(August 2, 2015 at 10:59 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: You want to know what is sad? My wife and I see these psychics all the time at large dog events that we attend. Even sadder, they do a decent amount of business. I've spoken to some that have paid for the service and at least half said they did it for shits and giggles. The rest either believed (some out of desperation because their dog was sick) or wouldn't talk about their experience.
Plus, you wouldn't believe how many are Dr's of homeopathy, naturopathy or chiropractic. Or maybe you would. Of course they all have their remedies that they push.
That's the thing I don't get. If they have a problem with their pet, take it to the vet, not the charlatan pet psychic at a large dog convention.
I wonder how one becomes a pet psychic, and then becomes successful at it. It seems that that would be tough. I remember on the Animal Planet network, there was a sort of weird woman that did that, and I remember thinking that this person was full of shit. I was irritated when watching it, even when I was in my early teens. However, I did honestly believe in psychics, ghosts, alien abductions, bigfoot, exorcisms, and jeebus into my early 20's (jeebus was mid 20s), because I was raised by people that heavily believed what they saw on T.V., and naturally fell into the same pattern. Luckily, I don't believe in that stuff anymore. Too bad I can't say that for the ones who raised me.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
