RE: US man sues psychic who 'promised to remove ex-girlfriend curse'
October 6, 2021 at 10:53 am
(October 6, 2021 at 10:05 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 6, 2021 at 9:29 am)Brian37 Wrote: Certainly the word and label exists sure. But they do not have the power of anything real. It is still a con.
Just like the lady in the box isn't really being sawed in half in the magic show.
It is a mental con on their part. It only seems real to the people who are gullible enough to buy their crap.
If one wants to believe in Santa or Unicorns bad enough, they will.
https://medium.com/skeptikai/the-real-st...b9a7220d34
Ok then, why is it widely attributed to P.T. Barnum then? If he didn't originally say that, could it be said he repeated it and popularized it?
Could it be like some of Edison's claimed inventions that he really didn't invent, but merely beat his competitors to the patent office?
You should read the article you linked, then you’d know.
Quote:Rochester Institute of Technology professor Nicholas DiFonzo described in his 2008 book The Watercooler Effect, that Barnum’s biography could not verify this attribution at all. Rather, it was likely that a banker named David Hannum from Syracuse, New York who actually said it.
The article also mentions that it was linked to Barnum due to the Cardiff Giant double hoax. But there’s simply no evidence that Barnum ever said it. He was too savvy a businessman to risk alienating his own customers.
Boru
RIGHT, so why do you think I posted that link.
Do you ever consider that when you try to correct me, I never double check?
Again, you spend so much time thinking I always think I am right, and because you are not on my end physically in reality, you never see the amount of times I check. I am sorry that it bothers you that I don't shit rainbows and am not perfect, but that is your baggage not mine.
When you said Barnum never said that, right after you posted that, I did a google search and came up with that link. Why do you hate it when I agree that I got it wrong?
