psychic real or not?
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| not real
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| i dont know but i wanna
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| dont give a flying tree |   | 12 |
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splinter11 

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Posted: 08:18PM Feb 5, 2006 |
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just wondering (f.t.r i beleive in it)
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Trickster1992 

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Posted: 09:05PM Feb 5, 2006 |
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ftri? whats that?
Public psychics (hotlines, crystal balls, etc) are not real, and I'll leave it at that.
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princess0611 

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Posted: 09:26AM Feb 6, 2006 |
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I agree with Trick. The stuff you see as far as "The Psychic Friends Network" and other similar for money services are mainly all scams and shams. There are people who have the "touch" so to speak - people that by some chance have the ability to see things that have happened, are happening, and will happen. Curse or blessing, it is possible and there are people out there with the ability.
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Trickster1992 

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Posted: 05:07PM Feb 7, 2006 |
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Good to have somebody agreeing with me.
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puttaholic 

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Posted: 02:07AM Feb 8, 2006 |
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i too bilieve that there could be some truth in psychics. i like to think so. it seems a bit far fetched, as ppl have turned it into a way to make money, but i think there are some ernest people out there who can do stuff like that.
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splinter11 

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Posted: 07:42AM Feb 10, 2006 |
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ftr= 4 the record. and i believe that if someones mind is strong enough they can do any thing in fact i use tarot cards and a magic book. i agree with puttaholic
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puttaholic 

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Posted: 02:08AM Feb 12, 2006 |
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i know it sounds corney, but i read my horoscope sometimes, and theres one that is amazingly accurate, and pretty often too...
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Trickster1992 

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Posted: 01:06PM Feb 12, 2006 |
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My horoscope is my conscience. The only differences between the two are that...
1: My conscience talks, the horoscope you have to read.
2: My conscience is ALWAYS accurate on predicting the future, the horoscope... Well, sometimes it's right but a lot of the time it's a little off.
3: My conscience doesn't tell me what to do or give me advice on what to do. It just gives me the information and waits for my response, and then it tells me what to do (or not...).
I have always firmly believed that my conscience isn't actually my conscience, but the Lord talking to me through my brain.
Just for the heck of it, just to see if it's at all accurate, I'll do a little quick test. Yahoo! 
Quickie:
As hard as it will be to bite your tongue, you must mind your own business today.
Overview:
Tired of always being there for everyone else while your own needs sit in a dusty, neglected corner? Change all that, starting right now. Once you do, it's amazing how that resentment just falls away.
And then the other one... (theres 3 of them)...
You've spent quite a bit of time alone lately, and in addition to missing you, your friends are beginning to worry. The good news is that this hibernation thing is about to come to an end. The full Moon tonight will urge you to get out there and mingle. For starters, try an exercise group or a social club -- something that will bring you in contact with positive energies. With Valentine's Day just 48 hours away, you may also make eye contact with someone -- and hold it for a long, long time.
Now the third one...
Even if really delicate and exciting fantasy notions overtake you during the day, keep your mind on what needs to be done. You'll have time for play later, but you've got to work to make sure that the downtime can be enjoyed.
I found problems with these.
First one: The "Minding your own business" came yesterday, you dupa. And, uh, no... What? I have needs? Oh yeah, I do! But I don't pay attention to the weirdish needs of my family. It's not my problem, I'm the youngest.
Second one: Yes, I have spent quite a bit of time alone lately.. Wait what? I have friends? A full moon? I like full moons. They are bright. But I'm not going out in the night. Um.. Yeah.... The eye contact.............. That's not going to happen.
Third one: I shall hate you forever for that advice.
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splinter11 

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Posted: 09:17PM Feb 12, 2006 |
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i use tarot cards and another form of future telling with cards. sometimes i try the crystal ball.i read my horoscope to.
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Trickster1992 

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Posted: 10:20AM Feb 15, 2006 |
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I simply looked to the stars, and said "Hi there." Then they said "Yo dude, wazzup?" and I say "What's going to happen in my future?" and they say "How are we supposed to know? We're just fireballs in the universe, you know." And I said "Ok then..." and they said "Go to sleep, your dreams are more accurate at predicting the future than we are." and I said "What if a person looked at their horoscope and it was always correct?" and they said, "Then they're following it's orders and have become a slave to it." and I said, "What if they wouldn't believe that that--what you just said--is true?" and they said, "Of course they wouldn't. If we told you that you were a 'slave' to your gifts, would you believe us?" and I said, "Uh... No...... I am??" and they said, "Maybe you are, maybe you arn't. We dont think you've decided yet." And then I came to a conclusion: "Who the heck am I talking to if the stars have been dead for a thousand years?!" and they answered, "Yourself, you dupa." and then I realized I was talking to my other three personalities.
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shawneeo 

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Posted: 03:18PM Feb 21, 2006 |
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Psychic stuff is real. The stuff on TV and the psychics you see in little shops and all that are almost all scams. I have checked many, many different forms of that stuff out. But, people can def. be in tune to where they know what the other is thinking; you can pick someone's "vibe" up when they're in trouble if you're tuned in; there's astral travel, remote viewing, all kinds of stuff that I think is real. But the real stuff isn't something you can make a business of usually. But, we are so much less aware than our potential. I'm sure that in another two thousand years people will be doing things everyday that we would consider miraculous if we saw it done now.
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metallicman  

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Posted: 03:56PM Feb 21, 2006 |
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I firmly believe that psychics are fake. All of them. There is a person (I forgot his name, I'll look for it) that proves stuff like this wrong all the time. It is a trick, nothing more. Some people perfected the trick, but in the end it is all fake. (to me) Until I see hard fact that can't be proven wrong, I will not believe in it.
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wizofaus 

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Posted: 11:21PM Feb 21, 2006 |
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Tinman, I sense that there are things that sometimes trouble you. Occasionally you have opinions that you're not sure how others will react to, so tend to keep them to yourself. You have wondered more than once if there is a person that you have yet to meet with whom you will be able to share your thoughts more openly. Often, you are frustrated by the actions of others - they seem not to think carefully about what they do. But deep down, you know you are at times guilty of the same thing. When others criticise things you do or say, it often cuts deeper than you would admit, and it's not obvious why: you tell yourself that their judgment is irrelevant, or that they don't know enough to justify their criticisms, so why should you care? Despite all this, you try to keep a positive outlook on life, and accept that the mistakes you make now will one day be just part of the past, and look forward to the many things that the future still holds.
So how did I do?
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Trickster1992 

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Posted: 10:54AM Feb 22, 2006 |
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That's not psychic power, wizo. That's mega-logic power. At least, I call it mega-logic.
Psychic power is pretty much like being able to tell the person's future with a glass ball or something--which I dont believe is true.
Mega-Logic is, of course, really amazing logic. I could use mega-logic to assume what a person is like. It's easy, you just take what you already know about them, add common sense to it, and voila.
Another thing is that... A person can "see" how the other will respond, then how they would respond to that response, and so on, and within a minute they've seen the whole conversation. Thus they can plot the whole thing out and know exactly what'll happen in the end. Psychic? Nope. Mega-Logic. It's not the main trick to pseudopsychicness, but it can be used as a trick. And it usually works on fooling people.
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metallicman  

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Posted: 03:10PM Feb 22, 2006 |
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wizofaus wrote: Tinman, I sense that there are things that sometimes trouble you. Occasionally you have opinions that you're not sure how others will react to, so tend to keep them to yourself. You have wondered more than once if there is a person that you have yet to meet with whom you will be able to share your thoughts more openly. Often, you are frustrated by the actions of others - they seem not to think carefully about what they do. But deep down, you know you are at times guilty of the same thing. When others criticise things you do or say, it often cuts deeper than you would admit, and it's not obvious why: you tell yourself that their judgment is irrelevant, or that they don't know enough to justify their criticisms, so why should you care? Despite all this, you try to keep a positive outlook on life, and accept that the mistakes you make now will one day be just part of the past, and look forward to the many things that the future still holds.
So how did I do?
Terribly.
First of all, you assumed many things that you decided after seeing a few of my posts on braingle. You take no conisideration of how I act in my own life with my friends, when I'm alone, nothing like that. And, I think almost all of my opinions have come out either in the debate forum or in other places: I really don't have much to hide except personal information.
oh, and you could call this me being frustrated and thinking that what you said was irrelivent.
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wizofaus 

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Posted: 03:11PM Feb 22, 2006 |
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Sure, but you'd be amazed how many people will read things like that and, with the right setting (e.g. a horoscope, or with some lady peering into a crystal ball) will be amazed how at how well it applies to them, and assume it must be due to some psychic power. Of course, you can get away with being a bit more specific occasionally, even at the risk of getting a few things wrong, which people will usually overlook and focus only on the "hits". And of course the "psychics" that really want to impress will actually do what they can to determine a few salient facts about you (in fact, just the fact that you've even come to see a psychic oftens gives a few things away...for instance, you're more likely than not single, and hoping to meet someone etc. etc.). The ones on the TV shows quite often deliberately do hidden research on the audience members, even if it's just to get a single "wow - how did you know that" moment.
And actually tinman, I took absolutely nothing I know about you (which is very little) into consideration when writing that - except for your age, from which I surmised you're probably not in a long-term stable relationship. The reality is a decent amount of it applies to almost everyone (certainly quite a lot of it applies to me). The skeptic however will focus on the bits that are wrong, whereas the believer will focus on the bits that are right.
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Trickster1992 

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Posted: 03:28PM Feb 22, 2006 |
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I heard a story of this lady who called a psychic because she needed help (she didnt actually need help). The psychic asked her what her name was where she was, and what her situation was. The lady said "I thought you were psychic." and hung up.
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princess0611 

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Posted: 03:50PM Feb 22, 2006 |
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I've wanted to do that to one of those phone line psychics that charge three bucks a minute. I mean, if I had have to pay that much for every minute on the phone with one of them, I'd want them to do all the telling.
The sad thing is, my sister-in-law lives around what her psychic says. She did that when she was going to have her second child. The psychic told her she would have a boy, the doctor said a girl. Wouldn't you know it, she went out and bought all BOYS things. Boy was she surprised when that baby ended up being a girl. I was surprised that she didn't tell the doctor that there was some kind of delivery mistake - "Are you sure that isn't a boy. My psychic said it would be!"
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Trickster1992 

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Posted: 03:56PM Feb 22, 2006 |
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Not to be rude but your sister sounds funny.
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shawneeo 

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Posted: 06:27AM Feb 23, 2006 |
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Like I said, I think psychic things can happen. But the commercial stuff: no way.
You know that guy on TV, Crossing Over? He seems really good. But, I watched the show for quite a while at one time, daily, and thought about it a lot. The audience has to buy tickets way in advance. They have to give all their information to buy the tickets, charge card, etc. Now, with only some of that info., you can do tons of research, including talking to neighbors as if you are a survey, you can find out the person's relatives names, etc, etc.
I think that's what they do. I really do. Sometimes he says things that seem uncanny, but I've always thought: hey, if a person could see the spirit world, etc. why would the spirits communicate by saying:"I'm related to the person you're talking to, I'm not gonna say how, my name starts with a B." You know? I think the way they do it, "someone who's name starts with an "m"..." and all that, is obviously so the customer will fill in the blanks themselves.
Some are real good at saying just the right things that are vague enough yet can be modified with more info and conversation. The bad ones just guess and you have to be really, really desperate to believe them... sadly, there are many who are, especially people who've lost their spouse and are so lonely. I could never take advantage like that, but I think these people tell themselves that they are "helping" the person, and that there is some validity to it, and it brings some happiness and peace to grieving survivors... ugh...
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