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Sylvia Browne interview: 20 out of 26 correct?

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Sylvia Browne gets another softball interview. How hard is it for an interviewer to ask for proof or look up past research on Browne?

Psychic Sylvia Browne to entertain Mother's Day crowd in Mount Pleasant
Published: Monday, May 07, 2012
By Sue White
MLive.com/ The Saginaw News


Who could have foreseen what life had in store for the good little girl encouraged by the sisters at her Catholic school to share her gift with the world?
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“I was only 5 years old when I sensed that both of my great-grandmothers were going to die, and within weeks, both did. Thank God I had a grandmother who was psychic, too. It scared me — this was in the 1940s in the Midwest — but she helped me see ways to put it to good use.”
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Instead of fearing her ability to predict future events, detractors today say she isn’t psychic enough, pointing out missed and vague predictions about, say, Saddam Hussein’s whereabouts.

“I’ve told people, doctors aren’t always right. Lawyers aren’t always right, and it’s the same with psychics,” Browne said. And while some might dispute the numbers, “I get about 20 out of 26 correct,” she added.
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But as she’s grown older, Browne has turned to lectures, with random readings thrown in along the way. She’ll focus on Mother’s Day at Soaring Eagle — “I love Michigan; people there get it the best,” she said.
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And for the record, if you haven’t sensed it yourself, the world is not going to end in 2012.

“America is not only going to survive, but things will get better, too,” Browne predicted. “We’ve made it through a Civil War and world wars and the Depression, and we’re going to get through this, too.”

After 55 years in the business, she said, it comes down to finding peace and harmony. Nobody calls a psychic if they’re happy, she pointed out, but if they’re in need, “I’m there, doing God’s work. It’s all in the motive.”
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Full: MLive.com/ The Saginaw News


She doesn't have to prove 20 cases right. At this point, she should offer one missing persons case she was correct about.

ETA. In this promo piece...
At three years old, Sylvia’s psychic powers were revealed when she announced that her grandfather was dead (he was), and that she would have a baby sister in three years. Just as predicted, Sharon was born one month short of Sylvia’s sixth birthday.
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From: http://www.healyourlife.com/authors/sylvia-browne
Also at: http://www.myguideireland.com/sylvia-browne-in-ireland
Also at: http://chuck2.web.officelive.com/Documents/SBAnswer.pdf
 
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Twenty out of twenty-six sounds good until you realize that she counts "I'm just going to the loo" as a hit.
 
:hb: WHY does she continue to be treated so nicely when other people are mercilessly roasted?

She's a fraud, been (in my opinion) proven as one, and STILL she gets the "tip-toe around her" sort of interviews.

This is frustrating beyond belief. And OF COURSE we'll get thru all this. DUH!!! *trying to not go into a hair-pulling frenzy* Times are bad all over, but yes, we'll survive somehow. How is that big news?

Ugh...

Maldach, you're in the right! And a big thank you to Questioninggeller for continuing to look out for these sorts of things. :)
 
WHY does she continue to be treated so nicely when other people are mercilessly roasted?
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Because if you critizise paranormal rather than uncritically accept it, you don't have an open mind.
 
I wish someone would say, "Really, Sylvia? I might find your statement about 2012 reassuring, but didn't you predict that most of the west coast of the United States was going to fall into the ocean by 1998? And then you said it was going to fall into the ocean by 2004? And then, wasn't it you who said years later on Montel that you've never been one of those doomsayer end-of world type psychics?"
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Because if you critizise paranormal rather than uncritically accept it, you don't have an open mind.
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Open minds lead to brains on floor.
A hole in one or two places is more than is needed to function as an imaginative and well-rounded human being.

For the woo-sellers however, they much prefer your brains on the floor. Complacent and accepting, regardless of the insanity of their claims.

Never have I seen it better illustrated as in the movie, Brüno

Ach yaah! Ach yaah!
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Because if you critizise paranormal rather than uncritically accept it, you don't have an open mind.
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Not to mention it's unspiritual to criticize someone doing "God's work," and bad karma.

She can say anything she wants as long as people continue to believe she has magic powers and elevate people like her to demigod status. Half the time I bet they are hoping she will say something psychic about them during the interview. She probably knows that, too.
 
What the hell were the questions?

"Do you smoke?"

"Are your nails creepy?"
 
ExMinister said:
Not to mention it's unspiritual to criticize someone doing "God's work," and bad karma.

She can say anything she wants as long as people continue to believe she has magic powers and elevate people like her to demigod status. Half the time I bet they are hoping she will say something psychic about them during the interview. She probably knows that, too.
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Brilliant! And she likely also knows that her 'interview' will be mentioned HERE and someone is reading this as we write.

And yes, I suppose a typical interviewer will not want to appear to be unspiritual or draw bad karma.

Heh...I'd risk that!
 
I thought her magic powers didn't work when it came to her own life. How was she able to predict family deaths and births?
 
The headline said that she was there to "entertain," and the story appeared in the "Entertainment" section; but I didn't see much in the story that had anything to do with entertainment.

Either that, or being an entertainer must be the easiest thing in the world to do. (Silly me, I thought there was some talent involved.)

Let me give it a try:
  • The world will NOT end in the next two weeks.
  • There will be a major natural disater in the next five years.
  • I predicted the birth of my brother. (This is no joke. My mom told me I did this, and she was not preggers at the time.)
  • The universe loves you, although the universe's love is different from love between people.
  • Your dead relatives--most of them, anyway--all wish that you will do well for yourself.
There. Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??
 
Brown said:
The headline said that she was there to "entertain," and the story appeared in the "Entertainment" section; but I didn't see much in the story that had anything to do with entertainment.

Either that, or being an entertainer must be the easiest thing in the world to do. (Silly me, I thought there was some talent involved.)
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After maintaining the Will Ferrel thread since 2005, you thought it took talent to be an entertainer?

:confused:
 
Almo said:
After maintaining the Will Ferrel thread since 2005, you thought it took talent to be an entertainer?

:confused:
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Ferrell can act a bit, and he does moderately well as a straight man. True, he has demonstrated that he can't be funny to save his sorry saggy ass; but he still may be an entertainer in other other ways. Roger Ebert has compared Ferrell--with reason, I think--to Fred MacMurray, who while not funny in his light roles (such as in "My Three Sons," "The Happiest Millionaire" and the Flubber movies) was nonetheless an "entertainer."

Besides, in comparison to Sylvia Browne, what Ferrell does (or tries to do) qualifies more as entertainment than what Browne purports to do. Ferrell doesn't purport to believe his own BS, or try to pass off his nonsense as authentic, or screw with personal events and emotions in peoples' lives, or try to turn his fantasies into a tax-dodging racket.
 
hold on

ExMinister said:
I wish someone would say, "Really, Sylvia? I might find your statement about 2012 reassuring, but didn't you predict that most of the west coast of the United States was going to fall into the ocean by 1998? And then you said it was going to fall into the ocean by 2004? And then, wasn't it you who said years later on Montel that you've never been one of those doomsayer end-of world type psychics?"
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I am...
 
One thing entertainment is NOT: Telling Shawn Hornbeck's parents that he was dead. :(

A little research really could go a long way when it comes to interviews like this.
 
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