Current Events > Thinking about calling up a local "psychic" for a reading.

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Seems like it could be fun. Anyone ever tried it before?

No, but I have some family that enjoyed it. I think it's all malarky, personally, but if you have fun and if you can afford to spend the money, go for it. Just don't make any life decisions based on what they say and enjoy it for what it is, theater.

what would make it fun? it seems to me if you don't believe it, it is really just burning money to see how easy you are to read. If you do believe it, doesn't seem like "fun" would be the right word.

so maybe you have to be somewhere in the middle for it to be fun? like "i think most psychics are fake but maybe a few of them are legit" or something like that?
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KILBOTz posted...

what would make it fun? it seems to me if you don't believe it, it is really just burning money to see how easy you are to read. If you do believe it, doesn't seem like "fun" would be the right word.

so maybe you have to be somewhere in the middle for it to be fun? like "i think most psychics are fake but maybe a few of them are legit" or something like that?

I just see it as theatre. Like the previous guy said. I want to see how good of an actor they are/if they actually believe what they are saying.

KILBOTz posted...

what would make it fun? it seems to me if you don't believe it, it is really just burning money to see how easy you are to read. If you do believe it, doesn't seem like "fun" would be the right word.

so maybe you have to be somewhere in the middle for it to be fun? like "i think most psychics are fake but maybe a few of them are legit" or something like that?

To be fair, there is a psychological effect, and the placebo can't be denied. More importantly, it's basically theater.

Like, for example, I love Tarot Cards. I collect them and play with them even though I know they are 100% non-magical. That doesn't mean it's not fun to consider other possibilities or look at things from a completely different angle.

interesting take on it. i say go for it then, sounds like what you want to get out of it is a reasonable expectation.
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I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear
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YookaLaylee posted...

I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear

That what this guy did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff

I probably wouldn't give them my credit card and you wouldn't get very far without it
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TC i'll take your money and read your fortune. hell i can do a half way decent Jamaican accent!

CiIantro posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear

That what this guy did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff

now that fucker gives out magic water!
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My mom, grandma and great grandma were all psychics

My mom believes hard as rock that it's real. She tried to teach me, to continue the family tradition.

I believe it's a bunch of crap.
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CiIantro posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear

That what this guy did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff

Lol wow
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YookaLaylee posted...

I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear

Didn't Esper Roba do this in Yugioh?
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YookaLaylee posted...

CiIantro posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear

That what this guy did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff

Lol wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvrknxh6bU" data-time="

Watch Hereditary just before you do.

CiIantro posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear

That what this guy did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff

Peter Popoff is one of the biggest lowlifes on this planet. Deserves to out put in the same category as Stalin, Ted Bundy, etc. If it were up to be he'd be in jail solitary for the rest of his life.
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Behaviorism posted...

CiIantro posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

I watched a show recently where one of the characters was scamming people by pretending to be psychic. He was wearing an earpiece and had cameras in the room where he did readings and his wife was in another room looking at the clients social media pages to learn info about them so she could use psychology to diagnose their problem and figure out what advice they needed to hear

That what this guy did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff

Peter Popoff is one of the biggest lowlifes on this planet. Deserves to out put in the same category as Stalin, Ted Bundy, etc. If it were up to be he'd be in jail solitary for the rest of his life.

I mean, the only difference between him and the rest of the televangelists is that he got caught.