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Post by Stu on Oct 12, 2011 3:48:03 GMT -5
Hey, I just wanted to get your take on psychics. I had a brief (but free) reading a couple weeks ago, and some of the stuff I was told intrigued me. Anyway, I'm at a crossroads in my life at the moment and actually considered visiting the same guy again to get more answers (or possibilities). Unfortunately, he's kind of expensive.
Anyway, I just wanted to hear about other experiences. Have any of you gotten accurate readings? Were most of you scammed? How much were you charged?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 9:26:55 GMT -5
I went to a psychic fair they had at the college I went too about 10 years ago. They had a building they rented out for fairs, gun shows and other events. It was psychic ufo ghosts and supernatural stuff. I went just to check it out. I sat with one of the psychics and asked her about my current gf she told me that we would not last and in fact we did not. She also told me I would have many gfs but never settle down. Ten years later and that is true. She also told me I was very sad about a tragedy that I had recently suffered. My best friend was killed about 2 months earlier. Coincidence? Maybe who knows. I am open minded.
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Post by Shy Guy on Oct 12, 2011 9:41:42 GMT -5
i'm pretty open when it comes to psychics. i go to one woman about once a year, and shes usually pretty accurate. i pay about $70 for an hour reading.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 10:33:19 GMT -5
I've never been, but have always been intrigued by the idea.
I don't believe they commune with the spirits, but some people are really good at cold reads and can tell you a lot about someone just from talking with you for a few minutes.
That alone is worth the price of a reading if you ask me.
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Post by Munkie91087 on Oct 12, 2011 10:48:13 GMT -5
I know a psychic that reads her own palms, but the findings are personal.
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Post by crabnebula on Oct 12, 2011 11:33:15 GMT -5
weird story about a visit to one in the summer of 06. she had a little sign on the higway that said palm readings. me and my gf at the time pulled over and knocked on her door. she let us in and she was a frail little old lady with an eastern european accent. not in the forced t.v. parody of a european accent kind of way, either. anyway, she would only give one person a reading at at time and since my girlfriend wanted to stop to begin with, i let her go. plus it was fifteen bucks a reading. my now ex said that she chose the bone thing. where they take a cup or something of bones and pour them out and sift through them.
my ex said she knew specific details about us and how/why we were together. i blew it off.
a few months down the line. it's autumn. the fair is in town. rip off carnival games, shady looking drifters who run that stuff, Ferris wheel, all those things. it's night, the lights are on, we're just enjoying the evening together, walking around. we both notice that the psychic lady seems to be following us. she's always at a booth right across from us, and moves to another once we go to the next. it was extremely eerie to me. i started to second think doubting the psychic. as crazy as that sounds. there were things she told my ex that my ex said she didn't want to or couldn't tell me.
a few months later we broke up. not that that's anything out of the ordinary or any of those events are out of the ordinary. but i still like to recall them from time to time. and bore people with that story. ha
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Post by willywonka666 on Oct 12, 2011 12:03:57 GMT -5
I called a psychic line once. I don't know why. I think it was because of two co workers that convinced me it worked.
Anyway, they issued me a number I could use any time I called back and then I caught on. She asked me several questions and didn't really tell me anything that I can recall, so of course if I had called back, they magically had all these little facts about me.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Oct 12, 2011 14:03:11 GMT -5
Has your psychic taken up the 1 million dollar James Randi challenge? (I.E. PROVE IT)
Then why the f*** are you pissing away your money?
The explanation for all of it is cold reading/vagueness/guesswork/google.
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Post by alabastergrim on Oct 12, 2011 14:18:57 GMT -5
Sorry but it's mostly BS. Psychics don't tell you anything profound. They say things like "Something bad has happened to you recently" and then you apply that statement to something in your life.
I'm not against the idea of supernatural things mind you, I just think that unless they can tell you something REALLY specific and not just these vague ideas, then they're bullshit.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 12, 2011 16:29:07 GMT -5
By definition, since it's utter bullshit- If you paid a psychic money, you were scammed.
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Post by Joe Galt on Oct 12, 2011 16:32:45 GMT -5
I always ask psychics why they always set up shop in dangerous areas. I mean, they should have known ahead of time where to set up their shops, right?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 16:40:00 GMT -5
By definition, since it's utter bulls***- If you paid a psychic money, you were scammed. There is also entertainment value in seeing a psychic. I mean, wrestling is utter bs, by some definitions, but I wouldn't feel scammed for having watched a show. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 12, 2011 16:41:44 GMT -5
By definition, since it's utter bulls***- If you paid a psychic money, you were scammed. There is also entertainment value in seeing a psychic. I mean, wrestling is utter bs, by some definitions, but I wouldn't feel scammed for having watched a show. Touche, I'll concede that part of it. But I think ya know what I meant. |
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Post by Evil Homer on Oct 12, 2011 16:59:39 GMT -5
There is some truth to psychics. I've seen some religious type of people that do these predictions, but I wont get into that because of the rules
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Oct 12, 2011 17:14:25 GMT -5
There is some truth to psychics. No. There isn't. There has been a million dollar prize out there for anyone who could actually do this, but nobody has been able to claim it. |
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Post by Bam Neeley on Oct 12, 2011 18:38:14 GMT -5
It's nothing more than cold reading, generalizations and parlor tricks. It's ok to take it for it's entertaiment values but I wouldn't be looking for anwers to my life from one.
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Post by Jiren on Oct 12, 2011 20:57:15 GMT -5
It's all crap
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Post by Dub H on Oct 12, 2011 21:01:26 GMT -5
i'm not gonna say its all lie but thing like "happy things gonna happen" or "something happened not long ago that made you happy/sad"is very vague/relative
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Post by Rapper & Actor Sammy Davis III on Oct 12, 2011 21:15:13 GMT -5
"All psychics are phony psychics"
-Penn Jillette.
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Oct 12, 2011 21:28:42 GMT -5
There are different kinds of stuff like that. It all gets lopped into psychic and for sure there are more phonies than anyone that can actually tap into something.
I've met two in my life and both we're and are unique in their way. I don't know how they do it but one is hyper-intuitive and the other could just see the real you, the stuff you don't want anyone to know stuff. She'd just blab it out. I knew her as a friend and she would say it as if it was no big deal kinda thing.
No doubt in my mind. It's weird and I don't try to explain what they do to get it but it's pretty on.
BTW - the one still know ms. hyper-intuitive, I don't let her in to my mind, the gate has been closed for some time. The blabber I don't see any more.
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