fortunetellers

Femelade

anybody here been to a fortune teller?

what are your views on them? do ye believe that they can actually tell the future?

any good /interesting/spooky stories?

i've never been to one myself but i've always wanted to.

Karl Hungus

Nope, never been to one. I'm fairly skeptical when it comes to fortune tellers. Not that I don't believe in the possibility, but rather in that I believe in mankind's endless struggle to dupe over the next sucker moreso.

Rb

My mom went to one before she was pregnant with me and was told her first child would be a girl, how wrong they were
I've heard of people getting extremely accurate readings, but I've also heard some tellers can be quite vague.

Blondie86Star

rb_ie wrote:

My mom went to one before she was pregnant with me and was told her first child would be a girl, how wrong they were
I've heard of people getting extremely accurate readings, but I've also heard some tellers can be quite vague.

Ha thats hilarious! I would have gone back demanding my money back!
I got a voucher for one a while back, haven't used it yet, might go soon!

Femelade

my friends mom went to one and she was told her son was actually her dead son who came back as this son.....really upset her.

alleepally

I went to one for a laugh at a funfair years ago but it was all non specific stuff that could apply to anyone.

This quote says it all for me...

"In the course of a successful reading, the psychic may provide most of the words, but it is the client that provides most of the meaning and all of the significance."

Red Alert

it's all bollocks me thinks.

Rb

Femmy wrote:

my friends mom went to one and she was told her son was actually her dead son who came back as this son.....really upset her.

:eek:
That's so messed up.

I wonder can fortune tellers tell their own fortune?!

LadyJ

I dunno about the whole thing. I reckon that if someone told me that a bunch of stuff was going to happen to me then I'd waste an awful lot of time waiting around for it to happen and probably miss out on other opportunities in the process and in the end none of that stuff would happen at all and I'd be pretty pissed off that I'd wasted my life....

Also,I think that people are far too concerned about the future. Going to a fortune teller is clearly the action of a control freak. People are afraid of what the future holds and want to know about it so that they can be prepared and possibly change it. However,I have one thing to say to them: Resistance is futile!!!

No one knows what's around the corner and even if they do then chances are there's nothing anyone can do about it. So don't live in fear and don't try to predict the future because you'll lose the present and never really live at all.

Capt'n Midnight

rb_ie wrote:

:eek:
That's so messed up.

I wonder can fortune tellers tell their own fortune?!

yer man running Irish Psysics Live must have been told that his illegal spamming activities would go almost totally unpunished

Then again how many politicians and businessmen in this country have gone to prison unless they have totally taken the piss of the court system on multiple ocassions ? So not exactly a hard prediction.

MikeTyson

nah people cant tell ur fortune thats bullsh!t. travellers and gypsies used to do it to burn people for there money but its not real

Politakill

Waste of money.

Strongly against this type of thing

grimloch

As I've said before, I used to think it was the biggest crock of sh*te known to creation, but then after a family member went to one some very very accurate things were predicted, my view has changed slightly.

Although a good few of them must just tell some overly cryptic and vague tale that can be interpreted in any number of ways.

angelbaby

Yeah I went a fortune teller last year!
Some of the things she said made sense and she knew stuff that she definately couldn't guess.
So I'd say I believe it but I'm not livin my life by what she said. I have to say tho that some of the things she predicted have come true!!!

jammie

I went to a physic/medium/fortune teller.. all the same arent they names wise anyway this guy is an absolute genius, hes fking top class....he connected with my brother that i had died, i wasnt with my brother when he died and my physic could tellme what exactly happened when he died, who was with him, he also told me stuff that NO ONE else could possibly know.....I walked out of there shaking cos he was so accurate, i think it depends on who u go to etc... there are a lot of con artists out there but to me the one i went to is a genuine as they get

pretty*monster

Just another expression of people's need to believe in things.

Mostly harmless methinks.

Dave!

Red Alert wrote:

it's all bollocks me thinks.

Aye

Time Magazine

Obviously there's con artists.

But I do believe that some of them can know things about you that are not, er, "normally accessible". I think there're spirits around everywhere and that if you ask and if you have the know-how they can give you a nod in your ear. But certainly for me many of these spirits aren't nice people and can really really really screw you over.

Bit like Ouija boards.

bounty

Angry Banana wrote:

Obviously there's con artists.

But I do believe that some of them can know things about you that are not, er, "normally accessible". I think there're spirits around everywhere and that if you ask and if you have the know-how they can give you a nod in your ear. But certainly for me many of these spirits aren't nice people and can really really really screw you over.

Bit like Ouija boards.

from what evidence did you come to the conclusion there is spirits eveywhere?

buffy the vampire slayer?

ziggy

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LegacyUser

A friend of mine was nearly castrated by his girlfriend after visiting one well over a year ago. They were told that within a year they would have a house, go on a holiday and have the first of their SEVEN kids!!! (Can you blame her really?!?! )

Needless to say, the year has passed and none of the above has happened

funk-you

They tend to spout a lot of vague buzz words that if you want to believe you'll associate what they are saying with your own life. Complete and utter nonsense.

-You have suffered a loss......Oh thats<insert deceased family member/friend>

-There is a man/woman that is very important to you......Em yeah, that must be <insert name>

-I'm getting a name, it, it contains an A........Oh thats my<insert deceased family member/friend>

-The number 3 will be significant in your life..........Oh i'll look out for that.

-There will/ has been a change in your life......My god you know me so well, i'm a true believer.

Once again Complete and utter nonsense.

Gazza22

No never been to one. I have no belief in anything paranormal, ocult or religious.

I don't believe in the occult at all but a few of my family members have a strong belief. They visit a fortuneteller every few months, i suppose in the search of a real fortuneteller.

Thus far they have been disappointed by nearly everyone that they went to but last week they went to a fortuneteller in kildare, based in Athy. They were very impressed by him and he got many things right. Also made a few interesting predictions outside the usual general crap that is usually thrown at them.

Even though he impressed me when they recalled what he said, i wasn't swayed. I just can't believe that the occult has any truth behind it. It's nonsense.

Laguna

I don't believe in Psychics/Mediums/Fortune tellers. They start by saying general **** and then gauge your reaction as to what they are saying. They're excellent people readers, nothing more.

pdunno

Don't really believe either, although I'm sure most are simply con artists I suspect that some of them may be genuine.

I don't agree that it is all harmless as sometimes people can be quite tramatised by some of the information they are given. Also some people seem to believe that whatever they are told is definetely true and even use it as a method for making serious life altering decisions. I know of one woman who left her husband based on information given to her by a medium. And all the other predications she was given during the sitting - not one of them came true.

BobTheBeat

I'd love to give it a try just to see... my sis has been to a few though. I do believe there are some genuine characters, but like most of these fringe arts.. its the cons that ruin it for everyone else

Beruthiel

fortunetellers
prey on weak minded people with more money than sense.

BobTheBeat

Beruthiel wrote:

fortunetellers
prey on weak minded people with more money than sense.

Thats a terribly sweeping statement! - Why so? Bad experience?

ionapaul

bobmeaney wrote:

Thats a terribly sweeping statement! - Why so? Bad experience?

No, it's the obvious truth. Other than foolish or weak people*, the only other class of frequent visitors to / users of fortunetellers are those doing it for a laugh but who don't really believe the rubbish they are told.

*edit. That's a bit strong, a foolish action does not make a fool. I am sure there are many people of above average intelligence making the foolish mistake of believing in fortunetellers.

WhiteWashMan

i went to one becuase my ex was desperate to see one for some reason.

anyway, she told me after i parted with my 20 bloody quid that i would live in a rural area. or maybe there was a park nearby, and that i would get another job soon,
and how someone who has depareted this earth was trying to tell me that they were ok on the other side, and that i could rest easy.

so, i live in ireland. hmmmmm, trees anyone?
a new job you say? hmmmmmm, people tend to move every 2 years these days. of course, it could i had just moved to a new job, you know, the old spirit phone gets a little bit of static every now and then.
someone on the other side is fine. ohhhh goody! let see, it might be the grandparesnts, the other grandparents etc etc etc etc.

well, at least since they are now dead, they arent suffering too much. one of the privilages of being deceased you know, the old athritis clears right up!

panda100

I went to one bout 3 years ago-it was this lady at the bottom of henry street just across from the body shop.She told me stuff about myself-like she knew i was born in september,doing something medically related in college,that sort of stuff.She told me that i recently had a break from someone who was important to me who was a sagitarian and that we would reunite after a while.At the time i had been on 3 dates with this guy(a sagitarian)and then i didnt hear from him for another month and then he rang me one day and we ended up going out for 2years! she told me i would recieve bad news in the post but i never did.Didnt really get anything out of it and mite go again for the laugh on day but i wouldnt waste my money on it again.She was pretty pricey-30euro's for 5mins!!

Siogfinsceal

I used to think it was all b*llocks and didnt believe in palm reading either ...until I went one night to a guy who lives in the phoenix park in a big old house. He is amazing. He doesnt tell the future as such..he reads your palm and uses playing cards. he was able to describe my personality to a T(the real me not the person other peopel see), he knew all about my past and spoke to me about it. He told me about some things that might happen to me but that it was up to me as we make choices in life. He knew one thing about me that nobody else in the world knew ...freaky there is no way at all he could ever have known that I actually was in tears when he spoke about it. well recommened...he even puts your reading onto a tape for you so that you can listen to it in years to come.

Sleepy

My mother was a big fan of these while going through her seperation and subsequent divorce from my father. Being of the same mind as Beruthiel on this I decided to go along to one for myself with her to try and disuade her from the practice. The woman was called Anna and to be honest she was able to tell me an awful lot about myself, my past, deceased relatives etc that there was no way she could have known (my family aren't originally from Galway so she wouldn't have known anything of these people she was telling me about). It wasn't the usual case of "oh, that sounds like such and such" on my part and I honestly believe that this woman is not a charlatan preying on the weak (in fact she's actually quite reluctant to do readings any more, Mum only got a reading as a favour through a friend of a friend).

I'm an extremely skeptical person but I think this woman either has some ability to perceive more than the average person, or subconciously uses the same techniques as someone like Derren Browne to extract information from your body language or whatever. Now, obviously, most of the future predictions were vague and entirely positive but they accounted for maybe 10-15% of my reading and some of the stuff from the past she could tell me without any concious or verbal prompting from me (for example the name of an ex who I'd split with years previously who's name wasn't all that commons and had an unusual spelling of the name at that) was extraordinary.

She was a lovely woman and gave me some good advice about my life at the time. Honestly, I can't believe that she was a charlatan. She's been the exception though. I've visited another couple of "psychics" since and they were all bloody useless when you didn't give them anything (though when you gave them a prompt, they really could run with it :rolleyes:) and the notion of telephone or internet psychics is frankly ridiculous. I'd be distrustful of anyone claiming to be "psychic" and certainly wouldn't make a habit of visiting them but I'm not *entirely* closed to the notion that some of them could actually have some extra sensory abilities.

Kingp35

For me they are all a bunch of conartists. They read your body language etc and try and get you to interact with them in certain ways and they use this give you a "prediction". These people practice this and are excellent at fooling people after all that is their job and they get very well paid for doing it.

Its all a load of rubbish and why is it that women go to them and believe alot more than guys do? My mother and her mates have held nights in each others houses where they get a fortune teller to come to the house to give them readings. Such utter rubbish.

CareBear

I went to one afew weeks back, she wasn't too bad, got alot of things right but overall she didn't really tell me much of anything

My friends however went the same time and thought she was brilliant so iunno wha to believe to be honest *shrugs*