Feng Shui Trader's reaction to Penn and Teller's Feng Shui Bullshit !!!
>> Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Feng Shui Trader's reaction to Penn and Teller's Feng Shui Bullshit !!!
Feng Shui Trader decided to blog about an American reality TV show, that in one episode addressing on the topic of Feng Shui. Penn and Teller host this show in 2003, they called it the ‘Penn and Teller: Bullshit!’ The show aimed to debunk pseudoscientific ideas, supernatural beliefs, woo-woo, popular fads and misconceptions, and often from a libertarian point of view. Like most of ‘Bullshit’ episodes, Feng Shui is a total bullshit. I have loved the show so much and embedded them below from YouTube on trader’s blog. There were three parts in it; I have only embedded two parts as the last part is just describing the consumptions of water by the humans.
Part 1 of 2
Eight House Theory Feng Shui featured in the Video (Ba Zhai Feng Shui) or Maybe Ming Kua 9 Qi Feng Shui
During the earlier part of the video, Kartar mentioned to her client that she (client) belong to the ‘West’ type people and advised her to sleep head west while Milan advised the same client to sleep head south. P&T made no second attempt to understand the basics principle of Feng Shui and took the advantage to comment on the inconsistencies of Feng Shui.
In the theory and practices of Ba Zhai Feng Shui, the grouping (East or West) or the ‘Kua’ number of a person is determined by his or hers date of birth. There are four auspicious and four inauspicious directions for each type of people. There are no such things as the most auspicious directions, as most of the time, there are many physical constraints created from the premise itself. It will be beneficial to the client as long as she is sleeping heading to any one of the four auspicious directions. There is one common consideration, where the grouping of the husband and wife is different. Then, they will need to integrate both the directions of the early and later trigrams to select their appropriate heading direction. Simply, there is more then one auspicious direction for an individual.
Xuan Kong Feng Shui featured in the Video
P&T commented that the three Feng Shui consultants, each have different opinions about the positions and color of the couches. The simple answer to the inconsistencies is that each of the consultants had a different opinion of the facing directions of the house, which is the most critical factor in eradicating the Feng Shui’s floor plan. There is another consideration, which may affect the calculations process. All three consultants might have come to same facing directions; however, the actual reading in degree of the facing direction lies in the middle of two sectors on the compass and the two sectors differs in polarity. An alternate solution to the problem is to apply substitution stars. Usually, both the original floor plan and the modified floor plan are draft out simultaneously. The Feng Shui people will relates both floor plans with the client to determine the more ‘accurate’ floor plan. The video could be edited, cut or the client providing different information to different consultant. Milan and David might have received the same piece of information from the client while what Kartar heard was of different story.
Omg lolz Mistakes
One of the commandments of Feng Shui is never overdoing it. Every adjustment made to the arrangement of the house must remain within the comfort zone of the family. In the video, David had reallocated the positions and orientations of the couches, which leave a narrow walkway for the client and her family. Well, we cannot blame P&T the duo scrooges who are fame for finding faults. Maybe David should be more cautious and aware of whom he is dealing with next time.
So if Feng Shui is really a Science?
In the show, P&T (Penn and Teller) efforts seem to direct onto distinguishing the differences between Science and Art. Feng Shui Trader says; Feng Shui is an Art but it cannot be completely detached away from Science. The methodology of Feng Shui’s is a huge compilation of actual occurrences observed by the ancient Chinese sage. They will predict the likely outcome base on experiences and occurrences. Every scientific or mathematical theory in the world is also derived in a much similar fashion. I could still remember the dreadful statistics lessons during my collage days.
I will tag Feng Shui along with science thru an analogy (mimicking what Mr. David Cho had done in the video), Now we all knew a very important concept of Feng Shui, which is the intangible Yin and Yang. Suppose, I told you that there were two people in a room which one person being a male. I asked you to predict the gender of the other person and my hint was, that person was of a different gender. I suppose you can predict the gender of the other fellow without much difficulty after you have worked out the solution, base on super scientific theories and mathematical calculations. Well, in a similar fashion, Feng Shui Masters are also doing that. They predicted that in this world that we live in, it is either Yin or Yang so their answers will most likely be a female. (Although people like Chris Crocker and Bruno does exist)
Conclusions
There is possibility that the video altered and dubbed to serve the purpose of the show. It is insufficient to draw any conclusions to proof that Feng Shui is bullshit. My personally preference and views about the Feng Shui guys in the video is that I like Kartar very much and have read on her Feng Shui book, which I am going to share further insight. She would be ideal as a personnel and professional Feng Shui consultant whom you can relate with. Milan trends to oversell Feng Shui. David made some mistakes and the mistakes amplified by P&T.
Here below is the official website of the three guests Feng Shui consultants from the video.
To contact Kartar Diamond;
http://www.fengshuisolutions.net/
Feng Shui Trader decided to blog about an American reality TV show, that in one episode addressing on the topic of Feng Shui. Penn and Teller host this show in 2003, they called it the ‘Penn and Teller: Bullshit!’ The show aimed to debunk pseudoscientific ideas, supernatural beliefs, woo-woo, popular fads and misconceptions, and often from a libertarian point of view. Like most of ‘Bullshit’ episodes, Feng Shui is a total bullshit. I have loved the show so much and embedded them below from YouTube on trader’s blog. There were three parts in it; I have only embedded two parts as the last part is just describing the consumptions of water by the humans.
Part 1 of 2
Part 2 of 2
Eight House Theory Feng Shui featured in the Video (Ba Zhai Feng Shui) or Maybe Ming Kua 9 Qi Feng Shui
During the earlier part of the video, Kartar mentioned to her client that she (client) belong to the ‘West’ type people and advised her to sleep head west while Milan advised the same client to sleep head south. P&T made no second attempt to understand the basics principle of Feng Shui and took the advantage to comment on the inconsistencies of Feng Shui.
In the theory and practices of Ba Zhai Feng Shui, the grouping (East or West) or the ‘Kua’ number of a person is determined by his or hers date of birth. There are four auspicious and four inauspicious directions for each type of people. There are no such things as the most auspicious directions, as most of the time, there are many physical constraints created from the premise itself. It will be beneficial to the client as long as she is sleeping heading to any one of the four auspicious directions. There is one common consideration, where the grouping of the husband and wife is different. Then, they will need to integrate both the directions of the early and later trigrams to select their appropriate heading direction. Simply, there is more then one auspicious direction for an individual.
Xuan Kong Feng Shui featured in the Video
P&T commented that the three Feng Shui consultants, each have different opinions about the positions and color of the couches. The simple answer to the inconsistencies is that each of the consultants had a different opinion of the facing directions of the house, which is the most critical factor in eradicating the Feng Shui’s floor plan. There is another consideration, which may affect the calculations process. All three consultants might have come to same facing directions; however, the actual reading in degree of the facing direction lies in the middle of two sectors on the compass and the two sectors differs in polarity. An alternate solution to the problem is to apply substitution stars. Usually, both the original floor plan and the modified floor plan are draft out simultaneously. The Feng Shui people will relates both floor plans with the client to determine the more ‘accurate’ floor plan. The video could be edited, cut or the client providing different information to different consultant. Milan and David might have received the same piece of information from the client while what Kartar heard was of different story.
Omg lolz Mistakes
One of the commandments of Feng Shui is never overdoing it. Every adjustment made to the arrangement of the house must remain within the comfort zone of the family. In the video, David had reallocated the positions and orientations of the couches, which leave a narrow walkway for the client and her family. Well, we cannot blame P&T the duo scrooges who are fame for finding faults. Maybe David should be more cautious and aware of whom he is dealing with next time.
So if Feng Shui is really a Science?
In the show, P&T (Penn and Teller) efforts seem to direct onto distinguishing the differences between Science and Art. Feng Shui Trader says; Feng Shui is an Art but it cannot be completely detached away from Science. The methodology of Feng Shui’s is a huge compilation of actual occurrences observed by the ancient Chinese sage. They will predict the likely outcome base on experiences and occurrences. Every scientific or mathematical theory in the world is also derived in a much similar fashion. I could still remember the dreadful statistics lessons during my collage days.
I will tag Feng Shui along with science thru an analogy (mimicking what Mr. David Cho had done in the video), Now we all knew a very important concept of Feng Shui, which is the intangible Yin and Yang. Suppose, I told you that there were two people in a room which one person being a male. I asked you to predict the gender of the other person and my hint was, that person was of a different gender. I suppose you can predict the gender of the other fellow without much difficulty after you have worked out the solution, base on super scientific theories and mathematical calculations. Well, in a similar fashion, Feng Shui Masters are also doing that. They predicted that in this world that we live in, it is either Yin or Yang so their answers will most likely be a female. (Although people like Chris Crocker and Bruno does exist)
Conclusions
There is possibility that the video altered and dubbed to serve the purpose of the show. It is insufficient to draw any conclusions to proof that Feng Shui is bullshit. My personally preference and views about the Feng Shui guys in the video is that I like Kartar very much and have read on her Feng Shui book, which I am going to share further insight. She would be ideal as a personnel and professional Feng Shui consultant whom you can relate with. Milan trends to oversell Feng Shui. David made some mistakes and the mistakes amplified by P&T.
Here below is the official website of the three guests Feng Shui consultants from the video.
To contact Kartar Diamond;
http://www.fengshuisolutions.net/
To contact Milan;
http://fengshuiyourhome.com/index.php
To contact David Cho;
http://davidchofengshui.com/
http://fengshuiyourhome.com/index.php
To contact David Cho;
http://davidchofengshui.com/
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3 comments:
You are a twit. You can't spell or put together grammatically correct sentences. Your conclusions are weak and illiterate. Try something else to do with your life. Like maybe walking on water or something.
very good and informative blog on feng shui in the form of story.Please keep updating the blogs
Thanks !
I like the Penn & Teller "Bullshit" show, but as an engineer I would have told them there are often multiple solutions to the same problem. Just look at the variety of vehicles available to move people from A to B using an internal combustion engine. All of them are valid means to do the task, and all of them are built using the same basic principles.
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