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A Letter to Miraclist, the Whiny Psychic
2005.06.27 (Mon) 01:00
You'll love this one. About a week ago, we put out a call to all psychics, mediums, dowsers, and other purveyors of the paranormal arts to send us their predictions about the Natalee Holloway case. Natalee is, of course, the Alabama high school student who went missing almost a month ago in Aruba. We received a few submissions — someone sent in the page of a medium, and we had an EVP believer stop by as well. Then we were visited by Miraclist, a channeler who volunteered the following in our comments:
You do not understand channeling. Everyone has a 6th sense (Even you. You were aware your sarcastic blog would be rated high in Google so you pursued it.) You might take a look at my site at www.mythforlife.com. I list a prediction for Natalee Holloway as well as RESULTS for the quarterly predictions. You might want to look at the entry about what psychic channeling is and where a channel gets their information. It gives skeptics something a little more practical to review and make a decision about whether they believe in channeling or not. Channeling does have a scientific basis. There are dedicated people as well as hacks in every industry.
As a note, if you've already read all of the comments that are on the original Rant, you can skip to the new material analyzing Miraclist's predictions which is down below.
We were having a busy week, so we didn't get a chance to respond to Miraclist right away. Then, lo and behold, she commented again, chastising us (and others) for being rude to her. Here's the funny bit — at the time she left that second comment, we hadn't addressed her earlier comment or her predictions in any way, shape, or form, except to mention that we were going to respond to it in just a bit. To be fair, we also referred to her (or rather, her ass) as "presumptuous" since she had made an awful lot of assumptions about us in her first comment. Her second comment was stated thusly:
I am retracting my Prediction on the Disappearance of Natalee Holloway on
www.mythforlife.com. It is a true and correct reading and time will prove it be so. I have a very high rate of correct predictions and I am willing to document them as such every month on my web site (which other psychics would not do). I have never asked for money for my readings and put the prediction on a public web site FREE of CHARGE for everyone to see hoping to be part of a solution. But the constant barrage of negative, sarcastic feedback on sites such as Scared Monkeys, Skeptico, and the Two Percent Company that the prediction was "eerie", The psychic is "spooky", the psychic is a gold digger, and psychic predictions are a scam has led me to see that my other predictions are true. This society of people is doomed. They do not understand the concept of group participation. They do not believe in miracles. They cannot see past their own selfish, pragmatic, mindset. They do not understand the premise that when two or more people gather together with a positive outcome in mind, it BECOMES a psychic experience of linked minds and miracles do happen. All I see in this situation in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is misinformation, a fractured methodology, and chaotic approach by everyone. The Bloggers will go on insulting people and being rude, arguing and being sarcastic. This means, at its essence, that Bloggers become part of life's problem. So the world is watching and waiting. Let's see if Bloggers solve the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
We checked her web site, and sure enough this same message was now in the place where her earlier "predictions" about Natalee had been. We quickly posted the following reply on our Rant:
As we noted, we had copied her "predictions," so she wasn't going to get away with a half-assed retraction quite so easily. We then followed up with our reply to her original comment:
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And now, without further ado, we present our analysis of her actual "retracted" predictions about Natalee. All quotations from here on out are direct copies of Miraclist's predictions, without any changes or omissions. That includes all ellipses (...) which do not indicate our edits, but are from the original text.
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Comments (30)
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