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12 Oct 2023, 9:41 pm

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Surly with 7 billion souls or more surviving multiple incarnations we can't all be famous or important. .


There seems to be an awful number of royalty and fallen civil war soldiers getting recycled through.


I might have been somewhat interested if it was something closer to believable. Like a peasant, or an insurance salesman.



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12 Oct 2023, 9:46 pm

DanielW wrote:
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Surly with 7 billion souls or more surviving multiple incarnations we can't all be famous or important. .
There seems to be an awful number of royalty and fallen civil war soldiers getting recycled through.
I might have been somewhat interested if it was something closer to believable. Like a peasant, or an insurance salesman.
No one seems to want to be a mere peasant; everyone seems to want to be someone special, if not in this life, then in another (imaginary) life.



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12 Oct 2023, 10:19 pm

I'm stunned no one brought Ian Stevenson yet.

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One "psychic" tried to convince me that I am the reincarnated form of Empress Myeongseong of Korea, who was murdered in 1895 by Japan's occupying forces for trying to establish political ties with Tsarist Russia. I didn't buy it.

I'm give them this much - you are a diva.


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12 Oct 2023, 10:25 pm

I put it in the category of 'things that are probably true that I wish weren't'.


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12 Oct 2023, 10:48 pm

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I'm give them this much - you are a diva.
Uhh . . . thank you?



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13 Oct 2023, 2:34 am

a psychic told me i was an relatively new spirit without too many previous lifetimes. no wonder this life thing is a bit of a flail for me at times.



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13 Oct 2023, 6:08 am

How do people come across psychics anyway?

I have never come across one, yet. Or at least, nobody I have been aware of/who has been trying to sell their services.



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13 Oct 2023, 7:39 am

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How do people come across psychics anyway?

I have never come across one, yet. Or at least, nobody I have been aware of/who has been trying to sell their services.


I had one chat me up while I was waiting for a bus. Another was recommended by a school friend.



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13 Oct 2023, 7:45 am

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How do people come across psychics anyway?

I have never come across one, yet. Or at least, nobody I have been aware of/who has been trying to sell their services.

We found one while touring up North, once.

Most "psychics" are phonies, though. Probably the most legit thing they could do for you is a tarot reading. But anyone with a tarot deck can do that.

Most people with actual psychic abilities have no control over it. I get premonitions in my dreams sometimes, but it's always either something of little-to-no consequence, or it's something that would be physically impossible for me to intervene in. It's been a long time since I last had one, though.

I'm still waiting for that dream that will show me what's in Fnord's box... ;)


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13 Oct 2023, 8:00 am

Most "Psychics" are just kidding themselves. People mistake intuition for supernatural ability.



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13 Oct 2023, 8:21 am

Closest I can find musically is Richard Strauss Tod and Verklaerueng.



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13 Oct 2023, 8:24 am

^ I love that piece!

I am a princess. If I had past lives, I was a princess then, too.



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15 Oct 2023, 2:55 am

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Most "Psychics" are just kidding themselves. People mistake intuition for supernatural ability.


And yet taxpayer money is paid to psychics who work for the CIA and for the police. There is something to it if agencies are willing to use their readings.



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15 Oct 2023, 10:14 am

cyberdad wrote:
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Most "Psychics" are just kidding themselves. People mistake intuition for supernatural ability.


And yet taxpayer money is paid to psychics who work for the CIA and for the police. There is something to it if agencies are willing to use their readings.

"Most".


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15 Oct 2023, 3:10 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
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Most "Psychics" are just kidding themselves. People mistake intuition for supernatural ability.


And yet taxpayer money is paid to psychics who work for the CIA and for the police. There is something to it if agencies are willing to use their readings.

"Most".


Most what?



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15 Oct 2023, 4:35 pm

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And yet taxpayer money is paid to psychics who work for the CIA and for the police. There is something to it if agencies are willing to use their readings.

That's assuming the CIA and police are always objective. Hmm....it seems the UK police have only used a psychic once:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun ... ead-bodies

If - and it's a big if - the British are less superstitious than the Americans, perhaps the UK cops are simply more wary of seeming to waste taxpayers' money. But why would a supposedly evidence-based establishment ever want to use psychics in the first place? Well, they probably only do so when all else fails, and I've long thought that desperation can lead to irrational thinking and behaviour. Also, as the article says, "The officers involved have said that because there was the possibility of harm to children, they were duty-bound to investigate." So maybe none of them really believe in psychic powers, but get trapped into doing irrational things because of the unintended consequences of rules.