Psychics

Malthusian

I also get annoyed that psychics is a word very similar to physics yet could hardly be more opposite. Physics being the study of what IS. And how everything functions.

It may help to know that it's a complete coincidence, and a quirk of the way Greek has been transliterated into Roman letters. The Greek words from which they're taken start with completely different letters (Ψ and Φ) but the English words happen to look very similar.

One thing that has made psychics' lives a whole lot easier is Facebook. If so-and-so books a session with you it's the work of a moment to go on their Facebook page and find all the family history you need. A lot of it they may not even remember putting online, but a throwaway post seven years ago about the anniversary of their dad's death and a mention of some family outing is all you need for an "astounding revelation". Combine that with the traditional skill of cold reading and you're laughing all the way to the bank.

Of course many people avoid putting their whole lives on Facebook and if they do they use privacy settings - but they're not the kind of people who visit psychics.

Faith177

Poppie68 wrote: »

I have answered you in another post, she didn't name the person having the accident as my dad.....She used an old family Gaelic name for him and told me he would have a serious accident with his hand....A few weeks later he had 4 fingers ripped off in a freak accident...

It's been proven again and again by genuine people, just because science has fallen short doesn't mean it's not real.

Same with my experience she was able to tell me all about my dad's accident in great details including stuff that I didn't know but on speaking to my mum (who wasn't there) confirm were correct. My dad was hit by a train trying to rescue our dog (who had been hit first) after she ran off in 1990.

She knew that my dad had been ill prior to the accident but was recovering well and was pleased he was going back to work. He had been given the all clear by his chief superintendent that day that his hepatitis was cleared and he could go back.

She knew the dog was with him and named the dog and its breed.
She knew what he was wearing at the time of the accident and even detailed how he had wrapped the dog in his jacket on finding her.

She knew that it was his relief that had been called to the scene and she said that he felt guilty that his friends had, had to see him like that.

She knew about personal things between my mum and dad and told me a few things to tell my mum from my dad that I had no knowledge of.

She knew about my time in the air cadets and how my dad was proud that I had joined but wished it was the police cadets instead like he had been. This was a joke we had shared as a family many times

Now had the hell did she get all that if psychics don't exist? How could she "cold read" details like that?

Unless you have had a positive experience yourself you will always doubt

Malthusian

Poppie68 wrote:

I have answered you in another post, she didn't name the person having the accident as my dad.....She used an old family Gaelic name for him and told me he would have a serious accident with his hand....A few weeks later he had 4 fingers ripped off in a freak accident...

Her prediction was much more vague than that. Your memory added the detail that she specifically predicted a serious accident, or that it involved someone's hand, or someone with a Gaelic name, or all three, retrospectively.

I know what's coming - how do I know this? An old gypsy talent known as Occam's Razor. Either you encountered the one genuine psychic in the whole world. Who is so dedicated to her craft she refuses to prove it under scientific conditions and claim Randi's million dollar prize. And is also a selfish cow who refuses to use her powers to prevent accidents. (If she was able to so specifically predict your father's accident, why didn't she tell you in the strongest possible terms to insist your dad stay away from cars or chainsaws or whatever it was for the next month? If she did, he'd still have his hand. Why doesn't she use her powers to stop disasters or terrorist attacks?)

Or your memory of the session is not quite correct. The simplest explanation is likely to be the correct one.

She probably made four or five predictions like the "someone will have an accident" which didn't come true at all, but you've forgotten them and only remembered the ones that could be construed as true.

The Gaelic name bit is easy, it wouldn't have been hard to spot that you had Gaelic heritage and all she had to do was throw Gaelic names out until you reacted positively to one. There aren't that many of them.

It's been proven again and again by genuine people

Why have they not claimed James Randi's million dollar prize?

Johnnytwostep

what utter garbage is being spouted on this thread about some good and some bad psychics.

There is no such thing as a good psychic or a bad one for that matter. What there is such thing as is a good con-man, and that is what you have all been hoodwinked by.

Psychic powers my a***, the only ability that they have is the ability to con money out of people who believe in their horse****, or are so desperate to 'hear' from their dead relatives that they believe anything and hang on to any grain of (pure luck/trick/con gained) truth about their loved ones.

Le_Kirk

forgotmyname wrote: »

Other family member are infactuated with the most haunted shows etc.

I know it is a typo but it is a brilliant new word that means "totally absorbed with information about anything fake" :rotfl:

Johnnytwostep

Le_Kirk wrote: »

I know it is a typo but it is a brilliant new word that means "totally absorbed with information about anything fake" :rotfl:

very good, and if you look up urbandictionary the definition of it is

'When a person is obsessed about being right, or looking smart, to the point they will make up any "fact," no matter how delusional or far fetched it seems'

MarkBargain

no1catman wrote: »

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If all psychics were fraudulent as some here believe, no one would go to them at all.

People believe in all sorts of things from ghosts to Father Christmas, but it does not make them true.

Psychics come in all sorts from horoscope writers, astrologists, crystal ball readers, palm readers, people who hold seances, people who speak to a theatre audience, or those who see things in tea leaves, do you believe in all of them or only some types?

Le_Kirk

Johnnytwostep wrote: »

very good, and if you look up urbandictionary the definition of it is

'When a person is obsessed about being right, or looking smart, to the point they will make up any "fact," no matter how delusional or far fetched it seems'

Wow, thanks Johnny, I didn't know it was already a "real" word

MarkBargain

forgotmyname wrote: »

Other family member are infactuated with the most haunted shows etc. That Derek guy makes my skin crawl. So fake.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/most-haunted-exposed-fake-star-833433

MarkBargain

Poppie68 wrote: »

I've absolutely no recollection of how she was able to tell me the information... The validation included very personal events from early days in my life, including being attacked by my birth mother and the injuries received, an incident in my early teens when I was attacked by a dog and that my brother broke his ankle fighting off the animal. The future predictions included an accident that my father was going to suffer, but assured me he would recover fully,she even called him by an old family Gaelic name, one that only a few close family members call him... She was spot on with the path my life would follow, including the man I would marry, how I would meet him, children and places I would live.


I had my first encounter with a one about 18 months prior( just remembered) I had a Saturday job in a hairdressers, one of the regular customers came in as I was sat behind the reception desk, she told me I needed to go urgently to the doctor as I was seriously ill but not to worry it would work out fine. As someone barely passed 16 I laughed and didn't take her seriously. 2 days later I started with pain in my leg, a week later I was lying in ICU with septicemia and spent 3 very long boring months on traction in hospital.


It's not something I feel the need to do now I'm older but it certainly helped me broaden my mind through the years.

She either researched you beforehand or used techniques others have mentioned on here. In the hairdressers, perhaps you just looked ill at the time.

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle