StopSylvia email from a psychic

[RSLancastr]

Back in mid-February I received an email at SSB from a

gentleman who took me to task for being such a negative

person. He mentioned that he knew that there are psychic

powers because he is psychic. He then told me that when a

Tsunami hits the United States on Aug 11 2011, I will know they

exist too. When I asked if he could be more specific, he said

that it would hit the Gulf Coast.

When the Tsunami hit Japan (and a little hit the US west coast)

on March 11, I wondered if he would write again and call it a Hit

(hey, 3/11 looks sorta like 8/11), but I did not hear from him again

until today, when I received this:

I hope you and yours are doing well. I just wanted you to know

that the 8.9 Richter earthquake that hit Japan, on 3/11/11, was

not the one that’s coming on 8/11/11 at about 2:00 pm where it

hits Texas. This is simply going to happen. I made a legal

document of it a long time ago. I hope you can find a way to

help people in a more positive manner. If it could somehow be

turned into understanding and forgiveness, as no one is always

right, the negativity would be removed. I’m not telling you what to

do. I’m just suggesting it might be possible for you to do even

more than you already are. Things are changing now. I do

understand the need that many people have to vent but it’s

important to release negative feelings. I see them attached to

you and damaging your health. I’m not trying to be a pain, I just

happen to care about people too. Just because we see things a

little differently doesn’t mean I don’t wish the best for you and

your family as well as everyone else. You’re not naturally a

negative person. That’s why it’s affecting you health. Please

take care of yourself. [name

I am sharing this with you all here mostly to document the prediction. As far as his mentioning my health, I had mentioned my health issues to him in my reply to his original email.

 

[Tatyana]

I think it is disgusting he is trying to use health issues to make people believe.

What total manipulation.

 

[Zep]

See if he will indulge in a friendly wager on his fairly precise prediction: If it does happen, you will publicly acknowledge him as the greatest psychic ever, greater than Sylvia Browne. If it doesn't happen, you get full legal ownership of his house. Of course, come the day, you can call him up and ask when and where he will hand over the keys...but then say that you will settle instead for an admission he was wrong.

Frankly, this has all the hallmarks of a religious mania in action, perhaps with a touch of basic paranoia. I.e. nothing really new. So might it be worth trying to question him why he thinks this way? See if there is any background to his fervent behaviour?

 

[Joey McGee]

Oh that's just par for the course. I heard a psychic say that the reason some woman kept having children with genetic defects was she was a mean mother in a past life. Everything is a lesson, everything is because your soul went against the one, or whatever. That's certainly a severe kind of mental abuse teaching people that, really.

Why is it the earthquake that he can predict and not any other nearly impossible to guess event? Is the violent shaking and hysteria traveling back through time? That sounds like a naturalistic type psychic phenomenon. Oh maybe their spirit guide plays by certain rules where they only let them know certain bits of information for their own good, or it would interfere too much with karma. Seriously feller, which is it.

 

[CriticalSock]

[Magneto] You Americans and your date formats... [/Magneto]

 

[rjh01]

How about asking him for other predictions? Like what will happen next week and next month. Get him to document all his predictions. The more predictions, the more specific and the more unlikely the better.

Best prediction is for him to give you the tatts results. Or the results of horse racing or other sporting events. Or predicting stock market movements is another example. Mind you the chances of him giving you such information is close to zero.

Also does he make money from his predictions? Being able to predict the future can produce a huge income. Pity no one has been able to do so (as far as we know).

 

[Stellafane]

Well, I gotta give the guy some cred for putting it on the line with a specific event, date, time, and location (unlike the vast majority of other psychics who have built entire universes out of pure ambiguity). If indeed a tsunami hits the Lone Star State (an area not especially prone to them) this August 11, I for one will at least say "hmm..." (I'm talking an unambiguous event, not just some slightly larger than normal wave on a windy day or a visit from Ms. Nami or something.)

Conversely, it would be interesting to see what his reaction will be when an event he is apparently so certain will happen doesn't.

 

[Bram Kaandorp]

How about asking him for other predictions? Like what will happen next week and next month. Get him to document all his predictions. The more predictions, the more specific and the more unlikely the better.

Best prediction is for him to give you the tatts results. Or the results of horse racing or other sporting events. Or predicting stock market movements is another example. Mind you the chances of him giving you such information is close to zero.

Also does he make money from his predictions? Being able to predict the future can produce a huge income. Pity no one has been able to do so (as far as we know).

For some time now, I have been wondering why there aren't any selfish psychics (who are any good. I'm not talking about the late night telepsychics).

The default explanation given time and time again is "It doesn't work that way". But really, that's not an explanation, it's just a statement that my way of thinking about those things is wrong.

Can any psychic please, once and for all, explain why earning money from a prediction is impossible?

Cheers

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

For some time now, I have been wondering why there aren't any selfish psychics (who are any good. I'm not talking about the late night telepsychics).

The default explanation given time and time again is "It doesn't work that way". But really, that's not an explanation, it's just a statement that my way of thinking about those things is wrong.

Can any psychic please, once and for all, explain why earning money from a prediction is impossible?

Cheers

Because you immediately lose any iota of psychic power. The proof of this is illustrated by the pronouncements of every publicly acknowledged so-called psychic. See Sylvia Brown's amazing predictions for just one example.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I would ask this e-mailer to promise now that if when the predicted earthquake (of what minimum magnitude?) fails to hit Texas at 2 pm on 8/11/11, he will admit that she does not have the psychic ability she professes to have.

Since he is so convinced that "This is simply going to happen", he should be willing to promise anything if it doesn't happen.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I hope you can find a way to help people in a more positive manner.

I wonder if he criticizes oncologists for helping people in such a negative manner by cutting out or killing cancerous cells and tumors. Why can't they be more positive?

 

[ExMinister]

Robert, when you are able to work on the site again, I think it might be a good to somehow call more attention to the apparently faked trances.

It seems to me the number one defense of Browne continues to be that no one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes, and she's only human. Only God is perfect, Sylvia herself says often (and cleverly).

I might have thought this, too, back in 2006, had I not discovered the tape/book evidence that the trances were faked.

There is NO way to excuse the faking of the trances. Sure, you can resort to, "Well, maybe some of them were faked but that doesn't mean all of them were," as some people still do.

But I think for most people, if we learn that a person has faked SOME of the trances, we know that they have now lost credibility and it is a risk to trust that ANY of the trances weren't faked.

Moreover, you can't dismiss the amazing contradictions in trance and the conclusion that they were faked with "no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes," because 1) to fake something involves a deliberate attempt at deception. If someone has deliberately tried to deceive you once, do you really want to trust them again?

And 2) now we are no longer talking about a human. Are spirit guides, residing on the other side, who claim like Francine that if you can think of the question, they can get you the answer, also "only human?"

Is it possible for a spirit guide to state emphatically in one decade that angels absolutely do not have wings - and in the next decade to provide a NY Times Bestselling list of all the different kinds of angels, their wings, their wing colors, and what it all means?

Just my 2 cents, but I would bet that having more attention directed to that area will help people see how unreasonable this "she's only a fallible human sincerely trying to help, why do you pick on her" type of comment is.

 

[Moochie]

I'd like a "spirit guide" to give answers for which we then formulate questions -- Jeopardy-style.

M.

 

[juryjone]

I'm thinking the tsunami won't matter, seeing as the Rapture is already scheduled for May.

 

[carlitos]

I hope you and yours are doing well. I just wanted you to know

that the 8.9 Richter earthquake that hit Japan, on 3/11/11, was

not the one that’s coming on 8/11/11 at about 2:00 pm where it

hits Texas.

Serious question:

Where would an earthquake have to take place for a tsunami to hit the Gulf coast of Texas? Could one around Yucatan or Honduras do it?

 

[aggle-rithm]

I'm thinking the tsunami won't matter, seeing as the Rapture is already scheduled for May.

Well, it won't matter to anyone who matters....

 

[aggle-rithm]

Serious question:

Where would an earthquake have to take place for a tsunami to hit the Gulf coast of Texas? Could one around Yucatan or Honduras do it?

I think the last tsunami we had was caused by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. That was a real whopper, though.

 

[ExMinister]

I'm thinking the tsunami won't matter, seeing as the Rapture is already scheduled for May.

It's only going to hit Texas anyway. All the rest of us can still divide up the real estate in June.

 

[Bram Kaandorp]

By the way, I still see wiggle room in the prediction:

2 pm in which time zone?

It would seem logical if it would be "2 pm in Texas", but it is not clearly stated.

Then again, it wouldn't matter that much, it's probably not going to happen any way (short of deliberately causing it).

Cheers

 

[ExMinister]

And probably we all should work on understanding and forgiveness of people like Sylvia Browne so we don't have negativity.

As such:

Mean Neighbor Child, I forgive you for being a bully and making my son feel bad. I am totally understanding of you. No one is perfect. I was being negative, trying to get you to stop like that. I just needed to vent. I will try to find some more positive way to help my son, like maybe I will get him a nice new X-Box for him to play after you tease and threaten him.



...Why don't I feel healthier?