Psychic/Mediums!

ElizaT33 · 11-06-2014 10:24PM #1

I've a few friends who regularly visit 'Mediums' - years ago I would have laughed at this - but have to say in recent years, and with regard to certain Mediums that they have in common that they have visited - I'm now curious! There were too many personal details that they spoke of that they could NOT have known about ......!

11-06-2014 10:26PM

ElizaT33 wrote: »

I've a few friends who regularly visit 'Mediums' - years ago I would have laughed at this - but have to say in recent years, and with regard to certain Mediums that they have in common that they have visited - I'm now curious! There were too many personal details that they spoke of that they could NOT have known about ......!

Look up Cold Reading, and look up Suggestion.

There are no such things as psychics, I promise you. Only the deluded and frauds.

Foxhound38 · 11-06-2014 10:27PM

ElizaT33 wrote: »

I've a few friends who regularly visit 'Mediums' - years ago I would have laughed at this - but have to say in recent years, and with regard to certain Mediums that they have in common that they have visited - I'm now curious! There were too many personal details that they spoke of that they could NOT have known about ......!

This is how they do it...

It's actually a fairly easy trick once you practice it a bit. Can be handy in sales!

Anyway, it's all BS - nobody knows the future.

wazky · 11-06-2014 10:28PM

I predict...... You will not find any posters agreeing with you..

Also your aunt wants to have word over that tenner you borrowed before she died.

Alf. A. Male · 11-06-2014 10:29PM

I knew you were going to start this thread.

Archeron · 11-06-2014 10:29PM

I knew this thread was coming.

Archeron · 11-06-2014 10:30PM

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I knew you were going to start this thread.

I knew somebody would beat me to it.

nullzero · 11-06-2014 10:30PM

Barrel full of fish? Check.
Loaded shotgun? Check.

AHer's do your worst.

ElizaT33 · 11-06-2014 10:32PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

This is how they do it...

It's actually a fairly easy trick once you practice it a bit. Can be handy in sales!

Anyway, it's all BS - nobody knows the future.

But it wasn't the future they were talking about - it was 'communicating' with recent deceased loved ones! Was very comforting to my friends - but again, I will say they knew things that only the families knew - it was very unusual and hard to believe!?

ElizaT33 · 11-06-2014 10:34PM

nullzero wrote: »

Barrel full of fish? Check.
Loaded shotgun? Check.

AHer's do your worst.

What's the point?

The Backwards Man · 11-06-2014 10:38PM

I have a jar of tasty reggae sauce in my fridge. I know it will give me more runs than Brian Lara but I still put it on my salad this evening.

Psychic or stupid?

Hitchens · 11-06-2014 10:39PM

A newspaper editor found that downsizing was required so he had to sack a few of his workers, one of whom was the paper's psychic column writer.

He brought them in one at a time to break the bad news and when the psychic came in the editor said: "as you no doubt already know............."

Zaph · 11-06-2014 10:40PM

People go to those people wanting to believe whatever they're told. They don't want to be seen to be gullible or easily led, especially after handing over hard cash for it, so they'll give credence to stuff that has been cold read to them and apply it to things in their life that have happened. If it was harmless fun that was free, I'd say fine, let them at it. But there's a whole forum on this site of people falling over themselves trying to find the "best" medium so that they can line their pockets while being conned. I despise those people for preying on what are very often desperate or vulnerable customers who have abandoned logic and common sense for whatever reason.

Hitchens · 11-06-2014 10:42PM

Zaph wrote: »

People go to those people wanting to believe whatever they're told. They don't want to be seen to be gullible or easily led, especially after handing over hard cash for it, so they'll give credence to stuff that has been cold read to them and apply it to things in their life that have happened. If it was harmless fun that was free, I'd say fine, let them at it. But there's a whole forum on this site of people falling over themselves trying to find the "best" medium so that they can line their pockets while being conned. I despise those people for preying on what are very often desperate or vulnerable customers who have abandoned logic and common sense for whatever reason.

fun is never free

11-06-2014 10:43PM

ElizaT33 wrote: »

But it wasn't the future they were talking about - it was 'communicating' with recent deceased loved ones! Was very comforting to my friends - but again, I will say they knew things that only the families knew - it was very unusual and hard to believe!?

It's hard to believe because it's not true.

No matter how significant the 'details' they gave from family members, of course the disembodied spirit of some dead relative isn't giving cryptic messages to a total stranger to pass on from beyond the grave. It preposterous to even consider it a possibility.

Why would you or anyone consider that to be a more likely scenario than the use of visual and verbal micro clues to deduce what it is that a sitter wants to hear? Why are ghosts and spirits and all manner of supernatural shenanigans more believeable? Because thats what people want to believe.

Not because its real, not because it's proven, but because it helps. And that's what makes these so-called psychics nothing more than exploitative frauds.

Hitchens · 11-06-2014 10:45PM

Candie wrote: »

It's hard to believe because it's not true.

No matter how significant the 'details' they gave from family members, of course the disembodied spirit of some dead relative isn't giving cryptic messages to a total stranger to pass on from beyond the grave. It preposterous to even consider it a possibility.

Why would you or anyone consider that to be a more likely scenario than the use of visual and verbal micro clues to deduce what it is that a sitter wants to hear? Why are ghosts and spirits and all manner of supernatural shenanigans more believeable? Because thats what people want to believe.

Not because its real, not because it's proven, but because it helps. And that's what makes these so-called psychics nothing more than exploitative frauds.

but in all fairness Candie, would you spend a winters night alone in a haunted house?

be honest now!

kneemos · 11-06-2014 10:46PM

ElizaT33 wrote: »

But it wasn't the future they were talking about - it was 'communicating' with recent deceased loved ones! Was very comforting to my friends - but again, I will say they knew things that only the families knew - it was very unusual and hard to believe!?

If you as many people do believe in an afterlife then communicating with it doesn't seem like a stretch.
Not sure of the point of it though even on the off chance that it was real,life is for the living as they say better to not dwell on the dead.

11-06-2014 10:47PM

Hitchens wrote: »

but in all fairness Candie, would you spend a winters night alone in a haunted house?

be honest now!

If I believed that houses could be haunted I probably wouldn't, but since I don't...:)

Mrs Garth Brooks · 11-06-2014 10:48PM

I went to one a couple of years ago. Waste of money.

She knew I had a 'baby'. At the time I thought she was brilliant cause I would call my dog baby.

But look up cold reading. Now how many people have 'babies'? Even men and their cars can be their pride and joy and be their babies. So of course everyone has a 'baby' whether in human form or not.

Hitchens · 11-06-2014 10:50PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

I went to one a couple of years ago. Waste of money.

She knew I had a 'baby'. At the time I thought she was brilliant cause I would call my dog baby.

But look up cold reading. Now how many people have 'babies'? Even men and their cars can be their pride and joy and be their babies. So of course everyone has a 'baby' whether in human form or not.

my baby left me, and found a new place to dwell

the groutch · 11-06-2014 11:16PM

Only Whoopi Goldberg can communicate with the dead, everyone knows that.

desultory · 11-06-2014 11:22PM

A friend of mine was really into these and kept telling me to go (as a skeptic), I absolutely refused to for ages as I've had a strong interest in mentalism and I know how they do it. He said that this one will tell me things that she couldn't possibly know so I said fair enough, but I'm going to record the whole thing to disect it after.

Apparently recording it is strictly prohibited, riiiight, I wonder why. I never went in the end. Bunch of scammers, I feel sorry for the people who believe them and get dragged in by it all. Wasting their money.

Kidchameleon · 11-06-2014 11:31PM

Its worth noting that there are many mediums who do readings for free. I know for sure in England, you can go to a "Spiritualist" church and have a reading at no charge.

Adamantium · 11-06-2014 11:41PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X56Kmbgn6dE

This is my first exposure to anything Derren Brown and it's fantastic

I love how he is so open about saying what he does is an illusion and people willingly agree to be deceived for entertainment. We want to believe.

He is a firm supporter of those who want to expose frauds.

stefan idiot jones · 11-06-2014 11:42PM

I give you Clinton Baptiste.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BWmdEqwgit4&feature=kp

pconn062 · 11-06-2014 11:46PM

Kidchameleon wrote: »

Its worth noting that there are many mediums who do readings for free. I know for sure in England, you can go to a "Spiritualist" church and have a reading at no charge.

Yay!! Free Bullshit!

11-06-2014 11:52PM

I love Derren Brown.

There's also the James Randi Challenge. In 1964, magician, pseudoscience debunker, and fraud exposer James Randi offered a challenge to any psychic or medium who would take part in a challenge that demonstrated their ability under controlled scientific conditions. If they took part in the challenge and their 'ability' was proven, they would walk away with $1million.

It still stands unclaimed, even after more than 1000 people were confident enough to take part in it.

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

If I was a 'real' psychic, I'd be dying to show the world how genuine I was.

Jeefff · 11-06-2014 11:53PM

If I went to a medium and was told
'your granda is here 'Paddy', he wants me to tell you you're a lickarse gob****e'
I'd bow down and accept that mediums are real and there was infact an afterlife..

If I went and heard 'theres an older man here, he says he loves you'
I'd spit in the mediums face

What makes me more upset is how terrified people are of death that they believe any aul shyt to help them sleep at night, and flock to see these disgusting frauds, faking modesty by asking for a donation instead of having a fixed price, that only makes people think they're more honest, and inevitibly give them more than recommended price.. Fcuk off you evil cnuts

11-06-2014 11:54PM

Kidchameleon wrote: »

Its worth noting that there are many mediums who do readings for free. I know for sure in England, you can go to a "Spiritualist" church and have a reading at no charge.

OMG, then it must be real!

artanevilla · 11-06-2014 11:54PM

I believe they are vermin.

Adamantium · 11-06-2014 11:59PM

Candie wrote: »

I love Derren Brown.

If I was a 'real' psychic, I'd be dying to show the world how genuine I was.

Ah but there is suppossed to be humble and meek, and not show their miracles openly, only to those deep enough it in.

Dylan Moran:

I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. “You have to let the fairy into your heart.” Look, I wouldn’t let him into my garden, okay? I’d shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn’t. Now have a biccie

Religion,
Homeopathy,
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