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In Topic: Do you think Theresa Caputo is the real deal?
Yesterday, 02:04 PM
ohioguy24, on 22 May 2013 - 01:46 PM, said:
What exactly is supernatural Kal? There are countless cases out there if anyone cares to research where a people have correctly predicted events exactly on specific dates and times they happened. Sometimes years before. IMO, makes it impossible to dismiss it because it's unexplainable. That's the joy of this stuff. The unknown if fascinating to me. It's impossible for me to say everything that appears to be supernatural has to be horse crap. I could never say that in a million years, I can't believe the lot of you with a straight face, can! I have no issues with her making money on what she does. She does what she does and she's making a living like the rest of the world. She'd still be doing it with or without the support of a tv station. She'd still be the Long Island Medium.
You're assuming that it cannot be explained. A prediction may be correct, even if it's specific, but that doesn't mean it's not blind luck. Who is making these predictions? How often are they correct? If I make a significant number of predictions, a number are bound to be correct. That doesn't make me a prophet.
Again, I would love for these abilities to be real. I would love it if someone could communicate with the dead. It would mean there's an afterlife, it would mean that there is existence beyond what we currently understand. I would love for someone to be able to reliably predict the future, it would allow life to be lived more safely and it would absolutely and irrevocably change our notion of time, the universe, etc.
I am not skeptical because I DON'T want to believe, I am skeptical because absent testing there is no reason to assume that these things are "beyond science" or "supernatural" or whatever term you want to use.
I do not presume to know everything. But until there is actual evidence to support claims of supernatural abilities, there is no reason to believe them aside from gullibility. As it pertains to Caputo specifically, there is nothing she has done that cannot be explained by cold and hot reading. As we know that those practices are real, there is no compelling reason to believe she is doing something that cannot be explained with them and no reason to assume she's a "medium" absent a scientific test of those abilities. It would be relatively easy to establish a controlled test.
In Topic: Do you think Theresa Caputo is the real deal?
Yesterday, 01:42 PM
ohioguy24, on 22 May 2013 - 01:37 PM, said:
So a medium is not allowed to ask questions? LOL. That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. One specific reading on her last show, the lady that died was murdered and stabbed 30 times. Theresa didn't say or ask was there a.... "Pain in chest, or was she hit in head or died on a slow death" she specifically said , NOT ASKING in the form of question she said... "I see a pool of blood around her" People died in many different fashions people and sometimes blood isn't even in the equation. , she makes specific attributes of the death in sometimes vivid detail". Ya know, take it with a grain of salt if you people feel the need to think everything is a fucking joke, accept she makes people feel better. Leave it at that.
We should not merely "accept" that she makes people feel better. When people get rooked into paying a scam artist for emotional relief, they're more likely to fall for other scams, too.
And you keep bringing up examples of what can be accomplished via cold or hot reading while you're trying to demonstrate that her abilities are supernatural.
