Man, I’m out of it. I’m at work but there’s not much going on. I’m watching Chevy Chase in “Funny Farm” again and wondering if I’ll ever find a life. Let alone, get over my strange obsession for this movie. SOMEONE make it go away. Please.
It’s going to get cold today then it’s going to warm up to all of 23 degrees F on tomorrow. That’s a heat wave compared to tomorrow, with the high of 15 and low of 1. It’s allegedly going to snow today, but god only knows if that’s true. I’m now glad that I bought the video card instead of the snow blower. We haven’t had an inch of snow since the day I was going to buy one and decided not to. Typical. At least I’m using the video card.
Friday night I actually recorded my first DVD quality recording. I taped the new Penn & Teller show off of Showtime. On the show they debunked (debunking, for those who don’t know is proving something is a lie; such as debunking a myth means you’re proving it was just a story and not based on truth), the psychics who allegedly talk to the dead. Due to legal constraints they couldn’t call the psychics liars. However, they could call them vulgarities such as “BS Artists” and “Assholes.” It resulted in more swearing in one 30 minute show than I’ve heard in a while (with the exception of Moopster on a rampage).
It showed exactly what I expected: most psychics are apparently con artists. When you watch one of those “talking to the dead” shows, you’re not seeing the fact that the psychic often talks to his or her subjects before the show and specifically asks them who they’re trying to contact. You’re also not seeing the amount of “misses” (or getting things completely wrong), that the psychic produces during the session because of the heavy editing for TV. Penn & Teller went so far as to have their own “psychic” do readings for people as compared to another “psychic” who does it professionally. Their psychic did the “readings” as well or better than the “professional psychic.” The thing is, their psychic wasn’t a psychic at all. He was a reformed con man who works closely with groups who debunk things like this.
People want to believe we can talk to the dead. “Psychics” know this and they use a general pattern of information gathering in order to produce “hits” and make you believe. They make a lot of money doing this. They also have the people who attend these services sign binding non-disclosure agreements so they can’t talk about anything that goes on at the tapings. They have something to hide and they’re going to keep on doing this for as long as people want to hand over gobs of money for being lied to …
Oh well, back to work.
k9