Ask Sylvia Browne - Get nonsense

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Sylvia Browne has an Ask Sylvia feature on her web site now.

Q. Sylvia, You have mentioned in several of your books that Mark Twain is writing and teaching on the other side. You are from Kansas City, MO? I'm sure you know better, but is it Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens? What persona or both is he performing as? Also, in this respect; is Francis Bacon writing as William Shakespeare or any of his other aliases? Just wanted to know your slant on this.

A. Francis Bacon is not writing as William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is writing as himself and Mark Twain is also.
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I guess that means Samuel Clemens is over there writing as Samuel Clemens, too. Maybe he and Mark Twain know each other? :rolleyes:

Also, isn't William Shakespeare thought to be a pseudonym?

BTW, you have to join the "Inner Circle" club, for a membership fee, to ask a question like this of Sylvia.
 
Is this a live thing or post by thing?

Would be nice if someone asked about the MDC she's been dodging for... How long has it been now? 9 years?
 
You know, when i read questions posed to a psychic, i always, before reading the answer think " how would i, a person with no psychic ability, answer" ( and by this i mean if i was attempting to con someone into thinking i have psychic ability.).

Surprise surprise , her answer was exactly what i would have said. No one can possibly attack your knowledge if you say " no he is using the popular name.". If she really did have access to the afterlife i would expect more of at least a reasoning as to why he chose to drop any pseudonym. But then, of course someone could call you on " but when he was alive that was not at all his opinion." Of course she can always retreat to the " he changed" line, but there is only so many times she can do that before she seems slightly sillier than she is now.
 
GrandMasterFox said:
Is this a live thing or post by thing?
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Appears to be like a blog, with general updates.

Would be nice if someone asked about the MDC she's been dodging for... How long has it been now? 9 years?
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The answer is obvious. If you’re not really psychic and can’t prove it, you don’t take up a challenge specifically designed to discredit you. Instead, you hem, haw, and slander that challenge, those who set it up, and anyone associated with it. You drag it through the mud until all your followers are repeating the same party lines, regardless of truth. Any detractors are simply adding more bulk to your party-line, showing exactly why you would never make yourself a part of such a scam.
 
Thanks for the Shakespeare links.

Browne not knowing that Samuel Clemens IS Mark Twain doesn't surprise me. What DOES surprise me is that she gets away with responses like that. Maybe she just worded it strangely but I doubt it.

It seems to be an ongoing question and answer section where she selects certain email questions to answer and publish on the site. The catch is that you have to pay to become an Inner Circle member to even ask a question.
 
sadhatter said:
You know, when i read questions posed to a psychic, i always, before reading the answer think " how would i, a person with no psychic ability, answer" ( and by this i mean if i was attempting to con someone into thinking i have psychic ability.).

Surprise surprise , her answer was exactly what i would have said. No one can possibly attack your knowledge if you say " no he is using the popular name.". If she really did have access to the afterlife i would expect more of at least a reasoning as to why he chose to drop any pseudonym. But then, of course someone could call you on " but when he was alive that was not at all his opinion." Of course she can always retreat to the " he changed" line, but there is only so many times she can do that before she seems slightly sillier than she is now.
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Like I said, I really doubt she even knows that Samuel Clemens wrote as Mark Twain. If she did, she would have said, "Samuel Clemens still writes as Mark Twain." I doubt she even caught it.

You're so right, Sadhatter. I read through the questions and answers and I could have answered every one of them the same way she did. How hard is it to make up a name for a spirit guide? Or to reassure someone that everything will work out or that they need more self-esteem.

It IS awful to read her tell a woman that her ex-husband is a dark entity. I believe she does so much damage telling people things like that.

Overall the questions and answers are probably pretty harmless. Telling one woman that her son should go into real estate. Or implying that eating a high-protein diet can help fibromyalgia. Harmless, I guess, if you don't count possibly misleading someone into a career that's all wrong for them, or providing false hope to someone suffering from a health condition.

RobRoy said:
Appears to be like a blog, with general updates.



The answer is obvious. If you’re not really psychic and can’t prove it, you don’t take up a challenge specifically designed to discredit you. Instead, you hem, haw, and slander that challenge, those who set it up, and anyone associated with it. You drag it through the mud until all your followers are repeating the same party lines, regardless of truth. Any detractors are simply adding more bulk to your party-line, showing exactly why you would never make yourself a part of such a scam.
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Yep. This is true. The last excuse I read was where she said that she wouldn't take the test because James Randi is an atheist.
 
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See, I thought she was saying that Mark Twain was also writing as Shakespeare. Not a clear writer, that woman. Did someone say somewhere that she was once an English teacher?
 
That question has to be someone messing with Sylvia. Has to be.

Yes, Browne was once an English teacher at a Catholic elementary school (or was it high school?).

She reportedly sucked at that, too.

ETA: There is good evidence that William Shakespeare existed. We have his baptismal records, marriage record, record of his career, record of his retirement and record of his death. However, we know very little of his private life, there are huge holes in his biography and there is a lot of speculation as to how much of what he is alleged to have wrote is actually his work.
 
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EeneyMinnieMoe said:
That question has to be someone messing with Sylvia. Has to be.

Yes, Browne was once an English teacher at a Catholic elementary school (or was it high school?).

She reportedly sucked at that, too.

ETA: There is good evidence that William Shakespeare existed. We have his baptismal records, marriage record, record of his career, record of his retirement and record of his death. However, there is a lot of speculation as to how much of what he is alleged to have wrote is actually his work.
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There is also evidence that Shakespeare wrote, or in some cases co-wrote, the works attributed to him.
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
That question has to be someone messing with Sylvia. Has to be.

Yes, Browne was once an English teacher at a Catholic elementary school (or was it high school?).

She reportedly sucked at that, too.

ETA: There is good evidence that William Shakespeare existed. We have his baptismal records, marriage record, record of his career, record of his retirement and record of his death. However, we know very little of his private life, there are huge holes in his biography and there is a lot of speculation as to how much of what he is alleged to have wrote is actually his work.
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If not, I wonder if that person is still a fan!

It's hard to believe that she could ever have been an English teacher, her use of the English language being really pretty awful. I'd forgotten that she says she used to be a teacher. I used to transcribe her lectures occasionally. If anything, she speaks like someone without a college education at all, mixing up verb tenses constantly. When you hear her speak in person, it's really hard not to notice.

Maybe, just maybe, a person could make it through 4 years of college, as she claims to have done, with a degree that required very few written papers and only a basic grasp of good writing and speaking skills, but to claim to have a bachelor's degree in English and speak like that (?).

Then again, based on the evidence Robert's collected so far on his site, it looks as though that degree may not exist.
 
When English was my minor for an undergraduate degree in Political Science at city college, at the middle-of-the-road safety school that I went to instead of going to NYU as I should have (something that I still regret), I spoke and wrote better than Browne.

Not to brag.

Not that speaking better than Browne is anything to brag about.

As a matter of fact, I think I spoke and wrote better than Browne when I was an 18-year-old undeclared major/undeclared minor in English 120. I think almost everybody in English 120 did. Even the ones who had grown up in the ghetto, had gone to terrible New York City high schools and often made mistakes common in Black English or made the mistakes common to native speakers of Spanish.

English 220, there's no question that they did! Every 19-year-old, 18-year-old and occasional 20-year-old there would have failed the class (or at least gathered a lot of Cs and Ds) had they made the mistakes in their papers that Browne makes in her speech.

And there were some pretty dim and uneducated kids there.
 
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ExMinister said:
Yep. This is true. The last excuse I read was where she said that she wouldn't take the test because James Randi is an atheist.
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See, perfect example. As if her powers are somehow negated by atheism, or the money is somehow not spendable because of its source.
 
ExMinister said:
If not, I wonder if that person is still a fan!

It's hard to believe that she could ever have been an English teacher, her use of the English language being really pretty awful. I'd forgotten that she says she used to be a teacher. I used to transcribe her lectures occasionally. If anything, she speaks like someone without a college education at all, mixing up verb tenses constantly. When you hear her speak in person, it's really hard not to notice.

Maybe, just maybe, a person could make it through 4 years of college, as she claims to have done, with a degree that required very few written papers and only a basic grasp of good writing and speaking skills, but to claim to have a bachelor's degree in English and speak like that (?).

Then again, based on the evidence Robert's collected so far on his site, it looks as though that degree may not exist.
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I thought her supposed Masters Degree was even in something English related?
 
ExMinister said:
Then again, based on the evidence Robert's collected so far on his site, it looks as though that degree may not exist.
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If I recall correctly from Robert's site (and of course he would correct me if I'm wrong), she sent him a paper indicating that she took classes and got some credit but she did not provide a document that she graduated.

And of course if there was such a thing she'd present it in a heartbit.

RobRoy said:
See, perfect example. As if her powers are somehow negated by atheism, or the money is somehow not spendable because of its source.
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I don't know if it's "negated" or because she implies that athiests can't be trusted (as in he would cheat).

Of course what's even more funny is that she agreed to take the test after learning of Randi's athiesim. I recall him mentioning something on this in swift. She asked him in a joint interview if he believes in god, he said no and she said she was sorry for him (after which he chuckled)
 
GrandMasterFox said:
I don't know if it's "negated" or because she implies that athiests can't be trusted (as in he would cheat).
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Or that. Yes.

Of course, on this I agree with her. Atheists are not to be trusted. If you can’t state your moral compass based on one of the many offered god-options, then clearly you’re up to something sinister. Also, I’ve noticed that most of you have goatees, even the women, a dead giveaway that you have nefarious intentions.

Of course what's even more funny is that she agreed to take the test after learning of Randi's athiesim. I recall him mentioning something on this in swift. She asked him in a joint interview if he believes in god, he said no and she said she was sorry for him (after which he chuckled)
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Feint, dodge, riposte and counter-attack. Keeps her from looking as if she’s afraid or unable to complete the challenge, and gives her followers “valid” reasons for not submitting.
 
Personally I'd be surprised if Sylvia had anything to do with that response, other than perhaps signing off on it. Some poor office monkey probably has to do the actual work in writing responses.
 
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