What's your opinion on Lewis Black's psychic?
Lewis Black talks about his relationship with a psychic called Michael that started in 1998.
It begins with Lewis claiming that this psychic simply knew about him while talking to his friend, but then he admits that he was already a public person. What also surprised Lewis is that this psychic foretold that he will have a spectacular career—whatever that means—but then again, by 1998, Lewis was already in several movies and TV shows, like Woody Allen's movie "Hannah and Her Sisters," Jacob's Ladder, Law & Order, Mad About You, etc. So that doesn't sound like a spectacular guess.
Then it struck Lewis as a miracle, the ability of this psychic to know that he is filming a TV pilot. But filming pilots is hardly a secretive thing and could have been in newspapers/on the internet. Plus, the psychic had access to his friends, like that Tamara.
The next "miracle" was when Lewis came home and discovered a message from the psychic telling him not to dismiss the idea of having children after he talked to his friends about kids. That could have been a lucky guess, probably among other things he mentioned that Lewis ignored.
Then he had an official psychic meeting with Michael, where he told him that his brother has cancer, which, according to Lewis, he couldn't know. But then again, they were already very close friends at this time, so he could have told him, or the psychic had access to his home and similar personal things where he could have learned about it (it is his job to know these things, and they will go out of their way to get the info), or he could have learned it from Lewis's friends that also go and visit the same psychic. Plus, it looks like the psychic was telling him that his brother will be cured, but his brother died, which Lewis doesn't see as a psychic's miss but rather blames himself for not sending his brother to alternative medicine "healers," and that the purpose was to help Lewis get through it psychologically.
At the end, Lewis claims that he never paid him anything, but then again, that's how these psychics frequently work. For example, it is said that psychics in the Philippines who perform psychic surgeries don't charge anything, but if you go there, you will see that they expect donations. So maybe Lewis borrows him money that this guy never returns or just gives him monetary gifts—since they are "friends," after all.
Lewis Black talks about his relationship with a psychic called Michael that started in 1998.
It begins with Lewis claiming that this psychic simply knew about him while talking to his friend, but then he admits that he was already a public person. What also surprised Lewis is that this psychic foretold that he will have a spectacular career—whatever that means—but then again, by 1998, Lewis was already in several movies and TV shows, like Woody Allen's movie "Hannah and Her Sisters," Jacob's Ladder, Law & Order, Mad About You, etc. So that doesn't sound like a spectacular guess.
Then it struck Lewis as a miracle, the ability of this psychic to know that he is filming a TV pilot. But filming pilots is hardly a secretive thing and could have been in newspapers/on the internet. Plus, the psychic had access to his friends, like that Tamara.
The next "miracle" was when Lewis came home and discovered a message from the psychic telling him not to dismiss the idea of having children after he talked to his friends about kids. That could have been a lucky guess, probably among other things he mentioned that Lewis ignored.
Then he had an official psychic meeting with Michael, where he told him that his brother has cancer, which, according to Lewis, he couldn't know. But then again, they were already very close friends at this time, so he could have told him, or the psychic had access to his home and similar personal things where he could have learned about it (it is his job to know these things, and they will go out of their way to get the info), or he could have learned it from Lewis's friends that also go and visit the same psychic. Plus, it looks like the psychic was telling him that his brother will be cured, but his brother died, which Lewis doesn't see as a psychic's miss but rather blames himself for not sending his brother to alternative medicine "healers," and that the purpose was to help Lewis get through it psychologically.
At the end, Lewis claims that he never paid him anything, but then again, that's how these psychics frequently work. For example, it is said that psychics in the Philippines who perform psychic surgeries don't charge anything, but if you go there, you will see that they expect donations. So maybe Lewis borrows him money that this guy never returns or just gives him monetary gifts—since they are "friends," after all.
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"
