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By: Vancouver Psychic and Healing Fair « InFlatus Veritas

Vancouver Psychic and Healing Fair « InFlatus Veritas — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:10:15 +0000

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By: Blogosaurus

Blogosaurus — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Ha! Fabulous.

By: Lara

Lara — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:57:03 +0000

I find myself amused at the thought of developing a “past life generator” website.

“In a previous life, you were a:

- beautiful
- stunning
- striking
- gorgeous
- delicate
- dazzling

- Scottish
- Viking
- Persian
- French
- Egyptian
- Italian

- Princess
- Countess
- Priestess
- Prophetess
- Concubine
- Amazon

who

- was forced to marry
- was sold into slavery
- was persecuted
- escaped imprisonment
- was sacrificed
- was captured

- your father
- an angry mob
- a capricious monarch
- raiders
- a jealous rival
- a cruel stepmother

etc.

By: jbrydle

jbrydle — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:39:41 +0000

You covered the highlights pretty well. I was also dissappointed they didn’t try cold reading or something. I guess you have to be a real phony to employ cold reading, and these seemed like honest people who just have no tools whatsoever for thinking critically and evaluating claims. It really struck me that they seemed to believe absolutely everything they hear. Nothing is off limits (except evolution) as long as you can twist your mind around the one key assumption that magic does indeed exist. At that point, anything is plausible, and any interrogation based on a naturalistic worldview just rolls off their back. There’s really no common ground for any debate, which was a little frustrating.

I expected to hear a bit of the common stuff that us skeptics make fun of – quantum, ‘psychic energy’, etc, but again, I was surprised to find how ubiquitous it all was. I thought maybe you could make a bingo card and have some fun going “oh! this one over here said quantum energy!” It’s no challenge at all though! You can just ask any one of them straight-faced:

“Crystal healing eh? Is that based on quantum mechanics?”
“Yes.”
“Does it focus spiritual energy?”
“Yes.”
“Does it vibrate in the fourth dimension?”
“Yes.”
“Can it tell the future?”
“Yes.”

By: Blogosaurus

Blogosaurus — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:48:20 +0000

I know, I totally wanted a toe reading, but she was popular. Looked like it felt nice too.

And OMG you would make a great past life reader. Except for that inconvenient integrity piece!

I’m going to a wedding tomorrow and have plans Saturday night, but maybe we should try and do something Sunday? Take in a matinee perhaps, plus lunch? Is anything good playing? I’ll send out a FB note….

By: Lara

Lara — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:46:21 +0000

“Toe reader”? Dude, I totally would have been the first in line for that one.

Also, I read more than enough romance novels in high school to be a “past life reader”. Maybe I should set up a little side business.