Your Views, Beliefs, and Criticism of Psychics?

[Norstal]

Heroin places an enourmous burden on the health system, what do psychics do that warrants them being treated as heroin dealers?

Source that anyone who visits a psychic becomes more messed up?

As long as scammers are weeded out from this particular industry, I don't get why it shouldn't be allowed to exist.

...But they're all scammers, it just depends to what extent. They take your money in return for a non existent service. Pretty much the textbook definition of a scam.

They're all scammers in the same way that magicians are scammers. They both fool you.

[Diopolis]

Nationalize the psychic industry and call it the tax on stupidity.

[Varijnland]

Attention seeking, money grabbing bullshiters who prey on feeble minded fools.

[Ainin]

Psychics are about as all-knowing as a horse's ass.

[Great Nepal]

Can't decide if I have more disdain for those who would take advantage of others' gullibility or for those who are gullible enough to fall for such nonsense. It's clearly nonsense.

This. I dont know how anyone can believe in psychics.

[Risottia]

Nationalize the psychic industry and call it the tax on stupidity.

We already have lotteries for that.

[Lucius Valentine]

I find it funny no major psychic has ever even attempted to get the million dollar prize from James Randi.

[Diopolis]

Nationalize the psychic industry and call it the tax on stupidity.

We already have lotteries for that.

But no national lottery.

[Risottia]

I find it funny no major psychic has ever even attempted to get the million dollar prize from James Randi.

I find funny no major psychic has ever won two lotteries in a row, or got into some position of political power. Precognition and telepathy should be nice bonuses for that.

[Risottia]

We already have lotteries for that.

But no national lottery.

Eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperEnalotto

[Great Nepal]

Nationalize the psychic industry and call it the tax on stupidity.

We already have lotteries for that.

I dont think anyone plays lotteries to win, its more of impulse buy. You go to shop, see a lottery ticket for two quid and use change from shopping to buy the ticket.

[Lucius Valentine]

I find it funny no major psychic has ever even attempted to get the million dollar prize from James Randi.

I find funny no major psychic has ever won two lotteries in a row, or got into some position of political power. Precognition and telepathy should be nice bonuses for that.

They don't even talk to any important dead people that could offer assistance. Instead they just ask some random guy that died in car crash if he's "watching over them"

[Vitaphone Racing]

We already have lotteries for that.

I dont think anyone plays lotteries to win, its more of impulse buy. You go to shop, see a lottery ticket for two quid and use change from shopping to buy the ticket.

You'd be suprised about how many people compulsively buy them.

[Diopolis]

But no national lottery.

Eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperEnalotto

I was talking about the american lotteries.

[Southern Babylonia]

As a Pagan, I have to say that psychics as we know them are probably frauds. Shamanic journeying is open to anyone who's open to it, making people pay for a messed up simulation is... just no.

[Liberated Counties]

Its definitely interesting

[Ifreann]

As a Pagan, I have to say that psychics as we know them are probably frauds. Shamanic journeying is open to anyone who's open to it...

Is this one of those "It only works when you already believe it works" deals?

[PostFreelasio]

Technically everyone is a psychic, you just have to BELIEVE

No but seriously....

You just gotta capture those few psychic moments ya have (a feeling similar to those gut feelings, or those premonitions that end up being correct) and say to your self "ima psychic" or do something of the like. Some people are stronger psychics than others

Me? Pretty damn weak psychic

Although i DID predict 3 earthquakes and 4 fire alarm malfunctions correctly :0 thats why i believe :0 it was COOL >:D :3

But all the tarot cards and crystal balls are nothing more than crap.

[Phocidaea]

Nationalize the psychic industry and call it the tax on stupidity.

If you did that, it would specifically be a tax on gullibility

Fine print is already a tax on illiteracy, and the lottery is a tax on mathematical inability. You can't reduce "tax on stupidity" to a single part.

[Ifreann]

Technically everyone is a psychic, you just have to BELIEVE

No but seriously....

You just gotta capture those few psychic moments ya have (a feeling similar to those gut feelings, or those premonitions that end up being correct) and say to your self "ima psychic" or do something of the like. Some people are stronger psychics than others

Me? Pretty damn weak psychic

Although i DID predict 3 earthquakes and 4 fire alarm malfunctions correctly :0 thats why i believe :0 it was COOL >:D :3

But all the tarot cards and crystal balls are nothing more than crap.

Come back to us when you've won the Amazing Randi's million dollar prize.

[PostFreelasio]

As a Pagan, I have to say that psychics as we know them are probably frauds. Shamanic journeying is open to anyone who's open to it...

Is this one of those "It only works when you already believe it works" deals?

Bingo

[Diopolis]

Nationalize the psychic industry and call it the tax on stupidity.

If you did that, it would specifically be a tax on gullibility

Fine print is already a tax on illiteracy, and the lottery is a tax on mathematical inability. You can't reduce "tax on stupidity" to a single part.

Good point.

[The Serbian Empire]

But all the tarot cards and crystal balls are nothing more than crap.

There are psychics who can predict stuff, but they just happen to have a stronger intuition than most people. The tarot cards are a device that can be reasonably accurate given the right interpretation of the card meaning, but the crystal ball is little more than decorative for them. Pretty much psychics are more rules lawyers with tarot cards than anything else and should only be used as an entertaining option for when you have a question about your life and not anything one shall design their life around.

[Southern Babylonia]

As a Pagan, I have to say that psychics as we know them are probably frauds. Shamanic journeying is open to anyone who's open to it...

Is this one of those "It only works when you already believe it works" deals?

When you're open to it working, more likely.

If I said "You must believe before you believe!" then there wouldn't be another damn convert. Not to mention I'd be lying, since I didn't "believe" when I started.

[Ashmoria]

its bullshit but is mostly harmless until the psychic announces that you need to give her large sums of money because <whatever>.

or offers you life advice from the other side, or investment advice, or tells you they can heal your cancer. The saddest are the ones that get people hooked so they call their psychic dozens of times a day.
then you get the ones that sue people for pointing out their scam.

well, ok, as I explained to my son when he was thinking of making a small living as a tarot card reader, those who make money on being "psychic" do so by scamming their clients. if a psychic can afford a small store front business, they are going to cheat you out of your money.

it IS harmless if all you do is drop in and get an entertaining reading and never go back. the problem is, as you allude to, that they are trolling for people that they can hook on their services and get a large amount of money out of. so you not getting hooked doesn't make THEM harmless. it only means that you didn't take the bait.