StopSylvia email: "so filled with hate"

Another email from the same correspondent.

As you get older you will realize that often what masquerades as facts indeed is not. I am suggesting your life would be much more healing, if it were spent performing community service, than dealing in hate. I saw a forum where "you" ( meaning the collective you) as a group were going to send in fake ghost pics and then cry the're fakes for Pauls book. Haha, that will teach them. OMG I feel as if I am in High School reading this stuff. Negativity just creates more negativity. With that I am done with all this. As you probably know Sylvia is ill, and I would rather pray for the both of you than continue to dialogue. So God be with you and don't write back.
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Evidently I am not old enough yet.

I will try to resist the urge to reply.
 
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I am suggesting your life would be much more healing, if it were spent performing community service, than dealing in hate.
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Exposing charlatans is more community service than your correspondent will ever dream of.

So God be with you and don't write back.
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Translation: I WILL have the last word, damn you!!!!
 
I doubt any further contact would change her mind. She has made up her mind that you "hate".
 
"I have actually read them, and frankly if you were right, which I don't believe (people are always willing to believe the worst about people), You are no better by doing this than you accuse her of being. It is not your job to police grown adults. They are not victims, they sign up. What you do is just mean. My letter was not spam by the way. It appears no one can have a different opinion. If you focused on what you need to change in yourself, and not someone else, you would a lot healthier and happier."

This person did not read anything other than the title and what was needed to email you on your site.
To reply with a lie only shows how much the truth threatens their world view.
I know this persons claim of reading is false because they follow the false claim with "if you were right".

There is nothing on your site for you to be right about. A quick and simple read would say that much at least to anyone.
You show a claim from Sylvia then ask some very basic common sense questions about that claim. It is up to the reader to answer those questions.
If they answer honestly then a whole slew of other questions pop up.

You ain't never been no hater playa. Except maybe when it comes to me.;)
 
Wow, that is, erhm, obnoxious.

When you read "As you get older you will realize that often what masquerades as facts indeed is not", you must have wanted to write back something along the lines of "Right back at you" or "Sorry, I can't reply right now. I have to sweep up the pieces of a broken irony meter off my floor".

Well, you obviously wouldn't say anything like that.

You might think it, though.
 
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After reading about Opal Jo Jennings and Shawn Hornbeck, the last conclusion I could have reached, with any honesty at all, is "Often what masquerades as fact indeed is not."

How old will I have to be before I can read about Sylvia Browne telling Opal Jo Jennings grandmother Opal had been kidnapped into slavery, and I will realize it was all indeed good?

When we're 70, is it suddenly obvious that it isn't very nice to say anything negative about the predators and con artists in this world?

Maybe it's a sign of spiritual wisdom to realize that people like Robert Lancaster with StopSylvia, or Mark Klaas maybe, who started the Klaas Kids Foundation after the murder of his daughter, should have kept their outrage and negativity to themselves, instead thinking a bunch of happy thoughts and praying?

As I get older, all that happens is that feel-good positive thinking blather, used as a way to excuse bad behavior and do nothing truly helpful, just gets on my nerves even worse.
 
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Negativity just creates more negativity.
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Just one more tiny little rant then I'll be done.

Does negativity really just create more negativity??

I hear this so often. Also that it's bad karma to say the truth if it happens to be negative; therefore, it's good karma to hide/not tell a truth that is negative.

So let me just point out that sometimes being negative is a good thing. At times it is probably better karma, if such a thing existed, than being positive, if relating negative information is going to help people avoid harm.

So, "Cigarette smoking can cause lung cancer," is negative. "Buying a home with financing that you might not be able to afford in the future is not wise," is negative. "If your children talk to strange men offering them candy from parked cars, they might be abducted." Negative. "Some psychics are deliberate con artists, here to take your money, and here's some evidence," is negative.

All of that is negative! Does it lead to more negativity?

Or does it not result in something positive if you heed the warning?

Not only that, but should you not be grateful to the person willing to share this negative information with you since, if heeded, it will have helped you?

If it helps you, then can you honestly say that negativity only creates more negativity?

Ok, so this is not to pick on just this ONE correspondent since she is far from alone in saying it.

I just wish people would think it through.

Joey McGee said:
You should at least send them the link for this thread :D
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But apparently NOT the one about Chris' ghost book. :)

I didn't agree with the fake photo idea, but the sentiment behind it is constructive.

Trying to expose charlatanism is an honorable thing to do. Some ideas are better than others, true.

Unfortunately, if a person cannot see the charlatanism, then obviously it would appear senseless and negative, especially to someone who thinks their favorite guru is being picked on unfairly, more so if they think that person is sincere.
 
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Perhaps RSL should add a page to the site titled "Tips to Resolve Your Cognitive Dissonance". :D
 
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No, it wouldn't.

But I must confess, Snape, I was tempted to post the one from "Myotismon, vampire King of the Night".

and the one which predicted my death the next day (some four years ago or more. I spent the appointed time in the unofficial JREF chat room, where we all did a countdown to...nothing. A tad anticlimactic, but it was fun discussing my impending doom with friends.
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I just thought of something, RSL:
What are the odds some of the dumb e-mails you get come from bored high schoolers who gets a kick out of being an obnxious e-mail troll.
 
"When you're older"? Really? REALLY?

Does she think you're some kid on a computer with nothing better to do? As opposed to an adult on a .... oh nevermind.

But really? How much older does she want you to get, Robert? And I'm wondering if she's older than you or just more "spiritually mature". :D
 
Any advice for gently dealing with psychics?

Seems one answer to that question is "emulate the conduct of Robert S. Lancaster". I'm really impressed by how you always manage to come across as collected and calm in your texts. Wished we had you as a teacher back when I was training to become a journalist.

But that's really the only approach that works, right? Psychics, and those that believe in their claims, seem to put a lot of emotions into their various forms of communication. And it's usually fairly bipolar - either heaven-on-earth good news, grace to everyone and fluffy kittens full of hugs - or the end is upon us, everyone is an enemy and murderdeathkill. Either way the best you can hope for is understanding their opinion. Sort of hard to create a text that moves a discussion forward if you're simply stating what you're feeling over and over again.

So polite but serious, honest but undramatic, works well as a counter to that?
 
Hmmm...

I actually hate Sylvia Browne and all her ilk... mediums, faith healers, etc.

Is that bad?
 
As you get older you will realize that often what masquerades as facts indeed is not. I am suggesting your life would be much more healing, if it were spent performing community service, than dealing in hate. I saw a forum where "you" ( meaning the collective you) as a group were going to send in fake ghost pics and then cry the're fakes for Pauls book. Haha, that will teach them. OMG I feel as if I am in High School reading this stuff. Negativity just creates more negativity. With that I am done with all this. As you probably know Sylvia is ill, and I would rather pray for the both of you than continue to dialogue. So God be with you and don't write back.
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The author of this comment is a liar. There is no evidence of "hate" at the Stop Sylvia site just dismay. So when the author accuses you of "hate" she is lying. Why is she lying? Because rather than discuss what you have found out about Sylvia she prefers to discuss you. This achives the purpose of shifting the focus from Sylvia's dubious claims to your alleged attitude towards Sylvia.

It is typical shoot the messenger type of "logic". I'm amazed at your forbearance to such a stream of contemptible bilge.
 
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