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Tell him you can do a magic trick that makes his d*ck levitate, magically....LOL
Just be glad he didn't fancy himself a ventriloquist & try to shove his hand anywhere.
I don't know. The "carrot" trick is like the "red hammer" math question. I bet the birthday guess was lucky...
I have known a couple clarivoyant people, & it's not really parlor-tricks.
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oh wow, molly! you reminded me of a freaky experience that I had when I first started dancing.
It was verrry slow, and I too was sitting with a guy who was paying for conversation. He guessed my birthday correctly, out of nowhere. It was very strange. So then he goes on about how my grandpa had recently died, and I had been in the hospital - all true. I was freaked, but completely mesmerized by this guy. Then, he told me that everyone has a "spiritual guide," someone from their life who has passed and looks after them (a sort of guardian angel). I said "who is mine?" and he looked at me and said, "well it isn't your dad," (my dad had died when i was 2, I didn't tell him that), but then went on to describe a woman who was old, had long gray hair, a hunch back, and was an herbalist that people from all over the state would come to for advice. He said she was on my mom's side of the family. At that point I was kind of like, ok sure buddy.
Well, a couple of months later, my grandma was down for christmas, and I asked her if we had an herbalist anywhere in our family history. "Oh yes!" she said. "My great grandmother was renowned with herbs... people knew her from all over." I asked what she looked like before she died. My grandma said she had a photo, and she would send it to me when she got home.
A couple of weeks later, i got the picture in the mail. It was a short old lady, with long gray hair, and a hunched back.
THAT was freaky.
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I wish my story was as cool as tampadancer's. Here's my psychic in the club story- she was a friend of one of the bartenders at my club in Puerto Rico. The first time I met her (at a BBQ party) I told her (in Spanish) just my name & that I was from California w/ parents from Mexico. (She was Cuban, with a Mexican husband.)
She came into the bar a few weeks later & told me a few things (I think she felt maternal towards me, she had a daughter my age & I was still pretty naive at the time.) She wouldn't accept money for her predictions so I bought her a beer. She was interspersing her monologue with drunken silliness so I kinda forgot about the incident for a while. BUT some of it came true.
Keep in mind some SC custies can claim to have these special powers because they are looking for a gullible girlfriend.
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A couple of weeks later, i got the picture in the mail. It was a short old lady, with long gray hair, and a hunched back.
THAT was freaky.
Ever heard of 6 degress of separation? That simply means that everyone has a connection to everyone else on the planet in some way. You know... a friend of a friend of a friend?
Did you also know that 67% of all the people of Ireland have a common ancestor? This has been proved through DNA testing. So it seems logical that you would have someone in your family that had a hunched back and long gray hair that liked to grow herbs.
I'm stumped on the birthday thing, though. That would be tough to just guess randomly. Maybe he found you on a social networking site, then apply the 6 degrees of separation, and you both might have a common "friend" on myspace?
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>>>Did you also know that 67% of all the people of Ireland have a common ancestor? This has been proved through DNA testing. So it seems logical that you would have someone in your family that had a hunched back and long gray hair that liked to grow herbs.<<<
I dont think that sounds logical at all.
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>>>Did you also know that 67% of all the people of Ireland have a common ancestor? This has been proved through DNA testing. So it seems logical that you would have someone in your family that had a hunched back and long gray hair that liked to grow herbs.<<<
I dont think that sounds logical at all.
Sure, if you define family by an unlimited number of removes including generational. If it counts everyone that has ever lived in your line, those three requirements could likely be met by more than one individual.
That is why I brought up the Ireland connection. I had the number wrong, though, it is only 21% if Irish are decendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages, a midevil Irish King. Genghis Khan is likely the most prolific ancestor and has 16 million direct decendants living today. Likely a few of them have long gray hair a hunched back and grow herbs... See what I'm saying? I have two females in my line that match that description.
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aaah be skeptical if you please.... I thought it was quite interesting. Not just that he knew I had an ancestor with long gray hair, but that she was on my moms side and was a renowned herbalist... not just an old woman with a herb garden. And also, he knew my dad was dead. How? Not many 20 year old women have a deceased father....
There were other things that he said about me that I didn't mention: He knew that I had stomach problems (colitis), he knew where my mom was born, and he knew the name of the band that my dead father played in before I was born (I DIDNT Even know that; I had to ask my mom about it later before I discovered it was true) I don't think that is all coincidence...
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>>>Did you also know that 67% of all the people of Ireland have a common ancestor? This has been proved through DNA testing. So it seems logical that you would have someone in your family that had a hunched back and long gray hair that liked to grow herbs.<<<
I dont think that sounds logical at all.
I do.
I also think the carrot thing is the same as the red hammer question...or else he used a technique called 'priming' used in psychology- a way of priming a person's implicit memory to focus on a specific word, without them realizing it.
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Yeah, I figured the carrot thing to be some psychological trick. But the birthday thing was weird.
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Mollyzmoon, I am going to be that all of the mathematical questions you went through before "picking" a vegetable, the answers had a "5" in it right? That's the trick with this line of questioning. It has to do with how our brains catelog information, and for some unknown reason the number 5 and "carrot" are stored together. You can do this to anyone. Just ask them a bunch of math questions that hold a "5" in the answer. Then right away, ask then to name a vegetable...99% of the time your answer will be carrot. Kinda neat eh?
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haha! I like this thread. I am pyschic myself, but I don't predict things. I also NEVER EVER charge for my services, because as soon as you start commercializing it, you have to start telling people what they want to hear. I refuse to cold read, and will NOT answer a question I might have somehow gleaned from previous conversation. I feel people's emotions (not just by reading their face...I can be blindfolded and pick someone out of a crowd with a certain emotion), and tell when something has recently happened to someone and what it was. I can also speak to the dead (and have been proven to know things I couldn't POSSIBLY know), and guess people's favorite colors, animals, numbers, etc.
Basically, not very useful information in most cases, and I never expect anyone to believe me, because they're free to believe what they want. But it DOES give me common ground with customers (and people in general) who want a little insight or better understanding into themselves. It tends to build raport (to use DW's word!). ;D
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^^^That trick has never worked on me! For some reason, they ask me to name a vegetable and I say potato right away.
Why, I'll never know.
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I had someone try the math trick on me and I said broccoli, they apparently had tried it on my roommate earlier in the day and he had said broccoli as well. It was funny that we both gave the "wrong" answer but the same one.
I don't believe in psychics at all, but I'll play along and pretend I don't think people are nut cases at work, since it makes me money. I firmly believe that everything a "psychic" tells you is clever guesswork, and only correct by total chance. People like John Edward, who prey on gullible people lonely for their dead relatives are the scum of the earth. If it makes you feel better for some reason, that's great, but a lot of them use their "talents" to scam others out of money, and that's too bad.
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Sure, if you define family by an unlimited number of removes including generational. If it counts everyone that has ever lived in your line, those three requirements could likely be met by more than one individual.
That is why I brought up the Ireland connection. I had the number wrong, though, it is only 21% if Irish are decendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages, a midevil Irish King. Genghis Khan is likely the most prolific ancestor and has 16 million direct decendants living today. Likely a few of them have long gray hair a hunched back and grow herbs... See what I'm saying? I have two females in my line that match that description.
Yeah I know what you mean, however the probability of having a longhaired female hunchback herbalist that someone living remembers is still something that most of us wont be able to trace. Thats where Im coming from anyway... Ie my family tree goes back 500 years and theres not one that anyone knows of...
I have some psychic ability myself so I guess I am less skeptical ;)
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Ok, not a threadjack, but I can't bear for you all to think all clarivoyants are full of crap. My friend J. did Tarot Card reading for my male friend- he laughed in her face because someone else paid for his reading as a gift, so it was no skin off his ass. (I told him, "I TOLD you not to be rude to her, she's my friend!") Later he admitted the things she said came true in short order- having to do with his next job, buying a new car & meeting the girl he would marry. (He told me what she said before all this happened, so he wasn't backtracking to f*ck with my head.) HOWEVER, this is the same result ALL psychics claim to give, but very few of them can.
When I have premonitions, it's like a vapor gathering up in my head until I "spit it out"- usually it's some mundane thing. I WISH I could predict some winning Lotto numbers or go to Las Vegas and clean up at the roulette table.
Anyway, never believe anything a customer says...They'd confess to killing JFK if they thought it would get them some ass.
PS IMO John Edwards has a small amount of ability he augments with BS.
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i had a customer who thought he was psychic once. he told me that i was going to be severely depressed within 2 weeks. move back to l.a. early. get even more depressed. and then move to san francisco where i would find huge success designing a line of clothing that centered around ridiculously long yellow sleeves and giant hats. heh. yeah, turns out, he wasn't psychic at all. thank goodness.
he tipped well though...
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the birthday thing is weird. it's hard to be "lucky" with 365 options.
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georgiapeach: Were they rave outfits? Or Teletubby outfits? Do tell!
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Ok, not a threadjack, but I can't bear for you all to think all clarivoyants are full of crap. My friend J. did Tarot Card reading for my male friend- he laughed in her face because someone else paid for his reading as a gift, so it was no skin off his ass. (I told him, "I TOLD you not to be rude to her, she's my friend!") Later he admitted the things she said came true in short order- having to do with his next job, buying a new car & meeting the girl he would marry. (He told me what she said before all this happened, so he wasn't backtracking to f*ck with my head.) HOWEVER, this is the same result ALL psychics claim to give, but very few of them can.
When I have premonitions, it's like a vapor gathering up in my head until I "spit it out"- usually it's some mundane thing. I WISH I could predict some winning Lotto numbers or go to Las Vegas and clean up at the roulette table.
Anyway, never believe anything a customer says...They'd confess to killing JFK if they thought it would get them some ass.
PS IMO John Edwards has a small amount of ability he augments with BS.
I would ask anyone claiming to have a psychic ability to apply for the JREF million dollar challenge. If they really have psychic abilities, then they'll pass with flying colors. Who doesn't want a million dollars?
http://www.randi.org/research/index.html
One of my regulars uses psychics, and is always telling me how they tell him great insights on his life, give him good predictions, etc. I'm not paying someone to tell me that I'm in a tumultuous time in my life (which is everyone in their 20's), that I have relationship problems (everyone ever), and that I'll eventually end up happy and with a family (what 99% of people want to hear). If I want to be coddled, I'll call my mom and ask her to tell me how great I am, and she'll do it for free!
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^ Oh, I hear you. A woman is trying to collect on the JREF million dollar challenge by claiming her vagina gives her powers of mind control over men. (Giggle.)
I never get coddled when I get a reading. Life has been a meatgrinder for the past couple years & I usually get the heads-up on something in a reading. More importantly, life has been better since I started listening to my intuition, which is not a mystical thing at all, but an instinctual one. Still, all my life the supernatural has seemed normal to me. Darn Purepecha Paganism ; P
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Yeah, I can understand being more into that kind of thing if you are raised in a supernatural environment. I listen to my intuitions a lot, which I think has helped me quite a bit over the years. I just hate to see people paying for advice that should be common sense. But, I guess psychologists are in the same boat sometimes :)
Each to his own.
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I have weird ways of predicting things but I cannot control it... so it's not like I can take a challenge. Last week (and this SUCKED) the lotto numbers were being called and I jokingly said, "16, 22, 44...".... and the TV went, "16, 22, 44..." and then the big number. I went, "4" and the TV went "4".... FUCKIN A IF I HAD ONLY BOUGHT A TICKET AND NOT PREDICTED TWO MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOW! -.- Gaaaaaah.
My mum predicted Princess Diana would die. >_> Sounds weird, but she saw her and Elton John at a funeral (forgot who for) and she screamed aloud, "OMG SHE'S GONNA DIE!"
Weird.
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So this guy, this very odd guy...it was brutally slow when I went in early the other day, and he was paying me to sit with him so I did (very rare in my club). Plus he was genuinely entertaining, and promised me dances once I had gone on stage and he had another beer. Anyways, we're talking and he shows me this trick...he turns his back to me and does something then gets me to go through equations in my mind. Then he says "pick a vegetable". I say "carrot". He lifts the napkin to reveal the word carrot he had fashioned out of little scraps of paper he tore up (he had earlier asked for a pen and did this instead). He refused to tell me how he did it, but weird!
Then from stage I saw another girl, very nice girl who I chat with now and then, rubbing his shoulders. He later told me (while we were in the CR and I was doing my 'non-dance'- the one where the guy just wants me to initially sit in his lap and listen all dollishly) that he told her he was waiting for me, but in exchange for her time he guessed her birthday. He guessed the exact day. She was freaking about it later. She said "I don't think I ever met the guy before!". I don't know what to think. He was an obviously very smart man, one of those wealthy eccentrics I occasionally meet (and it's great when I do). Any thoughts? I dated a magician before, and soon learned that magician/conman often are two sides of one coin. Or he's just really psyhic.
This is the "cold reading game" designed to prey on chicks who are "spiritual." He either guessed or had inside info. The term used on the net is "chick crack" and it's a very common seduction gimmick (look at how you wound up: "mesmerized.").
It works well because most women are narcissistic and love having this type of "attention" focused on them, and they completely miss the hidden agenda.