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Postby mark lewis » Nov 19th, '10, 11:57



He probably has ambitions to become a mentalist. They talk too much also.

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Postby Ted » Nov 19th, '10, 12:06

mark lewis wrote:He probably has ambitions to become a mentalist. They talk too much also.


Not wishing to derail the thread (much), but I agree that there's a temptation to go on a bit with mentalist presentations. The best I've seen tend to imply a lot more than they state. I've found that I don't need to say very much at all because everyone is incredibly keen to tell me that I must be using NLP etc. It's enough to make one lazy.

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Postby SamGurney » Nov 19th, '10, 19:04

I would respond.


But basically I'm too tired.

And NO I do not want to be a mentalist or a magician.

''To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in another's.'' Dostoevsky's Razumihin.
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Postby Ted » Nov 19th, '10, 19:40

SamGurney wrote:
And NO I do not want to be a mentalist or a magician.


In that case why are you frequenting a magic forum, at which you have access to the restricted mentalism area?

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Postby IAIN » Nov 19th, '10, 20:34

philosophy is not often based in reality - and by reality i mean that the majority of human beings will need a job of some kind that enables them to do fun stuff, care for other people and buy food and bum-paper...

i know some very poor philosophers - who are also quite bad at putting up a decent argument about most things...its usually conceptual and obviously quite philosophical...

its obviously very interesting and eye opening in some cases, but, it doesnt buy you decent rum, nor chips on the way home from the pub...

it reminds me of history of the world part I, Mel Brooks...
"I'm a stand-up philosopher!"
"Oh! a bullsh*t artist!"

i think it would be very interesting to meet young sam...

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Postby SamGurney » Nov 20th, '10, 11:07

Ted wrote:
SamGurney wrote:
And NO I do not want to be a mentalist or a magician.


In that case why are you frequenting a magic forum, at which you have access to the restricted mentalism area?


Hobby.
Just like music and philosophy for that matter.

In truth, I have no plans for the future. It will happen at some point, but always in the present.

Which is probably exactley the kind of thinking Iain described. As far as I can see it it's the truth. But it's not the kind of thinking that will bring me conventional ideals of 'success'.

Besides its not poor arguments generally it's just how inadequate language is to express anything valuable and the predjudices against philosophy it seems to harbour.

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