The amazing thing about these events is that they never have any real effect on the performer’s profitability. The devout will still line up for their psychic reading. I’ve always said that myth is a good thing as long as you don’t actually believe the myth. I do feel bad for the lady asking the question.
Look for people to come forth and explain how, actually, what Sylvia Browne said could be true. You watch.
#18: Edgar Cayce? You of course realize that there is very little proof of any of what he did that doesn’t come from his die hard followers. I would like to see some hard data from scientists, not his lackeys. Here is one of my favorite Edgar Cayce ‘predictions’ (from September 1939): Adolph Hitler’s future is death. WOW! What a revelation! You mean the guy who just invaded Poland and started a World War will die?! Not the guy who just had half the world declare war against him! You made a believer out of me! Talk about going out on a limb!
#18, None of them are on the level !!!There is no such thing as mind reading, clairvoyance, “crossing over” or any of that other supernatural garbage. They are all hucksters.
There has yet to be ONE reported case that can be verified of any psychic actually predicting the future, reading someone’s mind, discerning the cards in a box, or talking to dead people.
Oh how I hate stupidity !!! As if the monotheist worshipers weren’t enough, now we get the cross over crowd going too.
reminds me of a scene in Ghostbusters:
“Do you believe in U.F.O.s, astral projections, mental telepathy, E.S.P., clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full-trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of Atlantis?”
“If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.”
It is kind of funny to think about because you can die from fire the same way from water. If I remember right from human bio something in your throat seals and you suffocate.
If you guess a 100 the odds are your right more then once. I’m sure there is lost treasure she could find, or a dead body, why is she on day time talk if she is so amazing. Why isn’t she making millions?
The CIA and Dept of Defense have been working with psychics for some time. Apparantly they believe there is validity to it. Its interesting reading whether you beleive it or not.
http://tinyurl.com/ymcg5c
People who beleive they have all the answers, usually have none.
People who beleive they have all the answers, usually have none.
Comment by Mark — 12/16/2006 @ 10:32 am
Well, I believe it is spelled BELIEVE. That gives me at least one answer.
of course there dozens of ways to explain how what she said may have been the truth (eg. thousands of litres of water pumped into the buildings to fight the fire, which could have inadvertently killed many people in the process); but the inescapable fact is the patently clear signs that Sylvia Browne was lying and she knew she’d been busted — the facial expressions, the change in voice pitch and the quick switch in topic away from the question… doesn’t take a forensic psychologist to work out she’s full of it.
Fantastic. I love this kind of thing. We have our very own psychics and mediums in the UK. One such master of the chatting to the underworld is Derek Acorah. He appears in a late night TV show called “Most Haunted” and quite frankly its one of the funniest programs on UK TV.
Lots of scenes of people falling over in the dark and then claiming psychic intervention. Wonderful!
My favourite line is when there was a guest psychic talking to a “German Soldier” and Derek was asked “What is he saying?” to which the master of gab said “Oh, my spirit guide can’t speak German” – Masterful!
How does anyone know that she is ”off the mark”? There are many people who just ”disappeared” after 9/11 because they ”could” , and they were believed to be dead. Also, after the collapse of the buildings, there was tons of water being poured onto the fires,. How does anyone know that this fireman wasn’t alive after the collapse and ”couldn’t breath”, and was being covered with the water being used at the scene? Many who had been on upper level floors ended up at or near ground level and could have been ”in water” and also ”crushed” so they couldn’t breathe. I know that ”many” people do actually have psychic visions and abilities. I have had proof of it myself. I have a friend who is ”psychic” and she sought me out because she felt that I was like she was. I had never told ANYONE about myself, but she knew. I was in Germany with my husband when i woke him one night and told him that someone whose birthday was in March was going to be hurt badly. A week or so later, we got a letter from home telling us that my brother had been shot in the eye on the day after my dream. His birthday was March 1st. When this same brother became ill with lung cancer 25 years later, I was in a car with my husband, on my way to see my brother several hundred miles away. About half way there, I had a very strong ”electric shock” type feeling wash over me, and I reached over to my husband and told him, it is 8:23 and my brother just died. When we got to the hospital over two hours later, we were told that my brother died that night at 8:23 PM. I was so sure of it that I didn’t even get out of the car when my husband went in to the hospital to hear the news. I am not a fake, and I don’t make a living with this, but similar things have happened several times in my life. I just don’t tell anyone except my family.