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doree spencer
in elk grove
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 | 02:31 PM
cranky media guy- why do you keep asking people to go to stopsylviabrowne? been ther done that ,and you dont know for sure what her abilities are,so why and how could you judge her?your responding to people that dont know her either,how would you feel if people were saying this about your mom and brother. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 | 06:39 PM
Doree Spencer said:
"cranky media guy- why do you keep asking people to go to stopsylviabrowne?"
Because it's the best source I know for information about what Sylvia REALLY does and how she does it. The guy who runs it really does his homework.
"been ther done that ,and you dont know for sure what her abilities are,so why and how could you judge her?"
Well, I DO know a fair bit about how phony "psychics" operate and I know that what Sylvia does is completely consistent with that.
Doree, the burden of proof is on Sylvia to prove that she has real "psychic" powers. On the Larry King Show, Sylvia promised to take the James Randi Educational Foundation's Million Dollar Challenge to demonstrate that what she claims to do is due to supernatural abilities. Then she refused to stand by her word. I (and other people also) believe that is because she knows full well she would be shown to be a fake.
"your responding to people that dont know her either"
That is correct. I'm trying to point people like that to information which will give them information about what Sylvia REALLY does, as opposed to what she claims to do.
"how would you feel if people were saying this about your mom and brother."
If my mom and/or brother was/were taking money from grieving people by pretending to be able to talk to their deceased relatives, *I* would be the one to expose them. I wouldn't wait for someone else to do it.
Sylvia Browne, John Edward, James VanPraagh and the rest of those phonies should be put on a raft together and set adrift in the open sea, in my opinion. |
Carter
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 | 11:33 PM
Jeez Cranky! I think you need to be more sensitive to your mom and brother, especially Sylvia Browne. Sylvia is just trying to make a living in pseudoscience. She is also extremely attractive, with her long red nails in the grips of her teeth...MMMM!
Anyways, I think Randy stopped doing the Million Dollar Challenge... and I believe the foundation is under Phil Plait now. I'm not sure what he has planned for the foundation.
Thought I'd check in to see if everyone's behaving.
Later! |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 | 02:06 AM
Carter said:
"Jeez Cranky! I think you need to be more sensitive to your mom and brother, especially Sylvia Browne."
If I was related to that witch, I'd change my name and deny my family.
"Sylvia is just trying to make a living in pseudoscience."
Got that right.
"She is also extremely attractive, with her long red nails in the grips of her teeth...MMMM!"
Oooh yeah! She's a real PILF ("P" standing for "phony psychic," of course).
"Anyways, I think Randy stopped doing the Million Dollar Challenge... and I believe the foundation is under Phil Plait now. I'm not sure what he has planned for the foundation."
No, the Challenge is still in effect although Randi has announced that it will be ending, in 2010, I believe.
Randi's appointed Phil Plait as President of JREF, but Randi's still Chairman and working on a daily basis. Randi's no kid, so I guess he's just planning ahead. |
Jeff Cooper
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 | 05:46 AM
My cuzin actually contacted Slyvia, because she was living in a huanted house. Cuzin could here a woman and mans voice in her house, as other residence too. There would be things moved around, magazines, and hair brushes moved from the bathroom to the hallway, when they were out of the house, and her dogs would go crazy sometimes and start barking at the corner for no good reason. She suspected an animal spirit. Sylvia was actually able to give a remote reading of the house, and with ever having been there described the layout of the house, and that there was indeed a male spirit and a female spirit, and an animal spirit in the house. Slyvia declined an inventation to come to the house, citing that it was dangerous for some one with her physic abilities to go to the house, as some spirits can be manivolent and try to possess person with extraordinary physic ability.
Actually, in fact, everyone is physic, some have more natural ability than others, and some are more in tune than others. Many mental illness are misdiagnosed and overmedicated as well for physic people, too some mental illness are misdiagnosed and mistreated with pills, when spirit possession is the cause. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 | 03:43 PM
Jeff, there is much reason to believe that Sylvia Browne is a complete fraud. If you have an open mind on this subject, you should visit stopsylvia.com . I think you'll find a lot of information there that you haven't seen anywhere else about just why people believe that she's a complete fake. |
Heather
in Phoenix
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 | 05:25 PM
Hey, Cranky media guy. Since you've been keeping this thing going for more than five years now, I thought I'd post. Just for the hell of it. What's this site supposed to be talking about again? |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 | 06:00 PM
You mean the whole site? Well, it's called the Museum of HOAXES. That's a clue. |
Heather
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 | 02:57 AM
There you go! How could I have known you'd post? So nice to hear from you. You must really dislike Sylvia Browne. Unless you realize that Sylvia Browne uses her "gifts" for entertainment purposes and takes for granted that she herself will be wrong sometimes and end up looking like a complete idiot. She's not a hoax, she's in business to make money by helping people feel good.
If that's the case, I apologize for being wrong about you. I just didn't think so based on the fact that you've been on this site for so long. However, since it makes you happy to post here, I must also apologize because I'm sure I've offended you. I'm perfectly happy to watch others lay down their money for peace of mind, however misguided it may or may not be. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 | 05:12 AM
Heather said:
"You must really dislike Sylvia Browne."
I "dislike" anyone who pretends to have psychic ability to defraud people.
"Unless you realize that Sylvia Browne uses her 'gifts' for entertainment purposes and takes for granted that she herself will be wrong sometimes and end up looking like a complete idiot."
I don't Sylvia cares much if she looks like a complete idiot to some people as enough people believe her nonsense for her to make a very nice living.
"She's not a hoax, she's in business to make money by helping people feel good. I'm perfectly happy to watch others lay down their money for peace of mind, however misguided it may or may not be."
Does that extend to medical quackery? After all, that extends temporary peace of mind to some people. Sylvia strays dangerously close to practicing medicine without a license at times when she tells people what they should take for their ailments. That goes WAY beyond the boundaries of "entertainment" as far as I'm concerned.
By the way, are you aware that Sylvia has a conviction for fraud on her record? |
Captain Al
in Vancouver Island, Canada
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 | 12:56 PM
Heather said:
"She's not a hoax, she's in business to make money by helping people feel good.
Please explain how Sylvia Browne's actions made these people feel good:
SB told this woman she was the product of an affair
http://www.stopsylvia.com/articles/montel_notyourfather.shtml
Shawn Hornbeck was missing for a year when SB told his parents, live on the Montel Willians show, that he was dead. Three years later he was found alive.
http://www.stopsylvia.com/articles/montel_shawnhornbeck2.shtml (includes video from the show)
SB's company sold diamond jewelry that contained fake diamonds and made only minimal attempts to correct the situation with customers.
http://www.stopsylvia.com/articles/novusspiritus_jewelryqualityissue2.shtml
Parents of missing six year-old Opal Jo Jennings were told their daughter was alive but sold into the white slave trade in Japan. A few months later an arrest was made in connection with the kidnapping. Later her body was found 13 miles from home and forensic evidence showed she was killed only hours after the abduction.
http://www.stopsylvia.com/articles/montel_opal.shtml
A caller to the Larry King Live show said she had some "unresolved issues" with her mother and was told by SB that her mother was dead. This of course was shocking news to the caller.
http://www.stopsylvia.com/articles/king_callerjapan.shtml
And the best one of all:
Lynda McClelland was missing for two years before her daughters asked for SB's help on the Montel Williams show. She told them their mother was still alive and in a mental institution in Florida. Later McClelland's son-in-law was convicted of the murder.
http://www.stopsylvia.com/articles/montel_lyndamcclelland.shtml
David Repasky, THE MURDERER, WAS ACTUALLY IN THE STUDIO AUDIENCE AT THE TIME OF THE READING AND SYLVIA BROWNE COULD NOT DETECT IT. I guess it's case closed on the question of Sylvia Browne's "psychic powers". |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 | 02:31 PM
I'm going to use MY psychic powers to predict what will come next, Captain Al. Heather or another of Sylvia's defenders will respond by saying, "Well, she never said she was perfect." They will, of course, not be able to provide any examples of Sylvia demonstrating anything that could be construed as proving that she has any real "powers." We might get some anecdotal nonsense about how she supposedly nailed something right on the head but it will be vague and lack details. |
Captain Al
in Vancouver Island, Canada
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 | 10:11 PM
Of course you're right Cranky. It's funny, the operator of the Stop Sylvia site mentions how he is criticized for not posting any stories of Browne's successes. He explains that he would except that, as you said, there doesn't appear to be any. He keeps looking but so far, nothing. |
Heather
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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 | 12:38 AM
I'm glad I could keep this debate going. Since you seem to enjoy breaking down my response, allow me to break down my own:
"She's not a hoax, she's in business by helping people feel good."
Your response implied you had a problem with that. That's unfortunate. Those that buy into her "powers" get peace of mind; to me, your response implies you get peace of mind by upending a business model that provides a service to those that want it. By the way, I did not mean to imply that I "defend" her in this or any other part of my response. I recognize a service proposition, one that I do not need. I get my peace of mind elsewhere.
Hmmmm....I believe you said you were going to use your "physic powers" to predict that I'd reply by saying "well, she never said she was perfect". Since I don't buy into SB, I don't need to defend her. It's good entertainment for me.
On that note... love the crusade you're carrying on. I guess that's why I kept posting. That was entertainment, and I thank you. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 | 02:07 AM
Heather said:
"Those that buy into her "powers" get peace of mind; to me, your response implies you get peace of mind by upending a business model that provides a service to those that want it."
Please scroll up and read Captain Al's second most recent posting. I'll wait.
OK, now that you've read it, please tell me what "service" Sylvia Browne rendered to the people in the examples Al provided. I fail to see the legitimate service in pretending to have psychic powers and telling grief-stricken parents that their son is dead when in fact he is still alive or in telling another pair of parents that their daughter was sold into slavery in Japan when she was murdered shortly after being abducted. Do you honestly think Sylvia's "service" gave those poor people peace of mind?
Why make excuses for a callous old bitch who lies about having "powers" because it makes her a very comfortable living? Her only "service" is taking advantage of people desperately trying to deal with horrific personal tragedy. |
Captain Al
in Vancouver Island, Canada
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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 | 11:53 AM
""She's not a hoax, she's in business by helping people feel good."
Your response implied you had a problem with that. That's unfortunate. "
I don't know how you got that idea. Isn't it obvious our problem is that Sylvia Browne is causing great harm to these people? To make them feel good with her business model she would actually have to have psychic powers. I think her track record, particularly the last example I listed, shows that this is definitely not the case.
"It's good entertainment for me."
Frankly, I'm disturbed you get your entertainment from the pain felt by people who are told deliberate lies that say their loved ones are now dead or sex slaves. |
Kym
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 | 06:58 PM
Just was reading the transcripts of the recycled phone materials on the Randi site where Sylvia suggests in both instances to stop dairy and take lecithin for back pain. Then I went to Sylvia's website and under the Ask Sylvia section the first question is a mother asking what she should do for her daughter's severe eczema. Anyone care to guess what Sylvia's reply was? |
Amy
in Jordan
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 | 09:01 AM
Dr. Brian Weiss is a victim. There are many discrepancies when it comes to these theories. The so-called master spirits or evil spirits do heal and reveal believable relevant past information, let us not argue if past life is true or not. Its just like a bribe.
Why shouldn't we think that these spirits select vulnerable people and give dreams and associated fears so that they could explain them as past life later and heal them? It is to take away the fear of punishment so that people would do mistakes and would subject themselves to be tormented/would not seek for a revenge, even legally, hence protecting the evil doers.
Also, past life memories come to either children, who are in an unprotected state, or to people who undergo hypnosis, who again open their mind to astral layer entities, an unprotected state.
Nice plan and accomplishment. Dr. Brian Weiss is a Victim.
All the haunting proofs could be the woven work of the evil to make sure that people don't believe in afterlife punishment/glory, but why shouldn't we take it as a testimonial that people who have been restored to life after days say that they saw hell, heaven, etc? when we are ready to believe hypnotic sessions?
If these evil spirits foretell future, they make it happen later or they do not.
I am not a supporter of God. I am just saying that belief in hell/heaven would make us live a correct life. Plus there is proof. Why should a person who arose from the dead days/hours later even after being kept in airless and iced mortuary containers, lie to us?
These spirits are also against lawful punishment of the criminals. See where it goes?
Dr. Weiss himself states that he had an urge to do these things, which is another proof of paranormal influence. He had been used the whole time. You'd understand if you read the book. I read it completely. |
Jenny B.
in Cape Town
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 | 06:12 AM
OMGosh! I have not had time to read everything above, but I have this to say.... Shay! You Rock! And actually, who sincerely, deep deep down cares? Do you honestly care if it is real or a hoax - is the end result not what you are looking for? So, someone pays $750 dollars for a 30 minute reading. Was there a gun to his/her head? Did they leave feeling uplifted? Who knows? Who can tell. I have been to some psychics - some dodgy, some spot on. But, for me - it is the end result that counts. I have had the most amazing past life regression experiences. Are you trying to tell me they are real or not? I don't particular care one way or the other what the general consensus or opinion is. I care about what I believe. I know what I know - and what you know is real for you.
The amount of BS that people spurn forth, leaves me standing in awe and wonder. More or less because I wonder if they are so opinionated and closed minded to believe that only their way is the way.
You choose - if it works for you - great!
If not - move on and keep looking for something that does!
If nothing does - awesome - hope you find happiness in that too. |
Jenny B.
in Cape Town
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 | 06:26 AM
If Dr Weiss is a victim, then I have this to say - Dr Weiss, sue your University for giving you a degree in Psychiatry! Come on now!! Really??? One of the first things you diagnose in pyschology (not to mention the things you must learn in psychiatry) is how to recognise these things in your patients. Victim, persecutor and the likes.
So, if all else - I think Dr Weiss would be quite capable of determining whether or not he is the victim.
Nope, cannot go along with your theory.
Again, it is tainted against a backdrop of white-washed Christian beliefs - 'evil' spirits? I used to knock other religions for their supposed wars in the name of religion. But when it came down to it.... the majority of religions pertain to the same thing - my way or the highway.
Well, BS to that. Having walked many paths in this life time (for those sceptics who do not believe in other life times) - I have found the most respected and peaceful belief within myself. From going within - stripping away all the mythologies that have clung to my soul... trying to destroy the very essence of me. But, jokes not on me - because I have - over the past 15 years, slowly (methodically) eradicated the 'bumph' others have tried to force on me. I am light eternal - energy can neither be created not destroyed. Albert Einstein, a great man of science indeed - said : E=MC2. That about sums it up - we are eternal. Light, love, energy - love being the highest pure vibrational energy around. I choose to walk in the path of non-judgement : so, believe what you want to believe, but please allow the same courtesy to others.
Dr Weiss, I respect you - and so know you are not a victim. Perhaps we can meet in a lifetime to come x |
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