Sylvia Browne bio from TV.COM

[Locknar]

Just noticed this on TV.COM (http://www.tv.com/sylvia--browne/person/433434/biography.html) and thought I'd share

"Starting off as a skeptic herself, Sylvia's psychic abilities have grown since the age of 3, which was when she had her first psychic experience. She told her mother that her grandfather had passed and that her mom would give birth to a little girl in 3 years. Her abilities were proven to be accurate when her grandfather was reported dead and later in the years with the birth of her little sister, Sharon, just one month short of Sylvia's 6th birthday.

Sylvia has helped many people through her readings and lectures. She also works with doctors, psychiatrists, and researchers to help better the medical field as well. She has dedicated her life to working in any way that she can to help anyone in need who has come to her with their problems."

Amoung the trivia list:
- "Sylvia works with doctors, psychiatrists, and researchers around the country. "
- "Sylvia has a master's degree in English literature."

If anyone has a registered account with MP3.COM or GSPOT.COM, you can provide edits on TV.COM. Personally, I plan to e-mail them....

[Rasmus55]

How can one start out as a skeptic prior to age 3? Basically, what this says, if I'm reading right, is that from age 1-3 she was a skeptic, but then at age 3 discovered her mystical powers and has been growing them ever since. Does that make sense to anyone; that an infant child could be classified as a skeptic? On the same website the trivia facts claim she has a master's degree in English literature; a claim by Sylvia that appears to be a complete and outright lie.

[Spektator]

How can one start out as a skeptic prior to age 3? Basically, what this says, if I'm reading right, is that from age 1-3 she was a skeptic, but then at age 3 discovered her mystical powers and has been growing them ever since. Does that make sense to anyone; that an infant child could be classified as a skeptic? On the same website the trivia facts claim she has a master's degree in English literature; a claim by Sylvia that appears to be a complete and outright lie.

"Phew! Little Sylvia, is that your diaper?"

"I doubt it."

[vexed]

How can one start out as a skeptic prior to age 3? Basically, what this says, if I'm reading right, is that from age 1-3 she was a skeptic, but then at age 3 discovered her mystical powers and has been growing them ever since. Does that make sense to anyone; that an infant child could be classified as a skeptic? On the same website the trivia facts claim she has a master's degree in English literature; a claim by Sylvia that appears to be a complete and outright lie.

Agreed, maybe they could have given examples of her 'skepticism'. What are 3 year olds skeptical of?

[Niobe]

What are 3 year olds skeptical of?The nutritional value of bread crusts?

[Macoy]

Would they let her into mensa?

[-Fran-]

That must be some kind of mistake in that text? But, on the other hand, who knows? It seems many woo people like to think they were very precocious as children. An acquaintence of mine, who's one of the most wooish people I have ever had the misfortune to meet, once told me this:

"You know all these big questions in life, the really important existential stuff that people don’t start to think about and understand fully until they are about 30 or 40 years old? ALL of those things I had it ALL figured out already when I was three or four years old. I knew the important stuff, the truths, already then.”

I didn't even answer that, I remember. But in one way I believed her. It does seem like she really did think she came upon something so important at that age that she thought she didn't need to think anymore at all after that. And believe me, she has stayed true to that decision! :rolleyes:

[Brattus]

Mommy: Little Sylvia if you eat all your peas the sun will shine all day long just for you.

Little Sylvia: waaaaaaaawaaaaaaaaaaaa

Mommy: Lets just put this tooth under your pillow and the tooth fairy will leave you a quarter while you sleep.

Little Sylvia: WAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAA

Mommy: Oh little Sylvia your such a little skeptic. Someday you'll go up to be just like Robert Lancaster.

Little Sylvia: WAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAA

[RSLancastr]

Mommy: Oh little Sylvia your such a little skeptic. Someday you'll go up to be just like Robert Lancaster.:eye-poppi

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

That must be some kind of mistake in that text? But, on the other hand, who knows? It seems many woo people like to think they were very precocious as children. An acquaintence of mine, who's one of the most wooish people I have ever had the misfortune to meet, once told me this:

"You know all these big questions in life, the really important existential stuff that people don’t start to think about and understand fully until they are about 30 or 40 years old? ALL of those things I had it ALL figured out already when I was three or four years old. I knew the important stuff, the truths, already then.”

Is your acquaintance my pal Caroline from Sweden? :eek: She thinks she was the wisdom of the ages at 3, too!

Constantly rambles to me about how much more psychic childen are than us, too.

[-Fran-]

Is your acquaintance my pal Caroline from Sweden? :eek: She thinks she was the wisdom of the ages at 3, too!

Constantly rambles to me about how much more psychic childen are than us, too.

Nope :) She's a lady in her late 50s by the name of Yvonne. But it seems to be a shared trait among many woos, yeah. A part of their desire to be speshul on the whole, I think :rolleyes:

And I am sick and tired of that talk of the "natural psychicness of kids" and so on and so forth, that you always hear from woos. Why burden kids with all this ****? Let them be kids for goodness sake :mad:

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Yeah, I know. I don't get people who revere children like that. I look at children and the only thing I see is that they're just ordinary, snot-nosed, bratty kids- as they should be.

[-Fran-]

Yeah, I know. I don't get people who revere children like that. I look at children and the only thing I see is that they're just ordinary, snot-nosed, bratty kids- as they should be.

Exactly! And some people also seem to think that if you don't regard kids as almost holy, pure-minded, clear sighted, ghost seeing, little angels... You HATE kids :boggled: Go figure!

I don't have any kids, will not have any, and are not at all interested in becoming a mother, never have been. But I have followed the kids of my two best friends since birth, and my youngest brother got (well, his gf did :) ) a daughter one year ago, the first grandkid for my mom. I love these kids to pieces :) They do not have to be special in any way for me to feel this way. It's quite enough that they are what they are. And sometimes that's not very nice, but then I go home :) That's the advantage with not having your own.

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Exactly. That you think of children as anything less than angels doesn't mean you hate them.
:)

Children can be very sweet and charming but no more or less psychic than anyone else. That's plenty enough, without this woowoo around them.

The woowoos who exploit children- like those Indigo kids' parents, the reincarnation researchers who get children to say they remember their past lives and witchhunters who got children to accuse witches- are at best parents with an even rosier view of their kids than most or at worst child abusers.

Either way, it's the children that are hurt the most.

[JoeTheJuggler]

What are 3 year olds skeptical of?
The nutritional value of bread crusts?

Lecithin!
L-E-C-I-T-H-I-N

[-Fran-]

Exactly. That you think of children as anything less than angels doesn't mean you hate them.
:)

Children can be very sweet and charming but no more or less psychic than anyone else. That's plenty enough, without this woowoo around them.

The woowoos who exploit children- like those Indigo kids' parents, the reincarnation researchers who get children to say they remember their past lives and witchhunters who got children to accuse witches- are at best parents with an even rosier view of their kids than most or at worst child abusers.

Either way, it's the children that are hurt the most.

I agree, it borders on abuse in many cases, and with these full blown woo woo notions of kids, I do think it crosses that limit!