Stuliasz Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Nope, bunch of con artists who make money from vulnerable people. Wait...didn't we have this thread a few days ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I have every faith in Alakazam and Sigilyph. Unown can eat a dick though. What about Slowbro - that guy was a badass. Anyway, Matts right when he says they're conmen. They prey on the vulnerable with false promises, saying what they want to hear. There's absolutely nothing to it - it's simple cold reading - make a few vague guesses and gauge their responses to make more guesses - there's no actual ability to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Legged Beaver Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I have every faith in Alakazam and Sigilyph. Unown can eat a dick though. Alakazam may be able to bend some spoons with his mind but he is no Xatu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Beware of crumbling tunnel walls: http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-144406-Multan-man-digs-tunnel-for-treasure-gets-trapped-in-process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Reason and logic is the only thing that matters and there is none in psychics.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseBreath Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 of course it is. Find a market. Exploit it. Make money. The market only exists because some people believe in it which is absolutely their right. Would you prefer that someone is given the power to decide what people are allowed to believe? That wouldn't be very liberal would it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 In the same way stealing stuff from old Ladies is a means on enriching yourself. Pure capitalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 The market only exists because some people believe in it which is absolutely their right. Would you prefer that someone is given the power to decide what people are allowed to believe? That wouldn't be very liberal would it. I'm not arguing. It's a market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 What about Slowbro - that guy was a badass. Anyway, Matts FiF's right when he says they're conmen. They prey on the vulnerable with false promises, saying what they want to hear. There's absolutely nothing to it - it's simple cold reading - make a few vague guesses and gauge their responses to make more guesses - there's no actual ability to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Went to one once (for a joke / peer pressure cos everyone else did) and it was a load of shit. She told me that I shouldn't blame myself for my dad disappearing and not being there for me. Piss off I see him far too much as it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pSinatra Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I've known quite a few people who've been to see them, had consultations or whatever. I see them a bit like religious people. They may come across as quite normal, intelligent people until they mention God/psychics...........you don't believe that shit do you? I thought you were alright as well, but now I'm not so sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alf Bentley Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Just wondering what the views of you good folks are of psychics. Are they charlatans (as I believe)? Or do they provide a form of relief for those who have lost and miss loved ones? Charlatans who provide a form of relief, I'd say.....on a par with booze, drugs and faith in deities in softening the hard edges of reality... As a hard-boiled atheist who believes that we end with our physical deaths (aside from memories of us maybe living on for a few years), I prefer booze as my "edge-softener", but wouldn't want to criticise people for taking solace in psychics - or religion - provided they're not too preachy or bigoted about it. I had a strange experience a few years back, though. You know how sometimes, as you're waking up, dreams can blend into real waking life? I found myself waking up with the "knowledge" that my long-dead grandparents were still alive....nothing particular was happening, they were just there alive. I was fully awake for at least 10 minutes before I realised that it wasn't true and that they were still bones in a Sheffield graveyard....a sad moment, but I wouldn't have missed that experience for the world. Rational thought tells me that it was just the useful function of dreams - allowing us to address issues and come to terms with things (e.g. the reality that my grandparents were dead). It felt very beneficial, anyway. I can quite relate to phenomena like the Mexican "Day of the Dead", when they hold vigils at the gravesides of dead family members, performing rituals and feeling that they can commune with them.....sometimes delusions can be useful, even necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudge Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Charlatans who provide a form of relief, I'd say.....on a par with booze, drugs and faith in deities in softening the hard edges of reality... As a hard-boiled atheist who believes that we end with our physical deaths (aside from memories of us maybe living on for a few years), I prefer booze as my "edge-softener", but wouldn't want to criticise people for taking solace in psychics - or religion - provided they're not too preachy or bigoted about it. I had a strange experience a few years back, though. You know how sometimes, as you're waking up, dreams can blend into real waking life? I found myself waking up with the "knowledge" that my long-dead grandparents were still alive....nothing particular was happening, they were just there alive. I was fully awake for at least 10 minutes before I realised that it wasn't true and that they were still bones in a Sheffield graveyard....a sad moment, but I wouldn't have missed that experience for the world. Rational thought tells me that it was just the useful function of dreams - allowing us to address issues and come to terms with things (e.g. the reality that my grandparents were dead). It felt very beneficial, anyway. I can quite relate to phenomena like the Mexican "Day of the Dead", when they hold vigils at the gravesides of dead family members, performing rituals and feeling that they can commune with them.....sometimes delusions can be useful, even necessary. Mine are in Tynsley, maybe they're neighbours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alf Bentley Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Mine are in Tynsley, maybe they're neighbours? Abbey Lane my pair, I believe. I've never visited and should do so. Once, in tandem with a football match, I visited their old house and the parks that we used to go to, but I really should go to their grave some day soon....without a psychic, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 What ever happened to crop circles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudge Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Abbey Lane my pair, I believe. I've never visited and should do so. Once, in tandem with a football match, I visited their old house and the parks that we used to go to, but I really should go to their grave some day soon....without a psychic, though! Ah t'other side of town. My grandmother died when my mother was 8 and she told me that she never knew where she was buried. I found her in Tynsley and was able to take her there when she was in her 80's, Quite a moving affair. I know the paranormal should be a load of bollocks but I get quite agitated by spooky buildings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellend Sebastian Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 I know the paranormal should be a load of bollocks but I get quite agitated by spooky buildings. I'm a complete skeptic but that doesn't stop me getting a bit freaked out when I'm in the building my missus works in. It's a converted mansion and invariably we end up going there to pick some files up or something after dark when there's no other f***er there. There's a long history of spooky stories and supposed happenings there which are difficult to forget when you're in there, particularly at night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alf Bentley Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 What ever happened to crop circles? Maybe you're just too square to understand....or maybe somebody just ate them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 There was a programme where a group of people were in a basement/cellar. Some were told it was haunted. The ones who were told believed they saw things and felt strange feelings. The others were OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danizen Posted 15 April 2014 Share Posted 15 April 2014 Anyone hear that quote from the Phone Hacking trial where they said the News of the World's astrologer was getting more than £200,000 a year? Kind of made me want to become an astrologer. I mean, how hard can it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parafox Posted 16 April 2014 Author Share Posted 16 April 2014 Reason and logic is the only thing that matters and there is none in psychics.. Nor in religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellend Sebastian Posted 16 April 2014 Share Posted 16 April 2014 Anyone hear that quote from the Phone Hacking trial where they said the News of the World's astrologer was getting more than £200,000 a year? Kind of made me want to become an astrologer. I mean, how hard can it be? Capricorn: Retrograde Saturn means it's a great time for those born under the sign of the goat to give their wheelie bin a good clean. A chance meeting with a former member of Bronski Beat could equal a cash windfall and unexplained weight loss. Single? Romance wears burgundy chinos and has a chest tattoo of Bill Turnbull. Piece of piss. That'll be £200,000, please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parafox Posted 16 April 2014 Author Share Posted 16 April 2014 From LM: Amateur ghost hunters claim to have made contact with the spirit of someone called Richard during a séance at a house with connections to Richard III. The 12 members of Haunted Heritage recorded the spooky encounter at Donington le Heath Manor House last year, but said they did not want to publicise it at the time due to the furore surrounding the discovery of the remains of the king. Medium Gill Hibbert, 56, from Coalville, said the name Richard was especially significant because the group was standing next to the bed in which the Plantagenet monarch was reported to have spent his last night before riding out to meet his end at Bosworth in 1485. The audio clip clearly captures a man's voice saying "Richard" in response to the question, "what is your name?" Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Did-ghost-hunters-raise-Richard-III/story-20963422-detail/story.html#ixzz2z3bCUH6M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellend Sebastian Posted 16 April 2014 Share Posted 16 April 2014 That's not news, it could be any old Richard, e.g Pryor, Burton, Stilgoe. If he'd said 'oooh, me spine's a bit twisty' or something like that you'd know it was him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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