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How To Be A Psychic

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  • #2
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Would any of the skeptics care to give an online reading using cold reading? Not nessecerily to me.


  • #3
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    6th wrote: »
    Would any of the skeptics care to give an online reading using cold reading? Not nessecerily to me.
    Doubt it. cold reading needs a lot of quick feedback from the subject as well as body language and such. Doing it online leaves them too much time to see the mistakes and generalisations.

    Btw. being a skeptic doesn't make you good at cold reading, practice does.


  • #4
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Surely someone on here is well up on cold reading, I mean it gets thrown in as an explaination alot. If someone here can do it then I can get someone to take a reading in person and they wont know the person doing the reading isnt a psychic.


  • #5
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    johnsix wrote: »
    Doubt it. cold reading needs a lot of quick feedback from the subject as well as body language and such. Doing it online leaves them too much time to see the mistakes and generalisations.

    Btw. being a skeptic doesn't make you good at cold reading, practice does.

    But people claiming to be psychics do online readings all the time, how do they do it?


  • #6
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    6th wrote: »
    But people claiming to be psychics do online readings all the time, how do they do it?
    I don't actually know cause I never seen an online reading and there seems to be a reluctance to do them here. But I can imagine they're somewhat like astrological readings.
    Cold reading gets thrown around alot because it is the most common method "psychics" use. That doesn't mean skeptics are good at it, just know how it is done.


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  • #7
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    johnsix wrote: »
    That doesn't mean skeptics are good at it, just know how it is done.

    Do they "know" how its done or just have an idea of the basic ins and outs?


  • #8
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    6th wrote: »
    Do they "know" how its done or just have an idea of the basic ins and outs?
    And how would I know exactly what other skeptics know, I'm not psychic.
    Besides how is that relevant?


  • #9
    ???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭???


    I'll do one 6th. Not great but i'll do my best!


  • #10
    ???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭???


    Done:

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055320701


  • #11
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    johnsix wrote: »
    And how would I know exactly what other skeptics know, I'm not psychic.

    :D


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  • #12
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    Seen the other online reading, the "real" one.
    It's pretty much the same way of doing astrology. Lots of generalish statements.
    I could honestly apply a lot of that stuff to myself.


  • #13
    ???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭???


    Yeah half it aplies to my dog! Just a bucket load of Barnum statements.


  • #14
    psychic-hack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭psychic-hack


    The reading is deliberately phrased like that to protect the person being read for, as this is a public forum.
    If I was doing a reading privately with someone, they'd be told to their face exactly what was meant!

    Even so, I think carefully framing the issues can be useful even though it might seem vague - it should ring a bell with the person who is being read for. That to me is the purpose of a reading, not to tell you things about yourself that you already know, but to draw your attention to issues that you may be overlooking or avoiding. To use an analogy, if you go into the doctor and are prescribed a broad-spectrum antibiotic, and the person who goes in after you is prescribed the same thing, does that mean the diagnosis is incorrect or your medication is less effective? ;)


  • #15
    ???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭???


    False analogy. Broad-spectrum antibiotics work for a wide variety of things, psychic readings... well...

    I've asked for a reading. You have my full permission to publish anything the cards tell you, whether it's that I 'enjoy' the company of sheep or am a transvestite stripper.

    I think that reading rang bells with just about everyone who read it!!!


  • #16
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    psychic-hack wrote: »
    The reading is deliberately phrased like that to protect the person being read for, as this is a public forum.
    If I was doing a reading privately with someone, they'd be told to their face exactly what was meant!

    Even so, I think carefully framing the issues can be useful even though it might seem vague - it should ring a bell with the person who is being read for. That to me is the purpose of a reading, not to tell you things about yourself that you already know, but to draw your attention to issues that you may be overlooking or avoiding.

    Then there's nothing special or extraordinary about it... Deliberately giving vague answers may be helpful for the reasons you've already given, but calling it 'psychic' is pretty misleading tbh.


  • #17
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    Probably should note that the skeptic who asked for a psychic reading has yet to get one. Also that we never found out if stevemu's one was in anyway accurate.


  • #18
    psychic-hack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭psychic-hack


    You guys need to lighten up! You remind me of the two old guys on the Muppet Show who snipe at the acts from the sidelines. :D
    The idea for the online readings was Stevenmu's, and I offered to do readings because they are fun, free, available here to boardsies who want them - and I'd rather see people get a reading here than to be ripped off elsewhere, if you know what I mean.
    I'm not a professional reader so the whole online thing is new to me
    and if you don't agree with it, fine, move on!
    ??? wrote: »
    I've asked for a reading. You have my full permission to publish anything the cards tell you, whether it's that I 'enjoy' the company of sheep or am a transvestite stripper.

    Your attitude to a reading is a bit like your transvestite stripping - making a big drama about uncovering boobs that are just in your imagination! :D


  • #19
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    hmmmm, lots of talk of transvestites.......... ¬_¬


  • #20
    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    psychic-hack wrote: »
    The reading is deliberately phrased like that to protect the person being read for, as this is a public forum.
    If I was doing a reading privately with someone, they'd be told to their face exactly what was meant!
    Here's a suggestion: If you are embarrassed, why not send the specifics directly to ??? via PM who can then publish as he sees fit.


  • #21
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    psychic-hack wrote: »
    Your attitude to a reading is a bit like your transvestite stripping - making a big drama about uncovering boobs that are just in your imagination! :D

    So your psychic abilities are like transvestite boobs then, fake?


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  • #22
    the_follwer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭the_follwer


    i give online readings.
    a good example of one of my psychic readings is one of a woman who's friend had gone missing. i didnt know this woman from adams, i suggested her friends mental state,why he had gone and where she would eventually find him etc.
    anyway i gave the woman the name of morrisson avenue and leons.
    she got back to me after a few days searching saying that a block away from her was called morrisson avenue and there was a funeral home called leons there.
    define a psychic? we are not 100% accurate,there are fakes out there to take peoples money so quite the mouthing off and find something else to do with your time.


  • #23
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    the_follwer wrote: »
    i give online readings.
    a good example of one of my psychic readings is one of a woman who's friend had gone missing. i didnt know this woman from adams, i suggested her friends mental state,why he had gone and where she would eventually find him etc.
    anyway i gave the woman the name of morrisson avenue and leons.
    she got back to me after a few days searching saying that a block away from her was called morrisson avenue and there was a funeral home called leons there.
    Subjective anecdotal evidence is completely and utterly useless.
    the_follwer wrote: »
    define a psychic? we are not 100% accurate,there are fakes out there to take peoples money so quite the mouthing off and find something else to do with your time.

    From wiki:
    In popular culture the word psychic (pronounced /ˈsaɪkɨk/; from the Greek psychikos—"of the soul, mental") refers to the claimed ability to perceive things hidden from the senses through means of extra-sensory perception

    If you can do online readings, can you tell me my paternal grandfather's full name and cause of death?
    If you could I'd be fairly convinced.


  • #24
    ???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭???


    Sorry. I was one of the first to ask for a reading. I'm going into it with an open mind. It's up to the psychic to deliver such an astounding reading that I am utterly convinced.


  • #25
    Ghost Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭Ghost Girl


    How to be a psychic.....just tell some one some thing you foresee or feel, and when it happens, they'll decide whether you're psychic or not!


  • #26
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    Ghost Girl wrote: »
    How to be a psychic.....just tell some one some thing you foresee or feel, and when it happens, they'll decide whether you're psychic or not!
    Ok, I predict a large earthquake in a populated area.


  • #27
    Ghost Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭Ghost Girl


    johnsix wrote: »
    Ok, I predict a large earthquake in a populated area.

    Thats not what i mean and you know it.


  • #28
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    Ghost Girl wrote: »
    Thats not what i mean and you know it.
    Would it not come through eventually.
    If I did claim to be a psychic could the prediction not be stretched to count?


  • #29
    Ghost Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭Ghost Girl


    johnsix wrote: »
    Would it not come through eventually.
    If I did claim to be a psychic could the prediction not be stretched to count?

    well it wouldnt count for me anyway. But if you told me that on a specific day next week the Irish Times headline would read, "80 die in major galway gas explosion" and it happened, then id listen to you! Especially if the explosion happened after you predicted,,, ha ha ha


  • #30
    johnsix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭johnsix


    Ghost Girl wrote: »
    well it wouldnt count for me anyway. But if you told me that on a specific day next week the Irish Times headline would read, "80 die in major galway gas explosion" and it happened, then id listen to you! Especially if the explosion happened after you predicted,,, ha ha ha
    And has any psychic ever predicted something to that accuracy?


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  • #31
    Ghost Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭Ghost Girl


    johnsix wrote: »
    And has any psychic ever predicted something to that accuracy?

    oh man do u watch the tv at all?? i specifically said the irish times for a reason....never mind, forget it.


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