RE: psychics suck
August 12, 2017 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2017 at 2:04 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Yeah you should read "Psychic Mafia" book. It's by an ex psychic who describes how psychics gather data and share it among eachother about personal stuff of people surrounding them. How they steal people's stuff from their homes so they would ask their psychic abilities to find them. And then the seanses. The whole bullshit about trumpets and ectoplasm. Sometimes they go so far with ectoplasm that they have people pulling blankets over their heads pretending to be deasesd relatives in form of ectoplasm and they go so far that they even have sex as ectoplasms with clients.
But also what I gather is that it is a form of Christianity where people expect this kind of performances, not just that you dress up for Sunday, go to church and vegetate for an hour or two, they want more. It goes so far that sometimes one spouse tries to persuade other spouse how fake it is and then the psychic takes that rational spouse to his office and tells him these are the files, these are the stolen stuff and you can't do anything about it. Or in the end when the author of the book told his congregation in the church that it was all fake and he is a liar most of them did not want to believe and did not care. When people want to believe in something there is nothing that can discourage them.
But also what I gather is that it is a form of Christianity where people expect this kind of performances, not just that you dress up for Sunday, go to church and vegetate for an hour or two, they want more. It goes so far that sometimes one spouse tries to persuade other spouse how fake it is and then the psychic takes that rational spouse to his office and tells him these are the files, these are the stolen stuff and you can't do anything about it. Or in the end when the author of the book told his congregation in the church that it was all fake and he is a liar most of them did not want to believe and did not care. When people want to believe in something there is nothing that can discourage them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
