Do you believe in psychics?

[Kain10th]

Just got a Tarot card reading. bascially says im still gonna be alive and well in the future and that i may gain a ton of cash at some point. My skeptical brain just thinks 'yeah sounds great but i don't beleive it.'

what you think?

 

[Good4Nothing]

Nope.

 

[Disappointered]

I'm open to the possibility but as things stand, no.

 

[BitterlyAlive]

Lol, nope.

 

[StringPuppet]

I believe they found a good hustle

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I've never regarded attempting to predict the future as a correct use of the Tarot. Divination is somewhat subtler than that. It's just another way of looking at things.

 

[Xocoyotziin]

I'm gonna sound like I'm off my rocker, but yes. I don't think it's anything special though. More like an undiscovered property of the universe.

I've never regarded attempting to predict the future as a correct use of the Tarot. Divination is somewhat subtler than that. It's just another way of looking at things.

Yeah I really like tarot but I treat it like a more complex rorscach test. Predicting the future with it is mostly bs imo but it can tell you what you hope/fear the future will be.

 

[Konjac]

I find tarot card readings interesting, but they're kinda like horoscopes- cool and entertaining to check out, but not something to take too seriously. I do keep the readings in mind just in case, but I don't think you can predict the whole ass course of your future with them lmao.

 

[waived]

I do not believe in psychics.

 

[Deleted member 19276]

Hardly believe in anything like that.
Tarot cards are a fun though. Used to talk about the Hermit card with a user from here.
In a way, I guess I believe in that - Being one.

 

[Life_and_Death]

I'm gonna sound like I'm off my rocker, but yes. I don't think it's anything special though. More like an undiscovered property of the universe.


Yeah I really like tarot but I treat it like a more complex rorscach test. Predicting the future with it is mostly bs imo but it can tell you what you hope/fear the future will be.

for the most part i believe but for the most part its scams (of course im also wiccan so its kinda my thing lol) of course its not exactly to hard to predict "your breath smells like beer im gonna guess in the future you will die of liver failure" anything past that however id call it luck. im more for the healing side of things but im working on reading tarot cards and other things like that.

 

[Deleted member 19654]

I don't like how they prey on people by claiming that they can speak to their deceased loved ones.

 

[sadbadpsychogirl]

no they do this thing called "cold reading" you can look into it it pretty much explains everything.

 

[Disappointered]

a lot of the more famous ones also have teams of scammers working in the background, perhaps with the tv stations they're on, kind of like uri geller.

 

[Gnip]

No, but I think psychics are far better for people who believe in them than psychoquackery which fixates on and recycles your problems. If people who believe in psychics get positive readings and positive expectations result, that can be a good thing

 

[Lupgevif]

No.

 

[LastFlowers]

Absolutely not. The claims some make disgust me, especially the ones who claim to speak for the dead. Obviously the people who believe them are half to blame, but still. People who do psychic gags for fun are fine as long as they are transparent, but actually claiming you can communicate with those who passed or tell someone's future, is beyond wrong. The Long Island Medium must be a psychopath, I wonder if her family actually believes in her "gift" or they just went with the money flow.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

A psychic once told me I'd be bearing the major responsibility for taking care of my autistic sister for the rest of my life... If I CTB in the next few years then technically she'd be right.

 

[Disappointered]

I once considered trying to work as one online out of desperation. I wonder if it's easy. I doubt you can make much money from it though. I started an account with some psychic thing but never followed through because it seemed kind of unethical since I know i'm not psychic. If i was really desperate i would probably do it though.

 

[Gnip]

The Psychic Readers Network fronted by Youree Dell "Miss Cleo" Harris in the late 1990's failed to predict their own rapid demise or that of Harris herself from colon cancer at age 53 in 2016.

We talk about Houdini today because he completely trashed these people, a practice which the late great James Randi carried forward that is now continued by Penn & Teller. (Randi did in fact have a million in cash ready for anybody to collect who could prove psychic phenomena, and nobody was ever able to claim that prize. As kid, I read his exposer of fraudster Uri Geller in Science Digest (the magazine for kids who loved science but hated school and the way schools pretended to "teach" science).

 

[Deleted member 17949]

probably not