# Whew! Sylvia Browne is on the case!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 14, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634 "2001-09-14T17:06:41Z")
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/1 "2001-09-14T17:06:41Z")
On Sylvia Browne’s homepage, [http://www.sylvia.org/home/index.cfm](http://www.sylvia.org/home/index.cfm) , we find out that:
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> Sylvia did not get advance warning because she is not omniscient. Her list of predictions in 1999 warned of terrorism, but clearly the timing was wrong. Please pray for the wellbeing of the victims and their families, and focus your anger on helping other people rather than seeking revenge.
However, her spirits, which can see where you dropped your grandma’s ring and can see the hair color of the man you’re going to marry, somehow missed two airplanes plunging into the World Trade Center. Thankfully, they have been brought in line and now suddenly Sylvia DOES have some info:
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> Sylvia has been given the following information regarding the attack:
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> - Osama bin Laden and another group is behind the attack;
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> - Be aware of “Triad of Jordan” and “Palestinian Republic of Bundi”
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> - A weapon or bomb known as the “Z” was involved with the aircraft
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> - Two names to watch for (phonetic spelling) - Mohammed Karema and Zehar Mentusi.
Please keep this thread apprised of information as Sylvia’s predictions inevitably come true.
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### Author:  [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/2 "2001-09-14T17:15:38Z")
I fear people like Sylvia will only find more opportunity to prey on the feelings of those who have lost so much. I wonder if she’ll give any of the money from those $700 a pop sessions to people who actually need it.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/3 "2001-09-14T17:32:07Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Legomancer \*
> \*\*- Be aware of “Triad of Jordan” and “Palestinian Republic of Bundi”
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Bundi? From what I see, it is a city in India. There was also something about PNG. Nothing I was able to find relates Bundi with Palestinians.
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### Author:  [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/4 "2001-09-14T22:15:24Z")
Is that Al Bundi?
A republic of shoe-selling underachievers?
Perhaps it’s time to hit the crystal ball with a dose of Windex.
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### Author:  [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/5 "2001-09-15T00:39:36Z")
Maybe she meant Burundi. But that’s in Africa. Maybe she’s just stupid.
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### Author:  [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2001, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/6 "2001-09-15T05:50:51Z")
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> Seattle Lecture - Saturday - Sept. 15
> If the airplanes are flying on Saturday (from San Jose to Seattle, via Alaska Air) then Sylvia will be at the lecture. Two contingency options are planned; (1) if we arrive late into Seattle on Saturday then we will do the lecture later in the day; or (2) postpone the lecture until Sunday - Oct. 7 - at 12 noon.
I become only more irritated as I browse that web site.
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### Author:  [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/7 "2001-09-15T06:50:41Z")
I looked through the web site some. This lady is more of a kook than I though. She has all these predictions on her page. The ones for the next 100 years are your standard Popular Science magazine covers. Hover cars and stuff. Anyone can make that up. The funny thing is, they have her 2000 predictions up. I don’t know why the spirits bother to tell her what the interest rate will be, but she predicts some stupid stuff. And she’s wrong. A lot. How’s this:
**"Democrats will win the election with Bill Bradley, with close competition from the Reform Party."**
Ooh, just missed there.
**"Neither Warren Beatty nor Donald Trump has any success in politics."**
Nah, really? I would have never guessed.
And here are her rates for readings from her or her son.
1.By phone from anywhere - FEE: Sylvia $700.00 FEE: Christopher $350.00
So, if I get her son, do I get to talk to only half as many dead relatives? Or do they tell me half as many vague things before obviously concluding with the fact that they love me and miss me? And is long distance really that expensive that she needs to charge $700? C’mon, get one of those cell phone plans with the free minutes.
I’d should just go to the Pit and rant and rave there.
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-sylvia-browne-is-on-the-case/81634/8 "2001-09-15T19:43:06Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Chickenhead \*
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> > Seattle Lecture - Saturday - Sept. 15
> > If the airplanes are flying on Saturday (from San Jose to Seattle, via Alaska Air) then Sylvia will be at the lecture. Two contingency options are planned; (1) if we arrive late into Seattle on Saturday then we will do the lecture later in the day; or (2) postpone the lecture until Sunday - Oct. 7 - at 12 noon.
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> I become only more irritated as I browse that web site. \*\*
Well you know, the site specifically says she’s not omniscient!
I find it amazing to think that there are still people who will believe a psychic who didn’t see the explosion coming. If psychic ability were true, how could you not see this? The scale, the death, the “psychic fallout”, the emotion, how could this not register? Assuming you can see the details about a single person’s future, how could you see the details of thousands of peoples’ future and not see this in any of them?
I know I’m preaching to the converted here, but I simply can’t fathom what sort of person could continue to believe that this woman has power after this?