Am I Popularizing Sylvia Browne?

[RSLancastr]

Eeney: there WAS information on the web about some of browne's gaffes before SSB went up. For example, Randi had written of the Opal Jo Jennings reading long before I did. And had SSB not broken the story of browne's involvement with the Shawn Hornbeck case, someone else would have. As I say on the site's home page, I wanted to consolidate it all into one place. And yes, you and QG have played key roles in bringing out stories which had not been covered before, and probably would not have been without your diligence. Many thanks for that.

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Well, I meant the murder/kidnap cases. There were only one or two before QG and I got to work.

I tried looking for whatever Randi wrote about Opal Jo Jennings and couldn't find anything. Randi wrote about Lynda McClelland before you did, though, if memory serves.

 

[Rasmus]

As I've said in this thread, I've gotten that question, too. Someone- a close friend- accused me of "Just giving Sylvia Browne more attention!" and suggested that skeptics just ignore her, like you do with all pests.

I am not sure that calling people "pests" should ever be appropriate. Anyway - since when do you ignore pests? And does that ever make things better?

I've had the occasional plague of fruit flies and once or twice a mouse managed to sneak into my parent's house too. None of these have been ignored, though.

 

[Senex]

This.

To Senex- it isn't just Robert who gets asked if he isn't popularizing Browne.

As I've said in this thread, I've gotten that question, too. Someone- a close friend- accused me of "Just giving Sylvia Browne more attention!" and suggested that skeptics just ignore her, like you do with all pests.

I understand.

 

[Soapy Sam]

We have a whole apartment now!

While I was in the hospital after my stroke, I often wished that my inlaws (from my first marriage) would come by to visit me. Once I remembered that they had both died several years before, I stopped wishing for a visit. At one point I even freaked out one of my daughters by asking her if she had seen them lately. She replied "uh... Dad, they are both dead. For years now. So, no, I haven't seen them lately."

Oops.

Pretty common after brain injury for early memories to come to the fore- perhaps because they are somehow "stronger" than later memories because we had "cleaner tapes" back then. When my father was hospitalised with alzheimer's and other problems, he recalled things like his WW2 army and rifle numbers clearly, but had no idea who I was.
It's significant you say "Once I remembered that they had died.." after that ,you stopped expecting them- but it wasn't enough for your daughter to remind you. Your brain had to reestablish it's own memory to put a sensible world picture back in place. Brains are wierd things. Wonderful and wierd.