This Has Blown My Paradigm

[nailit]

Ive always been sceptical of the paranormal. In the past I have been the token sceptic member of a paranormal research group, (At one time in my youth I subscribed to skeptic magazine).
Ive read virtually all of James Randis publications at one time or another, along with many other debunkers.

However, this afternoon, I was spending some time with a female friend of mine when she casually mentioned about a 'reading' that she had had from a 'psychic' and that this reading was recorded on a CD. Up for a bit of fun I asked her to find it and play it, (so that I could pick holes in it...)

After years of visiting mediums etc myself and finding nothing of significance, I was blown away by this. Not, at any point, was any information requested, (nor given) names and dates were given,
and information was relayed that the 'reader' could not have known beforehand.
(including names of first boyfriend that has since died, Fathers mental illness, number..and sex..of children, participants current relationship with family, including the fact that she had only one sister and a step father)
To get the full story one would have to listen to the CD, but its blown my mind (and I'm a complete sceptic) Might have to book myself in and see for myself! ;-)

[Tilly2]

Why? Everything you will be told, you'll know anyway. Are you expecting a revelation?

[Jackdaw33]

A paradigm, from the Greek 'paradigma', is merely an example of how to conjugate verbs/decline nouns. It has nothing to do with the paranormal.

[murraymints]

Some folk just have a gift....

[nailit]

I may of used the wrong word then...English was never my strong point...but just listening to the audio was enough to make me rethink 50 odd yrs of programming.

[nailit]

Actually, forget and ignore that I ever posted this.

[Patsy33]

Some of them are extraordinary!

[237SJ]

There is a difference between psychics and mediums. They are two different things

[Buenchico]

JD33 seems to have ignored the more common uses of 'paradigm', unrelated to linguistics:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/paradigm

[vetuste_ennemi]

Yes, to Jackdaw/Nailit, the word's frequently used metaphorically mean a basic set of philosophical assumptions.

[Gizmonster]

It's surprising what info you can find on the internet.
I just googled my father's name, with our home town .... up came plenty of info about on him ...... including the obituary of his wife a few years ago; results of the council election in 2002 when he stood for election; facebook profile (and if this is public, you'll get lots more info from this); details of the 2 books he's written.
A clever researcher has a lot more tools to use since the internet started .... you've probably guessed ..... I'm a sceptic as well :)

[nailit]

Tell you what, I'm seriously thinking of blowing £30 (That I don't really have) just to see this woman. If its a load of carp then I will know, If its genuine then what the hell?
It'll be posted about on here anyway.

Just cant get my head around how so many names came up...not vague names but names with an association.

[237SJ]

Why pay £30 to be told what you already know?

[nailit]

//Why pay £30 to be told what you already know?//
Might be told something that I don't know lol.

[237SJ]

That's not going to happen (at least it's not if you want to know your future)

[ToraToraTora]

the reader is basically a PI.

[Peter Pedant]

// A paradigm, is merely an example of how to conjugate verbs/decline nouns.//

yup and severly stunted my understanding ofscientific paradigms - set of beliefs
and how they may change - paradigm shift

and Nailit is saying he had one

Ones I like - When James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and Magnetism, he produced the wave equation which had a speed - ( 1 / e0 x mu0)- and this they noticed was very near to the square of the speed of light as then known. This led to a raft of estimations of the speed of light - Foucault, Fizeau

Someone asked Max Planck how he got the old professors who had too much to lose to embrace his new theories of quantum physics - so how had he done it ?
Planck said - "they died."

all from Kuhn's scientific revolutions

[nailit]

//the reader is basically a PI.//
PI? (Private Investigator) ??

[Prudie]

In the main this topic always gets completely rubbished by ABers - except those of us who have experienced being told things you'd have never found on the internet. Keep an open mind I say.

[ToraToraTora]

yes nailit you book an appointment they investigate you. They are very good at finding out things from public records etc. Family stuff is easy to find out. Especially the "there is no way they could have known stuff". Then when you come for the reading, they blow you away with all sorts of stuff. They are all charlatans, often very able ones.

[Peter Pedant]

a fren' mentioned me in a seance -
and was told my father was a mill owner
whereas in fact he was a south african farmer
oops !
he didnt go again