Mediums and psychics

I have a friend who believes in all this crud. She suffers from 'migraines' and pays someone like £60/hour to pass her healing energy over to her head by not touching her.
 
[FnG]magnolia;23896945 said:
One can have direct impacts on medical outcomes.

e : or rather non-impacts when one is expected.
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Any of the three things mentioned can, if the believer relies on faith instead of medicine. It's replacing medicine with faith that's the problem, rather than the details of the faith.

Someone speaks or thinks some words and assumes their god will hear them and heal them.

Someone ritually kills an animal and assumes their god(s) will be pleased and heal them.

Someone follows the advice of a medium, pyschic or astrologer instead of a doctor and assumes they will be healed by it.

Someone drinks some magic water or eats a magic filler pill and assumes they will be healed by it.

Same thing, just expressed in different forms. All equally useless, of course, and potentially fatal if used instead of medical treatment.
 
Gilly said:
Not really. It's what she believes. I just don't like the cash aspect.

There's millions of people believe in a big friend in the sky, this is no worse.
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Oh I agree it's no worse than that. I'd just be alarmed at whatever other poor judgement might be going on!
 
"I am sensing that this man who does not wish you to pay me to talk nonsense is not the one for you"

Sorry old chap but the cosmos tends not to like unbelievers, better start packing. On the other hand you could make the best of a bad situation, slip her another twenty and have her confirm that the cosmos does approve of blowjobs after marriage.
 
I wonder how many of these mediums actually believe they can talk to the dead, or whether they're knowingly exploiting the beliefs of people like your fiance for financial gain... I'd find it difficult not to chuck them out with a few harsh words to be honest.
 
The thing about mediums and the like is that they prey on the vulnerable and that makes me mad.
If someone broke into a pensioners house or abused them on the street then quite rightly so they would be locked up (you'd hope).
Yet these people who every sane person knows are charlatans, can get away with a similar level of criminal activity and get away with it.

A few years back I lost my dad really unexpectedly - well you don't expect a relatively fit 60 year old to pass on.
My mum was distraught and on more than one occasions she would mention "psychics" and going to see them.
I told her over and over that there was absolutely no truth in it and with enough time I too could master the art of cold reading.
I'm 99% sure that she eventually gave up on the idea but had she gone along to one they would have told her everything she wanted to hear and taken her money for the privilege.

It's like this "Sally Morgan" woman - "Britain's most loved psychic". Cool, is her support act "Britain's most loved pickpocket"?
And even in the world today I read threads on newspaper sites about this woman saying "she is the real deal" and "she knew things only I knew". It makes me SOOOOOOOOO mad!
 
Mentioning Derren Brown I always wonder do Psychics hate him - he performs amazing readings of people and even on occasional tricked psychics then turns around and admits it is all a trick.

Wait......A psychic is pretty much a con in my book but if Derren Brown performs a 'con' but admits it a con even more people pay to see him :eek: It's a con in a con! <insert inception music>
 
Yes they hate him, that's why he always has to use actors (basically anybody but him) when trying to show them up, a la his 'Derren Brown: Miracles For Sale' show.
 
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