I asked how you knew this. Isn’t it logical to ask you about your own statements?
This is both silly and rude.
If psychic powers don’t exist, why would anyone pay Ianzin to pretend to have them?
Ianzin has been polite and clear throughout this thread. The ‘psychics’ have been evasive.
Ianzin is a magician. A respectable and skilled profession.
The sort of person who are motivated by money are psychics like Sylvia Brown, who charge around $1750 per hour. :eek: :smack:
shrug And the story also contains nothing to disprove that assumption. I don’t claim to know what happened, I claim that because it easily could have been a non-psychic event, that it is an inconclusive event. It doesn’t prove anything.
After 6 pages of an “Ask the Psychic” thread, it isn’t premature at all to ask if he’s got anything besides one inconclusive instance in a psychic workshop no less.
Did you ask your partner any questions or just rattle off the description?
(I expect you know that a ‘cold reader’ can have a conversation with someone, and leave them with the impression that the ‘cold reader’ is psychic.)
You asked earlier if there was a test you could do.
If your powers depend on sitting in a room with someone to describe a friend of theirs, then sadly we can’t make it work over the Internet.
You would however be eligible for $1,000,000 from the Randi Foundation, if you can repeat your feat.
Finally here is the ‘remote viewing’ test I ran on the SDMB years ago (it’s long!):
Doesn’t the statement speak for itself?? Or, are you asking for examples of how I came to that conclusion? I really don’t understand why you would even ask that question, or what you’re asking for.
Ok, enough of this money shit. I’m sick of the topic. Let’s just assume that ALL of us are trapped in the web of capitalism, and we need money to survive, and we ALL use whatever creative gifts we have to MAKE MORE MONEY. And there is NO reason to be ashamed of it. Satisfied??
As for “the psychics being evasive” – how many “psychics” are even in this thread?? Only Lord Ashtar, and I think even he is starting to realize, he was mistaken about his psychic abilities. Who else is there? (And don’t say me. Because, I have not claimed to be psychic in this thread. Not once.)
Ah, okay. This is basically a cold read. In fact, it’s too weak to even be called that. You described the image in your head, which says nothing about mistrust, financial deals, and internal alarms going off. Just a bolted, chained lock. She is the one who made the connection with that person in her life, not you. Like I said, it’s not even a cold read, it’s just a random free association. That’s not even remotely psychic.
Frankly, I’m surprised. I really thought, you had “read” certain specific details (like hair color, the hat, etc.) that you could not possibly have known. Unless, there’s more to the story?
Very well. I hearby retract my apology, and stand by initial words, that ianzin is solely motivated by money. Or, at least, the survival of his career. (Judging by his hot-headed response, it’s pretty clear I hit the nail a little close to the head, right?)
If that constitutes slander, call my lawyer. Oh wait, don’t do that. Call your lawyer instead. And wait for him to laugh in your face. I mean…slander?? What a joke.
Sometimes, particularly in threads on psychics (I find), one reaches the point where one realises that the best riposte is just to let some other poster’s own posts stand in all their “glory”.
Sometimes, particularly in threads on psychics (I find), one reaches the point where one realises that the best riposte is just to let some other poster’s own posts stand in all their “glory”.
Like I said, sometimes, particularly in threads on psychics (I find), one reaches the point where one realises that the best riposte is just to let some other poster’s own posts stand in all their “glory”. Your last being a good example.
you know, if we can keep the randomly guess Steven Wright’s number joke going for 96 more posters, one of us will get it right, and thereby be proven to be psychic
Psychic powers are very elusive, and rarely reliable.
Of course that statement doesn’t speak for itself. (Why do you think it does?)
Your statement assumes that psychic powers exist, that they are very elusive and rarely reliable.
I want to know why you think psychic powers exist.
If they are very elusive and rarely reliable, how can you tell them apart from guessing?
You were the one who made a snide remark about Ianzin and money. I called you on it.
I earn my living as a chess teacher. Ianzin runs a business. These are both perfectly respectable ways to earn a living, and we can both show results for what we do.
Sylvia Brown charges **incredibly high fees ** for being psychic, yet there is **no evidence ** she can do anything.
Once again, you first claimed people were being evasive. You gave no evidence to support it.
I thought I would use the phrase myself and see how you reacted.
Agree totally. But to accept new theories I want some evidence. And theories which have failed testing time and time again should be dismissed until some evidence is provided. Otherwise you end up stuck with retaining everything anyone proposes. Of course, ‘known’ science may well be wrong - it is always under revision. That’s what’s so intriguing about aplying scientific method. Science can only ever be “to the best of our current knowledge”.
We can’t prove there isn’t psychic power. But to believe there is, there needs to be some evidence.
Fun, isn’t it? You can never be totally sure you are right. I like that.
That is the way one aspect of it is quoted. It is referring to processes which can be described mathematically. Deterministic systems (ones with equations) aren’t totally predictable. Weird.
Chaos Theory is very much a theory and very much under debate as to where it applies and where it doesn’t and whether the link from the mathematics to the real world is always justified, but it is great fun. Bascially, the famous Butterfly Effect is that very very small changes in the initial conditions can cause huge changes in the outcome. They usually don’t - the system’s attractors usually drag things back to the expected patterns.