Fucking psychics
Offline My local radio station had a guest on yesterday, Maddam Zora. A psychic medium woowoo wacko. I was so disturbed at how the brainless hosts of the show just went along with it, "wow" "I was a greek warrior in a past life" "incredible." They take her to "haunted" places and she tells stories about people who died. I did some research on the lady and found she was mentored by the annoying James Van Praagh, an obvious fake and actor.
I truly feel that psychics who claim to talk to peoples dead loved ones, impede on the individuals ability to move on, and profit from the vulnerable are one of the lowest forms of life. The type to steal your wallet and help you look for it. Scum. I cannot believe people in this day and age are still had by these charlottens.
James Van Praagh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t07UzTcApMI
This video is a trainwreck
Silvia Brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyzBe0CA2Q
This woman is a snake. What disturbes me the most is how Montel Williams a seamingly intelligent, educated and rational person goes along with this because he's a hoe to the raitings. She should be locked up, she charges $700 for an abstract 20 minute reading over the phone, and she is booked solid about 2 years. $700x3x40x52=4368000 a year working standard hours.
Moron psychic snakes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4qGfNViVN8&feature=related
Funny video, mediums cheat and make complete fools of themselves. The connect with a fake person and fake story.
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It truly seems a shame, that desperate people with the ferverent desire to believe in anything, can be rooked in by charlatans like this.
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno
should be locked up? It's illegal in the US to sell Laetrile. It isn't illegal to sell a bullshit pretense that doesn't do any verifiable harm.
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)
If we all got to lock up people who we didn't like all 6 billion of us would be in jail.
Now, having said that. I do think skeptics SHOULD fight bullshit like this because it sells a placebo to people.
IT DOES do harm.
These "psychics" are nothing but con artists. They use ambiguity and throw it at their mark and let the mark read into their ambiguity what they want. They work, not because of any magical powers, they work because the person buying their bullshit wants to believe their bullshit.
It would be like convincing someone that a Kalidiscope is real and actually has the same ability as a telescope.
Think of it this way. Most people today don't believe that a "magician" actually saws a woman in half, even if they don't know how the illusion is done. "Psychics" are nothing more than the mental illusionists and they only work when you let your brains fall out.
They are harmful in that they convince credulous people that what they do is real and not an illusion. Much like a "faith healer" convinces a cancer patient they don't need surgery and then the person dies. It is dangerous because it spreads lies.
When I was in college I pulled a prank on my x-wife's friend(my wife was my girlfriend at the time), Anyway, my x spent a thanksgiving with her friend an pictures were taken. My x showed me the pictures, taken before I had met her.
So I decided to pull a prank on her friend. I told my x not to tell her she had shown me the pictures.
So when I saw her friend alone the next day I said, "That is a nice flower pattern couch you have in your living room", and simply walked away. Her friend looked spooked and didn't know how I knew what she had in her living room. We finally let her friend in on the prank the next day, but let her sweat it out for a day.
My point is, these "psychics" are simply not letting you in on HOW the preform their illusion. But there is no magic to life and these people are nothing but con artists. Just like the WWE is not a real sport, even though it is successfully sold as one.
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It should be illegal to sell any product that doesn't meet the sellers description of the product to the buyer. If you buy a coors light, it should contain beer. If it contained water, you should be reembersed. If coors light markets beer, but sells water in the cans, they need to be stopped. I wish there was more control on these snakes, I believe some in the business may mean well, but in the end they are pretending to do something they can't do. It is more difficult to prove a psychic to be a fraud on paper than let's say a Peter Popoff. Peter Popoff cannot heal people, he has claimed thousands of healings, many including cancer, ofcourse none have worked. Some of the laymen he toys with quit medication, stop treatment. This is substancial evidence, this is obvious verifiable harm. He should be locked up. I don't see it to be any different with psychics, it's just harder to prove they are harming the naive individual. I think any rational person would say it is harmful to pretend to a grieving mother you are talking to her deceased child, and charge her for sessions to contact her.
I think it's sick.
While commuting over the past month I have noticed 2 new "psychic shops" that have opened up. Each of these are store fronts (I normally see psychics doing business out of homes) and each of these shops have flashy neon lights declaring their expertise: TAROT ~ PSYCHIC ~ TEA LEAVES ~ ASTROLOGY.
I shake my head in disgust and it seems to make my morning coffee taste bitter.
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You never notice "For entertainment purposes only" disclaimer on the Miss Cleo ads?
I tell ye what... let's lobby to outlaw alternative medicine. Being labeled "employed by Big Pharma" by the yuppies and cracked pots who buy that shit will move mountains in our endeavors in activism. Against us, of course, but at least it will be funny as hell.
Charlatans have been around for millennia. They aren't going to disappear simply for turning your stomach. Or my stomach, even.
To be %100 sure, though...
...NMCP isn't suggesting locking up people because he doesn't them. He suggests it because he doesn't like those who sell false hope.
That I can agree with.
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)
with no more crazies that false advertising is false advertising and is a crime. How can it be stopped in the case of selling false hope? It can't, really.
Humans are just superstitious idiots most the time. At a recent dinner I argued with a couple (pleasantly). He believed in god for some generalised cosmological/design type reason. He insisted we can't be here for nothing. She smugly disbelieved in god but believed in spirit and karma and some new age stuff about pulsating chakras.
Trying to annunciate my bodgy scientific version of emergent consciousness as an explanation for what they were calling 'spirit' just convinced them they were right and got me further into the red wine. Material complexity works against us a lot of the time.
In any case I was reading a book t'other day and came across a definition of 'Woo'. According to that author it's the chinese word for fog, which seems about right to me.
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Coors light isn't beer
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