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Originally Posted by Red Mile Style
I agree! I am a pretty scientific minded individual and I am always skeptical of psychics or paranormal activities, but I have personally experienced some crazy, unexplainable things that makes me second guess the absolute ways of society.
Which makes me feel insane at the same time.
I guess I just haven't seen any scientific evidence of psychics being illegitimate.
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The reality is humans are easily tricked and deceived. We can't totally trust our senses or our minds, they are easily manipulated. This has been studied for a long time and there's a mountain of information on it.
I remember reading recently about a psychic that was appearing in Vegas. She had a table at a casino for a few days. She wrote honestly about her account of talking to people, telling them real thing about past events and present circumstances. She tells of how the people wept at how much help she had given them, amazed at how accurate and real she was.
Except she wasn't real. She was a layperson who had some skill at dealing with people who had taken a few days of training in "cold reading". She talked about how easy it was to come up with things that were true that she had no way of knowing, and how much the participants actually helped turn misses into hits. She also talked about how awful it was giving the people false information and false hope, she said it was one of the worst experiences in her life; she felt that bad about it.
You can't prove all psychics are illegitimate. You can however test them and see if their powers are real or not. The ones who accept to being tested have never passed, and the ones who know better refuse to be tested (lest they lose their adoring fans who pay them lots of $$).
Until a psychic comes up and proves their abilities they can't claim they're real. Until then they're simply snake oil sales people that fool people to seperate them from their money.
I've seen and experienced stuff I can't explain as well. Just because I can't explain it doesn't mean it can't be explained.