Sylvia Browne not even cold reading!

Big Al said:
Why did she marry him in the first place? Couldn't she tell with her mighty powers that he wasn't the one for her, before she married him?

The guy's well out of it IMHO.
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According to Sylvia, her "psychic powers" do not work on herself.

How convenient.
 
CFLarsen said:
A cure would be discovered - I think it would be in.....1998.
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Perhaps MS is one of those cures that "THEY" don't want us to know about.

I can only imagine the literary possibilities if Sylvia Browne and Kevin Trudeau joined forces for a book:

"Natural Cures that the male god and female god don't want you to know about!"

"How to boost your Mega Memory for Life on the Other Side"

"Why the FDA and drug companies are working together to prevent psychics' predictions from coming true!"

or my presonal favorite:

"How to amass personal wealth and fortune by swindling the vulnerable and grief stricken with a clean conscience!"
 
bjb said:
It seems that some of us has never watched a Sylvia pisode of the Montel Williams show. I can't blame anyone for avoiding her since she is so painful to watch. But if anyone wants to defend her, they at least need to be somewhat familiar with what she does. She's on the Montel show every Wednesday and her methods are painfully on display during each episode.

Two words Sylvia will not use on the Montel show are "Novus Spiritus", which is the religion she made up. She's quite the theologian, with all sorts of insight into Jesus, the Bible, etc. She even has knowlege of the male god and female god. I think Sylvia goes further than most psychics in that she's redefined the entire universe for her believers.
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Sylvia Browne is one step away from Jim Jones.
 
Wait! I've been to the Trevi Fountain as well! And I was thinking about Rome at the time!
 
snooziums said:
I just do not understand who so many like her, and will be willing to take 700 dollars for an 1/2 hour phone conversation, when all she does is reinforce the client's already made up opinion.
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You underestimate how much demand there is for that very service. The big bucks are available to anyone who can couch it in enough mumbo-jumbo to lend the customer a sense of authority about their own opinions.
 
CFLarsen said:
Sylvia Browne is one step away from Jim Jones.
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I believe she could take that last step and become a religious figure. Here's a post from that blog that these believers think belongs to Sylvia:

silvia,
i has dreamed that you and montel williams was the reintarnations of jesus and moses. did you ever feel like you was jesus? i bet you and montel will change the world just like you both has done before.

291. Posted by Ipsy on September 02, 2006

All Sylvia has to do is proclaim herself to be the reincarnation of Jesus or whatever and she'll get all the followers she needs. Maybe if she were more insane she'd do it, but perhaps she thinks she's making enough money as it is.

For T'ai Chi, can you see how easily we create our own false gods and prophets? I know you think that gods are a universal belief because they are real, but we can see that people are able to create false gods on their own. This ability for societies to create gods can be shown to be 'universal', not gods themselves. Sylvia Browne is a pretty poor excuse for a god, but she's does just as effective and makes people happy as the 'real' thing. Since people are willing to believe in gods who are obviously false, why should I believe in any god at all? How do I know these 'real' gods weren't created in the same way as the false ones?
 
snooziums said:
I think the tourists are a new thing. Over 100 years ago, there were most likely not that many people constantly around it.
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Tourism in itself is age old, and Rome has been getting lots of tourists since hundreds of years. Read about the Grand Tour for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour

Fontana di Trevi as it appears today was constructed in the 1620s, but there has been a fountain there for much longer than that. How popular it was to go look at it before modern times though, I don't know, but I am sure that tourists back then found it as beautiful as we do today.

Just doin' some nitpicking tonight ;)

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And doing so, not realizing it's a really old thread... So, never mind :o
 
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Skilled cold readers are very good at knowing when to dis-engage in their usual tactics, and let the person being read fill in all the blanks.
You would be suprised how often psychic readings amount to nothing more than just repeating back to a client what they have just said, indirectly, or what their feedback has implied.
I recently studied a tape of a recorded psychic reading, in which the psychic let the customer divulge all the information, just in conversational patter throughout the reading, then just fed the information back to the customer with cliches attached.
I was so suprised that the client thought the reading was so wonderful, because the psychic barely had to use any of her cold reading skills.
Yet because the client had the perception of the psychic being mystical and insightful, she read much more importance into the cliches being spouted to her.
If the psychic has implanted the suggestion of authenticity and psychic ability, and if the person being read is a willing subject, then the psychic is already 3 quarters of the way there to convincing the person.

So i suppose you could say that this type of reading is part of the cold reading skillset as a whole :)
 
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