Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

**mumbler** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 3:05pm

hilarity ensues:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7067989.ece

yoga!

**CrackFox** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 3:22pm

I would have thought that using the defence that he had no wish to harm the poor misguided sceptic should have seen him through.

I can only guess that he thought the reporter would bottle it as soon as he started his incantations.

**Kentucky Fried Chokin** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 3:24pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeJVUbpF8Mg&feature=related

**kenikim** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 3:32pm

nice.
an indian james randi.
we need more people like them.

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 3:41pm

Well, that guy can be all smart-assed, sceptical and secular *now* - but he'll be singing a different tune in 30 years, when he suddenly drops down dead.

Mystical powers can have a delayed action.

**pauli** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 3:43pm

much like buying a used car.

**kenikim** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 3:55pm

Originally Posted by Larus marinus

Well, that guy can be all smart-assed, sceptical and secular *now* - but he'll be singing a different tune in 30 years, when he suddenly drops down dead.

Mystical powers can have a delayed action.

ah, right, the delayed touch of death.
didn't think about that.

**littleoldme** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 4:24pm

That guy does a lot of important work to stop horrible wooo related abuses

for example

YouTube- Sanal Edamaruku on Godman trampling on infants (English)

Respect to him

**mumbler** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 4:33pm

Originally Posted by CrackFox

I would have thought that using the defence that he had no wish to harm the poor misguided sceptic should have seen him through. .

whereas the excuse he actually went for was:
"he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash. "

well at least it sounds like a good night out anyways. Maybe he was banking on getting a show-sponsered ho.

**CrackFox** · Posted On: 3/23/2010 4:52pm

Originally Posted by mumbler

whereas the excuse he actually went for was:
"he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash. "

well at least it sounds like a good night out anyways. Maybe he was banking on getting a show-sponsered ho.

I assumed the sceptic was the one who had to have a drink, get laid, and make himself dirty, in order that the gods would not protect him? Also that the guru guy didn't make those demands until after the night time ceremony, at which point they said enough was enough. I guess I'll have to re-read the article.

I remember seeing a documentary about guys like this a while back, and one of the things they would do was to go out in public, down a shot of whisky and jump on a bed of nails. I know the aim was to show that the nail beds have no effect even if the gods are pissed off at you, but to me it looked like a whole lot of fun.