Do You Believe In Magic?

[Gvac]

<p>I was just wondering if anybody here believes in any aspects of the paranormal: psychics, telekinesis, ESP, etc.</p><p>Any experiences to bolster your beliefs?</p><p>I have to say I'm a skeptic, but I don't rule anything out.&nbsp;</p>

[mdr55]

Magic 8 ball says &quot;Yes&quot;.<br />

[booster11373]

I wish, but the world is not that cool

[ShelleBink]

definately... i'm a paranormal believer.&nbsp; my aunt was really good with all that crazy psychic shit.<br />

[Hottub]

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[El Mudo]

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Do You Believe In Magic?
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In a young girl's heart?

How the music can free her whenever it starts?

EDIT: DAMMIT!!

The Lovin' Spoonful stinks!!

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by El Mudo on 3-20-06 @ 8:35 PM</span>

[TheGameHHH]

I believe that things operate in this universe beyond our comprehension. I wouldn't label it magic per se, but I do believe in that stuff.

[sr71blackbird]

I can make a kids nose &quot;dissapear&quot;

[reeshy]

_{I believe in GVAC and his magic dwarves!!!!!<br />}

[Recyclerz]

<p>To second The Game's sentiments, ladies and gentlemen, &nbsp;Arthur C. Clarke:</p><p><a title="Click for further information about this quotation" href="http://www.ronfez.net/quote/776.html">Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.</a> </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[torker]

<p>Magic is fun...when you're dead.</p><p><img height="150" src="http://www.planethopkins.co.uk/images/film/magic1.jpg" width="250" border="0" /></p>

[Hottub]

<p>What a pull!!!</p><p>That book scared the balls off of me!</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Hottub on 3-20-06 @ 9:27 PM</span>

[badorties]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>no ... it's slight of hand, coincedence or just wonders of nature</p>

[Ndugu]

<p>sir your avatar is a wonder of nature</p>

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">I have always believed in the metaphysical &amp; I have never believed in God.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000099"><img height="380" src="http://www.mythfolklore.net/3043mythfolklore/images/misc/person_magician_bosch.jpg" width="500" border="0" /></font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">The Conjuror by Heironymous Bosch,&nbsp;a magician performs the &quot;Cups &amp; Balls&quot; routine as the bent over man has his money pouch (this is before the invention of pockets in Western Europe) stolen by the man behind him, who is employed by the magician. </font></strong></p>

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[WRESTLINGFAN]

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[Hottub]

<p>I got a million of 'em!</p><p><img title="never believe it's not so..." height="300" alt="never believe it's not so..." src="http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1975/magic.jpg" width="300" border="0" /></p>

[towny]

jesus was magic...almost as good as david blaine

[FUNKMAN]

<p>i would say &quot;how can you not believe&quot; in some of it when they have psychics locating people that have been murdered</p><p>i was in a break room at Colgate one night at the end of a shift and it turned into a pretty wierd conversation. first off some guy comes up to me that i never met before that night and says &quot;hey, i bet you would like to be a viking. i thought it was more than coincidental that i was a huge vikings fan at the time but i had no apparel on or never spoken to this guy before. i didn't ask him if he meant the football vikings cause it basically shocked me a little bit. it's a wierd thing to hear from someone as the first words out of their mouth</p><p>anyway there are two other guys in the break room&nbsp;talking and these are the stories i heard as best i can remember</p><p>1st guy: had a girlfriend who went to college down south and wound up getting killed in an accident. two years later he met a girl who looked exactly like her, wore the same glasses and had the same eye problem, smoked the same cigarettes, wore her hair exactly the same way, along with other items that matched. he went on to say she lived between 3 towns in new jersey that have the same names as three towns in the israel location where his girlfriend was from. he named the towns but i can't think of e'm.</p><p>2nd guy: his wife's brother had drowned in the Chesapeake Bay and the body was never found. a woman(psychic) had predicted 'by a day off' when the body would be located &quot;which was months from the time they all met&quot;&nbsp; The psychic said he would have a tool in his back pocket and a rip in his jeans.&nbsp; When they located his brother-in-law he had exactly what the psychic predicted, a pair of pliers in his back pocket and a hole in his jeans. What they felt happened is he went under and a piece of wood had cut through his pants and he drowned. when the wood eventually rotted or weakened he came to the surface...</p><p>it seemed i was in the room with a psychic, a guy who had first hand experience with a psychic, and the guy with the girlfriend i don't know what you would call it. it shook me a bit for a day or two...</p>

[Coach]

Being one who has seen a ghost and had precognative dreams as a kid (they always came true and were in a red tinge). I belive in a few things paranormal. I once while drunk (in college)&nbsp;said that they would find&nbsp;a body by the river with Satan lives! 666 written on it. The next day the newspaper's front page was that there was a body found by&nbsp;the river&nbsp;EXACTLY as I described. My&nbsp;roommates&nbsp;were leery of me about that one.&nbsp;

[ShelleBink]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Coach</strong> wrote:<br />Being one who has seen a ghost and had precognative dreams as a kid (they always came true and were in a red tinge). I belive in a few things paranormal. I once while drunk (in college) said that they would find a body by the river with Satan lives! 666 written on it. The next day the newspaper's front page was that there was a body found by the river EXACTLY as I described. My roommates were leery of me about that one. <p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Please don't come to the party on the 1st.&nbsp;<img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" />&nbsp;</p>

[Coach]

I had an alibi if it makes you feel better....ps. some guy in a green hoodie is gonna get really drunk and puke all over the bathroom

[suggums]

<p>and i hope you do</p><p>you'll always have a friend wearing big red shoes </p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by suggums on 3-21-06 @ 2:03 PM</span>

[Coach]

<p>wow! never heard of anyone having BIG READ SHOES...only BLUE SUEDE SHOES!!!!!!<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" border="0" /><img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" border="0" /><img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" border="0" /></p><p>I won't be there, I have a job that entails weekend work...hence my handle</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Coach on 3-21-06 @ 3:14 AM</span>

[Jennitalia]

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[A.J.]

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[suggums]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Coach</strong> wrote:<br /><p>wow! never heard of anyone having BIG READ SHOES...only BLUE SUEDE SHOES!!!!!!<img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" /><img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" /><img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" /></p><p>I won't be there, I have a job that entails weekend work...hence my handle</p>

<span class="post_edited">This message was edited by Coach on 3-21-06 @ 3:14 AM</span><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>sorry bud, i meant to respond to the topic title (do you believe in magic). it's from an old shitty mcdonalds jingle&nbsp;</p>

[Furtherman]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br /><p>i would say &quot;how can you not believe&quot; in some of it when they have psychics locating people that have been murdered</p><p>i was in a break room at Colgate one night at the end of a shift and it turned into a pretty wierd conversation. first off some guy comes up to me that i never met before that night and says &quot;hey, i bet you would like to be a viking. i thought it was more than coincidental that i was a huge vikings fan at the time but i had no apparel on or never spoken to this guy before. i didn't ask him if he meant the football vikings cause it basically shocked me a little bit. it's a wierd thing to hear from someone as the first words out of their mouth</p><p>anyway there are two other guys in the break room&nbsp;talking and these are the stories i heard as best i can remember</p><p>1st guy: had a girlfriend who went to college down south and wound up getting killed in an accident. two years later he met a girl who looked exactly like her, wore the same glasses and had the same eye problem, smoked the same cigarettes, wore her hair exactly the same way, along with other items that matched. he went on to say she lived between 3 towns in new jersey that have the same names as three towns in the israel location where his girlfriend was from. he named the towns but i can't think of e'm.</p><p>2nd guy: his wife's brother had drowned in the Chesapeake Bay and the body was never found. a woman(psychic) had predicted 'by a day off' when the body would be located &quot;which was months from the time they all met&quot;&nbsp; The psychic said he would have a tool in his back pocket and a rip in his jeans.&nbsp; When they located his brother-in-law he had exactly what the psychic predicted, a pair of pliers in his back pocket and a hole in his jeans. What they felt happened is he went under and a piece of wood had cut through his pants and he drowned. when the wood eventually rotted or weakened he came to the surface...</p><p>it seemed i was in the room with a psychic, a guy who had first hand experience with a psychic, and the guy with the girlfriend i don't know what you would call it. it shook me a bit for a day or two...</p><p>Here's what might have happened.&nbsp; The 1st guy really loved his girlfriend.&nbsp; So much so that he saw a little bit of her in a little bit of every woman he met - and one day he met someone that looked a little more like her.&nbsp; People look more alike more often than you think.&nbsp; You could&nbsp;put them in categories&nbsp;and they're not even related.&nbsp; So this&nbsp;girl&nbsp;wore the same type of glasses (the <em>exact</em> same type?) and had a same eye problem&nbsp;(i'd say everyone who wear glasses has some kind of eye problem - they can't see so good! and there are many different variations of each kind of problem).&nbsp; Wore her hair the same way - again... unless she was Princess Leia -&nbsp;it was up, down, maybe colored - all very common among women.&nbsp; As for the three towns thing, well, unless he had a map of Israel and a map of New Jersey and could prove it, then that is what we call wishful thinking.&nbsp; Like looking for rabbits in clouds or bugs on Mars, the mind looks for patterns.&nbsp; This guys saw a few similarities and <em>needed</em> this woman to be so much like his dead girlfriend in order to give himself hope that there can be other women like that out there.</p><p>The 2nd guy - classic psychic scam.&nbsp; Chesapeake Bay.&nbsp; Just from walking in the door the psychic could have told weather this guy's family was blue collar or white, out of towners or locals.&nbsp; Did she find out what her brother did?&nbsp; Where he lived?&nbsp; Easily could deduce whether this man carried tools on him or not and what kind of clothes he would have wore.&nbsp; Was the psychic located in Chesapeake Bay?&nbsp; If so, she would be a local and therefore would know all about how long a body would stay under water before it surfaces on its own.&nbsp; A resonable guess is not out of

[SatCam]

Do you believe in life after love?

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[FUNKMAN]

<p>As for the guy who said you wanted to be a viking.&nbsp; Well, who wouldn't be?!</p><p>i would have to say the guys were much more convincing than you. if you feel that most people actually at times &quot;think about being a viking&quot; then i would just have to disagree. i have to go more with he sensed something being at the time i was a huge Viking fan. It's just not something someone usually greets a person with when they meet them for the first time. I think most people could agree with that...</p><p>i can't say for absolute certainty that he 'read me' but it would have to take something much more convincing to make me think otherwise...</p>

[Furtherman]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p>As for the guy who said you wanted to be a viking.&nbsp; Well, who wouldn't be?! <p>&nbsp;</p><p>i would have to say the guys were much more convincing than you. if you feel that most people actually at times &quot;think about being a viking&quot; then i would just have to disagree. i have to go more with he sensed something being at the time i was a huge Viking fan. It's just not something someone usually greets a person with when they meet them for the first time. I think most people could agree with that...</p><p>i can't say for absolute certainty that he 'read me' but it would have to take something much more convincing to make me think otherwise...</p><p>I was just kidding on the Viking thing... I have no explaining for that, but the other two most likely have rational explainations.&nbsp; There are people who will tell you with absolute sincerity that we never went to the moon.&nbsp; Doesn't make them bad people, it's just they wanted to believe something and circumstances gave them that chance.&nbsp; </p><p>It's not much differnet than telling a child that they better go to bed because Santa is coming - they run up the stairs faster then they've ever ran before - and run even faster down them the next morning.&nbsp; All for a belief that is basically bullshit, but nice nonetheless.</p>

[JimBeam]

<p>That dude Criss Angel on A&amp;E does some cool stuff.</p><p>I know its gotta be fake but I wanna know how.</p>

[mendyweiss]

I know dem witchdoctors down in Haiti, be doin some real magic and spells mon. Dont' be sleepin on dem.

[AngelAmy]

<strong>suggums</strong> wrote:<br /><p>and i hope you do</p><p>you'll always have a friend wearing big red shoes </p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by suggums on 3-21-06 @ 2:03 PM</span> <p>we think alike, i had the same reply in mind</p><p>(and we agree on super foods, are you my twin?)</p>

[Reephdweller]

<p><font size="3">You can do magic<br />You can have anything that you desire<br />Magic, and you know<br />You're the one who can put out the fire...</font></p><p><img height="150" src="http://www.billmumymusic.com/mumy/discs/america/magic.jpg" width="149" border="0" /></p>

[Judge Smails]

<strong>JimBeam</strong> wrote:<br /><p>That dude Criss Angel on A&amp;E does some cool stuff.</p><p>I know its gotta be fake but I wanna know how.</p><p>Boom goes the dynamite: <a href="http://falarious.com/html/Chris-Angel-Revealed.html">http://falarious.com/html/Chris-Angel-Revealed.html</a></p>

[Billy Staples]

<p>Please do not Confuse the 2 , magic is trickery and slight of hand</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>john Edwards is not Magic.&nbsp; People like that have a gift and don't buy it in the mall with the fake deck of cars and interlocking rings shit</p>

[Gvac]

<strong>mag&middot;ic</strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://secure.reference.com/premium/login.html?rd=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fsearch%3 Fq%3Dmagic"><img border="0" alt="Audio pronunciation of "magic"" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/JPG/pron.jpg" /></a> <span style="display: none;">(</span><span style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; color: red; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">&nbsp;P&nbsp;</span><span style="display: none;">)</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html" title="Click for guide to symbols." onclick="ahdpop();return false;"><strong>Pronunciation Key</strong></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(m<img width="7" height="15" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/abreve.gif" alt="" />j<img width="4" height="22" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/prime.gif" alt="" /><img width="7" height="15" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/ibreve.gif" alt="" />k)<br />
<em>n.</em> <ol><li>The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural.</li></ol>

[FUNKMAN]

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[Death Metal Moe]

<p>Im Wiccan, so I like Magik better.</p>

[Furtherman]

<strong>Billy Staples</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Please do not Confuse the 2 , magic is trickery and slight of hand</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>john Edwards is not Magic.&nbsp; People like that have a gift and don't buy it in the mall with the fake deck of cars and interlocking rings shit</p><p>Sucker.</p>

[TheC0BRA]

I definately believe in magic.&nbsp; Life is magical if you&nbsp;simply believe that it is.

[Coach]

Fairies and unicorns and pixies......