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by David Copperfield, the master illusionist known for levitating over the Grand Canyon and making the Statue of Liberty disappear, has some new amazing news, and this time he says it's not a trick. Copperfield claims he has found the Fountain of Youth in a group of four small islands in the Bahamas that he recently purchased for roughly $65 million. Copperfield insists that he has "discovered a true phenomenon." The veteran magician told Reuters that "you can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again." He likewise asserts that "bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly away." Copperfield says he has hired scientists to examine the water to determine its effect on humans. Could this magic spring restore life and youth, or has Copperfield finally tricked himself?
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Forever Young? by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6 :: on 16 August 2006
There's only one way to be sure if the fountain of youth actually works.....push an elderly into the fountain. If he survive and become young, then it works. If it doesn't.......oh well.
RE: Forever Young? by PowerPointSamurai :: NR7 :: on 16 August 2006
What if, as he flails around trying to get out, he takes so long to extricate himself that he reverts back to a pre-infant stage? In that way, he'd be young, but not survive.
RE: Forever Young? by VnutZ :: NR8 :: on 16 August 2006
There's a horrible way to die. You push somebody into the pool forming around the fountain of youth. If this person cannot swim, they'll thrash around, get tired, sink and drown. Only in this case, they'll be resurrected by the water's magical powers so they can drown again. And again. And again.
RE: Forever Young? by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6 :: on 16 August 2006
You know....this suffering again and again is what Hell is about. Also, the character Loki in the Norse Mythology also suffered the same fate. So did the Greek God, Prometheus.
RE: Forever Young? by VnutZ :: NR8 :: on 16 August 2006
Then it's a good thing I don't believe in Hell. It's a Christians only party.
RE: Forever Young? by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6 :: on 16 August 2006
As Hamlet said: "To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,—
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,—puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?"
We do not know what lies after death. Although I'm not very religious, I must consider the possibilities that something exist after I die. It is possible that I would still be conscious after I die; but what awaits me after my death makes me reconsider.