Psychics

[beedubs]

Hey guys, so i went to my boyfriends house tonight and his mom had a psychic come just for the hell of it. now she told me some stuff that was true, but she told me that she couldnt get alot of energy because i was so young. but i meen some of the stuff was accurate. so anywho, what do you think of them? are they real? do they really know the things that they are telling you? i just dont understand it and google doesnt really help. if there are techniques, please tell. i think it would be cool to do that.

[Junky]

I don't believe it, most of it is similar to horoscope scopes and symbols; they say so much stuff some of it has got to be true.

[beedubs]

well she told me some crazy stuff, about my life, and things about me that i havent told anyone. and also guessed my birthday automatically, and guessed the date me and my bf have started dating.

[Fruit_Tart.]

well... i was listening to the radio one day and it was on psychics. from hearing all those stories i believe somewhat in them. i think all of us are in some sort of way. like deja vu or stuff like that.

[Sage]

I'm skeptical, but hold some belief in such things after meeting a man in Eastern Europe who was able to tell me a great many things about my life that he would have had no way of knowing. This is not evidence that can be used to prove it to anyone, of course, but rather a personal experience that would justify my own belief in such things if nothing else.

Edit: ...To be clear, this man wasn't doing any of this for money, nor had a funky little shop with voodoo dolls and things everywhere. 99%, if not more, of all psychics are shams. I consider myself lucky to have met someone that may have been the 'real deal'.

[beedubs]

yea well one reason i belived her more was because she only charged one person who was there (it was 50 dollars an hour). she didnt charge by bfs mom because she was the one who invited her, and she didnt charge me because she couldnt find that much because of my age. but i meen she knew about my personal life, that nobody knows

[INFERNO]

From what I've seen and think, psychics are excellent at reading people and can immediately gather basic vague information that is likely correct without having to ask. Many of the predictions seem to be vague and somewhat ambiguous also, so they can apply to hundreds of people all of whom are in different circumstances. Other methods they use, such as reading tarot cards, tea leaves, palm lines, etc... give vague answers with each answer being very probable. I think many people are unaware of how much information you can gather from reading someone or saying certain things and carefully watching their responses.

A few years ago we had a psychic booth at a nearby festival, so I decided to check it out with all of this in mind. I consider myself to be good at reading people and decent at controlling my tells that I give away. I went wearing clothing I usually wear and controlled all my tells that I could to the best of my abilities and tried to also read the psychic as she was doing to me. The result was her answers were so completely vague, many of them were inaccurate. Some that were very specific were wrong, and the ones that were right were things that anybody could give from talking to someone for a few minutes. It was very unimpressive and when I told the lady how she was wrong, and how she was reading me as I was controlling certain tells, she retreated to saying some mystical stuff was not right and my being or aurora disrupted everything. Sadly I still had to pay a few bucks.

Later on, to that same psychic, I took my friend who stayed as emotionless as possible, just staring at the psychic and trying to freak her out by mumbling about mystical nonsense. She gave some readings and was once again so vague. Any specific things were either a given from talking with him but most were completely wrong. Once again, she made up the excuse he had a bad energy or aurora around him that disrupted her.

[ThereforeIam042]

Some of that stuff might be partially real. My great-grandmother used to have premonitions that came true. She had one before I was born where she told my grandmother to go check on her sister because she thought somthing was wrong with her(they were on opposite sides of the state. When my grandma got there she found her sister passed out on her bed after getting beaten by her husband. I think most psychics aren't real but maybye you happened apon a legitimate psychic like my great-grandma.

[huginnmuninn]

i beleive that there are a few really pschic pschics but most self proclaimed psychics are phonies and have no more psychic power than the majority of people. i also beleive that everybody has aa little psychic power in them but it manifests more in some than others.

[Perseus]

There isn't some "power". There's a technique. I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel about it. :O

[Skeln]

I agree with everything Inferno said. You can learn alot about people just by talking to them and watching them and observing what they wear and or carry with them. You cna even tel alot about people just by the way they talk (where they're from, what type of people they hang out with, etc.).

Most psychics are vague in their answering, and also give answers that are almost guaranteed to be correct.

There was a study done where a classroom of students was each given a piece of paper that was similar to a life-time horoscope. It predicted alot of things that happened in the past and will happen in the future. Each paper was assigned to a particular student with the student's name and birthdate on it to make it seem more directed at that particular student. All of them agreed that it was mostly accurate. Then, each student had to switch papers with the one behind them, and they all realized that each paper was exactly the same, save for the name and birthdate.

One of the things on there was, you have recently been exposed to sadness and dissappointment recently. Another talked about how they missed a deceased loved-one. The answers were so vague and so universal that they were guaranteed to be right. Of course you are dissappointed often, even if it's just a little bit. And of course sometime during their lifetime these students had lost a family member (they were college students). It's quite easy to pull something like this off, and it's more convincing when the psychic has had time in the past to learn more about the people who want their fortunes "predicted".

[Magus]

From what I've seen and think................... disrupted her.

Perhaps you people need to watch some videos by James Randi. He is exposing those tricks made by psychics and such.

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