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Stop Sylvia: yet another nice email

RSLancastr

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Yet another, which I have been given permission to share;

Hello Mr. Lancaster
I hope you are still on the mend, and feeling well.
I would like to thank you for your web site.
The positive, spiritual talks of Sylvia Browne have helped me through some hard times,
and for that, I have been grateful.
However, there have been red flags that I picked up on, and I really didn't know how I would be able to verify/not verify them.
I am very glad to have found your web site, which is a wealth of information that I have been wanting to find. I stayed up all night reading as many articles and emails that I could.
It is difficult to accept that who you thought was a hero, is not.
I am very thankful to you to provide access to "The Other Side"(excuse the pun),
and have all the information so that I can make a decision based on all of the facts.
Keep up the good work, and thank you.
Keep getting better!
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Yay! How wonderful!

I wish this person had specified what those "red flags" were. It would be interesting to hear what made him/her suspicious of Browne.

It's also interesting that he/she says that he/she wanted to find this information. Most of the people who have had their eyes opened have had it done against their will. Like drug addicts, once it was all over they realized it was better for them and didn't wish to return- but they were forced kicking and screaming into the truth in the first place.
 
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I am curious about the red flags too.

When I think back on my life, I think I was often on the lookout for red flags. For me they would include inconsistencies or contradictions in what the person said or wrote, charging high prices (though the consensus seemed to be that it was OK to charge enough to make a living), and of course I would think that someone who taught something that went against something I thought I "knew" to be true was either a fake or being misled by dark forces.

So - red flags, just not skeptic red flags.

What a nice email, RSL. Thanks for sharing it.
 
I got a reply. there were many red flags including:

the Angel wings/nowings thing

How rude and uncaring Browne is

The "I don't smoke" thing

there are no lists of her "greatest predictions" on her site

how much she charges

how repetitive her books are

how often her books come out
 
That's a red flag of some sort- but not really.

If Browne were pleasant enough and polite, she'd STILL be a fraud!
 
Angel wings/no angel wings - I didn't think most people had been around long enough to remember Sylvia/Francine saying angels had no wings. I wonder if she's referring to the articles on your web site that most influenced her, too.

On second thought, it may be mentioned in the JOS books. It is still mentioned in the Novus catechism, which apparently no one has ever bothered to update in all these years.

At any rate, what a nice letter and I, also, was grateful for your site.

It's so frustrating to TRY to research a psychic or medium and come up empty. And alternately, it is frustrating for someone who has information on a psychic or medium that could help prevent other people from being deceived but no real way to share it.

I do hope that there will be many, many Stop Sites in the years to come.
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
That's a red flag of some sort- but not really.

If Browne were pleasant enough and polite, she'd STILL be a fraud!
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Of course. But when someone claims to be so spiritual and holier-than-thou and closely connected with God and the spirits, those who believe in such things would expect someone like that to be - oh, I dunno - a nice person - and not the heartless, rude and snappish person that Browne presents in her television appearances. I have received email from people who "got to know" Browne through her books, and were thoroughly shocked when they finally saw her on television.
 
ExMinister said:
Angel wings/no angel wings - I didn't think most people had been around long enough to remember Sylvia/Francine saying angels had no wings. I wonder if she's referring to the articles on your web site that most influenced her, too.
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She said it in some of her earlier books. As layed out in the article on my site.

On second thought, it may be mentioned in the JOS books. It is still mentioned in the Novus catechism, which apparently no one has ever bothered to update in all these years.

At any rate, what a nice letter and I, also, was grateful for your site.
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Thanks, ExM. And I was grateful you guys found it.

It's so frustrating to TRY to research a psychic or medium and come up empty. And alternately, it is frustrating for someone who has information on a psychic or medium that could help prevent other people from being deceived but no real way to share it.

I do hope that there will be many, many Stop Sites in the years to come.
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I need a ton more energy then.
 
She of course knows that any such list would immediately be deconstructed by skeptics. Her days of making claims which go unchallenged are far behind her now.
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ETA: I wonder if there are times now when she starts to put a statement in her newsleetter, books or website, but then thinks "No, Lancaster would have a field day with that!"

If so, it must be a bummer.
 
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Thanks, Hawk, for a flashback to my distant, not-so-great past.

I have always been about the most light-complected person I know. When I was in grade school, I was even far lighter than I am now. I had many nicknames back then, mostly things about my grades, like "brainiac" and "poindexter." But some were about my lack of a tan. In second grade, one girl (Lee Ann Hall - sigh) started calling me "White Sheep" on the playground. I thought she was calling me "White Chief" so I started calling her "Purple Squaw" much to her confusion. we called each other those things all the way through graduation day from high school. Hawk, back to your post: others called me "Casper, the Friendly Ghost" including once when I was at the beach wearing only trunks and a black family all called out to me "Hey, Casper!"
 
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