Palm readings?

[placidfemme]

lol thats interesting...

One of our Telemarketers had her palm read, and the chick reading her palm said that her career line was longer than her lifeline...

working from the grave? lol she also told her she'd die before she was 40 if she didn't quit smoking... haha scare tatics there I think...

[Str8 Jacket]

Sorry, but I dont believe in this kinda crap . . . When I was younger I was told by a "renowned" (sp?) physcic to never get on a motorbike as that is how I am going to die, he also told me that Id be married by 25 and have 1 kid . . . well that was crap! And as far as I know they are not supposed to tell you how you (or how they think) will die.

[WRT]

I have had my cards read before, and it was actually pretty accurate. It was done by someone who at the time I had only just met, and now is a really good friend, and talking to her about it now she says that it works best with someone who she doesn't know very well, otherwise her own feelings about the subject have an influence.

Basically, she never said any specifics, no dates, ages, or anything like that. But she did accurately predict an upcoming job offer, and a breif romantic interest (her description of the girl was frighteningly accurate), and also her analysis of my past was pretty on the nail.

I put myself as being a bit of a skeptic, I dont believe any of the tv shows about psychics, nor do I believe in horoscopes, etc. And I definately do not advocate living your life based on someone else's interpretion of either a deck of cards (no matter how pretty the pics on them) or a bunch of lines on your palm. Having said that tho, if its being done for free, then why not check it out? Its good for a laugh if nothing else.

[Sniper]

Nah, Im not into leeting others touch my hand and tell me my destiny. I can choose it for myself me thinks

[placidfemme]

Yeah I'm leaning more towards not getting my palm read (because my granny said so lol), and also I believe that my future is what I make it, not what someone else says it will be... I like to think that I'm in control... most of the time anyway lol

[MSTRS:Me]

It's gotta be like having a post-hypnotic suggestion. Palmist 'tells' you what will happen & subconsiously you make sure it does. Treat is as fun, don't take it on board or don't bother.

[Hitcher]

Puh-lease. How does your palm know what the rest of your life holds in store? What happens if you lose a hand or an arm in an accident? What about that guy who had an arm transplant?

Next you'll be telling me that that crazy bint on "Dare to believe" really can talk with dead people...

[Str8 Jacket]

It's gotta be like having a post-hypnotic suggestion. Palmist 'tells' you what will happen & subconsiously you make sure it does. Treat is as fun, don't take it on board or don't bother.

Your soo right. I know a few people that reguarly see phychics and are always like, "this is going to happen" and "he is the rite person", blah blah. Then they wonder why their perfect dream world goes wrong. Im sick of hearing, "that wasn't spossed to happen, the physchic said something different, I just don't understand"
At the end of the day no one really knows what path their life will take, anything can and probably will happen

[placidfemme]

Next you'll be telling me that that crazy bint on "Dare to believe" really can talk with dead people...

Thats a load of crap... I watched about 5 minutes of that program recently... and she was going on about how the dead mother was with the daughter in her new car... dead people don't just hang around...

Depending on what you believe... but I believe that once someone dies they don't go straigth to hell or heaven, they go and wait in the bossum (sp) of Abraham for when Jesus returns and does Judgment day kinda thing...

Zed will proberly be able to explain that better then I can... but thats what I believe... there's no-one dead hanging around...

I believe in ghosts/demons or spirits, but I don't believe they are dead people hanging around...

[Paul in NZ]

Puh-lease. How does your palm know what the rest of your life holds in store?

I dunno. I remember having a chick read my palm at a party once years ago. She took one look at my mitts and said - "Jeeze you are a wanker" and I said (snatching my hand back) "How could you tell?"

So you never know

[MSTRS:Me]

... there's no-one dead hanging around...

That'll explain why palmists don't get sued when the 'you will live a long and fruitful life' snuffs it a week later

[Wolf]

They did a great program on how the professionals perform a lot of the "psychic" readings and one trick they showed was how they had an accomplice in the queue waiting to go to the show and he engaged one of the others in conversation and learned that the person wanted to get in contact with her grandmother and got names and details - funnily enough, that woman was one of the ones that the "spirits chose" and the psychic had a lot of accurate info to impart.

There are other tricks - if I were to select a person of my age at random from an audience I would say that there is a woman in spirit hovering near them, "I'm getting... your grandmother" (pretty safe bet with someone my age at least one grandmother would be dead...) the professionals study trends with names and choose names common for certain ages of person - it's pretty much guaranteed that an older person would respond to "I'm getting a name.. George. You know a George." Likewise Harry/Harold/Henry. Ad to that some vague things like "concerned about money (unless your target is wearing an Armani suit, this is another safe bet) (s)he loves you (always nice to hear).

Would love to get picked on by one of the accomplices and feed them a line of shit (yep, I'm hoping to hear from my Uncle Pete who died recently..) and then play along with the "psychic".

The radio ones I've heard are very vague and play safe bets a lot, also, if you listen, the person they're talking to usually volunteers a lot of stuff. "Yep, I know a Harry, he's my Uncle, he died six years ago" "yes, well he's here now and he wants you to know he's watching over you." or "Yep I know a Harry, he's my brother, he lives in Porirua" "Well your mother is concerned about him, she's mentioning his name." "Well Harry was always getting in trouble" "Yes, I'm getting that, she's concerned for his well being, wants you to make sure he's all right." Jeez - pretty easy stuff there.

And that's before you get into the fact that Jack was synonymous with John which is a common name - who on this site does not know a "John"? Common names, safe bets and being able to listen, read between the lines and make reasonable assumptions - all stock in trade.

[pyrocam]

dont see a palm reader.
see Ernie.
he will show you the way

[Wolf]

Depending on what you believe... but I believe that once someone dies they don't go straigth to hell or heaven, they go and wait in the bossum (sp) of Abraham for when Jesus returns and does Judgment day kinda thing...

Ah, someone who reads their Bible. Never could understand Christians who say "Oh, so-and-so is in Heaven with God, now." I mean, I'm a pagan and I know enough about the Bible to know that there's supposed to be a Judgement Day when the living and the dead are all called to be judged and no one (no one brought up in the Christian faith, anyway) goes into Heaven or Hell until after that point.

Doesn't apply to me, of course, I get to go to Tir n'an Og when I die - no queueing, no waiting around for some kind of Judgement.

I believe we all get what we expect based on our beliefs, that all Gods and Goddesses exist and we choose whom we follow and make our personal covenants with them. The world's a big enough place for us all and without diversity we'd be a pretty sad lot.

As to the "ghosts and spirits" things, I've sensed and seen enough to be pretty open minded - I think there is the possibility for those not hieing off to Tir n'an Og, Valhalla, the Bosom of Abraham or wherever to be lurking around in "spirit form" but I don't think they spend their time helping people make a career out of talking to spirits.

[placidfemme]

Ah, someone who reads their Bible. Never could understand Christians who say "Oh, so-and-so is in Heaven with God, now." I mean, I'm a pagan and I know enough about the Bible to know that there's supposed to be a Judgement Day when the living and the dead are all called to be judged and no one (no one brought up in the Christian faith, anyway) goes into Heaven or Hell until after that point.

Doesn't apply to me, of course, I get to go to Tir n'an Og when I die - no queueing, no waiting around for some kind of Judgement.

I believe we all get what we expect based on our beliefs, that all Gods and Goddesses exist and we choose whom we follow and make our personal covenants with them. The world's a big enough place for us all and without diversity we'd be a pretty sad lot.

As to the "ghosts and spirits" things, I've sensed and seen enough to be pretty open minded - I think there is the possibility for those not hieing off to Tir n'an Og, Valhalla, the Bosom of Abraham or wherever to be lurking around in "spirit form" but I don't think they spend their time helping people make a career out of talking to spirits.

Way off topic here... but when you mentioned

I believe we all get what we expect based on our beliefs, that all Gods and Goddesses exist and we choose whom we follow and make our personal covenants with them. The world's a big enough place for us all and without diversity we'd be a pretty sad lot.

I have a theory along those lines too... What if there is no right or wrong God/religion/belief?

If you look at all those different beliefs they are all along similar lines... which means that more than half of the worlds population are going to hell... BUT what if it doesn't matter which belief you have, but the amount of faith you have in that belief that makes the difference? (lol maybe we should save this discussion for the Religious thread in pointless drivel)

Anyway...

Just found out that another of our Telemarketers (her name is Rav) reads palms...

The way she reads them is based on her Indian religion (not sure which one) so I thought I'd get her to read my palms and then I'll get Grace (the Asian lady) to read my palms and compare the two readings...

So anyway... Rav told me... (take into consideration that Rav knows me well... she's meet Sam and we've been working together for about 2 years)

~That I'm not good at saving money (true)
~That if I ever decide to start my own business I will not succeed (sp)
~But I will succeed if I continue to work for other people
~That I will not have any big career changes throughout my life (as in staying in office work until I retire)
~She also said I will have a daughter first, then a son... or perhaps twins, but the girl will be first (given that she knows twins run in my family)
~She also said all my relationships past and future will be "love" relationships (take into consideration that she is an Indian, and her marraige was an arranged marraige... just so you know what she means by that... but again thats a given because I'm not Indian so no-one can arrainge a marraige for me)
~She senses that I make all the decisions in the relationship (true... but then again she does know Sam and I)
~She said that no matter what happens in the future I will always have a support system, be it family or friends (well thats a given unless I become a P addict and everyone disowns me)
~She said that I will (or have) recieve property from a family member.. (which isn't true and I don't see it being true... as the family I have here in NZ don't own homes)

She didn't tell me anything about when I might die or how. She didn't say I'd be rich... but she didn't say I would be poor either...

She said a bunch of other things which were all true, but could be brought down to the fact that she knows me. She didn't tell me anything I didn't know already really, but she was spot on most of the time. I didn't volunteer any information (I told her when she started that I was going to keep quiet and listen and then at the end tell her if she was right or not).

Now I'll just wait for Grace to come to work and get her to read my palms and see what she has to say... which should be interesting because Grace doesn't know about my sexuality (maybe theres a man in my future LOL)