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Proof of Life After Death!!

Yeah, I know... she's suspended. So what? This thread has survived for weeks without her in the past when she took extended sabbaticals. And the thread isn't about Robin, as much as she'd like to have it so. It's about John Edward and fraudulent psychics of all stripes.

So, for lurkers' consideration and for Robin1 to reply to later if she wishes, I offer the following.

1. Robin1, "uuu" is not how you spell "Eew!"
2. I'm not buying the former coworker story. I call b.s. Why have you not remembered to pass on this anecdote prior to now? You put all faith in anecdotal evidence, which we're evidently supposed to clutch to our breasts and believe with all our hearts, but this "reading" with a bunch of clear winners (for people who believe anecdotes on the internet with no supporting evidence) you just sort of forgot about? I don't think so.
 
All my kids have J names. So did my brother and mother.
AND I've drunk milk directly from a cow. (Although that prediction makes little sense, when you ponder it. As opposed to drinking milk indirectly from a cow?)
AND I bought a fridge last year.
AND I have a sister.
AND, get this, I share a given name with Valerie Harper.

Wow. It must mean...nothing at all.

I'm enjoying reading the various tricks of cold reading being discussed here. I had a vague knowledge of it before, but the elaboration is interesting. Thanks.
 
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Both my parents and my stepmother all had names beginning with J, as does one of my sons. Two of my brothers have J middle names, and one of my sisters has a J name as a second middle name. OMG, this is amazing! Or not.
 
About cold reading tricks, one that really fascinated me is to always add a wild guess. If it flops, the mark will immediately forget it, but if it hits, it will be remembered forever as proof of awesome powers!
 
Warning: Another anecdote.

The other week I was chatting with a girl and apparently from thin air, I told her when her birthday was. That's what she initially thought anyway before I explained to her what had really happened.

From her point of view I had plucked 6th August and even mentioned the anniversary of the Enola Gay bombing of Hiroshima from nowhere.

What really happened was that she is about the same age as me (a few years younger) and had casually mentioned earlier that she had been one of the youngest in her year at school. So I already knew this made August the most likely birth month.
I told her off the bat that her birthday was in August and she looked shocked so before she had chance to say anything I guessed the beginning of August, her face told me I was correct so I guessed and mentioned an odd number and followed it up by the 7th, her face told me I was wrong so I quickly altered it to the 5th. She looked puzzled and then told me I was wrong and that it wasn't an odd number. I quickly replied then the 6th would be right.
At this point her jaw dropped and she said; You already knew it was the 6th and you were messing with me saying the dates both sides, because you mentioned the Enola Gay connection, how did you know my birthdate?

So one piece of hot reading (I knew she was one of the youngest in her year at school) and some guesses. The Enola Gay connection? Well as she is roughly the same age as me I figured that she'd have some New Romantic memories and had done nothing more than mention New Romantics, the rest was her making the connection with New Romantic group of the 80's OMD and their single Enola Gay.

I didn't charge for the reading.
 
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sleepy_lioness said:
My middle name begins with a J, as does my younger sister's. My mother's name begins with J, and my sister is about to marry a man whose name begins with J. As if that wasn't enough, when I was young I had a cat whose name began with J.

ETA: Ooo, I forgot one. My mother's maiden name (and therefore the name of her whole family) also begins with .... a J!!!

ETA again: I forgot about my father's brother, whose name too begins with ... do I need to go on?
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You can call me Jim or you can call me Jake but whatever you do don't call me late to the cake.:covereyes:crowded:
 
*One of my brothers has a J name!

*My favorite second cousin has a J name.

*My favorite fictional Jungle character has a J name!

Coincidence? Don't make me laugh! I have a blog!!!
 
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Slowvehicle said:
Perhaps we could get JE to poll the Departed and settle the Marmite vs. Vegemite question once and for all...?
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What question?
I've lived on Marmite, tried to swallow Vegemite and tasted a strange German imitation of Marmite in the interests of scientific progress.

Let's be real. There IS no question.


Foolmewunz said:
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1. Robin1, "uuu" is not how you spell "Eew!"....
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Thanks. Foolemewunz.
 
I have a brother who's name starts with "J".

I have a daughter who's name begins with "J".

This must be paranormal! There IS life after death! And God does exist. AND........
 
When my mother started having children, she decided she would name us all J names, since there were so many that she loved. Oddly, out of 8 children, only one of my sisters scored a J, and that only as a middle name. But since she wanted to name us J names, I think it's only reasonable to think that JE was trying to get a message through to me from my mother. I wonder what she wanted?

I guess I'll go upstairs and ask her.
 
Empress said:
When my mother started having children, she decided she would name us all J names, since there were so many that she loved. Oddly, out of 8 children, only one of my sisters scored a J, and that only as a middle name. But since she wanted to name us J names, I think it's only reasonable to think that JE was trying to get a message through to me from my mother. I wonder what she wanted?

I guess I'll go upstairs and ask her.
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...I'm seeing new appliances...
 
Oh My God!!

In college, I had the hots for a girl named Julie. How did you know?
 
This is how these "I have proof/evidence!" threads always go (there have been many of them) . . .

(1) - An enthusiastic believer starts a thread claiming to have proof/evidence of a paranormal phenomenon.

(2) - Instead of providing actual proof/evidence however they merely provide anecdotal evidence, argument from incredulity, and the strength of their own belief.

(3) - Sceptical forum members point out that this isn’t actual proof/evidence and ask for the same.

(4) - The enthusiastic believer insists this IS actual proof/evidence (they begin to use all caps).

(5) - Sceptical forum members explain why it isn’t actual proof/evidence and give examples of what might be.

(6) - The enthusiastic believer begins to insult the sceptical forum members by calling them “CLOSED MINDED!” (and much worse). They continuously repeat their anecdotal evidence, argument from incredulity, and the strength of their own belief claiming it REALLY IS actual proof/evidence (text size can increase and colour change to red)

(7) - The above sequence repeats many times until the enthusiastic believer leaves the thread offering nothing but insults while claiming superiority and victory.

(8) - Actual proof/evidence of any paranormal phenomenon is never provided.
 
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ynot said:
This is how these "I have proof/evidence!" threads always go (there have been many of them) . . .

(1) - An enthusiastic believer starts a thread claiming to have proof/evidence of a paranormal phenomenon.

(2) - Instead of providing actual proof/evidence however they merely provide anecdotal evidence, argument from incredulity, and the strength of their own belief.

(3) - Sceptical forum members point out that this isn’t actual proof/evidence and ask for the same.

(4) - The enthusiastic believer insists this IS actual proof/evidence (they begin to use all caps).

(5) - Sceptical forum members explain why it isn’t actual proof/evidence and give examples of what might be.

(6) - The enthusiastic believer begins to insult the sceptical forum members by calling them “CLOSED MINDED!” (and much worse). They continuously repeat their anecdotal evidence, argument from incredulity, and the strength of their own belief claiming it REALLY IS actual proof/evidence (text size can increase and colour change to red)

(7) - The above sequence repeats many times until the enthusiastic believer leaves the thread offering nothing but insults while claiming superiority and victory.

(8) - Actual proof/evidence of any paranormal phenomenon is never provided.
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And after the enthusiastic believer has committed 'suicide by mod', the thread lives on... so hang on, there REALLY IS life after death!
 
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