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FreeChile
16th November 2005, 09:47 AM
I just thought we could debunk Sylvia Browne's predictions one by one. I get a kick out of number 40 about aliens visiting us in 2010. If aliens needed to see what we were doing to this planet they certainly wouldn't need to visit us as their technology would be far more advanced. They would certainly know how to use telescopes and all sorts of technological gadgettry. Also, why would aliens need to show us to use anti-gravity devices. We can certainly lift the pyramids with the devices we have now, like cranes, planes and helicopters.

Silvia Browne's Predictions (http://www.sylvia.org/home/2000plus.cfm)

Predictions:

1. Eradication of cancer as we know it, using sound waves, photo sensitive drug therapy, and "self-addicting" cells.
2. Robotic houses, controlled by computerized switchboard.
3. Electrical cars with flotation ability for water travel to bypass freeways.
4. Houses made from pressed paper with plastic coatings; interchangeable walls
5. Separate body parts cloned for organ transplants; not an entire body.
6. New form of painless tooth extraction, using a type of suction, with immediate replacement of new tooth.
7. Diagnostic chambers which map the body's electrical balance to predict health problems before the come.
8. Cylindrical rooms in which people enter to see an automated projection of the clothing and color that would look good on them; select what you want, take your measurements, then two days later pick up the goods.
9. Third floor of houses have rollback roofs to allow Hovercrafts to come and go.
10. No more surgery with knives. Some type of molecular ionization device that knows how to take out the afflicted cells then seal the wound without a single scar.
11. Remolding of the whole face structure, to duplicate any look that you wish.
12. New exercise equipment that you sit or stand in, and it literally stimulates your muscles with electricity to achieve the same effect as physical exercise.
13. Babies will be birthed in water all the time, with music, incense, and green and lavender lights.
14. People will be able to simply "walk out" of their bodies upon death.
15. There will be no US Presidency; our government will go back to a Greek Senate structure.
16. No longer a single Pope, but a triumvirate of Popes, each assigned to a geographic collection of Catholics.
17. Peace in the Middle East will prevail by 2050.
18. West Coast goes under in 2026. Parts of the East Coast also get inundated. Tsunamis will wipe out a large portion of Japan. The Hawaiian Islands will have upheaval and be the site of a large new landmass.
19. Atlantis will begin to show itself by 2023 and be fully visible by 2026.
20. After 2050, the "Age of the Messiah" is upon us. People turn totally toward Spirituality, peace will rein for a long time. People will return to community living, loving each other, and working together.
21. Treatment for depression and mood disorders will come from a "control chamber" that emits sensory stimulation gently to the brain, including certain smells, which will elevate mood.
22. Medicine in pill form goes away; instead we have air-injected delivery through the skin.
23. Atomic batteries will run cars.
24. No more gas propelled rockets in space; we will have nuclear powered cylinder shaped objects that travel everywhere.
25. A moon base is created for people to visit, and as a stopping place for further trips.
26. By 2055 most people will live in domed cities due to poor atmospheric conditions.
27. A virtual reality headset will stimulate brain waves so people can learn whole libraries of information within hours.
28. Giant fruits and vegetables will be grown in hothouse environments. The nutrients will be synthesized into a highly condensed injection.
29. Proteins are developed without animal meat, very powerful, builds immune system.
30. Addictions will be a thing of the past because of a brain stimulation, which eradicates all addictions, with no side effects.
31. Execution for the death penalty will become a complete vaporization of the body.
32. No separate governments, one planetary government will form.
33. Great earth changes will occur and germ warfare will be used before the world finds peace. But eventually from all of the bad comes good. The pendulum will swing back to humanity and love.
34. No world war is coming, but lots of civil disorder and small skirmishes. No nuclear holocaust.
35. Peace will last from 2050 until 2100, and then I see nothing beyond, which could mean "the end will come like a thief in the night."
36. Toward the end of things, the veil separating our world from The Other Side will thin, so much so that most people will see decease loved ones and speak with their Spirit Guides.
37. There will be many false prophets that rise up proclaiming to be Jesus on Earth, and try to lead people astray. We are already seeing this in the big rise of occultism.
38. People will again find Spirituality, not so much in organized religion, but in the spiritual brotherhood of coming together and finding their Temple within.
39. Four more comets will pass by before the end times.
40. Aliens will begin to show themselves in the year 2010, they will not harm us, they simply want to see what we are doing to this planet. They will teach us how to use anti-gravity devices again, such as they did for the pyramids.

CFLarsen
16th November 2005, 09:53 AM
Sylvia Browne: Predictions for 2000-2100 (http://skepticreport.com/psychics/sylvia2100.htm)

That was quick, eh? :)

Bronze Dog
16th November 2005, 09:56 AM
They will teach us how to use anti-gravity devices again, such as they did for the pyramids.
Right... Used antigravity devices to build something any neolithic culture should be capable of.

ETA: Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishible from neolithic technology.

Mojo
16th November 2005, 09:56 AM
I get a kick out of number 40 about aliens visiting us in 2010. It doesn't say they'll visit us. It says: Aliens will begin to show themselves in the year 2010Alien flashers! :jaw-dropp

Diamond
16th November 2005, 10:09 AM
*cough*Can someone put these things into the wiki? *cough*

Nick Bogaerts
16th November 2005, 10:24 AM
Aliens will begin to show themselves in the year 2010

In 2011, will Sylvia Browne: (1) Refuse to acknowledge she made this prediction; or (2) Claim aliens have begun to show themselves?

Bronze Dog
16th November 2005, 10:27 AM
In 2011, will Sylvia Browne: (1) Refuse to acknowledge she made this prediction; or (2) Claim aliens have begun to show themselves?
I bet 2. She will then point at a passing airplane as proof.

FreeChile
16th November 2005, 10:36 AM
Sylvia Browne: Predictions for 2000-2100 (http://skepticreport.com/psychics/sylvia2100.htm)

That was quick, eh? :)Quick, indeed! Thank you.

Cthulhu
16th November 2005, 11:10 AM
39. Four more comets will pass by before the end times.

Ummm.....

That isnt really much of a prediction now is it?

How many comets orbit the sun, and pass near earth each year that we can't see? Many more than 4 I am sure!

Piscivore
16th November 2005, 12:19 PM
Most of that I recognise as coming from 60's era sci-fi. :rolleyes:

CFLarsen
16th November 2005, 12:24 PM
Most of that I recognise as coming from 60's era sci-fi. :rolleyes:

If you can nail the ideas down to specific books, I'll be happy to update the article.

c4ts
16th November 2005, 12:25 PM
12. New exercise equipment that you sit or stand in, and it literally stimulates your muscles with electricity to achieve the same effect as physical exercise.

We have those. They are called "quackery."

LordoftheLeftHand
16th November 2005, 12:48 PM
20. After 2050, the "Age of the Messiah" is upon us. People turn totally toward Spirituality, peace will rein for a long time. People will return to community living, loving each other, and working together.
26. By 2055 most people will live in domed cities due to poor atmospheric conditions.

I guess the Messiah doesn't care about the atmosphere.

22. Medicine in pill form goes away; instead we have air-injected delivery through the skin.

We've had air-injected medication for a long time. You think a psychic would know this.

LLH

PatKelley
16th November 2005, 01:03 PM
No, no...she means like on Star Trek.

Amazing how many of her ideas vacillate between Star Trek and The Jetsons.

Bronze Dog
16th November 2005, 01:06 PM
Vacillate... that's a funny word. Sounds kind of dirty. Like it'd be brand name for...

Attention: BronzeDog's brain has been retrieved from the gutter. Stand by for re-installation.

PatKelley
16th November 2005, 01:13 PM
I bet 2. She will then point at a passing airplane as proof.
No, she'll hire Profit Yaweh and her problems will be solved!

c4ts
16th November 2005, 01:51 PM
Don't diss Prophet Yaweh, man. He'll summon a doiley powered flying saucer faster than you can say "Goddidit."

Francois Tremblay
16th November 2005, 03:14 PM
With all the Pyramidiocy, they should make another maxim :

"Sufficiently old technology is often ignorantly confused with magic"

FreeChile
16th November 2005, 03:24 PM
We have those. They are called "quackery."
I think 12 comes from a Bruce Lee, or is it Bruce Li, movie. The one where he was electrically-stimulating his bicept.

Dubium
16th November 2005, 04:47 PM
Most of that I recognise as coming from 60's era sci-fi.

Exactly. Logan's Run, Doctor Who, that mad guy who sits next to you on the train and talks non stop...

But I'm very glad the death penalty is going to be executed.

VoloVersio
16th November 2005, 06:30 PM
Is she claiming these predictions are made through her clairvoyance?

H.G. Wells laughs down at you, Slyvia. Of course, you would probably already know that.

David Swidler
17th November 2005, 05:07 AM
I'm emitting skeptical waves as hard as I can just to foil those predictions. I predict my waves will overpower Sylvia's clairvoyance.

The power! The raw power! Feed me! I need more!

*BURP*

Excuse me. I need to use the facilities. Gotta produce some Sylvia speak.

alfaniner
17th November 2005, 07:21 AM
We've had air-injected medication for a long time. You think a psychic would know this.

LLH

Are those things still being used? I haven't had a flu shot with one of those in a long time -- I thought it was the whole AIDS thing.

Oh, but this will be the new, improved device, and AIDS will be cured, right?

FreeChile
17th November 2005, 08:06 AM
With all the Pyramidiocy, they should make another maxim :

"Sufficiently old technology is often ignorantly confused with magic"Some of these claimants also discount how sophisticated some of these ancient civilizations were. Take the Mayan civilization, for instance. In spite of the fact that the Spanish Conquistadors destroyed nearly all of their literature (I think they left something like three or four books), we have discovered that the Mayans were relatively very advanced sciencifically and technologically. This is why some people find it mysterious that they could have built structures like pyramids. When the logical reasons are no longer there, these fundies simply make them up.

LordoftheLeftHand
17th November 2005, 10:45 AM
Are those things still being used? I haven't had a flu shot with one of those in a long time -- I thought it was the whole AIDS thing.

Oh, but this will be the new, improved device, and AIDS will be cured, right?I know the US Army was still using them in 1997 (I was on the receiving end of one).

LLH

Ladewig
17th November 2005, 11:43 AM
23. Atomic batteries will run cars.

Yes. This will happen right after we come up with new definitions for the words "atomic," "battery" and "cars."


29. Proteins are developed without animal meat, very powerful, builds immune system.

Sylvia is predicting the discovery of beans and rice?!

Hellbound
17th November 2005, 12:40 PM
Yes. This will happen right after we come up with new definitions for the words "atomic," "battery" and "cars."

Hey, your batteries are made of atoms, right? There ya go, already there! She's brilliant and gifted, I tell ya!

Sylvia is predicting the discovery of beans and rice?!

Another one correct!!! Astounding!!!

You know, and this is just me, personally, if I'm going to be posting anything that I believe has any importance at all, at the very least I'll look up any words I'm unsure on in the dictionary, to make sure I'm using them correctly.

I bet she whipped these out in about five minutes one morning, between her second pack of cigarettes and counting her income from previous days readings.

Hmm, you know, maybe she's is a psychic, a "postcognitive". She has visions of the past :D

VoloVersio
17th November 2005, 03:26 PM
I bet she whipped these out in about five minutes one morning, between her second pack of cigarettes and counting her income from previous days readings.

One wonders if she can see the day she'll die of lung cancer?

kiku
17th November 2005, 04:46 PM
No more gas propelled rockets in space; we will have nuclear powered cylinder shaped objects that travel everywhere.

This one was clearly my favorite. I couldn't help but laugh at the irritatingly vague and childish idea about nuclear cylinders that simply "travel everywhere." Sylvia is certainly enlightening.

PatKelley
18th November 2005, 02:05 PM
Hmm, you know, maybe she's is a psychic, a "postcognitive". She has visions of the past :D
Only when she gazes into her crystal-fronted box...


...and has paid her cable bill