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How do psychic mediums know stuff about you

I am wondering, when you pay someone via pay pal are they able to view your full name and address? This reading has scared me somewhat about how she knew I love others more than myself and how I should help people who are in pain. As previously stated I would like a job in mental health/counselling sector. I am wondering if she was able to track down my Facebook account? My name is Amy Welch and I live on Leicester, UK. Is it easy to find me on Facebook?
 
Yes I am, what else can you see about me and can you grasp quite a bit of info from it?
 
Well, I'm sensing what primary school you went to, what your favourite TV shows are, what bands you like, what books you've read, what you thought of Twycross Zoo.

If I had to guess I'd say you were about 32 or 33.
 
AmyW said:
Scorpion why don't you join a forum with other spiritualist? Why be on a forum where people just don't believe in what you do? It's strange. It's like me being on a Christian website even though I don't believe in it what so ever! Is it attention you seek?
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You don't expect me to leave all these atheists in peace do you. If the likes of me did not post here they would just go on patronising each other.
 
AmyW said:
Scorpion why don't you join a forum with other spiritualist? Why be on a forum where people just don't believe in what you do? It's strange. It's like me being on a Christian website even though I don't believe in it what so ever! Is it attention you seek?
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Scorpion is as welcome here as anyone else. Whilst I make no effort to hide my horror at what he believes in, for example 3 year olds being repeatedly raped is in the larger scheme of things a good thing as they can learn something or pay off a "karma debt" it is still interesting to me to learn about other people and what they believe in.
 
Matthew Best said:
Well, I'm sensing what primary school you went to, what your favourite TV shows are, what bands you like, what books you've read, what you thought of Twycross Zoo.

If I had to guess I'd say you were about 32 or 33.
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Yes can you see quite a lot then?
 
Darat said:
Scorpion is as welcome here as anyone else. Whilst I make no effort to hide my horror at what he believes in, for example 3 year olds being repeatedly raped is in the larger scheme of things a good thing as they can learn something or pay off a "karma debt" it is still interesting to me to learn about other people and what they believe in.
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Of course he is, I am just a little perplexed, if he isn't a skeptic then why go on a skeptic forum? Bit weird
 
Matthew Best said:
Not much on your timeline, just a few pictures of you and (presumably) your children. But everything in "About You" is public.
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Yes I do :-) so you can see that I used to be a carer and my work experience? Maybe this medium searched for me on Facebook, if she can see my work experiences, there you can see I was a carer
 
AmyW said:
I am wondering, when you pay someone via pay pal are they able to view your full name and address?
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The Paypal financial info is anonymous, but considering the seller has to send you an item, you have to provide your name and address, right? I know when I sell something on eBay, I just get the payment directly to my account, but I have to create a label to send so I do see those details.
 
Scorpion you are welcome anywhere, I guess I just feel on the defence because I am trying to search a life without religion (because it really triggered a lot of anxiety for me) nothing personal against you as a human being :-)
 
Scorpion said:
I think a baby that dies and grows up in the spirit world has to reach a sufficient level of understanding before becoming capable of realising its further spiritual evolution can only be achieved by reincarnating again.
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I think you think that because your 'theory' requires continual ad hoc fudging to handwave away the glaring holes in it.

Every time someone lays out a valid objection to your spiritualist beliefs, you just respond by saying "Well, I think that..." and what follows is just some free from, evidence-free, mental gymnastics designed to brush the problem under the carpet.

None of it has any evidence or makes any sense, and has been pointed out, isn't even internally consistent.
 
AmyW said:
Of course he is, I am just a little perplexed, if he isn't a skeptic then why go on a skeptic forum? Bit weird
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We get a steady stream of believers here, determined to teach us the error of our ways. They almost always refuse to consider the possibility (a) that we've heard it all before and (b) that they might be the one who has something to learn.
 
AmyW said:
...snipped... This reading has scared me somewhat about how she knew I love others more than myself and how I should help people who are in pain. ...snipped..
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This part of the reading is easy to figure out. Any normally decent person will feel this is true. We like to think of ourselves as generous and caring. And, of course you should help people who are in pain, we all should.

The medium telling you are a loving and giving person makes you feel good. It's like telling a new parent "That's a beautiful baby!"
 
Cosmic Yak said:
The key point -IMHO- is this: we only have your own account of what happened.
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That's part of the rhetoric. There is an informal rule of debate that says, "If you're explaining, you're losing." Claimants of the supernatural pepper their critics with anecdotes in order to keep them on the hook to provide explanations. Naturally since these anecdotes invariably occurred far away and long ago -- if they even occurred at all -- the critic has no chance of success. What the claimant has to account for is why these purported gifts wholly disappear when they occur under conditions in which we can acquire a multitude of evidence that would eventually let us reason between various possible explanations. The rhetoric is built entirely around keeping the claims practicably untestable. Any time the critics try to get out in front of all the problems with anecdotal testimony, the spiritualists scramble to declare themselves exempt. This is how we know what they know they're relying on.

Memory is, as I'm sure you're aware by now, very fallible. What you have here is your recollection of what happened, which may not be accurate. We've seen this in this very thread: AmyW said that the medium knew her mother was dead, but, when the actual words were examined, that isn't what the medium said at all.
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And that phenomenon has been repeatedly observed. The claimant remembers the encounter with the medium far more favorably than an objective record of the encounter reveals. This is why mediums generally want to interact only with people who already predisposed to believe their claims. This rosy recollection appears to be one of the psychological factors that practitioners rely on.
 
AmyW said:
I am wondering, when you pay someone via pay pal are they able to view your full name and address? This reading has scared me somewhat about how she knew I love others more than myself and how I should help people who are in pain. As previously stated I would like a job in mental health/counselling sector. I am wondering if she was able to track down my Facebook account? My name is Amy Welch and I live on Leicester, UK. Is it easy to find me on Facebook?
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Again you're missing what we're trying to tell you, she didn't know this, it's a general Barnum statement, everybody thinks they're a good person, everybody thinks they put others ahead of themself, this statement is not in any way special to you, she's not sending out emails to anyone else saying "you're a malignant narcissist who needs to love yourself less". If someone had told Adolf Hitler he was a good person who loved too much and put other people first he'd have agreed it.

We all* think we're good, we all think we're generous people, we all think we have talent and potential, we're all the hero of our own stories and we cherry pick the evidence to prove it to ourselves.

*all in this case being pretty much anyone without very serious issues.
 
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