Have You Had a Psychic Read?

sar050680

Sorry to drag this thread back guys but I'm trying to rationalise how a psychic could possibly know the things he told my better half last night...I'll make it as short as possible.

To start I'm a total non believer in psychic's, ghosts, gods, etc, I believe in science.

Yesterday my misses (who's not into psychics at all) was invited at the last minute to go see 3 psychic's at a friend of her mothers house. She went, I stayed home and when she came back last night she said two of them were rubbish, but the 3rd, a young (19ish) man told her about 'someone close' to her. He explained this person has a turn in an eye and thats not the extent of the problem with the eye and that glasses do not correct the problem. I have a turn in one eye and am also blind in it being born with a cataract! Done my head in.

He also asked if she was decorating a room, have we changed the carpet and questioned what she was going to do with a window... Last week we had two bedrooms knocked into one, put new carpet down and almost put french doors in, in place of a window but cancelled them just before the work started.

There is apparently a spirit of my misses granmother with her all the time who told the psychic all this info.....Bunkum, b*llsh*t, b*ll*cks. I've said them all but I cant rationalise how this man could possibly know all this info. Please tell me he's a fraud.....

poet123

"Friend of her mothers house" could be information gleaned from social interaction. You would be surprised at what women chat about that you might not think would come up and from there who that information gets passed onto innocently. Someone making a living at this kind of thing would actively seek out the trivia of the lives of others.

meritaten

yep he is a fraud. he knew in advance who was asking for a reading, he staked out your home, quizzed all your friends, and researched your partners family history! sounds OTT doesn't it? but this is what sceptics will claim happened. and for what? exactly how much did he get?

mrcow

sar050680 wrote: »

Sorry to drag this thread back guys but I'm trying to rationalise how a psychic could possibly know the things he told my better half last night...I'll make it as short as possible.

To start I'm a total non believer in psychic's, ghosts, gods, etc, I believe in science.

Yesterday my misses (who's not into psychics at all) was invited at the last minute to go see 3 psychic's at a friend of her mothers house. She went, I stayed home and when she came back last night she said two of them were rubbish, but the 3rd, a young (19ish) man told her about 'someone close' to her. He explained this person has a turn in an eye and thats not the extent of the problem with the eye and that glasses do not correct the problem. I have a turn in one eye and am also blind in it being born with a cataract! Done my head in.

He also asked if she was decorating a room, have we changed the carpet and questioned what she was going to do with a window... Last week we had two bedrooms knocked into one, put new carpet down and almost put french doors in, in place of a window but cancelled them just before the work started.

There is apparently a spirit of my misses granmother with her all the time who told the psychic all this info.....Bunkum, b*llsh*t, b*ll*cks. I've said them all but I cant rationalise how this man could possibly know all this info. Please tell me he's a fraud.....

My son has a "turn" in his eye and has other issues with it.

I've been painting rooms all week

And my Grandmother has died too.

He could have been saying it to me (just a random stranger off the internet) as it applies just as well.

meritaten

were you changing the windows too?

Anselm

meritaten wrote: »

yep he is a fraud. he knew in advance who was asking for a reading, he staked out your home, quizzed all your friends, and researched your partners family history! sounds OTT doesn't it? but this is what sceptics will claim happened. and for what? exactly how much did he get?

What an extremely poor attempt at a straw man. As a sceptic, I would not claim that at all.

poet123 wrote: »

"Friend of her mothers house" could be information gleaned from social interaction. You would be surprised at what women chat about that you might not think would come up and from there who that information gets passed onto innocently. Someone making a living at this kind of thing would actively seek out the trivia of the lives of others.

Instead, I would, in fact, be inclined to agree with this post. To draw an analogy, some people on the internet solicit details about others through social engineering. This means that they manipulate people into giving away important information through innocuous means.

Similarly then, perhaps the psychic has had a chat before with all the people and gleaned information or perhaps someone has mentioned it to them or given them a partial reference and they've made a leap.

traleegirl

Could you give him a ring and ask him where the Malaysian plane is please? Or Sherger, or Madeline or Lord Mountbatten maybe? When a psychic stops talking about 'a female in your family who passed too soon' and starts coming up with real information that helps people then I'll start to listen...........

wapow

Where did you get this notion that being a psychic means having information about the here and now?

Ruby_woo

Well as a non believer I would have said total waste of time and money...however as some of you know I lost a parent last week and for some reason I decided to see a spiritualist on Monday evening. She was a lady a choose who works over 100 miles from me and she knew nothing about me, I told no one where I was going and at the last min my husband and son came too.

Well put it this way I will never disbelieve again. She even described in great detail the hall of my parents home with details of items on a bureau...dates of birth, the fact the funeral has not yet taken place...my parents last words to me, the last conversations I had with said parent! I could go on. I have no doubt that there is more to this. It just was not possible for her to have known anything about me. I didn't even give my name or number for a booking! No I don't care what anyone says, there is far more to it...

I went into the room happy as I didn't expect much but believe me, I am a very happy lady knowing what I know now.....
Xx

PasturesNew

My friend used to swear by Gypsy Acora. She'd visit him every year at a particular fair. One year she insisted I have a reading too - and paid for me. Afterwards we compared notes. What he said to both of us was not relevant at all to either of our lives - and now, looking back 10 years, he's still not been right about any of those two, separate, readings.

I want to believe - I've even seen ghosts myself and had some messages to pass on to specific people from "the other side", but even experiencing it myself I am still suspicious