clairvoyants/mediums/fortune tellers

[Gubbz]

Hi GD,

Just curious if anyone has actually been to a clairvoyant/medium/fortune teller. What was your experience like and were they spot on in anything that they said?

I don't really get into this kind of stuff, but the wife is going tomorrow so I thought oh well, why not give it a try. I am going in open minded and I am just curious how it went for you.

Cheers in advance for your input.

 

[exe ex machina]

Ive seen a clairvoyant once and she was totally wrong.

But I have something even better...

Was sitting on a chair playing the poker machines once, and this old woman sat next to me, and just started telling me everything about myself, my life, details that no one but me would know, 100% accurate, freaked me out, and then eventually got up and walked away.

Same thing happened one other time with an African voodoo-like woman, except she hit on me as a way of introduction, before proceeding to do the above, but she went further....she hung around me a few months, and taught me many voodoo-like 'abilities' and 'philosophies'

I've opened myself up and shared something very private...very rare, be honored

 

[Simple Jack]

I'm a fortune teller. I'll tell you yours for $50.

In the interests of honesty it's far less accurate and specific over the internet but you can still get the general gist.

 

[Gubbz]

Ive seen a clairvoyant once and she was totally wrong.

But I have something even better...

Was sitting on a chair playing the poker machines once, and this old woman sat next to me, and just started telling me everything about myself, my life, details that no one but me would know, 100% accurate, freaked me out, and then eventually got up and walked away.

Same thing happened one other time with an African voodoo-like woman, except she hit on me as a way of introduction, before proceeding to do the above, but she went further....she hung around me a few months, and taught me many voodoo-like 'abilities' and 'philosophies'

I've opened myself up and shared something very private...very rare, be honored

Hah, jeez that would have been freaky as heck having someone just come up and explain everything about you, did you ever get any closure on how that old woman knew or did she just dissapear in the mist never to be seen again?

 

[Caesar]

Had a girlfriend who was into all this shit. Dragged me along once. It's pretty harmless as far as superstitious beliefs go.

Just don't mock it, people who are into this stuff are beyond being convinced otherwise. Not worth starting a fight over.

 

[Gubbz]

I'm a fortune teller. I'll tell you yours for $50.

In the interests of honesty it's far less accurate and specific over the internet but you can still get the general gist.

You serious? If so, how did you get into that? I guess people would have to be believers/or want to be believers to get it, im just expecting a lot of open ended question/answers where i'll just fill in the blanks. Meh, I dunno, we'll just have to wait and see I guess.

Had a girlfriend who was into all this shit. Dragged me along once. It's pretty harmless as far as superstitious beliefs go.

Just don't mock it, people who are into this stuff are beyond being convinced otherwise. Not worth starting a fight over.

Yeah, have no intention on mocking it, people are definitely entitled to their opinion. So as I said, I'm going in open minded and will just go with the flow. Should be interesting.

 

[exe ex machina]

Hah, jeez that would have been freaky as heck having someone just come up and explain everything about you, did you ever get any closure on how that old woman knew or did she just dissapear in the mist never to be seen again?

Seriously, she just sat down, turned to me, and started telling me everything, and I didn't say anything just sat glazed in shock. Then she excused herself and left into the mist. I asked her as she left, who are you? She just turned, smiled quickly, turned back around and left. The smile came off like a "awww"

The African woman tho was all-time value. Tho she never told me who she was either, she just said, "im an old soul"

 

[Footypie32]

You serious? If so, how did you get into that? I guess people would have to be believers/or want to be believers to get it, im just expecting a lot of open ended question/answers where i'll just fill in the blanks. Meh, I dunno, we'll just have to wait and see I guess.

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[RU486]

Was sitting on a chair playing the poker machines once, and this old woman sat next to me, and just started telling me everything about myself, my life, details that no one but me would know, 100% accurate, freaked me out, and then eventually got up and walked away.

Sounds legit

 

[exe ex machina]

Sounds legit

I know you're being sarcastic, but I'm sure stuff like this happens to other people, who can verify here their similar experiences so I don't look like a total idiot.

Sometimes it's the totally out of the blue, illogical stuff. Not the clairvoyant by hire in a darkened room with a crystal ball, reading palms or tarot cards.....like Caesar pointed at, these people imo are just fumbling around throwing darts at a dartboard. When you experience what I did you know the difference....ones who know versus ones who fumble around....how it comes across.

 

[Jimmybob]

I know you're being sarcastic, but I'm sure stuff like this happens to other people, who can verify here their similar experiences so I don't look like a total idiot.

Sometimes it's the totally out of the blue, illogical stuff. Not the clairvoyant by hire in a darkened room with a crystal ball, reading palms or tarot cards.....like Caesar pointed at, these people imo are just fumbling around throwing darts at a dartboard. When you experience what I did you know the difference....ones who know versus ones who fumble around....how it comes across.

Yeah, I find that a lot more credible than paying someone to tell you bullshit your future.

 

[exe ex machina]

The interesting thing about this topic btw is a deeper topic lurking beneath the surface...

1. Do we think it possible/plausible that futures can be read?
2. If so, then what's all this about free will and future is what you make of it.

Don't just think about Nostradamus etc. Think more about things like...an ordinary person has a bad dream that their plane they're taking is going to crash, they cancel their flight, it crashes. Or others who have similar 'visions' (tho they're not taking the plane), and they tell others who are to cancel, they cancel or don't, and the event happens. Also, I have some of my own eerie ones....like having 'visions' of exact scores in grand finals or super bowls, or MVPs or Norm Smith medalists, and other similar sporting-related things. Have had many of them that it's beyond coincidence. Main point being...i've had first-hand experience/verification, so i believe it's possible that futures can be read, therefore, i have my own analysis of the whole "free will" etc thing, which i wont go into, to avoid side-tracking this topic.

 

[Bluelegs]

Sounds legit

Maybe she'd been following him around his whole life just for the opportunity to troll him at the pub.

 

[exe ex machina]

But I say the above in reference to Gubbz OP question.

In that, if you bump into someone like i did, or you find a paid clairvoyant who is genuinely psychic, then it is worthwhile to have the experience, to mull on all that, even re-think your life and where you're going.

Also....forgot to mention those psychics who help police find criminals etc. There are a number of examples where 'supernatural' stuff does happen to make you re-consider one's previous stance on a range of other topics.

 

[Jimmybob]

The interesting thing about this topic btw is a deeper topic lurking beneath the surface...

1. Do we think it possible/plausible that futures can be read?
2. If so, then what's all this about free will and future is what you make of it.

Don't just think about Nostradamus etc. Think more about things like...an ordinary person has a bad dream that their plane they're taking is going to crash, they cancel their flight, it crashes. Or others who have similar 'visions' (tho they're not taking the plane), and they tell others who are to cancel, they cancel or don't, and the event happens. Also, I have some of my own eerie ones....like having 'visions' of exact scores in grand finals or super bowls, or MVPs or Norm Smith medalists, and other similar sporting-related things. Have had many of them that it's beyond coincidence. Main point being...i've had first-hand experience/verification, so i believe it's possible that futures can be read, therefore, i have my own analysis of the whole "free will" etc thing, which i wont go into, to avoid side-tracking this topic.

I think thing's like someone dreaming a plane will crash and then it does, is more a coincidence than anything else. Think of it this way: How many people are afraid of flying? Alot. How many of these people would have dreamed their plane crashing, cancelled their flight and it not crash? Alot. Out of all these people there HAS to be, at the very least, 1 person that the dream comes true to. I just find that most things in life are explainable. And thing's like 'predicting' sports scores.. having knowledge in sports can/does trigger the subconscious to make the strongest possible prediction to that event. The mind is a VERY powerful tool. With this being my belief, I trust my instincts when asked how much I think a team will win by etc.


With this in mind, I'm still very open to this subject. Most things are just explainable, imo

 

[exe ex machina]

When enough of it happens tho Jimmybob and not just by the same person, but enough instances of it happening, it does kinda paint a picture that the future is set, and we're all just fixed on a scalextric track that is our destiny, like the brain hardwired to have fear/survival instincts, likewise hardwired with a delusion of free will otherwise we'd go nuts knowing our lives are set.

That's one polar extreme way to look at it.

 

[Jimmybob]

Gotta say, something weird just happened, especially whilst on this subject..

Yesterday

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yo wassup
Today

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In qld brus

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**** thats weird, i just clicked on your name in chat to see if youd replied and i not seen it and bam, you reply

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Hahahaahaha

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AND

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That's how the cookie crumbles my dear

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im currently talkign to people on bigfooty about future reading and clairvoyants/mediums etc
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That's alright isn't it jimbo

When enough of it happens tho Jimmybob and not just by the same person, but enough instances of it happening, it does kinda paint a picture that the future is set, and we're all just fixed on a scalextric track that is our destiny, like the brain hardwired to have fear/survival instincts, likewise hardwired with a delusion of free will otherwise we'd go nuts knowing our lives are set.

That's one polar extreme way to look at it.

That's a really interesting thought.

 

[Caesar]

There will always be credulous people in this world. There is no point fighting them.

 

[exe ex machina]

Jimmybob

Those instances where you think about someone and then suddenly they call etc. Like the above you illustrated. I agree with something you said before...the mind is a powerful thing. And you've heard of weird stuff like....someone totally english gets hit by lightning and suddenly starts speaking in perfect russian. Or some boy from england, aged say 12, talks in depth about some house in russia, talking russian, knows a lot about the family that lived there 80 years ago etc. There's a lot of examples out there of those sorts of things, that show how powerful and unknown the mind is.

Thus, it doesnt actually dispel or explain away the supernatural. But explains HOW the supernatural can reach the natural, the conduit between the natural and supernatural is the mind. So it's possible people could be tuned in to a deeper wave length and thus experience visions of future events that always come true whether they come often or sporadically to them.

 

[courtjester]

Rip off merchants. Why not give your money to a worthy charity instead of a charlatan?

 

[rayven]

I worked in a small restaurant (3 staff) one night that was booked out by a psychic fair who was in this town that weekend traveling around as they do.You had the whole circus from SA and Victoria. most of them it was a job. Interesting night watching them all get drunk after really good tucker. There was one sheila who could sense my soul.

They have there own bible that they work off, what they think you want to here. There is several cues you give off that determines what they say or do. They see you coming, take advantage of you, your hopes,aspirations and even your dead relatives. The paranormal investigation teams in oz mostly appear very racist.They go around hunting white ghost from white civilization. They don't have the ability to look up black tragedies that could tell spooky stories, so they don't exist. When in fact if you studied black culture, you'd understand they believe heavily in the spirit world and have various decrees similar to pagan religons all over the world,those very pagan religions these 'paranormal teams' claim to be apart of or fall back on. But thats ok, cause we want nothing to do with them and their misguided feeling this planet is not hurting.

The real ones, they exist but they don't charge ,its something that is a gift, that is meant to be shared, for the betterment of souls, not bank balances and lifestyles. Alot of it is being able to see your life holistically and unemotionally,something thats hard to do yourself. See the negative energies around your and your home.

What it is they have, actually belongs to everyone, its an energy field, that we all contribute too,just most can't regulate it like a converter does to what you people know as electricity. Its about kindness,compassion, and those things. Money can't put a finger on it, nor can have (sharing of knowledge)a time limit and be called on upon whenever. The real ones have another job, mostly.The need an escape, just like you do from your work. Everywhere they go, its an experience as the world, their senses and our behaviors is very different to them. Science now knows what it is, biologically that enables some to be more skilled than others.

Astrology is very different,its a form of mathematics, as is numerology...

 

[Bluelegs]

Rip off merchants. Why not give your money to a worthy charity instead of a charlatan?

The way I see it, they're basically entertainers. You see a magic show and you leave wondering how they pull off all of their tricks, same concept. They're entertainers. Ridiculously expensive, personalised entertainers.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I don't really get into this kind of stuff, but the wife is going tomorrow

Do you have to make an appointment, or do you just assume they already know you're coming?

 

[skilts]

During a 'consultation' a couple of days before her death, Diana Spencer's psychic thought it unnecessary to inform her client of her imminent demise. Probably thought she wouldn't be interested.

Every year, The Tasmanian Psychic Society (association, whatever) holds a conference in Hobart. Every year, they deem it necessary to advertise the upcoming event in The Hobart Mercury.

There was once a 'psychic' called Kerry Kulkins, who used to read Tarot cards for listeners of 3AW. She related to me one night this story against herself - that she had done a reading for Kay Nesbitt, a woman who, a week after the reading, had half her face blown off by a shotgun blast. As Kulkins told the story, she had told Nesbitt that, "Nothing will blow up in your face".

This was one of Kulkins' stock phrases. Just about everything she said in a 'reading' was similarly vacuous and generalised. Not only a shyster, but lazy as well.

 

[Gough]

Had a girlfriend who was into all this shit. Dragged me along once. It's pretty harmless as far as superstitious beliefs go.

Just don't mock it, people who are into this stuff are beyond being convinced otherwise. Not worth starting a fight over.

Same, I had a South African boyfriend who was into it all, it's plain as day they were just cold reading, but Chris wouldn't hear a word of it. Nice bloke but not long after he dragged me to one we split. Last I heard from him, he'd joined some sort of weird arse cult.