Psychic readings....your thoughts?

jackieblack

True story - some friends and I had planned to go to a psychic once (for a laugh), but it was cancelled as she was "delayed, due to unforeseen circumstances"!
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tea_lover

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Interesting, what information is relayed to her and where do they get it from do you know?

People planted in the audience to listen to conversations.

My initial reaction to psychics is that there's nothing real to it, and it's all clever reading of people. However, I am a Christian and realise that to many other people that seems just as 'hocus'. So I guess it's each to their own.

The problem I have with most (but admittedly not all) psychics is that they charge for their 'gifts'.

Amanita_2

teabag29 wrote: »

Just curious, what are peoples views on this? do you think these people are just good con artists with years of experience and if so how would that explain the accuracy? Or do you believe in afterlife? Would be interesting to hear ppls views and stories on their experiences

It isn't hard to learn to "cold read" people, most of us do it to a degree instinctively when meeting new people. Just takes a bit of practice that's all to extend it to psychic readings.

People remember things that were got right and forget the mistakes - 3 attempts to get a correct name will be overlooked if the final one is a "hit".

I'd be very wary.

Errata

There has never been an instance of a psychic telling someone 'your uncle Fred says if you drive your car tomorrow you'll be killed in an accident' ............. has there?

Amanita_2

tea_lover wrote: »

The problem I have with most (but admittedly not all) psychics is that they charge for their 'gifts'.

Why? Do you expect your vicar to work for nothing for using his "gift"? Many would consider his beliefs and actions to be as valid as any psychics.

I don't give my professional knowledge away free ( well not very often anyway) so why is this any different?

POPPYOSCAR

Errata wrote: »

There has never been an instance of a psychic telling someone 'your uncle Fred says if you drive your car tomorrow you'll be killed in an accident' ............. has there?

That does remind me of John Edwards telling a girl in his audience that a member of her family said there was something wrong with her car. They picked out the model and colour and described what the problem was which was dangerous as it meant the wheel could have come off when she was driving.

She was not aware of any problem but when she went home and had the car checked out, there was a serious fault with it just as he had said.

davetrousers

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Interesting, what information is relayed to her and where do they get it from do you know?

A thousand apologies for posting Daily Mail links but here you go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047370/Psychic-Sally-filmed-OWN-video-removing-hidden-earpiece-leaves-stage.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039827/Princess-Diana-confidante-Psychic-Sally-accused-getting-help-man-auditorium.html

POPPYOSCAR

Amanita wrote: »

Why? Do you expect your vicar to work for nothing for using his "gift"? Many would consider his beliefs and actions to be as valid as any psychics.

I don't give my professional knowledge away free ( well not very often anyway) so why is this any different?

I agree with you here. They do have to earn a living after all just like the rest of us.

If there was no need for them they would not exist. Some go for 'a laugh' as I did when I was younger. Others go for comfort, so I do not see what is so wrong if that is what they get out of it.As long as no-one is being hurt I see no harm in it.

vax2002

for those above lager lout intelligence, I will offer an explanation that a professor once told of how the whole show works.
"you travel through the universe and all of a sudden is a red brick wall, there is absolutely nothing beyond the wall, not even bricks on the other side, your imagination tells you there must be something even empty space, it refuses to accept nothing as an answer, a zero calculation, if it could we would not have survived as a species, this fault in the human brain is exploited in so many ways by so many people, religion, physics and mediums, employers, you name it, they cash in on it.
Unfortunately you can learn to recognise the fault appearing in your brain when attempting this calculation of nothing and doing so may leave you depressed.

POPPYOSCAR

davetrousers wrote: »

A thousand apologies for posting Daily Mail links but here you go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047370/Psychic-Sally-filmed-OWN-video-removing-hidden-earpiece-leaves-stage.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039827/Princess-Diana-confidante-Psychic-Sally-accused-getting-help-man-auditorium.html

Thanks but I don't think that really proves anything and I don't tend to believe much that is written in the 'newspapers'.

Many people on stage wear an ear piece and 1 person saying they heard a man relaying information to her does not hold much water for me. It could be true but this is not evidence for me.