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StopSylvia.com email: "sylvia browne"

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I received the following email at StopSylvia.com with the subject "sylvia browne":

I stumbled on your website concernng Sylvia Browne and I have to write that its ironic anyone would spend that much time on something or someone they hate. Only you or someone like James Randy who I have also heard from would do such a thing.

Its rude in the fact how I found your website was thru a tweet on her tweeter page. Then when lookng at the site read where you imposed yourself numerous times in her space. Its mere stalking and weird. Your agnostic so you think everyone should think lke you's. News flash ...... never going to happen your a mere parasite in a cesspool and as in any cesspool eventually they dry up.

She didn't hunt you down, you hunted her. And if I was her I would worry for my welfare knowng you did that and report it as such so if anythng does happen to her.

I agree with her, you have a nasty website. Much like a bully trying to take down a woman that has done no one harm. People go to her, she doesn't go to them and if she makes them feel good for 2 mins, so what. Who exactly have you made happy by what you claim. My guess would be James Randy no one else.

God bless you, and I will pray for you as I am certain Sylvia does.

[name]
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Before I had even read it, the same person had sent a second email with the subject "ps sylvia browne":

You didn't even have guts enough to allow anyone to post anythng on your website, no guest book, no nothng. So publiclly theres no way to make a fool of you as you tried to do Sylvia ... I call that cowardly
That old woman has more balls then you.l
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Here is my reply to both:

[name]:



Thank you for writing and sharing your thouhts with me.



I will answer your questions and address your comments below.



<< its ironic anyone would spend that much time on something or someone they hate >>



Ironic? No. But it is unfortunate that, in order to present the facts about someone or something one finds distasteful (in this case, Sylvia Browne), one must first examine those facts, no matter how distasteful they might be.



<< Its rude in the fact how I found your website was thru a tweet on her tweeter page >>



I am not certain how that is "rude" and even if it is, it was not me who made the tweet in question, as I don't recall ever seeing her Twitter feed, let alone tweeting to it.



<< Then when lookng at the site read where you imposed yourself numerous times in her space. Its mere stalking and weird. >>



"numerous times"? I went to ONE of her public shows. One. And I only went to that one, (as you already know if you bothered to read the article about it) because many of her fans were telling me that I had o right to form an opinion of her unless I saw her in person.



So now, if I go to see ONE of her PUBLIC performances, I am "stalking" her? You have an odd concept of stalking.



<< Your agnostic so you think everyone should think lke you's >>



No, but I do think that my opinions are based on an examination of the facts, so I share those facts with my readers and invite them to examine those facts and come to their own conclusion.



And the only conclusion that the facts support is that, at best, there are far more reasons to doubt SylviaBrowne's claims to have "psychic powers" than there are reasons to believe those claims.



<< News flash ...... never going to happen your a mere parasite in a cesspool and as in any cesspool eventually they dry up. >>



Yes, a collection of the facts about Sylvia Browne IS much like a cesspool.



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She didn't hunt you down, you hunted her. And if I was her I would worry for my welfare knowng you did that and report it as such so if anythng does happen to her. >>

I'm sorry, but report WHAT? That someone paid money to attend a public show, and spoke with her at her invitation?

Rest assured, if I had done anything reportable to the authorities, Sylvia Browne would have reported it.

As it was, all she could do was lie to Hotel Security and tell them that I had made a disturbance of some kind - a lie that others in the audience would not back up.

<< I agree with her, you have a nasty website. Much like a bully trying to take down a woman that has done no one harm. >>

If the facts about Sylvia Browne are "nasty", who is to blame for that?

I doubt that people such as Pam and Craig Akers (the parents of then-missing Shawn Hornbeck, who she told on the Montel Williams Show that their son was dead (something Pam Akers later described as "the hardest thing we went through") when Shawn was actuall alive, would agree that Browne has done "no harm" to people.

Watch the video of
<< People go to her, she doesn't go to them and if she makes them feel good for 2 mins, so what >>

Watch the video of her telling them their son was dead. Pay attention to their reaction. Then tell me again that she harms no one, and that she just "makes people feel good". And this is only one of MANY such times documented on my site. MANY. Who knows how many other people Browne has cruelly hurt with her con game when they had the misfortune of asking her for help in their time of need?

<< Who exactly have you made happy by what you claim >>

I "claim" nothing, I just present facts and evidence.

I don't know if anyone has been "made happy" by this evidence, but I have certainly heard from many former fans of Sylvia Browne who were glad to finally realize the sad truth about her. And certainly many skeptics have been made happy by the fact that the evidence about her and her nonsense is now so publicly accessible.

<< God bless you, and I will pray for you as I am certain Sylvia does. >>

I thank you for your prayers.

As for Sylvia Browne's prayers for me, I have been told by people working in her headquarters that she has stated that my current serious medical condition is a result of her praying to Azna (her supposed "Mother God") that I be stopped.

How...spiritual of her.

As for your "ps" email:

I have been asked both by Browne's supporters and her detractors to allow comments on m site, but I made a conscious decision back when I started the site that I wanted the tone of the site to be as matter-of-fact and evidence-based as possible, and to avoid name-calling and such. And I knew, from past experience, that any public debating between Browne's fans and detractors soon deteriorated into name-calling on both sides, and I felt that would detract from the tone I was trying to establish.

That you consider that "cowardly" is something I can live with.

Best regards,

Robert S. Lancaster

Founder & Webmaster,
www.StopSylvia.com
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Great replies.

So Browne is Tweeting about you and your site? I wonder what those Tweets said!
 
My guess is that it was someone else within the feed. I have not used Twitter enough to even know how that works.
 
There seems to be a trend in the lack of proper spelling and grammar in the emails you currently receive. I wonder who that reminds me of... no matter, maybe it's just the usual lack of erudition so commonly displayed on the internet. ;)
For that matter: I have looked at the twitter feed of SB: not a single mention of you...
 
I particularly liked the use of "you's".

And Moss, if I may ask, what exactly is that in your avatar?

I fear it is something terribly obvious that I am failing to see, but every time I see it I think of it as "chaos in the crutch factory".
 
I've seen you respond to some pretty sad emails you've received on your site. But these have to be the saddest I've ever seen.
 
/sigh
My Meter just broken


I stumbled on your website concernng Sylvia Browne and I have to write that its ironic anyone would spend that much time on something or someone they hate.


I agree there is some serious irony there...
 
Sorry, that was from Myotismon, Vampire King of the Night.

For those who missed that particular SSB email thread, it was an over-the-top weird email threatening me with Eternal Doom and Stuff, with memorable phrases like (IIRC) "You will lie on your back in your own filth staring at the sun!" and the plagiarized but paraphrased "You think you know the darkness? I am the Darkness!" and the confusing but hilarious "you cannot possibly not comprehend the forces that are gathering against you!", about which one poster commented "Do you hear that? These forces are totally comprehensible!"

And yes, it was signed:

Respectfully,

Myotismon, Vampire King of the Night
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For those who do not know, Myotismon was a character in the animated series Digimon.

The email was obviously from a young (twenty-something) woman who was a frequent poster then at the GoSylviaBrowne forum under the name "Monica".

Monica posted there almost daily about her...spirit friend Myotismon, who was with her at all times, and who often forced her to do things like make posts she did not want to make.

She also frequently posted of her love/obsession with the TV show Digimon.

And THAT email, Stellafane, was the weirdest/dumbest/saddest email I have yet to receive at SSB.
 
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Mr. Lancaster you never cease to amaze me with your polite replies to people who are so hostile toward you. I could not manage such civility, especially when dealing with a person as vile as Sylvia Browne.
 
rjh01 said:
A better link is this one http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82469

Goes to the same thread, but different URL.
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Thanks, rj.

I wasn't sure why the ip address showed up in my browser rather than the domain name, and so decided to leave it as it was.

Refresh my not-so-good memory of such things: why is it a "better link" with the domain name rather than the IP? Offhand, it seems to me that specifying the IP would be more reliable, as it would not rely on a DNS to correctly translate it to the IP.

It has been a while since I've thought about such things, sorry.

ETA: The domain name is definitely preferable where human memory is involved (which is why domain names were invented in the first place, I believe), but I do not recall why they would be better within a link, where the domain name is (sorta) hidden from the user. And it is also better when the IP address may change, especially over time, so using the domain name is the best option from a "future historical" standpoint. Was that your thought?
 
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RSLancastr said:
And Moss, if I may ask, what exactly is that in your avatar?

I fear it is something terribly obvious that I am failing to see, but every time I see it I think of it as "chaos in the crutch factory".
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Actually it is cuneiform, it is the name of a minor underworld deity that serves as vizier for the death goddess Ereshkigal. It used to be my character name in different online games. It does not mean much more.
 
Moss said:
Actually it is cuneiform, it is the name of a minor underworld deity that serves as vizier for the death goddess Ereshkigal. It used to be my character name in different online games. It does not mean much more.
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Cool.
 
RSLancastr said:
And it is also better when the IP address may change, especially over time, so using the domain name is the best option from a "future historical" standpoint. Was that your thought?
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That's my thought for sure. Of course your own experience shows that domain names can be lost as well...
 
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