Monty,
Where is your proof of these guarantees?
Have you ever been to a psychic?
Krispy Original,
you said ‘Hey Glee, for examples sake, 2 billion divided by one thousand shares each is 200,000 people.’
Actually it’s 2,000,000. And that’s daily trades on just one stock market. (Although I now think my 10 million to 1 estimate was a little high, there’s no way the numbers are compatible.)
You said ‘Hey, while we’re at it, how about that psychic that Durnovarianus mentions as being the most accurate stock market analyst on the London market? Kind of puts a whole new light on the discussion eh?’.
Well, I was waiting for him to come up with details (name, money made etc.), as Melin asked. I did post stuff about Mystic Meg, who has NOT won the lottery. If psychics really can read the future, why aren’t they all richer than Bill Gates?
In the bathtub of history, the truth is harder to hold than the soap… (Pratchett)
I believe Melin said it was an astrologer, not a psychic. Not even remotely the same thing, except insofar as they are both fakes.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
About 15 years ago I was taught how to read tarot cards, or should I say, how to read tarot cards AND a person’s face, body language, answers to specific questions, clothing, jewelry, eye contact, etc. I am actually very good and have made believers out of skeptics.
Those who think I am psychic are impressed enough that they tell me I should charge for readings. They say that I could make good money doing it. Fortunately for them, I would never “steal” anyone’s money, so I just do it as entertainment at parties and to impress new boyfriends or friends of friends.
On the few occasions that I have confessed, I have been told that my confession is not true, that I really am psychic because there is no way that I could know the things I told them in my reading.
It is amazing what you can tell about a stranger just by listening, asking the right questions, and watching their body language.
Psychic? Naw.
>^,^<
KITTEN
Fluff yer hair Beula, I’s feelin frisky - M.S.
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What is this shit doing in the Pit?
Is anyone else waiting for Whiteho to jump in and tell us that Krispy Original = Contestant#3?
-Frankie
I’m not a shrimp, I’m a King Prawn.
-Pepe the Prawn
Yeah, I know what you mean. This thread is tame compared to some of those comments in the Browser thread in GQ.
Nickrz,
Regrettably, I now believe Krispy Original was trying to provoke DavidB, rather than have a discussion.
Still, it made a nice change for you!
Why doesn’t the sun come out at night when the light would be more useful? (Pratchett)
Konrad, when I was a teen-ager, I desperately wanted to have psychic powers. In particular, I wanted to be able to move objects at a distance by willing them to move (i.e. “telekinesis”). In order for my fantasy of telekinetic powers to even have a chance of becoming a reality, however, telekinesis had to be real. I had to believe in psychic powers.
Had I discovered that Uri Geller and those other alleged psycho-kinetic people were all frauds, during my teen years, it would have crushed my dreams of personal superpowers.
Are you worried that if the supernatural isn’t for-real, that you’ll have to give up one of your dreams of personal empowerment?
glee: Unless London trades exclusively in penny stocks, the 2 billion figure is a bit overblown, I’m afraid. There have been very few days where volume has topped one billion on Wall Street.
krispy:
Not exactly one share per person; OTOH, maybe not thousands of shares either (a single Berkshire-Hataway share (Warren Buffet’s emporium), for example, is worth several thousand dollars). But let say, for the sake of argument, that there are between 50,000 and 100,000 individuals trading each day, do you really think that there are as many who consult psychics?
Okay, I give up.
How does Konrad fit in here?
It’s immoral to allow a sucker to keep his money.
I don’t doubt it.
omni-not,
I quoted the 2 billion figure from an English national newspaper - I’ll see if they retract it.
In any case, I was referring to everyone who has investments in the stock market, e.g. pension holders.
Krispy Original,
and your evidence for the estimate of 50,000 - 100,000 people consulting psychics is…?
Why doesn’t the sun come out at night when the light would be more useful? (Pratchett)
WallyM7 wrote:
I thought that was one of Contestant#3’s usernames.
A bit of a digression here, but it relates to Diane’s Tarot Card post:
My aunt dressed up in scarves and lots of jewelry and set up “Madame Michelle’s Fortune Telling Booth” at a kiddie carnival. Mind you, it was all in fun, my aunt claims to have no psychic powers. It was just a little something to do for the kids.
She was inundated with adults who wanted their fortunes read.
And like Diane, when she would try to tell them it was just a joke and she wasn’t really a psychic, they didn’t believe her. They insisted that she tell them their fortunes.
An astonishing and sort of sad commentary on people’s gullibility and need to believe, I thought.
Leslie Irish Evans
http://leslie.scrappy.net
My only comment is this quote - who said it I cannot now recall:
“It is the height of arrogance to assume that the limits of your own perception is also the limits of what there is to be perceived.”
Stoidela,
you posted “It is the height of arrogance to assume that the limits of your own perception is also the limits of what there is to be perceived.”
On an UFO thread, I told Krispy Original that I believed in aliens (a mathematical likelihood: because there are so many planets, and we already know life exists on one…)
But I’m not impressed by the evidence that they’re here now - UFO ‘sightings’ or crop circles etc.
So (no offence intended) I paraphrase your quote:
“It is silly to assume that skeptics who insist on examining the evidence carefully don’t have great imagination themselves.”
Why doesn’t the sun come out at night when the light would be more useful? (Pratchett)
STOP! YOU’RE BOTH RIGHT! IT’S A CANDY MINT AND A BREATH MINT!
DIF! Welcome back dude!