#anhonestliar

[miccillian]

Well... This is truly devastatin'. One o' our greatest skeptical minds has passed away. I met him many times, shared meals with him, had an incredible experience when he refused to go back to his conference and stay with me when my bag had been stolen in Las Vegas. He is the reason Penn & Teller partnered up. He is the one who challenged all frauds, cons, and people who dupe others out o' money as they preach woo woo, like homeopathy, reiki, ghosts, dowsing rods, healing crystals, and thousands o' other things, with his Million Dollar Challenge. If ever there was a Wizard to be honoured in recent history, it is this man. He was a truly Amazing man. We are worse off today. 🥺 #miccillian #captncillian #pirate #celtic #folk #seashanties #canada #magic #magician #anhonestliar #jamesrandi #theamazingrandi #magiccastle #jamesrandieducationalfoundation #theamazingmeeting #skeptic #skepticism https://www.instagram.com/p/CGn-jDMj44J/?igshid=162vvxvs9ym0

[gazbott]

New art process video up on my #Gazbot YOUTUBE channel. #jamesrandi #theamazingrandi #process #magician #skeptic #digitalart #comicart #digitalsketch #artvideo #art #WIP #timelaspe #speedart #anhonestliar #honestliar #debunker #conjurer

[misternizz]

Farewell to a giant of critical thought and skepticism, James the Amazing Randi, who has left us. Thank you for teaching us to confront flim-flammery and Hokum with polite, informed skepticism. The world needs less true believers and more James Randis. @anhonestliar #jamesrandi (at Fairfax Station, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqGtC6H9im/?igshid=1zalcqi9j7ls

[brandonthehypnotist]

Enjoying morning coffee starting to read Flim Flam, by the truly amazing Randi (born in Toronto; we can claim him Canadian!) — what a pleasant surprise to find this gift left on my doorstep by my friend Paddy Aldridge. I had the pleasure of meeting Randi a few years back at the Toronto premiere of his life documentary @anhonestliar. Thanks, Paddy! #theamazingrandi @jamesrandi #jamesrandieducationalfoundation @jref #theamazingmeeting (at Riverdale, Toronto)

[jessgrimmond]

An Honest Liar

Fiction is unreality based in reality while nonfiction is truth and facts collected to inform someone about something.  Fiction is hypothetical situations, people, and events based on some sort of truth.  To me, fiction is more for entertainment while nonfiction is to learn about something and collect information.  If a person announces that he will be lying from the start, the audience knows they cannot trust what they say or do.  The audience is ready to be deceived and can trust that the person is lying.  Audiences trust people who say they are telling the truth.  They believe that they are being genuine because that person has never given them any reason not to believe them.  Personally, I would believe that the liar is lying and the truth teller is telling the truth.  People are forgiving of dishonest liars because they never set out to tell the truth.  They only deceived to deceive.  Everyone lies and are used to being lied to.  But people are unforgiving of honest liars because they use deception to prove something.  If someone has been lied to and they believe that lie, taking away their reality and challenging their belief in something would make someone very angry.  Beliefs are powerful, precious ideas that everyone has.  Challenging or disproving their beliefs challenges their reality.  When audiences are reading fiction, they know that it is just a story and not real.  When audiences read nonfiction, they trust that the facts presented are reliable.

[katelyn-phillips]

Blog #5

Some differences of fiction and nonfiction are the truth and what is made up. A similarity is that in life, what’s fiction and nonfiction is mostly determined by what you believe. The audience has a complicated sense of trust for someone who tells them they’re lying to begin with. The audience knows they will be deceived, therefore they are prepared for it, yet they are aware that it is a lie. When the audience is promised that they will be told the truth they believe it, but in the example of magic, I personally, always have some doubt. Theoretically people should believe that they are being deceived from the start and feel more comfortable with that. People in the film are so forgiving of dishonest liars because they still want to believe in the magic of the tricks and deceit. People are more unforgiving of the honest liars, like The Amazing Randi, because they don’t want to believe that these things are made up and fake, they want to believe in magic and something greater than themselves. I think more people are interested in fiction over nonfiction because it allows them to believe in something fake and be transported to that place of magic. With nonfiction, you know what you are going to get from the start, nothing is of surprise to you. 

[baruchpac]

We're screening the film An Honest Liar August 28 at Baruch Performing Arts Center!

[intervalmagic]

The hands and cane of magician, former escape artist, and paranormal investigator James Randi, in Las Vegas a few years ago. #jamesrandi #theamazingrandi #anhonestliar #magician #conjurer #lasvegas (at Las Vegas, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsYNzgRhJJt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14k6qdpy0wfru