2006-08-07 10:30:55 · 15 answers · asked by mokkah69 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Why do you have to make an appointment with them as well? They should know when you are coming!
2006-08-07 10:35:12 · answer #1 · answered by EPnTX 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In my 50 years, I've once had someone come up with my name out of the blue.
Them I would have liked to talk to, but I was 14 at the time and was on a trip with my mother.
Other than that, they ask your name for the same reason that Santa at the mall does. If it was really Santa, he'd know who you are (as well as if you've been naughty or nice.)
2006-08-07 10:47:19 · answer #2 · answered by weaver_gang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me, Rondi and Da Dude! "Most of them" are fakes?
ALL of them are fakes. Each and every one, without exception. There is no such thing as psychic powers. Absolutely zilch.
There has long existed an industry of fortune tellers and the like who either make empty predictions (all set out in suitably vague language so that they can never be wrong), or gather cues from what you have told or written to make educated guesses.
One example will suffice, and it's a humorous one. Perhaps some have heard of the TV evangelist Peter Popoff. He, and a surprising number of others of his ilk, perform an apparently miraculous on-air stunt known as "calling out." They declare to their stage audience/flock things such as: "Someone in the auditorium [and you have to over-enunciate the five syllables of "auditorium" to replicate this faithfully] has bladder cancer [or some other specific ailment]." Someone is the crowd actually has bladder cancer, of course, and is astonished that the evangelist knows about it. Popoff specifically claimed that the knowledge was communicated to him by God.
It turns out that he was indeed receiving communications, but not from God. Each person coming in the door was asked to fill out a prayer card, on which things like medical problems were written. Popoff's wife, who was hidden off stage, had collected the cards and was communicating the information to her husband by a radio transmitter and an earpiece in Popoff's ear.
The famous stage magician and debunker of fakery, the Amazing Randi (not Rondi, but Randi), decided to expose Popoff by bringing his own receiver to one of the miracle crusades and taping Mrs. Popoff's prompting, then played the tape on his own TV show.
(Popoff's followers are a hard-nosed lot. The evangelist is still on the air, despite being exposed as a flim-flammer. Perhaps Rondi and Da Dude were thinking of him as not included in the descriptive "most"!)
2006-08-07 12:55:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's because most psychics aren't psyphic...just posers who figure out ways for you to give them information, spew it back to you, and look like they really knew it all along.
2006-08-07 10:36:13 · answer #4 · answered by Flyleaf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of them are fake, because why don't they just use their powers to find the lottery number. Why is this in the astronomy section though???
2006-08-07 10:45:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what I call perspicacity of a vital order!!!!! Don't let them ask you if you want your palm read. They'll probably whip out a brush and a can of paint.
2006-08-07 10:35:30 · answer #6 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely to put you at ease.
Goldspan, is John Edwards for real ?
2006-08-07 11:07:16 · answer #7 · answered by no nickname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I knew you were going to ask that.
I predict that you are going to get irritated with my snide reply, too.
2006-08-07 13:51:04 · answer #8 · answered by F. Frederick Skitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should ask them to tell you your name.
2006-08-07 10:35:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most of them are fake
2006-08-07 10:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by Rondi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋