You'd think they'd have seen it coming...

[pgwenthold]

Weather in Indianapolis was not great last night, and a lot of events were cancelled. According to the bulletins on the TV, apparently the "Psychic Divine Spiritual Church" of Indianapolis was among those who closed Thursday night.

What I want to know is, why were they going to be open in the first place? Shouldn't they have known that it was going to snow? I mean, they are supposedly psychic...

I'd be far more impressed if the February calendar came out with that night's activities already canceled because there will be snow.

[Tricky]

I can see the 60 Minutes segment now:

"Psychics who watch the news."

[Peter Morris]

Because 'psychic' means they can read minds, not tell the future?

Telling the future is precognitive, not psychic.

Try to be a bit more logical in future, please.


NB for the benefit of Americans, the above is called 'irony'

[johnny]

Originally posted by Peter Morris
Because 'psychic' means they can read minds, not tell the future?

Telling the future is precognitive, not psychic.

Try to be a bit more logical in future, please.


NB for the benefit of Americans, the above is called 'irony'

I fail to see the "irony" in someone's misuse of a term. Now, if he were lecturing a group of people on the definition of the term, I could see your point...

Hmm, ironic.

Try to be a bit more logical in future, please.

[Kerberos]

Originally posted by Peter Morris
Because 'psychic' means they can read minds, not tell the future?

Telling the future is precognitive, not psychic.

Try to be a bit more logical in future, please.


NB for the benefit of Americans, the above is called 'irony'
From http://dictionary.reference.com under psychic:
"Capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy.
Of or relating to such mental processes. "

While reading peoples minds would qualify as being psychic, the ability to tell the future could also qualify. It depends on the mechanism for the precognition.

Try to be a bit more accurate in future, please.

[pupdog]

Regardless of any dictionary definitions, do any well-known psychics claim to foretell events? If the meeting was just about mind-reading and remote viewing, there's no surprise that it was unexpectedly cancelled (only a question of why they needed a meeting).

[Chad Noles]

Who's to say they needed a meeting?Could they just want a meeting?On second thought,why would a like minded group of people want to get together to discuss anything. cough: TAM 1,TAM 2, :cough :p

[Iconoclast]

Originally posted by Peter Morris
Because 'psychic' means they can read minds, not tell the future?

Telling the future is precognitive, not psychic.

Try to be a bit more logical in future, please.

NB for the benefit of Americans, the above is called 'irony'
Eh? That was irony? For Alanis Morissette maybe....

[Kerberos]

Originally posted by pupdog
Regardless of any dictionary definitions, do any well-known psychics claim to foretell events?
Sylvia Brown I think.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Peter Morris
Because 'psychic' means they can read minds, not tell the future?

Telling the future is precognitive, not psychic.

Try to be a bit more logical in future, please.


NB for the benefit of Americans, the above is called 'irony'

As this American knows, the above is called 'sarcasm'. Irony is something else entirely. Learn to use a dictionary.

[princhester]

You don't seem to have checked into this thread since your first post, Peter. Was that because of the stream of invective from Princhester or because you've made an idiot of yourself? Because I thought the reason you bombed out of threads was always the former, yet I've never posted in this thread till now...

[Soapy Sam]

In either case- both sarcasm and ironic humour lose much of their effect in an international internet forum. (The latter more so). Remember you are posting here to a very wide range of ages and nationality. Fluency in idiomatic English should not be assumed.
Best avoided, as I have learned the hard way.
Or use the smilies. Yes, they are tacky, but they do work.

[Toastrider]

Speaking of predictions, you'd have thought that the Psychic Friends Network would have warned Dionne Warwick that her career was going to collapse.

(with thanks to Dennis Miller for -that- little gem)

--Toasty

[Undodog]

Originally posted by Abdul Alhazred


As this American knows, the above is called 'sarcasm'. Irony is something else entirely. Learn to use a dictionary.

At last! An American who doesnt use that sodding 'ironymeter' as a smiley.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Undodog


At last! An American who doesnt use that sodding 'ironymeter' as a smiley.

:rub: :rub: :p

[Chad Noles]

posted by toastrider
...you'd have thought that the Psychic Friends Network would have warned Dionne Warwick that her career was going to collapse.

I don't think you needed to be psychic to see that comming.