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James Randi is an absolute legend! What a guy.
Darren Brown Last Night
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James Randi is an absolute legend! What a guy.
Presumably so he could try and get some insight from photos on the stairs/in the loo/generally snoop. I was really hoping in the Derren arranged one that he'd have planted some dud information in photos just to prove that's what he was doing.
Yeah was hoping for the same thing or put a hidden camera in the second woman's home - like to see him riggle out of that.
especially as it wasn't her home, presumably to stop him being able to do anything like that.
Lol, that is clutching at straws!! My Grandad died before i was born!!
This medium, was a young chap, about 28 i would guess.
Anyway, i can't say how he got so much info right.
Now that's a very very very good idea, lazer host the recording, that way we might get a better idea of how it went and be better able to assess how it might have been done.
I said something like that, he could just have easily have known your brother. The simplest solution is usually the correct one. I am in no way clutching at straws
it's the first suggestion I've made and based on the evidence that you'd given so far. It would appear that you're desperate for him to have had some spiritual contact rather than a more reasonable explanation, of which there are millions of possibilities.That was more than hinted at by Brown in the show, and yes there's an element of correctness about what you're saying. However I think the element where he's taking advantage of vulnerable people desperate to cling on to any link to a lost relative they have, far far outweighs any possible benefit, these people should be receiving help, not having delusions encouraged by some ****** who just wants their money. It's not like they can actually provide anything more substantial than "they're happy and they're looking over you" which ok, is what some people want to hear, but it's something anyone could tell them for free.
I said something like that, he could just have easily have known your brother. The simplest solution is usually the correct one. I am in no way clutching at straws
Well, as stated, my brother died 24 years ago and the medium was approx 28 so he knew what happenend to my brother when he was only 4 years old?!! lol
I am not desparate to label him as a 'medium'. Just curious as to how he knew so much. The answers given so far by forum members have been way out and i am only pointing that out.
I guess nobody can claim for sure that a medium can or cannot do what they say they can do. Yes, there are lots of conmen out there but maybes there are some who really have these unknown senses? Maybe Darren Brown has them but doesn't recognise that?
Anyway, i am still gobsmacked by the 'medium' i went to see.
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I can claim 100% that they cannot do what they claim to do which is to talk to the dead.
Go and read up on the Fox sisters.
They basically invented this 'Medium' con and then a few years later admitted to it and everybody who came after them are using their tricks.
If the dead really could talk there would be lots of unsolved crimes solved but of course a Medium will tell you that ghosts can't talk about things like that, they can only talk about shoes, umbrellas, that time you got drunk and other such tat.
There's a great story about Einstein who said that he would make contact after his death.
His wife went to a Medium and the greatest mind in the world said to his wife "Don't forget your umbrella when you go out".
Yeah OK.
You seem to be missing the point, from the information you've given it is most likely that he did know you somehow. You seem adamant that this couldn't be the case, although it could quite easily.
Nobody who has claimed to have these powers has ever, ever been able to prove it under controlled circumstances. Plenty of people have been able to acheive the same results through recorded processes, you are a complete idiot if you think Derren Brown is a fraud sceptic
he uses thoroughly documented techniques, it's not like the things just come to him...
I wouldn't exactly say that my answer of mind reading was "way out" , certainly not "way out" when compared to speaking with the dead.
Would seem ridiculous to me to dismiss the chances of mind reading as being unbelievable but grasp with open arms the chances of speaking with the dead.
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I am curious as to how he knew all the stuff he came out with!!
He didn't know me, i didn't know him.
Lots of things are unanswerable in this world.
How does one mind read anyway? Is it possible? Can it be proved?
I guess there will always be arguments for and against mediums and we could go on discussing it until the day we die!!
Abraham, don't go trying to contact me when you are on the other side because i will just ignore you as a figment of my imagination!! lol
I really think there is a lot more to it than we know. Some animals have some awesome senses that we could only dream of. Whats stopping some humans from having extra senses that others do not have?
As for talking to the dead, well, i know lots of people who have had strange experiences etc etc. I guess we all have heard of some friend / family member who has seen a 'ghost' or had a 'spiritual' experience. Just because things cannot be proven scientifically doesn't mesn they didn't happen. Some things are yet to be explained.
I definetly have an open mind about it all. Everyone is entitled to an opinion or view.
He didn't know me, i didn't know him.
Lots of things are unanswerable in this world.
How does one mind read anyway? Is it possible? Can it be proved?
I guess there will always be arguments for and against mediums and we could go on discussing it until the day we die!!
Abraham, don't go trying to contact me when you are on the other side because i will just ignore you as a figment of my imagination!! lol
I really think there is a lot more to it than we know. Some animals have some awesome senses that we could only dream of. Whats stopping some humans from having extra senses that others do not have?
As for talking to the dead, well, i know lots of people who have had strange experiences etc etc. I guess we all have heard of some friend / family member who has seen a 'ghost' or had a 'spiritual' experience. Just because things cannot be proven scientifically doesn't mesn they didn't happen. Some things are yet to be explained.
I definetly have an open mind about it all. Everyone is entitled to an opinion or view.
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Beats me, but its surely got to be as likely, if not more so, than speaking to the dead. One could ask all of those questions about speaking with the dead. It may well even be that the mediums themselves dont realise that they are reading minds, believing instead that its communing with the dead.
One would imagine that its easier to interact with something thats living (the human mind/brain) than to interact with something thats dead. All the info given by the medium would have been stored within your brain/mind so it would merely be a question of tapping into that some how.
Having said that, I dont believe in "the other side" so I may be biased