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Rincewind said:
Of course, now Chris will be perfectly accurate....

After all, his mom should be sending him the goods from the other side now?

OK, sorry, couldn't resist...

I'll get my coat.
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Yes, but if she is as accurate from Over There as she was from Over Here, poor Chris would likely inherit her nearly zero percent accuracy rating! :D
 
Speaking of Chris and charlatans in general, my family and I all decided on a code word just in case one of us dies and the others get the crazy urge to go to a psychic or medium.

Everyone should have a code word. You either hear this word or it's not me. Period. I don't care if they knew the name of your first girlfriend and that you just bought a time share. You hear this word or it's a sham. And "dog" is not the same thing as "Lassie." It's "Lassie" or nothing. Like that.

You know, if everyone did that, it might eventually put most of these shysters out of business.
 
ExMinister said:
Speaking of Chris and charlatans in general, my family and I all decided on a code word just in case one of us dies and the others get the crazy urge to go to a psychic or medium.

You know, if everyone did that, it might eventually put most of these shysters out of business.
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Dibs on "Cheese-Whiz"!
 
ExMinister said:
Speaking of Chris and charlatans in general, my family and I all decided on a code word just in case one of us dies and the others get the crazy urge to go to a psychic or medium.

Everyone should have a code word. You either hear this word or it's not me. Period. I don't care if they knew the name of your first girlfriend and that you just bought a time share. You hear this word or it's a sham. And "dog" is not the same thing as "Lassie." It's "Lassie" or nothing. Like that.

You know, if everyone did that, it might eventually put most of these shysters out of business.
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I've got a couple of those. Words that only my daughters would know.
 
I hadn't thought about it, but there are several expressions that no one but muy daughter and I would recognize. I'll have to tell her about this discussion....

Neither of us believes in an afterlife, but asking a supposed psychic to reveal the expression would serve to deflect (and expose) possible scams.

No, what am I thinking? The supposed psychic would claim interference or static, or whatever.
 
xterra said:
I hadn't thought about it, but there are several expressions that no one but muy daughter and I would recognize. I'll have to tell her about this discussion....

Neither of us believes in an afterlife, but asking a supposed psychic to reveal the expression would serve to deflect (and expose) possible scams.

No, what am I thinking? The supposed psychic would claim interference or static, or whatever.
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Actually, talk to your daughter about that too. No interference, no static, no excuses will be accepted. They either get it or they don't. Too much is at stake there.

That's a good point. I'll talk to my family about that too. Be prepared.

But that's another thing: They don't have to mention the code word at all. Just wait through the reading, see what happens, leave. If they are determined, rinse, repeat. But no settling. No excuses.
 
Roadtoad said:
So, if I mentioned ours is "cunnilingus," that would be a no-go?
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No-go.

Too bad. It would have been fun to hear a medium come up with that one.

"I'm seeing a... I'm seeing... well, er, I'm getting a word that sounds like, uh...."

That would be worth the million. It really would.
 
ExMinister said:
Actually, talk to your daughter about that too. No interference, no static, no excuses will be accepted. They either get it or they don't. Too much is at stake there.

That's a good point. I'll talk to my family about that too. Be prepared.

But that's another thing: They don't have to mention the code word at all. Just wait through the reading, see what happens, leave. If they are determined, rinse, repeat. But no settling. No excuses.
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It seems to me that your last paragraph would be a good tactic if -- but only if -- one wanted to find out for oneself whether a particular person is a genuine psychic, assuming that such a person actually exists.

However, if one wanted to publicly verify or expose the person, one would have to have a procedure for proving that the code word is known and verifiable in advance of the reading/performance/whatever.

I suppose the put-it-in-an-envelope-and-mail-it-to-oneself trick would do, but even then someone could cry foul.

Another would be to have the answer in such an envelope, tell the person that you are awaiting a message from the deceased, and if the person gives a message, then reveal the envelope in your pocket and -- either the message is what's written on the paper in the envelope or it isn't.

I think we're back to the thread Robin1 started about about "really real" psychics vs all the fake real psychics.


ETA, where I have written "psychic," feel free to substitute "medium" if you prefer. But why are they always medium? Aren't some of them rather large?
 
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xterra said:
It seems to me that your last paragraph would be a good tactic if -- but only if -- one wanted to find out for oneself whether a particular person is a genuine psychic, assuming that such a person actually exists.

However, if one wanted to publicly verify or expose the person, one would have to have a procedure for proving that the code word is known and verifiable in advance of the reading/performance/whatever.

I suppose the put-it-in-an-envelope-and-mail-it-to-oneself trick would do, but even then someone could cry foul.

Another would be to have the answer in such an envelope, tell the person that you are awaiting a message from the deceased, and if the person gives a message, then reveal the envelope in your pocket and -- either the message is what's written on the paper in the envelope or it isn't.

I think we're back to the thread Robin1 started about about "really real" psychics vs all the fake real psychics.


ETA, where I have written "psychic," feel free to substitute "medium" if you prefer. But why are they always medium? Aren't some of them rather large?
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You're right, I was just thinking that if the idea caught on, and people agreed on a code word with their families in advance, if enough people did this, eventually it would put the psychics out of business as obviously they would fail to produce the code words more often than not.

It occurred to me that believers AND skeptics would be open to this.

But no, I wasn't really thinking about it as a way to disprove psychics/mediums in a public sense.
 
Of course, since the spirits have so much trouble getting past "a name beginning with K" or "an M sound", a real code word might be too much...
 
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