To Ask for a Psychic Reading?

[FlibberJunk]

Pretty please?

I'm too scared to go in person.

Are you new to MN OP?

For the same reason I wouldn't go and see an astrologist, I suppose. I'm open minded to it all and find it very interesting but would find it intimidating to be sat across from someone telling me about my life. If they did get it horrendously wrong I'd be squirming in embarrassment, if they got things spookily right or brought up things from my past I'd be freaked out.

I guess the same reason posters would rather start a thread on here than go see a dietician, personal stylist, hairdresser, counsellor, doctor, etc. Why not?!

I am not new to MN, Buzz.

I guess it's only the same thing as people paying to see magicians. No harm as long as you know it is what it is?

Precisely! Some people will believe there is actual magic at play and who are we to convince them otherwise or judge them for it? Some people will like to blindly watch just for the entertainment. Others will like to watch the magic show in order to figure out how they're being fooled, horses for courses! No ones right and no one is wrong.

You got suckef in good and proper op. If you place no credence on it whatsoever, why ask a stranger on the internet to speculate over your life?

I guess the same reason posters would rather start a thread on here than go see a dietician, personal stylist, hairdresser, counsellor, doctor

Thing is, it isn't far fetched to believe that a properly trained hairdresser would be well placed to advise you to do something different with the appearance of your hair and what could be realistically achieved. Likewise a qualified doctor posting on here will have a greater understanding of a set of symptoms than you or I would. It is part of their professional experience and accredited training.

It is not the same thing as asking somebody who claims to defy the known laws of the universe to foretell how your future plays out because that person with that set of skills doesn't exist

"No ones right and no one is wrong."

Maybe not, but some will be given false hope and /or be made even more miserable and/ or be relieved of a wodge of cash by con artists.

But Flivver no one goes to a magic show thinking 'I want to see a man actually saw a woman in half' it is acknowledged by both parties that trickery and sleight of hand is involved.

why ask a stranger on the internet to speculate over your life?

Better shut down the whole site if that's the problem here.

Try reading the Torah and googling psychic exercises.dylan recently things at work haven't been going well, people have competing goals and I'm seeing conflict. Clear out anyrhing that does not serve you. Or have you already done that? You are doing too much careful it doesn't affect your health. I see the end of asituation in your relationship (what relationship?). You see the situation for what it is you can turn it around if you focus. Your negative thought are behind the trouble you feat. You aren't sleeping too well. I see you being afraod to take action next week and feeling trapped. I could be much more specigic but this is very sensitive info to put out there for the world to see. Right! Wheres my flameproof suit?😀😀😀😀

it is acknowledged by both parties that trickery and sleight of hand is involved.

But people still go to see the spectacle. What's the problem? Asking a stranger on the Internet to give a psychic reading for fun is not me actually believing the person is going to have Granny Junk come through and finally tell me where she put the key to the drinks cabinet.

The neysayers keep bringing their argument back to money and conartists. I've pointed out umpteen times now this is for fun and at no point is any money changing hands or is anyone being conned. So please leave the thread to be what it was originally intended to be - fun! Take your complaints up with the governing body of psychics or trading standard or whoever the f you want to complain to.

So if you acknowledge that it's complete made up bollocks, how is it fun? Surely it would only be fun if you could have the "ooh, what it it's true frisson"?

Oh, and it wasn't you thanking Zen that gave away that you were taken in.......

You're being disingenuous Flibber. People don't go for psychic readings "for the spectacle", fully aware that it's all bullshit. They go because they want to believe and be comforted.

Fact is, all psychics and mediums are liars and people are, unfortunately, gullible.

People? Again, I have asked for a reading over the Internet for fun. I am not speaking for all of those who go in person and hand over cash with the hope of hearing from loved ones or finding out important information they're desperate to know. I am speaking on behalf of myself. I asked for a reading over the Internet for fun. That shouldn't offend anyone.

Again, for the same reason I would read a horoscope. I'm not expecting ground shattering revelations and fact, it's for fun. I'm not so closed minded to think that I could say for sure there is no magic in the world or people with a greater level of intuition than most - I wouldn't discount anyone's beliefs in those things. Nor would I shout that they're right without seeing hard evidence for myself. My point all along has been why not allow those people to have their own beliefs? Why force yours on to them?

I believe in spirituality and find it comforting to think there is life after death, ghosts, a connection to the dead and whatever else I choose to believe in order to get me through this life. That doesn't make me vulnerable or less intelligent than any of you. You could say all religions are followed by the vulnerable if having a belief in something that has never - and probably will never - be proven makes you weak or your beliefs questionable.

Just leave people to get on with whatever they want to get on with. I would understand this reaction had I come on here and posted my bank details for a psychic to take my money in order to tell me my great great grandmother is dead and says hi.

If all you want from this is 'fun' (curious connection but I'm just a big old Debbie Downer ) then why the psychic element? Let's just all post a load of bollocks for shits and giggles.
I don't buy your 'fun' claim. You're looking for something and you don't want to say what - so you're waiting for someone with 'the gift' to hit on it. That, by the way, will be completely by accident but you'll be happy with your justification.

She only thanked me for taking the time to write that. Anyway I don't want a flaming on my first post so I'll bow out now.

DifficultWoman are you attempting to read me there?

Thanks again, Zen. Very brave of you to post, I appreciate it.

No, all psychics and mediums are not liars. They may be misguided or wrong in their beliefs but that is not the same as deliberately setting out to deceive people. Plenty of psychics and mediums and spiritual people are offering to help people in good faith.

"Plenty of psychics and mediums and spiritual people are offering to help people in good faith."

In which case they're so fucking dangerously stupid they should be allowed nowhere near the general public, let alone if money changes hands for these alleged "services".

Well, that's your view. Other opinions are available.

That, by the way, will be completely by accident but you'll be happy with your justification.

Exactly, ABloodyDifficultWoman

Apparently that's the problem, venus. Other opinions are not allowed.

Look, nobody has ever been able to reproduce anything remotely paranormal in even the most relaxed of scientific conditions.

And there is nothing a psychic has ever done that Dereen Brown, for one, has not been able to do with a mixture of cold reading and deliberately obscure language.

Yet Derren Brown still charges people (a lot) to go and see him in action. They enjoy it. It's fun. What's the problem?

Because he doesn't say he had psychic powers. Rather the opposite.