Caution, there could be "bad energy" in your money!!!

[thatguywhojuggles]

I cannot give anything away which has bad energy. If I did give the money to the poor kids in Africa, they would simply receive bad energies, and I do not want to expose them to that.


This comment got me wondering. If "bad energy" resides in money, I wonder how long it lives there. Does it eventually leak out? Does bad energy last longer in coins than it does in paper money? If you have money with bad energy in it, but it is kept in the bank, will it spread bad energy onto the rest of the money in the bank? If you write a check, will bad energy come through the check, or does check writing act as a natural bad energy filtering system?

With the natural circulation of money all over the world--in various hands, for various reasons, I wonder how much of the money I have (which is not that much,) has bad energy.

If I have money with bad energy, I wonder what I can do about it? Is there a way to test the money? If I discover which of my money has bad energy, should I just throw it away?

I have an idea. I, and my partner Tommy the Fist, could start a money laundering service to get rid of the bad energy in your money--for a small fee.

[Titananarchy]

If the astrologer would send the $1 million to me I would take the risk.....:rolleyes:

[Cinorjer]

I got a good laugh out of that excuse about money contaminated with bad energy (New Age pseudobable for cursed, I guess). Of course, we can't have third-world children exposed to bad energy. Why, then they might have bad luck on top of starving to death.

What the woman needs to do is find a Gypsy who specializes in curses. The Gypsy will tell her to put all the money in a bag and bring it to her parlor. Then the Gypsy will rub an egg over the bag, crack the egg open, and show how the "bad energy" has been transmitted to the egg in the form of a putrid mess. Of course, the bag of money must not be opened until the woman gets back home, where the psychic will discover (1) that a miracle has taken place, and the money has turned into newspaper, and (2) that there are slicker conartists out there than she'll ever hope to be. That will neatly solve the problem of the cursed money.

[shanek]

I think someone should point out to Kofod that in the US money does not refer to anything physical at all. How can a non-physical construct have any kind of energy, negative or otherwise?

[OrneryPest]

I'm sure I'd have no trouble at all exorcising the bad energy out of a million bucks, and I don't even claim to have psychic powers.

[Mercutio]

Seems to me that if you ever have your bad money in any sort of bank, and they lend monies to other banks and people, who spend it at yet more places...what you end up with is a homeopathic dilution of bad money energies throughout the entire financial system.

You could, of course, insist on only new money, but since it has been passed through the hands of at least the central banks on its way to you, the homeopathic problem persists.

The only logical solution is to print your own money, then store it in your mattress or sock drawer (never in a bank, S&L, or the market!), pay in exact change or refuse to accept change at all. Perhaps your refusal to accept change will add a positive, charitable energy to your money, so that when you are arrested for counterfeiting, you can claim in your defense that you were altruistically adding positive energies to the monetary system.

I suppose you could also barter, but I don't see anything Sylvia produces that I would trade trade for.

[mythusmage]

Bad energy. Nope, just misunderstood.

[aggle_rithm]

There are plenty of disreputable organizations she could donate the money too. Why not give it to the Ku Klux Klan, then watch them all melt from the "bad vibes"?

[Jet Grind]

Bad energy, LOL! You can't help but get a kick out of that. It's amazing the sort of things these carnies can come up with.

[Marvel Frozen]

This comment got me wondering. If "bad energy" resides in money, I wonder how long it lives there.

It depends on the severity of the "bad energy", but it usually doesn't last more than a month or two. Although, considering how truly evil James Randi is, it could probably last as long as six months.

Does it eventually leak out?

It slowly leaks out over time into the universal Karma pool, eventually ending up in people with bad Karma.

Does bad energy last longer in coins than it does in paper money?

Coins, or any mettalic object, are more efficient at trapping "bad energy". So, yes, it does last longer in coins.

If you have money with bad energy in it, but it is kept in the bank, will it spread bad energy onto the rest of the money in the bank?

No. Once it leaves the money, it enters the Universal Karma Pool.

If you write a check, will bad energy come through the check, or does check writing act as a natural bad energy filtering system?

Checks can carry "bad energy", but not as efficiently as dollar bills.

If I have money with bad energy, I wonder what I can do about it?

Send it to me. I'll cleanse any money, for a small fee.

Is there a way to test the money?

I can also test money, for a minimal fee.

If I discover which of my money has bad energy, should I just throw it away?

It would be most effective to burn it. That will release the "bad energy" into the Universal Karma Pool.

[thatguywhojuggles]

Thanks Marvel Frozen... it's all clear now... :D

[Kimpatsu]

Can't we dilute the bad energy using homeopathy, until there's nothing left...? :cool:

[DrMatt]

Wait! Money... has energy in it! Let's use it to make a perpetual motion machine!

On a related note, last week the investment giant TIAA-CREF ran an article giving a mouthpiece to one Ning Li in Alabama who claims to have resuscitated a Soviet researcher's failed anti-gravity research. The article mentioned that Ms Li's studies are "controversial", but forgot to mention that the proposed anti-gravity pan would be a cinch for turning into a perpetual motion machine (put a flywheel half on and half off the pad, and use the flywheel to power the generator that runs the pad...). I mentioned this to TIAA-CREF in e-mail as an explanation for why Li's work seems pretty far-fetched, and got back a reassurance that they're not investing in her start-up company (though, as with other free-energy schemes that we've heard of, she has already announced an IPO without any goods to back it). According to TIAA-CREF, they received a LOT of unfavorable letters for publishing the piece (which came complete with a trick photo of Li holding her hands out and an apple "floating" in the air between them)--people went so far as to call her a "charlatan". Key to her story is her plea for funding for her "research"--a plea that, in my book, makes her a charlatan by any reasonable standard.
:rolleyes:

I cc'd CSICOP (and Randi) on the whole e-mail exchange. Barry Tarr suggested I write up an article. Maybe I will.

Meanwhile, my first alma mater Oberlin College has been giving alumnus John Mack a bunch of free press in the alumni magazine. I've tried to send in letters deconstructing his nonsense, but it seems, once again, they've been innundated with letters and chose to print one of the more rabid deconstructions--AND a reply by Mack, who ingenuously now claims to be just talking about psychology, when he's long since on the record advocating UFOs as real and rationality as the wrong tool for understanding the UFO Abduction scare among psychiatric inpatients.
:rolleyes:

Anyhow, I'm sure Ning Li and John Mack will be willing to forego all the "bad energy" in the million dollar challenge. Of course, I could be wrong, and one of them might actually apply for the challenge. Then again, I have greater confidence in crickets, as I've actually seen them and heard their chirping....

[Temporal Renegade]

Actually, mine just seems to have the powers of invisability, because it just seems to disappear on me alot!

[Kimpatsu]

Originally posted by Temporal Renegade
Actually, mine just seems to have the powers of invisability, because it just seems to disappear on me alot!
I know how you feel. I can make money disappear better than anybody! (Except perhaps Michael Jackson...)

[Temporal Renegade]

Originally posted by Kimpatsu

I know how you feel. I can make money disappear better than anybody! (Except perhaps Michael Jackson...)

Let's see...I'll take that one..that one...do I already have that one? Yes, yes I do...
you know, I'm worth...oh, about a billion dollars... Why, that's The Bathing of Apollo...:rolleyes:

do NOT get me started!

[arcticpenguin]

There's additional commentary on the "bad money" in the latest (2003-06-27) Swift: http://www.randi.org/jr/062703.html

Kevin Schaffer suggests, on the same weighty problem:

I am not a physicist, but I am sure that quantum mechanics allows for no additional properties to the electron along the lines of a "cursing." Only charge, position, wave functions, probability fields, and the like are allowed. Thus, perhaps an electronic transfer of the money to Ms. Kofoed would suitably cleanse the prize of its curse?

If someone is going to bring quantum mechanics into it, I can point out that QM does allow for plenty of spin.