Now Derek Acorah has been proved a fake why do people believe in such silly drivel. My brother met him and he told him a load of lies so I had my doubts yet never knew just how fake he was. I realise there are some desperate people finding it hard to accept loss and I think its disgusting to con people who are vulnerable at these times. My mate was psychic and had visions of things that came true yet he had may be 2 visions a year and didn`t make up nonsense every week on a stage to make money may be thats because he wasn`t fake
2007-03-18 15:27:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.randi.org/jr/200511/111105derek.html
2007-03-18 15:27:53 · update #1
My mates vision was this we were going to Norfolk the night before he said that two young girls have drowned and that he didn`t fancy going round the beach. The next week in the paper it was everywhere that two young girls had gone missing a month later there bodies were found they had both drowned. The fact is no children have gone missing since and it hit the papers a week after
2007-03-19 02:15:00 · update #2
Evolutionarily, we were designed to view cause and effect. This helped us become such a powerful force on earth (build weapons, build homes). Unfortunately, often times, this causality mechanism misfires. We hear a psychic make 3 out of 20 accurate predictions and we believe in them. The same way people speak of the power of prayer and can name maybe 10 prayers that worked (out of hundreds).
2007-03-18 15:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
People believe in psychics because they really WANT to. The whole thing is such a lovely idea and most appealing to those who feel the need to believe - the gullible, the vulnerable, the weak ...
People believe in a supernatural entity for the same reasons.
2007-03-18 22:35:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you ask why people believe and then go on to say your mate's visions are true
so what is it
do you believe in psychics or not then ?
we all know Acorah is fake , we have known that for years
but that doesnt make every psychic fake
your friends 2 visions a year tells you that
i have been doing psychic and mediumship readings for years and recieved as many also
many amazing , wonderfully accurate readings
stuff I had to get confirmed by other family members
and Randi would swear black was white if it brought him notoriety ... he is as bad as Acorah himself
I know many people who have approached Randi only to be ignored
2007-03-19 05:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People believe in psychics because ultimately they're desperate for the universe to not be this big, complex, hostile place.
Unfortunately paying a douche a few hundred bucks will not change that.
2007-03-19 05:54:56 · answer #4 · answered by singlecell_amoeba 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people who use psychics are usually confused and unhappy with their life. They want reassurance that something good will happen to them. They want to be told that they are going to find thei perfect man win lots of money and get a great job. I believe that it is a form of escapism and that you are right, there are some con artists who just take advantage and exploit sad and lonely people.
2007-03-19 10:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by donzy_xxx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they like to believe that people have more control over things then just what they can see. They also just like the idea that things don't end right when you die and psychics are a way for people to believe that we still have an impact and are still heard when we die.
2007-03-18 22:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by Jon K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who refuse to stand firm on anything for any matter of time always find themselves looking and hoping desperately to know what is ahead. Therefore many turn to psychics, spells, witchcraft, etc.
2007-03-18 22:33:10 · answer #7 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i seen derek live and was impressed iv also been to some really good psychics, there are some dodgy ones out there but most are psychic even more so than your mate
2007-03-18 22:34:51 · answer #8 · answered by tra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have a need to hold onto something. It gives comfort...but as you say it is false comfort.
All of us have a (sort of) faith in something.
Someone said that those who do not believe in God do not believe nothing but can easily end up believing anything!
2007-03-19 05:15:36 · answer #9 · answered by alan h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in physics and every other form of science. Probaly because our whole world is built up of science. If it isn't built up of science or there isn't evidence for it being there it simply does not exist.
2007-03-19 03:13:57 · answer #10 · answered by ads421 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋