Has any 1 had experiences with mediums

[treefella]

 i always look up Derek Acorah when im feeling low. The guy just cracks me up . Even booked tickets to go and see him in my local town. Was going to take the mrs, my sister and my brother in law with the sole intention of having a good drink before the show and we were all going to take the piss bigtime.
He cancelled the show  at the last minute almost as if he knew our plan : )


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFjoN3rMoY8&feature=share

[Claw75]

i always look up Derek Acorah when im feeling low. The guy just cracks me up . Even booked tickets to go and see him in my local town. Was going to take the mrs, my sister and my brother in law with the sole intention of having a good drink before the show and wewere all going to take the piss bigtime.
He cancelled the show  at the last minute almost as if he knew our plan : )

fyp

[treefella]

bout 2.30 min in , how does he keep a straight face .lol

[MintTrav]

One of the vids I posted, James randi, has a long standing million dollar pledge to anyone who can prove they have psychic abilities in controlled conditions. Only one person has taken so far I believe in about 20 years (failed obv)

Zero reason for them to do this if they were infact real mediums. $1m bounty is a smoke screen, it would be totally against their beliefs to do it for financial gain and be subjected to ridicule/interrogation. I am 95% sure James randi would know this too.

Actually, a couple of thousand people have applied for the test. For one reason or another, most end up never taking it, but a couple of hundred have been tested. All failed obv.

[Claw75]

One of the vids I posted, James randi, has a long standing million dollar pledge to anyone who can prove they have psychic abilities in controlled conditions. Only one person has taken so far I believe in about 20 years (failed obv)

Zero reason for them to do this if they were infact real mediums. $1m bounty is a smoke screen, it would be totally against their beliefs to do it for financial gain and be subjected to ridicule/interrogation. I am 95% sure James randi would know this too.

Actually, a couple of thousand people have applied for the test. For one reason or another, most end up never taking it, but a couple of hundred have been tested. All failed obv.

doesn't appear to have been updated for a couple of years, but quite interesting reading:  details of people who have applied to take the test and what happened.

http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=43

[ScottMGee]

your sons had a blip recently and is going to sort it in an unconventional way, hes going to be fine. Ask your son about Mark and Simon"

As stated on here, very general with common names for anyone in their 30s or 40s.

had a blip recently - Everyone has blips,
Goining to sort it out unconventionally - well this is a statement of possible future action so again doesn't really say anything specific
Ask your son about Mark & Simon - very common names, no specific mention of who Mark and Simon are, personally I know 4 Simons and 3 Marks.

[Claw75]

your sons had a blip recently and is going to sort it in an unconventional way, hes going to be fine. Ask your son about Mark and Simon"

As stated on here, very general with common names for anyone in their 30s or 40s.

had a blip recently - Everyone has blips,
Goining to sort it out unconventionally - well this is a statement of possible future action so again doesn't really say anything specific
Ask your son about Mark & Simon - very common names, no specific mention of who Mark and Simon are, personally I know 4 Simons and 3 Marks.

yup - change 'son' for daughter, leave everything else (including names) the same and anyone saying this to my mum would have her going 'ooooo that was so spot on'

[redarmi]

I am in agreement with everyone else that this is clearly all a load of BS however I am not quite as sure whether it is such a negative thing.  Like religon, people often seek out mediums in times of need, grief and bereavment and they get potentially get some comfort from the thought that the medium is able to speak to them and it also reaffirms theirbelief in the afterlife etc and aren't thinking about their son/daughter,father/mother etc lying dead and wet and being eaten by worms.  Placebos have been shown to have a positive impact on peoples health because they 'believe' they have something that is going to help them to get better and this is similar imo in that people seek it because they believe it and it gives them comfort and that isn't neccesarily a bad thing.  You could argue thatpointing out to them how unlikely it is to be true is the cruel thing to do even though it might be factually correct.

Of course none of this means that I think that what the mediums/psychics are doing is morally right but for the user/customer they may get some benefit from it and as such the cost that they have paid to get into the show or have the reading isn't money badly spent.

[DaveShoelace]

What actually happens is the people don't move on, in fact the grieving process is paused in a limbo state for them. There are so many instances of the same people turning up again and again, they get addicted, and the medium invariably gives a more accurate reading every time.

It happens more in the states, where there is a more direct link with Christianity, but sometimes they end up getting goosed for their live savings or advised to make major live decisions by the medium (including medical decisions).

[outragous76]

There is so much generalisation in this thread!

Barry, not moving on...... What about those people it does help move on?

Picking common names. Anyone feel free to punt on my 2 good mates names I'm playing golf with today. They are both middle class and have common or not unusual names! I bet not 1 person punts correctly

Like I say I am a sceptic as proven by the vids posted itt, but for people to use arguments like "oh they are common names" when she nailed them both first attempt?!?!

I'm prepared to stay open minded

[Claw75]

There is so much generalisation in this thread!

Barry, not moving on...... What about those people it does help move on?

Picking common names. Anyone feel free to punt on my 2 good mates names I'm playing golf with today. They are both middle class and have common or not unusual names! I bet not 1 person punts correctly

Like I say I am a sceptic as proven by the vids posted itt, but for people to use arguments like "oh they are common names" when she nailed them both first attempt?!?!

I'm prepared to stay open minded

a medium won't say 'these are two people you are playing golf with today' though - they'll say 'do the names Paul and John mean anything to you?' or 'why am I hearing the name Sarah?'

[GreekStein]

Amazed the thread has got so many replies.

They are nothing more than con artists.

[ScottMGee]

a medium won't say 'these are two people you are playing golf with today' though - they'll say 'do the names Paul and John mean anything to you?' or 'why am I hearing the name Sarah?'

+ 1

Or they will say 'Ask him about Mark & Simon" as per the original post.

The supposed medium didn't say "your son is having financial troubles but he's going to get out of it by playing poker with Mark & Simon backing him" This might be what you interpreted the medium to be saying by what they actually said was very vague and ambigious and you only remember it because it kind of fitted (scoring a hit) if it didn't fit at all (being a miss) you would have forgotten about it completely.

 

[ScottMGee]

Picking common names. Anyone feel free to punt on my 2 good mates names I'm playing golf with today. They are both middle class and have common or not unusual names! I bet not 1 person punts correctly

Like I say I am a sceptic as proven by the vids posted itt, but for people to use arguments like "oh they are common names" when she nailed them both first attempt?!?!

I'm prepared to stay open minded

Second point, as fake medium I would say tell me about "Michael and Dave"

if I was hot reading I would ask about Kathryn and Todd

[MANTIS01]

It may be a form of lunacy but I don't think mediums deserve to be chastised with such venom. There are other things in the world that are much harder to believe, there are other things that constitute worse playacting, and there are other things that make mugs of the people who pay to go and watch. For example I heard this week that Audley Harrison is launching his return to the boxing ring.