stated. What I'm getting at is that we don't know all of the facts in order to make a fair judgement and the way that the above statement is written is very misleading and prompts others to potentially misjudge.

I'm fairly sure that with Geller's household name status that he'd be all over the national news if this were the case - perhaps I missed it?

maybe you did it was early 80s at tyhe back end of the height of his fame and indeed it was all over the papers. I can't find a link now but I believe the girl was German or Russian.

And yes of course it was the parents who took the advice.

What I sevearly dislike about Uri, is much the same as most people have already said, he won't admit to being an entertainer, insted he insists on being the real deal.

If one of us met him and did the "spoon bend" rutine, he would not say "you have the power too" it would be more like "you are using a gimmicked spoon" where as I have real mental powers.

Yes Uri realy is mental, I mean best friends with Michael Jackson, another looney toon.

Pheww I feel better now, thanks.

Having spent a longtime searching this morning I can't find anything so maybe the thing about the girl dying is untrue. The rest is perfectly true.

here is another example of his sickening disposition to prey on the weak.

Unprompted, an elderly married couple stood up and related to all present of Uri's kindness in visiting their terminally ill son in hospital. Tragically, their boy died in a car accident a few weeks later. However, after the funeral, Uri phoned them and told them their son would contact them. This message came, they told us. It came when Uri asked them if they had any watches that no longer worked. Sound familiar? Upon examining an old watch, it miraculously started working.This was their son's message.

leighton wrote:What I sevearly dislike about Uri, is much the same as most people have already said, he won't admit to being an entertainer, insted he insists on being the real deal.

But that is the whole point. If he admits to being an entertainer then his act is ruined. Psychic's, mediums, fortune tellers and the like HAVE to swear on everything sacred that what they do is real even though it isn't.

What I find funny about this situation is something that mentalists are always reporting. They tell their audiences that what they do is not real but some people after the show still come up to them and ask if they can do a fortune telling or a reading. Parts of the population want this stuff no matter what.

... when I saw him, he made no special claims at all...

Just did some bending, history, positive thinking etc.

Piers.

Ah.... There you have it - the real magic is in the presentation. A fact a lot of magicians seems to have missed these days.

About Uri Geller denying being "just" a magician.... I have seen an old show from (can't remember what it was) where he did a really awfull children/box trick. I can't remember any details, but i remember thinking that it was a very, very bad career move