Slog - Comments on Black Magic Entertains http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains Three weeks old but funny none the less: New Dehli-based Sanal Edamaruku, an anti-superstition crusader, recently challenged one of India's powerful shamans (a "tantrik") to kill him using magic on national TV. (You can guess how well that went.) India TV invited Sanal Edamaruku for a discussion on “Tantrik power versus Science.” Pandit Surinder Sharma, who claims to be the tantrik of top politicians and is well known from his TV shows, represented the other side. During the discussion, the tantrik showed a small human shape of wheat flour dough, laid a thread around it like a noose and tightened... Copyright 2008 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:42:19 -0800 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:44:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NapoleonXIV And in 40 or 50 years, when those spells take effect, who's going to be laughing then?

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978553 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978553 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:15:36 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale He could simply have made a platter of my mom's stuffed cabbage.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978565 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:22:24 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Naw, black magic doesn't work. If it did, you guys would have killed Hillary with your negative vibes months ago.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978593 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:36:49 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV The point isn't to kill Hillary. It's to force her to live out eight years of Obama Administration in her own shame and defeat.

Just sayin.

:)

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978603 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978603 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:40:18 -0800 Comment by Mr. Joshua COMMENT DELETED: Off Topic

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]]> Mr. Joshua http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978627 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978627 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:48:56 -0800 Comment by montex I think a wand from Olivander's and the Avada Kedavara curse would have done quite nicely.

]]> montex http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978630 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978630 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:50:04 -0800 Comment by Chris in Tampa http://www.xkcd.com/373/

]]> Chris in Tampa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978648 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:54:58 -0800 Comment by adrian! an interesting report several years ago: a little woman, a house wife in brazil, became reknowned as a healer...scientists and camera crews conspired to test her on live television by challenging her to heal a beloved local policital figure of a disfiguring hip dysplasia that caused him to be all gimpy. they met, the cameras rolled, she went OOGA BOOGA! or whatever, and the guy got up and walked...with narry a wobble. he burst into tears. or, that's the story...

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978801 Religion Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:24:40 -0800 Comment by Johnny I read about this contest at www.randi.org. Randi is a professional magician whose aim it is to debunk so-called healers and prophets who bilk the gullible out of money. One of his primary targets is Sylvia Brown AKA "The Talons". He updates his webpage every Friday with news about these con artists.

]]> Johnny http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978933 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/black_magic_entertains#c978933 Religion Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:44:42 -0800