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"Psychics" or "Psychos"?

  • 02-05-2010 09:21PM
    #1
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else find people who claim to be able to predict the future a little, I dunno, wierd? And the people who actually ring them up on the radio or whatever even wierder?:confused:

    Also it always seems to be good news. Never "your going to die next week" (exception for your wan from 2fm successfully predicting the death of G Ryan 2 hours in advance, though im sure thats just coincidence) or "be killed by a plague of locusts" or whatever?

    And the fact they actually get paid by broadcasters for acting all looney is strange in itself. It's a conspiracy of loopiness.


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  • #2
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    darkman2 wrote: »
    Anyone (...) loopiness.

    "headers, chancers or cnuts" would be a bit more appropriate.

    Also, we need a poll.


  • #3
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Psychos? No...

    Con artists? Yes...

    No matter what they tell you, you will be able to relate to some of it. Even if it's only a little of what they say, that's what you are going to focus on. You will forget about the stuff they got wrong and you will subconciously reinforce what they have told you and just believe it.


  • #4
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    every last one of them is a liar and a fcuking charlatan. there's a 1 million dollar prize for completing Randi's test (see wiki) that has been available for years yet none of them have ever managed to claim it.


  • #5
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    It entertains extremely silly people, and easily gets them to part with money;)


  • #6
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Lyle Narrow Poetess wrote: »
    Psychos? No...

    Con artists? Yes...

    Not necessarily. The successful ones, certainly, but many people who claim psychic powers are really just gullible and/or deluded. Many professional psychics make as much money off people like this as they do off people whose futures they claim to be predicting.

    There's a long, enlightening, slightly uncomfortable chapter on it in Derren Brown's book Tricks of the Mind, which I recommend for many reasons.


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  • #7
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Psychosis is not the same as psychopathy.

    So no, they are not "psychos", but they are delusional :D.


  • #8
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    genericguy wrote: »
    every last one of them is a liar and a fcuking charlatan. there's a 1 million dollar prize for completing Randi's test (see wiki) that has been available for years yet none of them have ever managed to claim it.

    For edutainment, as the man says.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnDHPOWXFVI


  • #9
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    It's sad to see how many people believe in this sh*t


  • #10
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    darkman2 wrote: »
    Anyone else find people who claim to be able to predict the future a little, I dunno, wierd?
    No, just dumb
    darkman2 wrote:
    And the people who actually ring them up on the radio or whatever even wierder?:confused:

    Even dumber


  • #11
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    These soi-disant psychics are at best an obstacle to the progress of reason and logic among the populace, at worst heartless charlatans who prey on people at their weakest by offering them a last chance to speak to deceased loved ones, and in doing so distort the grieving individual's memories and take a lot their money in exchange for this "service".


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  • #12
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Spelling weird wierd is weird.


  • #13
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    darkman2 wrote: »
    Anyone else find people who claim to be able to predict the future a little, I dunno, wierd?

    Loada bollox
    Uri Geller said that he was deeply shocked at the unexpected death of Michael Jackson.
    Some Psychic he is.


  • #14
    Mrmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    I generally class them in the same group of people who say they speak/communicate with god/gods.


  • #15
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    like yer wan that said her sacking on 98fm was unexpected...


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 460 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyzBe0CA2Q



    Too tired to write a full reply but a right bunch of cnuts :)


  • #17
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    Has anyone heard of the so-called psychic Angie Kruger? Her spirit guide is supposedly Richey from the Manic Street Preachers (even though his body has never been found, he may not even be dead). She has a radio show in the UK and is starting a TV show in the US. She gives readings and I once phoned her show for a reading. It was absolute bollox. When I got on air, I said that I wanted to speak to Rich, meaning of course her spirit guide Rich (as she calls him.) But she totally misunderstood what I meant, and wrongly thought that I had a deceased friend named Rich who I wanted to contact. From my voice she wrongly guessed my age, and said that she had the spirit of my teenage friend Rich coming through to speak to me.

    I said that I don't have a deceased friend named Rich, and unable to backtrack live on air, she was like, "well you must have cos he's here!" She then gave me a reading, and everything she said about my interests, friends and personality was totally, totally wrong. (for example she said that I'm a talented musician deeply involved in the music scene, which is about as far from the truth as you can get.)

    I know someone who had been in contact with Kruger, and Kruger told this woman that Richey's spirit told her that during his lifetime he had been date-raped by a man he met in a gay bar. She made up similar rubbish to tell to other people. We later found out that Kruger had been a big fan of Richey and had a copy of his tattoo and went to his shows before he disappeared. A bit of a coincidence that your favourite rockstar would become your spirrit guide!

    I heard of one woman who was tricked by this so-called psychic into giving her alot of money, the "psychic" then got into an argument with her and assaulted her and smashed up her car!


  • #18
    NC27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭NC27


    Well this sums it up for me.


  • #19
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Show me a psychic that cann pick the winning lotto numbers and i'll show you a genuine psychic.

    It all bull****.


  • #20
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Let me try predict the future. I can see a darkness coming on this thread, a thread filled with anger, annoyance and stupidity. I predict a huge argument will break out eventually and this thread will go on for a futher 20 pages or so with posters arguing non stop until someone sees sense to close the thread.

    If i'm wrong, then I guess i'm not a psychic. If i'm right, I told ya so.


  • #21
    eightyfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    darkman2 wrote: »
    "Psychics" or "Psychos"?

    Add a poll, a poll!!

    If they don't really believe what they say then they’re con artists. If they do believe it, then they’re psychos. They are only psychics if they’re fictional characters.


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  • #22
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    All liars and con artists. Every last one.


  • #23
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Keith Barry claims to do it as well.

    Therefore any chance of anyone believing it is now gone. . . .:pac:


  • #24
    eightyfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    thetonynator wrote: »
    Keith Barry claims to do it as well.

    He had a psychic vision in which he saw a Derren Brown performance. Then he copied it.


  • #25
    Erica<3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Erica<3


    I personally do go to a psychic regularly and she's bang on with everything and fairly reputable, but i woul dnever, ever, ever, ring a hotline or anything like that, more than likely it's people just chancing their arm, and any of your previous calls or texts are saved to a database so can be easily accessed and sussed out and whatnot. Whereas if you go to a psychic who has set up their own shop or whatever, you're more likely to find one that actually is the real deal.


  • #26
    WhiteRussian
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 304 ✭✭WhiteRussian


    vinylmesh wrote: »
    Psychosis is not the same as psychopathy.

    So no, they are not "psychos", but they are delusional :D.

    I roffled
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  • #27
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    I don't see them as anything other than a bit of harmless fun. As the saying goes 'a fool and his money are soon parted'.


  • #28
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Erica<3 wrote: »
    I personally do go to a psychic regularly and she's bang on with everything and fairly reputable, but i woul dnever, ever, ever, ring a hotline or anything like that, more than likely it's people just chancing their arm, and any of your previous calls or texts are saved to a database so can be easily accessed and sussed out and whatnot. Whereas if you go to a psychic who has set up their own shop or whatever, you're more likely to find one that actually is the real deal.

    lol


  • #29
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Erica<3 wrote: »
    I personally do go to a psychic regularly and she's bang on with everything and fairly reputable, but i woul dnever, ever, ever, ring a hotline or anything like that, more than likely it's people just chancing their arm, and any of your previous calls or texts are saved to a database so can be easily accessed and sussed out and whatnot. Whereas if you go to a psychic who has set up their own shop or whatever, you're more likely to find one that actually is the real deal.
    So do her a huge favour and tell her about One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, and maybe politely request a small portion of her earnings for giving her the heads up.


  • #30
    KevinVonSpiel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭KevinVonSpiel


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    So do her a huge favour and tell her about One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, and maybe politely request a small portion of her earnings for giving her the heads up.

    No percentages! Just ask for a straight up finder's fee!!!


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  • #31
    Orangutani
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭Orangutani


    This guy is hilarious. Seriously, try to spend 5 minutes on this site without pissing yourself.

    http://www.kodasplace.com/


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