I'm Not Surprised.

[LostAngeles]

Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, Biloxi, and innumerable coastal communities along the Gulf. It's an absolute catastrophe. Some of the accounts I'm reading make me sick. The Christian Conservatives have already blamed the gays. Where are the other usual vultures?

I googled "Sylvia Brown Hurricane Katrina" without the quotes. The top page can be found here. With quotes around "Sylvia Brown" and "Hurrican Katrina" I got this as the top result.

It doesn't look like there's anything. Are these particular vultures staying silent? I'm shocked. I would have figured that after they leaped on 9/11 that they truly had no ethics or morals and complete and total gall.

All I've got is this guy. Check out his latest updates. He's been updating from the goddamned future.

I google for psychics and the hurricane and I get nothing.

Here, psychics, psychics. Heee-re. We've got a horribel catastrophe that you could "have predicted." C'mon. C'mon.

...

Don't tell me you rotted tumors finally found a concience?

 

[LostAngeles]

http://www.sylvia.org/home/index.cfm

*whistles*

 

[jmercer]

Be patient, my dear friend. Sylvia won't claim to have predicted it, but she'll claim to be in contact with many anguished souls that passed on during the disaster... and who want to reach out to their loved ones to say goodbye.

Just wait for it. Scum always floats to the top... eventually...

 

[Ashles]

All I've got is this guy. Check out his latest updates. He's been updating from the goddamned future.

That guy is nutty even by the standards of the genre.

Check out this page of prediction drawings (takes a while to load - obviously his talents don't extend to compressing images very well).
(And the third drawing down is positively filthy.)


But it does seem odd that the psychics aren't jumping on this bandwagon.

Maybe RSLancaster should keep an eye on 'Kaz' - no doubt she will claim to have been in New Orleans in the last week.

 

[Psi Baba]

Re: Re: I'm Not Surprised.

That guy is nutty even by the standards of the genre.

Check out this page of prediction drawings (takes a while to load - obviously his talents don't extend to compressing images very well).
(And the third drawing down is positively filthy.)

He seems to have hundreds of "predictions" none of which have come true. Sooner or later, a few are bound to come close to something that eventually happens. Predicting hurricanes is not that difficult. Climatologists do it all the time, and they're usually not that far off. Are all climatologists psychic?
Also, notice how this guy's past predictions are rather detailed, but if you look at the lastest three, they just say, "I don't know what this means." Funny that.

But it does seem odd that the psychics aren't jumping on this bandwagon.

Well, you gotta give them time to go through their archives of BS to pull something out that might look like it was a prediction of some sort.

 

[Z]

Oh... my... GOD...

Brian Ladd?

I SERVED with him! We served together in North Carolina for a couple of years in the MLRS battallion at Fort Bragg. IIRC, he was a Specialist/E-4 when I met him, and got his promotion shortly thereafter.

He was always a fairly quiet sort of guy, but disturbingly religious, and with almost no sense of humour. You couldn't joke around with him like you could everyone else, and he always looked at everyone as if they were filthy.

JEEZ - how he has fallen...

This is way too weird for more words.

 

[LostAngeles]

Oh... my... GOD...

Brian Ladd?

I SERVED with him! We served together in North Carolina for a couple of years in the MLRS battallion at Fort Bragg. IIRC, he was a Specialist/E-4 when I met him, and got his promotion shortly thereafter.

He was always a fairly quiet sort of guy, but disturbingly religious, and with almost no sense of humour. You couldn't joke around with him like you could everyone else, and he always looked at everyone as if they were filthy.

JEEZ - how he has fallen...

This is way too weird for more words.

Wha?! Are you serious?

Small-ass freaking world. That's creepy and scary.

 

[jmercer]

What's that old saw about being only seven people away from anyone else in the world?

That IS weird.

 

[Z]

My wife called from New York about half an hour ago. I told her about what happened. She said he was always terribly weird. Seems that, back in '95 or so (she can't recall exactly) he predicted she was going to have a miscarriage and divorce me over it, and marry a black man who would try to murder her. Within the next two years.

Needless to say - not an overly accurate prediction.

I am now officially freaked out today. Think I'll go practice some woo and shield myself from negative energy, or maybe fondle some healing crystals, or perhaps watch Matrix: Reloaded and think it's a good movie.

 

[Soapy Sam]

You're in denial. She left you years ago. It's OK to cry.

Seriously, I suspect "finding" someone you know on the Internet is pretty common.

On this board alone, I discovered that Rolfe and I came from the same place, used the same library as kids, may have met at primary school and were practically related. We both found it highly entertaining.

It really is quite a small world.

 

[case sensitive]

"Please know that Sylvia or her son Chris Dufresne DO NOT endorse nor are affiliated with any Psychic "hot lines," ads in papers for readings, or any 900 numbers. If anyone is calling themselves Sylvia or Chris and are on one of these lines they are a fraud. The only way to get a hold of Sylvia or Chris for a reading is through her office at this number 408.379.7070.

For example, never ever send any funds to The Tide Group in Palm Beach Florida. They are a total fraud group pretending to be Sylvia and Chris.

Sylvia's site is constantly being updated. Please check back frequently for new and exciting information."
From Sylvia's homepage

Why isn't Sylvia opened minded about this? Maybe there are more of her and her son than she "knows". There is more to life than meets the eye...

Does it really matter if it is a fake fraud or the real fraud?

 

[delphi_ote]

Does it really matter if it is a fake fraud or the real fraud?

I would LOVE to see this go to court. It would be so cute to watch Sylvia and her lawyer all self-righteous condemning the phoney psychics! That much irony in one location might just well destroy the universe as we know it.