sammij said:

I'll just quote a song to answer that:
"....the real comparison is the condition of your soul and the condition of mine, and you puppet of the devil, that I will compare. My friend, one day they're coming for you - the soft associates in your incantations - the friendly demons you think you now control. The time will come when you'll be lying in bed wheezing like a dying animal and those spirits lay claim to the rights they own to your soul. Then the room will grow dark, and the most hideous evil faces will come flaming out of the floor with a yell. The vile informants that promised reincarnation will claw your spirit and victoriously drag your soul to hell."

Dance away. I won't be at that ball.

^you must've seen the exorcist too often

Dewrede said:

I've actually only seen that movie maybe 2 times. Has nothing to do w/ a movie.

ernestsewell said:

I love that song! It's a real toe-tapper! My mom used to sing it to me every night before bed when I was a little kid. Then she'd say, "Nighty-night, Efan! Sleep tight!"

Efan said:

Efan said:

As usual you have no clue what you're doing, other than attempting some humor.

ernestsewell said:

I'm quite all right with that.

I wouldn't pay for something like that. I've had tarot cards (actually I have a small deck now but I don't use them much) and runes. It's just not my thing to want to know my future in any serious way. However, I use to talk to a guy who works in Toronto as a psychic, he was pretty cool but I never asked him for advice or anything like that even though he told me a few things just because he was a nice guy and seemed to genuinly care about the people around him.

I believe people can be intuitive like most animals so I usually go with gut reactions and such about what to do in my life.
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ernestsewell said:

C'mon Ernest. That was funny. I know where you're coming from, though.

matthewgrant said:

PLEASE TO EXPOUND

This thread is deep.

Cinnie said:

wild animals finding higher ground before flooding, leaving the area before earthquakes, leaving surrounding forest areas before fire spreads (humans were still in their homes when the animals got the hell out before the wind changed directions), birds flying south before humans report snowfall, mating season. Ever see what birds or flies do before a storm rolls in? and wasn't there a cat in a nursing home that would stay with patients when they were about to die?

Stuff like that is what I meant
and i meant to say "like most OTHER animals" humans are amimals too.
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alls i'm saying is that the key to these things require RESPECT for what you're dealing with.
if you're careless with what you're doing of course you should be weary of repercussions.

It's not something to take seriously.

matthewgrant said:

I'd call that instinct, not intuition.



As for the rest, it baffles me that people believe in stuff like the boogeyman in this day and age. I think things like horoscopes and tarot cards can be useful in that it gives a person something to think about. It's a tool for reflection, and there are all kinds of good things that can come out of that. But to believe they somehow actually predict the future is plain silly.

CarrieMpls said:

what would you call intuition in another animal?
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matthewgrant said:

huh?

I wouldn't say animals have intuition. I'd say that's a uniquely human trait.

Whether humans are instinctual is another debate.

matthewgrant said:

You don't. It's instinct.

CarrieMpls said:

oh ok

matthewgrant said:

Cinnie said:

the uri geller thing sounds really cool, I'm going to call a psychic soon too

what do you guys even want from a psychic? to tell you your luck will change (if things aren't going so well)?

uPtoWnNY said:

Yeah, giving your money to a psychic is like giving your money to a travelling snake oil peddler. The same goes with a lying prophet who tells you that your breakthrough is coming, sow a seed on TBN. Hocus-pocus.

Nope I don't believe anyone has the ability to predict ones future or communicate with the dead. The future is not set and the dead exist on another plane of existance. IMO they cater to peeps vulnerabilities and do indeed rip them off. A lot of these peeps that are believers are usually quite transparent and give away more then they realise which fuels the "medium/psychic" ability to figure them out and go ahead with their spiels.

CarrieMpls said:

Maybe intuition isnt the right word but they definitley have the 6th sense. It was from watching my dogs reaction when my other dog died that even made me believe that we didnt just decay in the ground after death and that there must be somewhere we go.

Arnotts said:

To my understanding, animals are more in tune with spirits than humans. Not to get in a religious debate because whether people believe it or not, when humans die, their spirits go upward and the animals go downward towards the earth. That's why humans have to be careful trying to contact the dead because it is not them but demons imitating them.

i've seen a few. none in the last decade though since the last one
kinda scared and baffled me at the same time.

i'd never seen the woman before and yet she knew stuff, details,
not the usual kind of vague stuff that could apply to anyone.

for instance, she just said "there's a girl with curls, red curls,
you're like husband and wife, yet you're not"

she told me i had an abnormal, life long fear of drowning and even
went as far as reveal some parts of what she said was a former life
of mine. the exact details she gave was something i have dreamt of
repeatedly from age 5 to 16.

she told me i had 2 webbed toes on either foot and suffered from a
lot of frontal head aches, which according to her was due to the
fact that i had "the gift" but blocked it so completely that it
surfaced as a constant headache.

she said some more things that i won't relate here but after she
was done with the 'reading' i felt awe, surprise and also a real
kind of panic.

perhaps if i ever walked into her again somehow i would let her
tell me more, just to gain some more insight into some stuff, but
at the time i was just sitting there with my jaw on the table,
about to soil myself.

it's strange and discomforting to be confronted with something
like that when you're convinced that all there is, is what you
see and experience right here, right now.

I've contacted many on the myspace groups. Which sounds SO stupid, I know. But they were spot on with so many things. Especially in terms of relationships. I was skeptical of that until well...it happened. The only bad experience I had was with this one dude called Dwame the Psychic or something like that. He basically gave me a lot of hooey that wasn't even...well...anything.

I finally came to a place where I decided not to seek the gifted out. I'd rather just let life happen and choose my own path. Not that I don't believe in it, but it just seems so hard to find legit people. And when I do/think I do, there are so many others ahead of them that it takes months and months for an answer or some kind of insight.

There was one lady named Jean who was great, though. I wish I'd kept up with her. She was very helpful and didn't charge me a dime. Well, that's all in my past. It's just not something that I focus on anymore. There's so many sites and places promising it for waaay too much money. And to be honest, a lot of them are pretty generalized in a way where it's almost like a cold reading.

Meh....maybe all my bad experiences have warped me despite the fact that I've had some very good, genuine ones.

IstenSzek said:

Amazing, although I don't know what the red curls girl part is referring to.

LadyLuvSexxy said:

i once went into the horse carriage of some old witch in eastern europe
who told your fortune for about $10,-

sat down, handed me a deck of cards and said "you shuffle"

then she said "now you ask question"

i said "i don't have a question actually, i just wanted to
let you tell what you see"

she repeated "question"

i said "uhm, let me think, i don't know anything i want to
ask really"

she just took the cards, and my money, which was on the table,
and said "no question. ok. now go"



i tried to get my money back but figured it was futile since
her cut throat son was sitting behind me and i figured there
might not be a forture left to tell if i caused a stink