Long Island Medium

[vorlon13]

Door-to-door dildo salesman.

The in-home demos are a blast !!

[Alex K]

[Redbeard The Pink]

That's my point. How do you tell a grieving gullible widow that it isn't real if she is "really" feeling comforted by the scammer? Religion is successful for exactly the same reason.

Otherwise the Pope needs to be tried as the biggest mafia con artist of all time.

The Pope does need to be tried as the biggest con artist ever.


As annoying as I find religion, at least some/most of their pastors are just wrong and not actual, deliberate charlatans. Psychic frauds piss me off a lot more because those people know full well what they're actually doing. Maybe it's just because I'm a magician, but few things in this world make me angrier than a fake psychic.

[robvalue]

That is the interesting thing. Do any of these twats think they really have powers?

It's almost impossible to say. Have they deluded themselves so much that they're not consciously aware of all the cold reading they are doing?

It seems unlikely, but perhaps remotely possible in some cases.

Either way, the government wouldn't allow a crazy person to sell "general good luck" for 10 quid on the street, even if he genuinely thought he was selling something. So from a legal point of view, it should be irrelevant. It's up to the psychic to demonstrate they are actually selling what they claim to, and they cannot.

It doesn't seem a lot to ask. Would you buy a car without ever seeing the car? Without seeing any cars? Would it be unreasonable to ask for some evidence of the cars?