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Over 30 burned after motivational speaker Tony Robbins encourages them to walk on hot coals
Chicago Trib ^
Posted on 06/24/2016 12:36:04 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Harpotoo
Actually, the key is making sure the coals have no liquid left in them and that you have to have enough ASH over the coals to provide protection.
Obviously someone messed something up if 30 folks got burned doing it.
To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
06/24/2016 1:47:10 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: HamiltonJay
Obviously someone messed something up if 30 folks got burned doing it.Do I get 30 guesses as to whom it might be?
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posted on
06/24/2016 1:53:30 PM PDT
by
Robwin
To: hackberry
Just another slick con, making millions off peoples low self-esteem. I once attended one of his appearances as a guest of a real estate agent whose company paid to send its employees to hear him.
I found him to be slick, glib and devoid of any new ideas and came away thinking that the real estate company had wasted its money.
To: ameribbean expat
I wonder if they are now ‘motivated’ to sue.
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:12:35 PM PDT
by
Oscar in Batangas
(No such thing as micromanagement...It's usually microMISmanagement)
To: Marie
Well he is motivational. /s
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:30:22 PM PDT
by
nclaurel
To: ameribbean expat
Was Alicia Keyes song playing in the background? “This girls is on fire, she got het feet on the ground, they’re smelling bad and turnin brow...her feet are fire”
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:34:00 PM PDT
by
TonyM
To: ameribbean expat
Was Alicia Keyes song playing in the background? “This girls is on fire, she got het feet on the ground, they’re smelling bad and turnin brow...her feet are on fire”
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:35:11 PM PDT
by
TonyM
To: wideminded
"Exactly the same thing happened in 2012 involving Tony Robbins..." I knew this idiot had done this before!
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posted on
06/24/2016 2:58:36 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: ameribbean expat
Quick someone call Benny Hinn to come and heal them!!!
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posted on
06/24/2016 3:17:48 PM PDT
by
ColdSteelTalon
(Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
To: ameribbean expat
This made my day. Firewalking is a familiar woo woo trick and Robbins has been running the scam for 35 years. There is nothing supernatural or metaphysical about it at all. The trick is having the coals properly prepared, with the very low density ash material actually transferring very little heat despite being hot enough to glow. If Robbins and his marks could walk across a hot steel plate, I would be duly impressed. It is also necessary to step very quickly and not leave any particular area of skin in contact with the ash for more than a fraction of a second. This rules out pausing for selfies.
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posted on
06/24/2016 3:23:05 PM PDT
by
atomic conspiracy
(Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
To: ameribbean expat
They got burned when they paid the fee for the event.
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posted on
06/24/2016 5:47:38 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Hillary is Satan's spiritual advisor.)
To: Old Yeller
To: Harpotoo
No. It’s to not make the coals TOO hot
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:39:40 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools - Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
To: 21twelve
I read the article, and those nimrods WERE taking selfies!
LOL
Sheesh
” or these folks are really stupid.”
It would appear!
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:07:29 PM PDT
by
MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history)
To: ameribbean expat
Tony Robbins once convinced Oprah "Hot-Foot" Winfrey to walk across the hot coals like that a few years ago, and here is a youtube video clip showing that event, along with a couple other youtube video clips explaining the science behind this kind of "fire walking".
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posted on
06/24/2016 7:28:11 PM PDT
by
Heart-Rest
(I'm right 97% of the time. Who cares about the other 4%?)
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