Sensing bullshit

[MSTRS:Me]

That's just spooky Wolf.
How did you know my Aunt Mavis was like a mother to me and died 6 years ago?
And should I pay you??

[wildpudding]

I would of thought it was bullshit as well........until I read a book called Pyschic Warrior by David Morehouse. A very powerful book, everyone should read it.

Stefan

[mynameis]

I guess I will be in a better position to deliver a slightly informed and first hand experienced verdict after going to the Deb Webber show on the 21st of November at Bruce Mason Centre. (Blond lady from Sensing Murder).

A believer in psychics is paying for my tickets and wants me to go and I am quite curious and keen to see a "live" show to judge these psychics better. So I shall let you all know what my opinion is then, at the moment I am open to it neither supporting nor loathing it.

[El Dopa]

I don't watch television any more. It's all bullshit.

For that matter, I haven't watched a film in ages, and I've stopped keeping up with published reviews on new Hollywood pap.

Film may have been the great art form of the twentieth century, but its merits never really spilled over to the small screen. You know you're jaded when you cant even abide Star Trek any longer.

Do what I do. Ignore the telly, keep just enough of an eye on the meeja to see what is generating buzz, and if you think you're interested, hire the film or the box set when it comes out. No adverts, no waiting for the next ep, etc.

The video place in Devonport has a pretty good selection.

Never mind. When life gets really boring, one can just fire up a DVD of The Seventh Seal....

What would your preference be: twister or battleships?

[Bullitt]

My gf is really keen on Sensing Murder, watches it every week and dont seem to doubt any of its accuracy.

I havnt watched it enough to be able to rebuke anything it claims but I dont intend to either. I dont believe in psychics and have never seen any reason to change that.

[Wolf]

That's just spooky Wolf.
How did you know my Aunt Mavis was like a mother to me and died 6 years ago?
And should I pay you??

Cross my palm with VISA...

[Timber020]

I was a total sceptic. 6 years before we met my wife had a reading done, the lady told her a bunch of stuff and wrote it down about her future husband.
Nothing really specific but stuff like the month we met, that we would have the same type of vehicle but not what she had at the time of the reading. After a few years she forgot about it, it wasnt until we had been seeing each other for a while she found the bit of paper.
A couple of years back she went back, the reader told her that she had met her future husband and that in his job he was going to have a big fall (as an arborist this doesnt suprise or please me). She knew other stuff to.

I wouldnt go to a psychic, but Im not totally convinced we can explain everything in this world yet, but I know some strange things have happened that arent easy explained.

[Mekk]

I would of thought it was bullshit as well........until I read a book called Pyschic Warrior by David Morehouse. A very powerful book, everyone should read it.

Stefan

I'm curious about this book, is it meant to be a story or information?

[Zuki Bandit]

A valid point, pointing out the inaccuracies turned into a bit of a game with the flatmates. Damned marketing got me again!

There are people out there that actually believe this shit though. If everyone knew it was a crock I'm sure they wouldn't watch it.

The behind the scenes episode had a hardcore sceptic such as yourself sit in with them the whole time. In the end he didnt have an arguement to stand on.
You dont have to believe it, by why try to pull it apart? I know so many people who watch it, then blurb on about it the next day trying to say how fake it is. DONT WATCH IT THEN!

[MSTRS:Me]

That's just spooky Wolf.
How did you know my Aunt Mavis was like a mother to me and died 6 years ago?
And should I pay you??

Cross my palm with VISA...

Ha!! Got you! You're a fraud. My aunt's name is not Mavis, she is a complete bitch and she aint dead.....
This message brought to you in the interests of exposing so-called psychics for the money-grubbing parasites that they are.

[bert_is_evil]

The way I see it we watch a TV show or pay to see a live show for the purpose of entertainment, just like we would pay to go and see a concert. A person goes to the show and is entertained, just like they would be if they went to see a concert, regardless of whether the singer was having their voice digitally enhanced or the backing vocals were prerecorded. If you don't beleive what is going on is real then you won't be entertained, just like you wouldn't be if you went to a concert beleving the vocalist would be lipsyncing, or if you paid to see a concert of a genre of music you didn't enjoy - so why would you go to that concert or watch that programme? I guess the point I'm trying to make is if people go to a live phsycic show to be entertained, and they are entertained, then they have gotten their moneys worth - just like if they had gone to a concert and been entertained. Would you berate Tom Jones for having a concert and "ripping people off" because you don't happen to like his particular style of entertainment? I doubt it - it's all a matter of taste. I personally don't like rugby but I don't think that the IRB is ripping people off by charging people to see games because I know that the people buying the tickets enjoy it - if I pay to go to a game I'm not going to enjoy, or waste my time watching it on tv then that's my stupid fault (I'm in fact ripping myself off).

Imagine you had some sort of psycic/super power - would you sell tickets to people to see you bending railway irons with your bare hands or lighting things on fire with your eyes? I certainly would! If you could fake the same thing would you still do it? Lots of people do, they are called magicians and few modern magicians admit to the fact that what they are doing is merely an illusion.

[crshbndct]

i rung a psychic once (oh the days of free phone calls on 025 phones) for bit of a giggle. i asked which team was going to win the next formula1 race. she asked which teams were in teh running. i said holden, ford, nissan, lamborghini, honda, toyota, and porsche.

she got a definite feel from the ghost of peter brock that he though holden was the one to put my money on.

also told me MV agusta was the team to back in the 2006 motogp season. again, a really strong, positive feeling from a past rider, someone italian. i suggested was it possibly giacomo doohan, and she said yes that it.

i attempted to take my new found knowledge and use it but allass, i had just wasted about 60 dollars of telecoms money

[Wolf]

Ha!! Got you! You're a fraud. My aunt's name is not Mavis, she is a complete bitch and she aint dead.....
This message brought to you in the interests of exposing so-called psychics for the money-grubbing parasites that they are.

Hah, shows what you know! I actually am a very powerful psychic but I can only read surface thoughts. Using my cunning ruse above I tricked you into thinking about your VISA card which enabled me to get account name, number, expiry date, PIN and the little 4-digit verification code on the back.

Just used that info to buy a brand new BMW F650GS and ordered $7000 worth of aftermarket goodies for it through on-line shopping sites.

Yes, I'm a fraud but my bag is Identity Theft!

BWAhahahahahahaha

[MSTRS:Me]

Good luck with that, young Wolf. Can you in fact confirm that I even have a Visa card? And that it's not already maxed out?

[KATWYN]

What I can't understand is the shear amount of information the Psychics receive by way of names, faces, places, events yet they can't pin point where a body may be buried...? Its like theres a missing link somewhere.