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Gary Dickson · Guest

You are, of course, perfectly within your rights to think whatever you like.

For the record, I am not ignorant in the sense of being uninformed or of being rude.

As far as I am aware I have not actually offended anyone with my mentalism show which contains some hardcore Buddhist teachings as well as an old Judaeo_Christian story that doesn't paint 'God' in a good light! But if they were to get offended, I would have to ask what they were doing there in the first place.

Anywho - I think I have gone as far as I will in this discussion so I will take my leave of you.

Adios
Gary

Michael Kras · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:44 am Post subject:

Hey, some of these special types of people, I have no doubt, would see a show with potentially offensive undertones just to bash it and spread negative energy.
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Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

well that was a good discussion... its nice to have a new member who is obivously intelligent, and sticks with his beliefs

LIVR · Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 52 Location: Ontario

To paraphrase a prominent mentalist with unusual hair...

You are performing in the context of *entertainment*. If someone decides to interpret what you're doing as belonging in a place of worship, the fault is clearly theirs.

Now that doesn't mean that you shouldn't use your head. There are districts in the USA so stupid that they are actually trying to have creation myths taught in science classes, so there you might want to reign in your material, but Canadian magic contest... nah!

That also doesn't mean you shouldn't rethink your choice of material for the competition. My experience is that these contests are heavily biased in favour of comedic performers. Doing a trick in which you do a bunch of mentalism then kill a rose is not exactly the quickest route to victory.

Michael Kras · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:33 am Post subject:

Unfortunately, a lot of Americans probably wouldn't catch on to offensive material. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that blockhead Criss Angel unknowingly call 9/11 a travesty. Even worse still, I see no americans catching onto this!
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teddy · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 166

Michael Kras · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject:

It's hilarious, in a sad way.

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