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Merged Sylvia Browne passed away this morning

cullennz said:
Must not make joke about there probably being one last cruise ship trip with chance of touching SB's coffin for 10 thousand a ticket.
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I would be interested in purchasing a relic. I just need to come up with some good keywords so I get notified from eBay.
 
I wonder if her family is going to hire someone to talk to her now, or if she is now conning the dead into believing that she can communicate with the living.
 
RSLancastr:
Do you feel a loss, now that an old foe is no longer around? Will you catch yourself thinking, some months hence, "I wonder what Sylvia is up to?"
 
Tricky said:
Yeah, I wish ill to crooks. I'm a little surprised you think that is bad. But as you say, to each his own. Comfort criminals all you want.
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And not just any criminal, but a criminal who preyed on the weak and emotionally distraught. There's an old saying that you can't cheat an honest man, but Sylvia and others of her ilk proved that false--you can always cheat someone who is in too much pain to think clearly.

I have far more respect for your average workaday burglar than for a predator like SB. I'm honestly sorry if it hurts her family to hear it, but she was evil, and the sooner they come to terms with that fact, the healthier they'll be.
 
I admit, I had two thoughts when I read about her death - neither very nice. The first was "well, she won't con anyone any more." The second was "drat, and I never got to try to trick her." When I first read SSB, I had a daydream of asking her questions that sound legit, but are really trick questions. Things like:
1) What kind of kids will I have? (I'm sterile.)
2) Why did my son have to die? (The "son" in question was a 14-year old dog who had to be put to sleep because the disks in his back calcified and he could not move without pain.)
 
She gave people advice--often for a fee--about how to run their lives, but as to the actual circumstances of their situations, she didn't have the first goddamned clue.

She sold books and talks about heaven and the afterlife, but on those subjects, she didn't have the first goddamned clue.

She reported messages from people who where dead, when in fact she didn't have the first goddamned clue.

She announced the likes and dislikes and desires and attributes of an Almighty power, but in reality she didn't have the first goddamned clue.

She touted an ability to solve unsolvable crimes, but the evidence actually supported the conclusion that she didn't have the first goddamned clue.

She dispensed recommendations with respect to health and medicine; not only was she without training or qualification, she didn't have the first goddamned clue.

Whether she was sincere in her beliefs in her own capabilities is no defense. Nor is it a defense that she was nice or caring or had other redeeming qualities. Her meal ticket in life was to publicly and adamantly pretend to know things that she in fact did not know.
 
BardKesnit said:
I admit, I had two thoughts when I read about her death - neither very nice. The first was "well, she won't con anyone any more." The second was "drat, and I never got to try to trick her." When I first read SSB, I had a daydream of asking her questions that sound legit, but are really trick questions. Things like:
1) What kind of kids will I have? (I'm sterile.)
2) Why did my son have to die? (The "son" in question was a 14-year old dog who had to be put to sleep because the disks in his back calcified and he could not move without pain.)
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I understand that "What was my grandfather's name?" works quite well.
 
One would almost think something got lost from the world, when no such thing happened.

Just a thought, though: If they are selling that real estate, how about buying it for Sylvia Browne's museum( of failed predictions)?

ETA: Nothing of positive value, to be precise.
 
Brown said:
Whether she was sincere in her beliefs in her own capabilities is no defense.
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She could not have been. She was (sort of) skilled at the art of cold reading, and to do that, you have to know the techniques of fishing for information. She knew exactly what she was doing.
 
Well "The Randi Show" rebuttal on her death was something to watch. I wonder which cold reader to go after next? There are so many...
 
Spindrift said:
Sorry, just because someone is dead doesn't rehabilitate them. She was a horrible person in life and death hasn't changed that. Her family may mourn her but the world is just a little better off without her conning people.
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I have the exact same opinion. Well said.

I thoroughly hate the "let the family mourn" meme when bastard die. The truth about an horrible person should not be buried because somebody died. Especially since her family , at least son, seems to be going the same way she did.
 
Who's kidding who?

A lot of self-righteousness and jealousy here. I guess it's comforting for some to tell themselves the only thing preventing them from being as rich and famous as Sylvia Browne is their own rarefied sense of morality.
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Tricky said:
She could not have been. She was (sort of) skilled at the art of cold reading, and to do that, you have to know the techniques of fishing for information. She knew exactly what she was doing.
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I won't pretend to guess about Sylvia in particular, but I was under the impression that you can delude/train yourself into being a good cold reader while still believing that's just how your "power" works.

Didn't we have someone here that described how he used to do tarot and only later learned that part of the technique he had developed was cold reading?
 
h.g.Whiz said:
I wonder if her family is going to hire someone to talk to her now, or if she is now conning the dead into believing that she can communicate with the living.
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Is she broadcasting from the other side yet? I bet some nutcase on the net will say that she is.
 
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