My sister went to see one a while back and told me that she had said a couple of things about my deceased father that there's no way she could have known. She also mentioned that she would meet a foreign chap in the coming months and it wouldn't work out. Lo and behold she started dating a Lebanese guy who turned out to be already married. It didn't work out.
So maybe she made some lucky guesses. Or maybe she does have a skill.
I know the default response is that it's a load of cobblers, but what do you think. Are there any genuine psychics/readers amongst the sham acts? I'm curious.
Load
Of
Old
Bollocks...
Seriously. If they were any good, why are they doing card reading at a few quid a time?
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Does she do Chiropractic in her spare time?
It's a cauldron of shite mate.
You probably need some rudimentary skills to cold read a person like that - but nothing anyone couldn't easily pick up if they could be arsed.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20145664 ]Click[/url] I completely believe it. I just don't think science has caught up yet.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading ]It's not Rocket Science[/url], arguably not even science 🙂
Yep. Fair enough. The cynic in me says the same too. But there are those out there that swear otherwise. I'm curious if anyone has had an experience of one and walked out thinking 'bugger, that's 20 quid I could have spent on beer' or 'Christ that was a freaky experience'... Rather than being pre-judgmental?
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20145664 ]testing testing[/url]
sticks head above parapet... I think it works, but then I read tarot and believe in chaos magic so i'm a swivel eyed loon by most folks standards. 😆
"[i]But there are those out there that swear otherwise.[/i]"
There are those out there who will swear all sorts of things in which they feel inclined to believe, or in which they have a vested interest to believe, or in which they find comfort in believing, and so on.
"[i]Rather than being pre-judgmental?[/i]"
It's not about being pre-judgmental, it's about seeking evidence rather than statistically inevitable coincidence or subjective interpretation.
Tazzy I think you are going to be hunted down with pitchforks and burned at the stake for that comment 😈
Well I guess that's case closed then? 😀
If it was for real then surely one of them would have won [url= http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html ]this[/url] by now?
Tazzy ,I was being a cheeky monkey, my cousin is a Ghostbuster/Psychic(fact) .I love listening other stories 😉
Edit ( to her stories )
There are truth in it if you find a genuine one.
Science sees things differently ... they know it all. 🙄
There are truth in it if you find a genuine one
Talk Like a Pirate Day passed some time ago.
I'm very sceptical, however I know a few people who go who've had readings that have been very accurate with very personal and private information so who knows. I'd like to think there are greater forces out there
I predicted this response 😀
I've been myself once but didn't really get anything of value from it. Would give it another go though
Honestly have to say that to me all the psychic powers pish is a load of pollocks.
I do however believe that the Tarot (and the IChing) are incredibly good tools for providing a structured framework for thinking about things that are troubling you, even if it's just what model of bike to spend your cash on
I've been myself once but didn't really get anything of value from it. Would give it another go though
Be honest though, you'd go for entertainment rather than enlightenment.
It's a load of old bollocks, but then maybe you already knew I'd say that...............
nice empirical statement there 😆It's a load of old bollocks
Be honest though, you'd go for entertainment rather than enlightenment.
I'd like to think I'd get both out of it
So what about [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/tarot-readers-psychics-load-of-old-cobblers#post-4342859 ]deja-vu[/url] then?
Getting your future told.. come on.. get a grip..!!
I think it's just a bit of confidence trick to give the lonely and desperate some hope.. It's not a very wholesome way of doing it either IMO, preying on the vulnerable really
maybe it brings some order to those that didn't heed the warnings and imbibed the brown acid..?
So what about deja-vu then?
it aint what it used to be
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I think it's just a bit of confidence trick to give the lonely and desperate some hope.. It's not a very wholesome way of doing it either IMO, preying on the vulnerable really
Are you confusing it with religion?
"it aint what it used to be "
Nothing is, and none of us are, sister.
same thing in't it..?
I think it's just a bit of confidence trick to give the lonely and desperate some hope.. It's not a very wholesome way of doing it either IMO, preying on the vulnerable really
that's all religions though yunki old chap, tis all a means of coping with grim reality that we are insignificant monkeys on a dull little bit of rock in a very big lonely universe
sticks head above parapet... I think it works, but then I read tarot and believe in chaos magic so i'm a swivel eyed loon by most folks standards.
Wow you really don't ever let up with the whole niche thing do you.
lol, grum....go and play in fast traffic darling
I believe in masterchef.. 😕
the notion or Tarot as "fortune telling" is unfortunately a bunch of cobblers, not what it's meant for and used by many as a means of making cash from the terminally stupid.
*was going to actually try and give a reasoned response about the correct use of tarot as a mediation tool and a way of focussing the mind on solutions to problems for the user, but given that my favourite short fat stalker has turned up I really can't be arsed*
Total horseshit.
I put it in the same category as religion, homeopathy, ufos, powerbalance wristbands and derren brown
im sure some people get some sort of benefit out of it, but its all just a big fat con
tazzymtb - Memberthe notion or Tarot as "fortune telling" is unfortunately a bunch of cobblers, not what it's meant for and used by many as a means of making cash from the terminally stupid.
What if no money changes hands?
The person tells you things but the person gets nothing out of it but merely telling things? The person tells you about your past, present and perhaps future, while you listen but give nothing away.
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Don't take yourself so seriously. 🙂
Don't take yourself so seriously.
I never do, I just don't think you've ever had a positive comment for me, even when discussing bass guitars...you always have to have a little dig at those a different to you. xx
but its all just a big fat con
totally agree with this. It's as bad as idiots using laser infra red thermometers, which measure surface temperature for "ghost hunting"...oooooo look a cold spot, yes that's because you are pointing it at a window, dobbers
you always have to have a little dig at those a different to you
I've notice this too.
Maybe he got picked on in the playground or something.
lol, all the nicheists are ganging up on me (I'm assuming ss stands for singlespeed, rather than the Schutzstaffel?).
I never do, I just don't think you've ever had a positive comment for me, even when discussing bass guitars...you always have to have a little dig at those a different to you. xx
It's meant as light-hearted banter, but some people seem to be very sensitive/somewhat humourless. Also fairly hypocritical.
I do find it funny - for example there are quite a few people on here who ride singlespeeds a lot of the time, but don't seem to feel the need to define themselves as 'singlespeeders' and go on about it all the time.
For some it seems to be a lifestyle choice rather than a type of gearing on your bike. Same with fat bikes.
There are some fat cons just like there are some ineffective scientists that we do not know.
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