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Psychic mediums
#1
Psychic mediums
Psychic mediums are one of my pet peeves. I think it's completely callous and unscrupulous to use the memory of someone's dead relatives to bring yourself fame and fortune. I don't set out to destroy people's beliefs, but it's a topic that comes up often, because I have friends and family who visit psychic mediums, and I try my best to hold my tongue.

One of the things they often say is that psychic mediums give hope to people who have lost loved ones. How would you respond?
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#2
RE: Psychic mediums
My response is just two words. Sylvia Browne
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#3
RE: Psychic mediums
A fool and their money are soon parted.

I'll take mine in XL.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#4
RE: Psychic mediums
Joan Quigley is a kunt.
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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#5
RE: Psychic mediums
Vultures are repulsive no matter the form they take.

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#6
RE: Psychic mediums
I agree, those that bilk people in the throws of grief or desperation (and therefore, ruled more by emotions and missing their best judgement) are the lowest, most detestable form of human life. Also, even those not suffering immediate grief, but just perhaps a few bulbs shy of a row, do not deserve to be robbed just because they are, perhaps, fools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWl05VjpUm0
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?” 
― Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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#7
RE: Psychic mediums
(December 12, 2015 at 6:22 pm)Aroura Wrote: I agree, those that bilk people in the throws of grief or desperation (and therefore, ruled more by emotions and missing their best judgement) are the lowest, most detestable form of human life.  Also, even those not suffering immediate grief, but just perhaps a few bulbs shy of a row, do not deserve to be robbed just because they are, perhaps, fools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWl05VjpUm0

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#8
RE: Psychic mediums
What happened to Jean Dixon ?
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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#9
RE: Psychic mediums
If I give examples of known frauds, and even magicians who perform the same trick, I'm told that just because there are frauds it doesn't mean that they're all frauds. Actually, the response to me mentioning that there are magicians who do the same trick is usually an argument from personal incredulity: 'I don't understand how anyone could use cold reading.'
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RE: Psychic mediums
(December 12, 2015 at 5:22 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Vultures are repulsive no matter the form they take.

Actually, I find that offensive towards Vultures. Those animals do their part on ecosystems and evolved to survive eating dead meat.

As much as it pains me to admit, mediums, priests and other quacks are human like us... damn. And they prey on the living.
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