I don’t know which is worse: those televangelists that promise miracles while scamming people out of their money, or people like her.

I don’t really see a difference between those two groups of people. lol

I rememebr Miss Cleo got nailed, but I thought it was for something non-psychic related, like tax evasion or something. I could be completely wrong about that.

I didn’t know the pet psychic got nailed! Good. That was the stupidest cold reader I’ve ever seen. She couldn’t quite read people well enough to make a living, so instead she just makes shit up about their pets. It’s not like Fido is going to suddenly say, “no, actually it wasn’t the lightning storm where I developed my fear of the travel cage, it was actually this time that Garfield hid in there and swiped my nose when I didn’t notice him. Thanks for trying.”

I couldn’t agree more. I’ve come to loathe this woman, preying on people’s hopes, telling them what they want to hear. Her predictions are a crock of shit. I don’t know which is worse: those televangelists that promise miracles while scamming people out of their money, or people like her.

I have to wonder, if she’s been proven a fraud, why hasn’t she been prosecuted yet? I remember several years back, that Tarot lady, Miss Cleo, got nailed. (Anyone remember her?) And the Pet Psychic lady some years back.

I’m sure there are others. I may be leery of psychics, but I like to think that karma exists, and karma will eventually catch up to Miss Browne, and land her sorry ass in jail.

But no. She’ll keep peddling her psychic “abilities” and no matter if it’s been proven otherwise, will have her loyal following that treat her “astounding psychic insights” like the freakin’ gospel.

I find that incredibly depressing.

Whereas many “fundie” relatives of mine seem to never be able to get through much of the grief without constantly repeating that they know they’ll be able to see the lost ones again someday. And even then, it seems to take extraordinarily long to go through the stages of grief. Now of course everybody is different and there is, by no means, a timetable for this sort of stuff, but if “faith in God” is supposed to help you get through grief better (fundie relative once told me “I don’t know how anybody gets through this without God”), why doesn’t it seem to actually help them at all?

Completely anecdotal, no evidence, nothing. Just a personal observation. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was zero correlation between grieving time / return to happiness after loss of a loved one and religious affiliation/belief, but just wanted to throw that out there as a personal observation.

*snicker* Man…I’m not even a fan, but if I’d gone to that show, the price of admission would have been worth it to see that!

And…shaking my head in disgust. So far, this is what has stuck out to me the most:

Another woman stated that doctors had given her a very short time to live, and that she had survived beyond that by many years. Browne assured her that she was a survivor, then launched into an odd story wherein she said that she (Browne) had major surgery when she was twenty-six, and the doctors had given her two years to live. She then said that she has now outlived all of those doctors, and that, when the last of those doctors was dying, she went to visit him and said “See?” This got a small laugh out of a few in the audience, but it struck me as being made up for humorous effect, and, whether true or not, seemed rather heartless.

That callous bitch. Sylvia Browne makes me ill. I wonder what she says to cancer patients with only six months to live? Oh, you’re gonna be fine!

I think it’s incredibly cruel to not only dupe people out of their money, it’s also cruel to give them false hope.

Thanks for correcting me. My memory was pretty spotty. (To say the least) Yeah, that was the story I was talking about.

Sylvia Browne is a real piece of work. She’s as bad as some of the Fundies, preying on the weak, the vulnerable, and the grieving. It’s sickening. Although, admittedly hilarious when she messes up, and gets “caught.”