So where were the psychics?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-04 03:32pm

So here we have yet another national tragedy, one that every psychic in the country should have seen coming, and yet as of Friday night, NONE of the big nationally known "psychics" so much as mentioned Columbia. So far as I can tell, none of them even made a statement that could, with hindsight and considerable fuckery with the language, be interpreted as being vaguely about the space shuttle burning up on reentry.

So the way I see it, either they're all frauds who really can't see the future, or they're despicable bastards who knew but decided not to tell anybody about it. Either one pretty much works for me.

Actually, now that I think about it, they'll probably prove to be both at the same time: frauds who couldn't predict the disaster and despicable bastards who try to claim later on that they did.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-02-04 03:40pm

IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING CON ARTIST WHOSE ONLY SKILL IS THAT OF SEPERATING STUPID PEOPLE FROM THEIR MONEY!!!

Edit: Spelling error corrected thanks to the watchful eye of Kelly Antilles.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-04 03:44pm

Whose... it's whose, not who's.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-02-04 04:12pm

Psychists' powers only extend to the realm of immediate income and sex. National trajedies don't fall under either of those. If only those idiot psychists could put all theri efforts into something USEFUL instead of the con-game. But I suppose that would mean they'd need to actually work for a living.

Actually, now that I think about it, they'll probably prove to be both at the same time: frauds who couldn't predict the disaster and despicable bastards who try to claim later on that they did.

Actually, religious assholes already are saying it was "Predicted":
Link 1
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Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-02-04 05:06pm

Darth Servo wrote:Psychists' powers only extend to the realm of immediate income and sex. National trajedies don't fall under either of those. If only those idiot psychists could put all theri efforts into something USEFUL instead of the con-game. But I suppose that would mean they'd need to actually work for a living.

no, it doesn't apply to income. if it did Dione Warwick would have forseen the impending bankruptcy of the psycic friends network.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-02-04 09:28pm

I can safely say psychics are full of bullshit. How many of them do you know sucesfully predicted 9/11, the Columbia disaster, or just about any other major catastrophe? How come they claim to know that some insignificant event that only affects one person will happen, but ca'nt predict something where thousands are killed or affected?

Sektor31 · Post by **Sektor31** » 2003-02-04 10:33pm

Fools believe that their future's already written.

If one really believes that their future is written, they usually go out of their way to make sure of it.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-04 11:38pm

Sektor31 wrote:Fools believe that their future's already written.

If one really believes that their future is written, they usually go out of their way to make sure of it.

"The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

John Conner(Terminator 2)

See watching extraordinary amounts of movies can help you in life.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-02-04 11:54pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:no, it doesn't apply to income. if it did Dione Warwick would have forseen the impending bankruptcy of the psycic friends network.

OK, allow me to rephrase. It applies to the income of the person being read, not the person doing the reading.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-02-05 08:28am

As some of you might recall, I have a hobby of collecting folklore and ghost stories. Over the years, this has brought me into contact with a plethora of idiots, wankers, and delusionals who claim to be psychic to varying degrees. Not ONE of them that I have EVER met could make one simple prediction of any future action. They always offered up things like, 'I see you being happy at some point next week' and other vague references to emotions.

One guy I met claimed that if he focussed hard enough, he could predict ANY future action, no matter how insignificant. This was the dialogue as I recall it:

Me: Okay, then. Concentrate on me. Focus on my future.
Him: Very well (random five minutes of moaning mumbo-jumbo ensues)
Me: You ready?
Him: Ask your question.
Me: In thirty seconds, I'm going to raise an arm. Tell me which one I'm going to lift.
Him: That's not a valid question! You'll just raise the opposite of whatever I say!
Me: Okay then. Tell me what I'm going to have for lunch tomorrow. Tell me what my future kid's name will be. Come on, ANYTHING here.
Him: No, no, no. You can't ask about things in the future that you could change!
Me: Ah-hah - A clue, Sherlock!
Him: Fuck you.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-02-05 09:10am

http://forums.delphiforums.com/EviLOnes ... msg=2592.1

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-02-05 09:23am

I heard Reagan took advice from psychic when he was president.
so i`m wondering if baby Bush is doing the same.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-05 11:18am

Montcalm wrote:I heard Reagan took advice from psychic when he was president.
so i`m wondering if baby Bush is doing the same.

It was Nancy who consulted the astrologer. She went a little batty after her husband was shot.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-05 11:27am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:http://forums.delphiforums.com/EviLOnes ... msg=2592.1

I wish there was a smiley for "dismissive wanking gesture". He had a dream about the space shuttle blowing up on the launchpad on Jan. 29th. The space shuttle burned up on reentry on Feb. 1. Notice how none of them were actually able to use this "prediction"--up until the 1st, when they started congratulating themselves on their "vision", they were speculating that they had predicted pharmeceutical plant explosion in North Carolina.

I had a dream once I was trapped in a skyscraper in New York that was on fire. You don't see me running around telling people I predicted September 11. I had a dream last night someone set off an atomic bomb in Philadelphia. If someone does set off a bomb, presuming I live, I won't be telling people I'm psychic because I had a dream about it.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-05 12:07pm

psychics real or fraud? is that even a topic worth discussing?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-05 01:37pm

I could have been clearer in my initital post. It seems to imply that I might have, on some level or another, considered psyhics to be genuine. I assure you I do not.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-02-05 03:36pm

No comment, other than I personally wouldn't go about charging people for what I do. Second, I only see (for the most part) whatI am connected to. As I was not connected to anyone in the Columbia incident, I did not feel anything. That is all. Feel free to PM your arguements to me.

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-02-05 10:06pm

Somebody find a Quattrain from Nostradamus we can interpret predicting the Columbia disaster.

Oh, and nice work, Lagmonster.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-02-05 11:56pm

Baron Mordo wrote:Somebody find a Quattrain from Nostradamus we can interpret predicting the Columbia disaster.

The only one that is close to it is the fake one circulating the internet, of course.