I really need to rant regarding Browne's death

[Severus Snape]

I'm reading all the comments on the yahoo's news section as well as the USA Today section regarding Browne's demise.
Seeing so many people say things like "Sylvia Browne helped millions and millions of people and brought comfort to those seeking her help."
How is telling people their child was dead when he was in fact alive such as Sean Horbeck and Amanda Berry. How bout when she told her family that their missing little girl Opal Jo Jennings was being held captive as a sex slave in some unknown city in Japan when she was actually murdered by a sex offender not far from where she lived.
Don't forget the time she claimed she helped solved the Polly Klass murder case when her own father Marc Klass called it bullcrap.
If she was the real deal where is the proof she actually played a role in solving cases with local law enforcement.
How about bilking millions of people out of 800 dollars for a phone reading that is a bunch of crap.

(Had to get it out of my system)

 

[fuelair]

I'm reading all the comments on the yahoo's news section as well as the USA Today section regarding Browne's demise.
Seeing so many people say things like "Sylvia Browne helped millions and millions of people and brought comfort to those seeking her help."
How is telling people their child was dead when he was in fact alive such as Sean Horbeck and Amanda Berry. How bout when she told her family that their missing little girl Opal Jo Jennings was being held captive as a sex slave in some unknown city in Japan when she was actually murdered by a sex offender not far from where she lived.
Don't forget the time she claimed she helped solved the Polly Klass murder case when her own father Marc Klass called it bullcrap.
If she was the real deal where is the proof she actually played a role in solving cases with local law enforcement.
How about bilking millions of people out of 800 dollars for a phone reading that is a bunch of crap.

(Had to get it out of my system)

Hope it is. She and the way too many like her won't be out of mine until they are all dead - hopefully of lingering pain and fear in an alley somewhere in an unfriendly city.

 

[Resume]

Citations for Browne's claims in the Klass case? If true, this is as despicable as anything connected with this person. More so in fact.

 

[desertgal]

I'm reading all the comments on the yahoo's news section as well as the USA Today section regarding Browne's demise.
Seeing so many people say things like "Sylvia Browne helped millions and millions of people and brought comfort to those seeking her help."
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People have been making similar comments about Browne for the last 30+ years.

 

[cullennz]

Worrying about it is a pointless excersize.

Bit like carying why some people have a need for a god.

You could sit there pointing out all her failures, but the converted are converted. Logic doesn't count really.

Have a cookie. And don't worry about the vase

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Actually, I've noticed the exact reverse online.

The VAST majority of people online- if not all- are of the opinion that Browne was a fraud and that her death is something to celebrate.

Facebook, YouTube, forums, what have you, everyone's convinced she was not real. Citizens and news givers.

TMZ ran a negative and mocking segment about her death, as did The Huffington Post. All news outlets are either neutral or skeptical.

Check out the comments section here, for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk9inPgoDu8

 

[ehcks]

The VAST majority of people online- if not all- are of the opinion that Browne was a fraud and that her death is something to celebrate.

Bleh, that's no good either.

When someone you like dies, you celebrate for the good memories, and mourn for the fact that they won't be around to make any more of them.

When someone you hate dies, you build or buy something that represents your memories of them and smash it up for closure.

And for Sylvia Brown? The thing that represents her is other evil "psychics" defrauding people. The proper action is to continue showing them to be liars and charlatans; metaphorically smash up their cons.

 

[Craig4]

Deleted.

 

[alfaniner]

Actually, I've noticed the exact reverse online.

The VAST majority of people online- if not all- are of the opinion that Browne was a fraud and that her death is something to celebrate.

I've seen the same -- just checked out a couple of the videos I had posted and virtually all of the latest comments are negative about her life.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Deleted.

Yes. She has been. All praise . . .

 

[Donal]

So, has anyone heard from her yet?

 

[Reno]

Have any of the other psychics made any comment in the media about Sylvia being dead?

 

[ExMinister]

I'm reading all the comments on the yahoo's news section as well as the USA Today section regarding Browne's demise.
Seeing so many people say things like "Sylvia Browne helped millions and millions of people and brought comfort to those seeking her help."
How is telling people their child was dead when he was in fact alive such as Sean Horbeck and Amanda Berry. How bout when she told her family that their missing little girl Opal Jo Jennings was being held captive as a sex slave in some unknown city in Japan when she was actually murdered by a sex offender not far from where she lived.
Don't forget the time she claimed she helped solved the Polly Klass murder case when her own father Marc Klass called it bullcrap.
If she was the real deal where is the proof she actually played a role in solving cases with local law enforcement.
How about bilking millions of people out of 800 dollars for a phone reading that is a bunch of crap.

(Had to get it out of my system)

I agree it is frustrating.

It was Kathlyn Rhea who claimed to have help solve the Polly Klaas murder. I don't recall Browne ever having made that claim.

 

[cullennz]

It is one of life's weird rules

When someone dies their achievements get wildly exaggerated and their failures largely forgotten.

 

[Anerystos]

It is one of life's weird rules

When someone dies their achievements get wildly exaggerated and their failures largely forgotten.

And obituaries tell you how wonderful they really were. And how they were misunderstood by the whole world - except, of course, by the enlightened few.

Have you ever read about a real **** being buried: somehow they all end up as saints.

 

[570Lesa]

I can't believe I ever fell for her line of BS. It is so embarrasing, especially when I hear the weak weak defenses people are saying about her and how people idolized her. I know I never went THAT far but still it is scary that at one time I was on the "other side" so to speak. OOOHHH it gives me the shivers!

 

[desertgal]

I agree it is frustrating.

It was Kathlyn Rhea who claimed to have help solve the Polly Klaas murder. I don't recall Browne ever having made that claim.

Browne claimed to have worked on "the Bundy case". Clearly, she meant Ted Bundy (or wanted people to think that, same difference), even though she didn't insert the "Ted". Author Ann Rule, who wrote a book about the Bundy investigation, says she's never found any evidence that the varied investigators in four jurisdictions (Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Florida) even raised Browne's name in the course of their independent investigations, much less consulted with SB.

Course, that doesn't mean SB didn't offer to solve the case.

I believe that's the only high profile murder case Browne claimed (sort of) to have worked on.

 

[ExMinister]

I can't believe I ever fell for her line of BS. It is so embarrasing, especially when I hear the weak weak defenses people are saying about her and how people idolized her. I know I never went THAT far but still it is scary that at one time I was on the "other side" so to speak. OOOHHH it gives me the shivers!

I know, I totally get it. Me too.

Browne claimed to have worked on "the Bundy case". Clearly, she meant Ted Bundy (or wanted people to think that, same difference), even though she didn't insert the "Ted". Author Ann Rule, who wrote a book about the Bundy investigation, says she's never found any evidence that the varied investigators in four jurisdictions (Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Florida) even raised Browne's name in the course of their independent investigations, much less consulted with SB.

Course, that doesn't mean SB didn't offer to solve the case.

I believe that's the only high profile murder case Browne claimed (sort of) to have worked on.

That's how I remember the Bundy thing too.

 

[nvidiot]

Defintely not safe for work, but quite relevant.

 

[570Lesa]

I know, I totally get it. Me too.
Thanks so much ex. You know I had to think long and hard about why why why i would fall for that and in my own defense, I was newly seperated and my son was diagnosed as profoundly autistic and I was stuck in my house, isolated and feeling low. I think my reality was too much to handle at the time, only being in my 20's, I was also a social worker and looking for new ways to help others. I don't know if that is why but I need to make some sense of it for my own sanity.
I NEVER agreed with her outrageous price for a reading, I thought most of her predictions were off the wall and my first instinct about her was that she is no good, but I let myself be brainwashed by her books.