Edgar Cayce, god?

[LeCynthia]

I'm not sure what I'm watching on the History Channel right now but they are making Edgar out to be the greatest prophet of all time. It's like some fan club recruitment tape. I hope before it's over they allow at least one skeptic to speak.

[Rodney]

I'm not sure what I'm watching on the History Channel right now but they are making Edgar out to be the greatest prophet of all time. It's like some fan club recruitment tape. I hope before it's over they allow at least one skeptic to speak. As many of my esteemed colleagues here would agree, you should have used the upper case for the last word in the thread's title. ;)

[Loss Leader]

I've been looking into Cayce and, as near as I can tell, he was about as psychic as a generally decent stockbroker. He really watched the trends of the times and most of his "predictions" pretty much came out of the then-current editorial pages.

For example, he was a big proponent of chiropractic at about the heyday of chiropractic. He claimed to have cured all sorts of things - including viral encephalopathy - by advising a few skeletal manipulations. And my favorite Cayce prediction came in 1934 when he predicted that Hitler would soon come to power in Germany. I'm not sure you can call that psychic, though. Hitler had been elected Chancellor in 1933.

[LeCynthia]

As many of my esteemed colleagues here would agree, you should have used the upper case for the last word in the thread's title. ;)

I only capitalize when referring to an actual, specific god. As in, the God of Moses. But not as in I am a god.

[LeCynthia]

Alas, the show finished and not a single skeptical opinion to be seen. It had to be the worse show I've seen on that channel. Makes me sad that so many people will think that stuff is true.

[Orphia Nay]

Well there goes my intention to get cable just to watch the History Channel. After also hearing that they're proposing to show 'Loose Change' on September 11th here in Australia, I've totally changed my mind.

[exarch]

Ah, yes, of course. Because "Loose Change" is exactly the kind of thing you want to show people on the 5 year anniversary of such a tragedy, as a tribute to all those who lost their lives :rolleyes:

f:mad:ing loose ethics.

[greyleonard]

I've been looking into Cayce and, as near as I can tell, he was about as psychic as a generally decent stockbroker.

Yep. I've been checking too, because my 'nearly mother-in-law' just went to a weekend at A.R.E (http://www.edgarcayce.org/), the Edgar Cayce theme park in Virginia Beach and we're all going out to dinner tomorrow night. I think she's trying to find comfort that she will eventually meet her husband again who died last year, so I doubt that I'll be my normal "unafraid of calling bullcrap" self. (The ethics of speaking up to someone in that situation would make an interesting discussion of its own)

Here are a few cayce skeptical links:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcayce.html
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=53937&highlight=cayce
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=48731&highlight=cayce

[Yeah_Right]

Personally I wouldn't consider anyone a God that talked in their sleep.