The entire point of life: Jesus did not come to be served, but to serve. Mathew 20: 28. We are no different. This entire life is a representation of the spiritual warfare going on. Good vs evil. God isn't a flying man in the sky, but the actual representation of Love, Hope, Joy, Peace, Light, etc. Not metaphor, but literally, like an extra demintional wavelength of thought, emotions, and intent. The devil is the opposite wavelength, pain, fear, hate, anger, darkness, etc. Human life is serving one of these two. Not a man in the sky, actual sentient collective universal Love. However, humans are primatives, we make mistakes. It's in our nature, since the fall, to go down the wrong path. This means at some time each one of us has served darkness to some degree. God understands our limited understanding of our own actions, so he gave us forgiveness, though sacrificing himself in human form as Jesus Christ. It is our duty to accept that sacrifice, get the forgiveness, and be better, helping others be better, and spreading this wavelength of Love, Hope, Joy, Peace, Light, etc, thoughout the universe. But God had to make a way for us to get to this place spiritually, this is why evidence is not allowed. Evidence will make you believe, using the fear of absolute punishment to change your behavior, but that won't make you better, just scared. Faith makes you better. It is what redeemes us, not our works. Faith is the hope that things get better, that justice always prevails, that we're at least loved by our creator. But it has to be Faith in Jesus, because of his sacrifice. And there can't be evidence to point us to him, because Love had to be fair. If there were a code in our DNA, what about everyone born before genetic sequencing? If there were a book with the solar system thosands of years ago, what would stop an evil person from hiding/destroying it? If it were something you had to go to, what about the geographically isolated, imprisoned, or enslaved. If it were a train of logic, what about the uneducated, or mentally slow? Not to mention all the people born before schools. Love cannot give to one without giving to the other. So the key to salvation had to be something everyone has access to. The only thing is Faith. This is why God puts it upon your heart to learn about these things, even if it's only to criticize, or hate. God is everywhere, because Love is everywhere, and so is the devil, because hate is everywhere. They're in your head all the time, regardless of weather or not you accept that. They whisper inside your heart, giving you ideas. But more than that, they're inside everyone's heart. This is how they get things done. They corrordanate us like pieces on a chess board. The only difference is, we get to chose who's side we're playing for. At the end of our life, we go to that team's home base, Heaven, or Hell. A place where all that exists is those wavelengths. Hate, pain, anger, fear, darkness; or Love, Hope, Joy, Peace, Pleasure, Light. The choice is yours to make. But you cannot go to Heaven with hate in your heart. You must forgive, repent, and spread joy for those around you. These are sentient eternal controlling forces in our universe. Heaven and Hell are very real places, I've seen them. Those steps prime your soul for a meeting with God. Very literally. Once you've done all four, in that order, you get divine revelation, with all the evidence you'll ever need. They are, forgive your parents, brake down before Jesus, ask for forgiveness, and read the Bible. Step four takes three books to get the revelation. I recommend Genesis, Mathew, and then either Luke, Psalms, or proverbs. The order of the steps is important, step 1 has to come before step 3. I can state that for an absolute certainty that these steps always work. Please, take your salvation seriously. See for yourself. Do those steps. Jesus Christ is Lord. It's all True.
It's so hard to link teller's voice up to teller himself. It's just so jarring. And that laugh. That's the giggle of someone who realizes that he's sitting in a hotel in Cairo eating canned pears and cheese whiz for millions of people to watch.
Don't be silly. Teller is immortal. He used to call himself Harpo Marx. It's another conjurors ruse. ( Some even say he was Lear's fool, if that's so, he has grown far less loquacious.)
Pooxist *"I love how they mock stupid tricks like the disappearing pyramids"* Almost all magic tricks are stupid when you know how they're done. There's a lot of skill, a lot of cool gimmicks and A LOT of stupid, lol.
+LucisFerre1 "Almost all magic tricks are stupid when you know how they're done. " I'd say they look *easy* when you know how they're done, but not stupid. But the camera tricks they were making fun of not only look stupid, they're a fucking rip off.
This is one of my favorite moments ever. I mean, EVER. Teller's laugh is so infectious and seemingly unwarranted. It makes me crack up along with him every time I see it.
True.. and perhaps the realization, that quite ironically, the place to be for top notch magic, is Vegas.. Anywhere else in the world, they just scrape by, or like in Egypt.. live in the gutter.
Easy. They have a team of trained contruction workers and in a matter of seconds they destroyed all of the pyramids. They're lying to us. They didn't make them magically disappear.
I must say, next time Penn and Teller take canned food to another country they should buy canned fruit in the jar. Not only does it taste better, but it also looks more classy and will make you feel better about eating canned food for supper. Also idk why, but Teller just cracks me up every time I see him. The fact that he doesn't talk just makes him more funny and his expressions are priceless.
Have been to Cairo. Polluted? Absolutely. Standing by the pyramids, you can easily see a haze hanging over the city. But the people are generally friendly, and the food is good.
0ion Egypt is divided into two parts, the really high class parts where all the rich people live and then there is the shitty poor parts... which is like 80% of egypt
The vanishing pyramids has to be the worst executed magic trick - EVER. Just got to love P&T for their attitude to magic - zero pomposity and lots of fun.
Totally with them. Egypt is a stunningly beautiful place, filled with absolutely amazing, friendly and accommodating people. The air is just awful. It chokes you the second you get off the plane. When I say "choke" I do not exaggerate. It actually hurts! And the smell! Imagine a filled diaper, left for 3 weeks in the sun to bake, then spray it with gasoline and take it into an Indian sweatlodge and set fire to it. Its similar, but lacks the edge. Only place worse for the nostrils is Delhi. Jesus Chirst on a bike! You could smell it BEFORE the plane landed! Was so happy to get up in the mountains!
With the vanishing pyramids, they had a moving platform and moved it with the camera so it didn't look like they were moving. You can also see a bit of movement toward the end before they pull down the sheet and the landscape changed.
Making the pyramids "disappear"...as they zoom into the drape cloth, you see them panning to the left. The ground angle is a dead giveaway that the background changed.
I spent some time in Cairo last year. The car honking never ends. Car journeys are unnerving, the subway is worse. I stayed in a hotel in the 6th floor of a building that cost like 15 bucks a night, right in the center of the city in some back alleyway, you can imagine what that was like. However, the Pyramids of Giza, and the History museum are spectacular. And the food was great, I had no problems, though I did stay away from the street food.
Jesus Christ you're stupid, the camera zoomed in on the curtain and Penn and Teller walked to the right so that the pyramids were out of view. Just look at the right of the screen.
