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Psychics: Real, Fake or

Just Utterly Useless?

by Jimmy Blue

Let's assume for the purposes of this post that
psychics are real. More particularly let's assume
that those psychics who claim to be able to talk
to the dead really can do what they claim. Let's
assume that they are not just people who are
usually (but not always) good at cold, warm and
hot reading. Let's assume that people like Sylvia
Browne, James Van Praagh and John Edwards
(not the US politician) are actually able to talk
with the dead and are not just fakes who prey on
the grieving, gullible and vulnerable. Let's
assume that there is an afterlife and that it is
possible for a tiny minority of people to
communicate with those who reside in it. Let's
assume that when someone says they are talking
to your dead relative and all they get is "I have
a male relative who may have, possibly, died, or
been ill, with something, probably, to do with
the chest, or stomach, area and whose first name
begins with J. Or M. Or S. They want to say
through our erstwhile 'talkers to the dead'? only to use it for personal gain rather than
they love you and that [insert common
Why aren't historians talking to the benefitting all of us? Why is it that they charge
household object or personal possession that is
players of history and finding out what really so much for their 'skills'? What does that say
commonly misplaced] is [in a place where these
happened and why, perhaps solving many of the about psychics if their claimed abilities really
things are commonly found, eventually]" they
disputes that plague us to this day? exist?
are actually talking to a dead relative and that is
Why aren't murder victims naming their Why aren't psychics using their skills to
all they have to say.
killer or providing in depth descriptions of them benefit all of humanity? If they can but won't,
Let's assume all this and then ask
and what happened? then they are unimaginably selfish. If they can't
ourselves one question: What use are psychics
Why aren't Churchill, Roosevelt, because their abilities are limited or don't exist,
really?
Eisenhower, Martin Luther King Jr, Lincoln, they're irrelevant at best and fradulent hucksters
Consider this: psychic powers just might
Washington, FDR, Lloyd George, Marcus at worst.
be one of the greatest and most important
Aurelius, Alexander the Great, Wellington, If their abilities are real, then why aren't
developments in the evolution of the human
Nelson advising our current leaders? psychics doing more for the human race? The
race, and the ability to talk to people who have
Why aren't psychics talking to people answer seems to me to be one of a few
died is something that should be of incalculable
who we really need? possibilities:
benefit to the human race. But what we have
With all the challenges which we face 1. Psychics are lying and can't do any of
instead are little more than circus entertainers
today, with all the problems humanity has to the supernatural things they claim.
appearing on Montel and Larry King to talk to
deal with, why aren't psychics actually speaking 2. Psychics are selfish bastards who use
housewives who watch drek like "The View"
to people who could help us advance human their abilities for personal gain rather than to
about dead relatives and predictions that no-one
civilization, thought and science further and help all of humanity.
ever follows up on. Really, all the dead have is
faster than it has ever gone before? Why is it 3. Psychic skills are real but basically
meaningless platitudes and the predictably and
that the best they can bring from their incredible useless.
sickly sentimental?
ability is to talk to dead relatives of everyday The evidence points me to option 1 -
Where are the psychic conference calls
people who have nothing useful to offer? psychics are fake - but I'm still open to evidence
that link Curie, Darwin, Pasteur, Fleming,
Why is it that when the dead just happen that shows either of the other two. The absolute
Gould, Sagan, Archimedes, Galileo,
to get in touch with one of the tiny minority of best that I could be willing to say about
Copernicus, Boyle, Newton, Einstein, Edison,
people who can speak to them, at the exact time psychics, assuming that their abilities are real, is
Bell, Ampère, Faraday, Maxwell, Poincaré,
that the person they want to speak to is there, that they are utterly useless. []
Planck, Schrödinger, Abū Alī Sīnā, Hubble and
they have nothing useful to say? "I love you and
Rutherford (to name but a few of thousands)
I'm happy here." is all my dead relative wants to
with modern scientists and modern discoveries
tell me? Nothing a bit more, well, important?
and technology? What might some of the giants I'll be impressed when a psychic can tell WATCH
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technology and advances they never even
person can know. I'll be impressed when a
dreamed of?
psychic can tell me my grandad's service
Think about why psychics never speak
number, or what happened the last time I saw
to these long dead scientists for just a little
him when only the two of us were there. I'm not
while and it should be obvious why they don't.
impressed with "An older male relative, whose
Why aren't long dead classical
name begins with an E, or R, or maybe T who
composers finishing symphonies or writing new
died from lack of oxygen to the brain."
ones through their psychic proxies? Why aren't psychics talking to people
Why aren't there philosophical
who can help us right now?
discussions between Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
In the end should we be more concerned
Voltaire, Hume, Russell and Wittgenstein,
with whether or not psychics are real or whether
hosted through their psychic proxies?
or not they can actually contribute anything
Why aren't the great inventors,
worthwhile and meaningful? Doesn't the fact
innovators and engineers of our past suggesting
that psychics aren't doing the things highlighted
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suggest something else? Do they have this gift