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Psychic and the wife
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Recently my wife has wanted to see a psychic. One of her coworkers turned her on to this psychic, saying that she is really good and so on. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing said psychic. Yet, wife wants to drag me into this and I just don't know what to say.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (August 14, 2013 at 6:02 pm)sarcasticgeographer Wrote: Recently my wife has wanted to see a psychic. One of her coworkers turned her on to this psychic, saying that she is really good and so on. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing said psychic. Yet, wife wants to drag me into this and I just don't know what to say. I would tell her it is a ridiculous waste of time and money - and she'd better not be spending any of mine.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.  RE: Psychic and the wife
August 14, 2013 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2013 at 6:07 pm by Something completely different.)
I remember what my father always use to do when Jehovers witnesses came bye. Others would be rude and just slam the doo, which made them come bye more often.
My father let them in, served them tea, was very nice and then ingaged them into a 4 hour conversation in which he turned their world arround and fucked with their heads. A friend of mine once took a hitchhiker with him who than started threatening him and being scary, so my friend scared him by stepping on the gas and driving 100 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. Same here I propose. Dont see it as a pain in the ass, see it as an opportunity to make a point through amusing yourself on the cost of others. 
Tell your wife, "If this psychic is so great, why is she doing readings for a pittance when she could easily earn one million dollars by winning the JREF Challenge?"
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems? 
Learn to cold read, and you can read her future!
![[Image: grumpy-cat-and-jesus-meme-died-for-sins.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-_GaCN-f8ZFo%2FUNfmimTyf4I%2FAAAAAAAANmk%2FoakT_wL319U%2Fs1600%2Fgrumpy-cat-and-jesus-meme-died-for-sins.jpg) I would be a televangelist....but I have too much of a soul. 
Psychics are con artists. Tell her you don't want to waste your money. Or you're a pussy.
Ask the wife why the "psychic" isn't cleaning up in the stock market or playing the horses instead of conning suckers out of chump change?
 (August 14, 2013 at 6:02 pm)sarcasticgeographer Wrote: Recently my wife has wanted to see a psychic. One of her coworkers turned her on to this psychic, saying that she is really good and so on. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing said psychic. Yet, wife wants to drag me into this and I just don't know what to say.Ask the psychic, in your wife's presence; "Can you tell me who gave me herpes?" That should spice up the session. BTW, it's a joke - I mean no disrespect to those with herpes 
 (August 14, 2013 at 6:02 pm)sarcasticgeographer Wrote: Recently my wife has wanted to see a psychic. One of her coworkers turned her on to this psychic, saying that she is really good and so on. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing said psychic. Yet, wife wants to drag me into this and I just don't know what to say. I would go to get a 'reading'. Just go, "hmmm.." or "uh-huh", give nothing away and watch the psychic sweat 
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
I would probably say something to my wife like, "Why would I want to go to a psychic when I haven't had a lobotomy?"
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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