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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Did any psychics predict the tsunami?
Or have any come out of the woodwork claiming to have done so?
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Mostly harmless
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nor Flanden
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A bit of googling hasn't found any psychics predicting this particular tsunami yet, but I'm sure some will before too long...
Mostly they seem to prefer to predict tsunamis in the eastern US. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Sorth Dakonsin
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I predict that most psychics making their predictions for 2005 will have the word "tsunami" somewhere in their lists.
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Neither did the astrologers.
Two threads on that subject: Astrology and earthquakes Earthquake in Iran |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: The Beautiful Finger Lakes
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Sollog is claiming a hit, surprise surprise!http://www.247news.net/2004/20041226-quake.shtml
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Penultimate Amazing
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Hunting rocks somewhere in Brazil
Posts: 7,189
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Sooner or later the Bible code guys will claim they found a matrix indicating it was written...
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Racism, sexism, ignorance, homophobia, intolerance, extremism, authoritarianism, environmental disasters, politically correct crap, violence at sport stadiums, slavery, poverty, wars, people who disagree with me: Together we can find the cure Oh, and together we can find a cure to religion too… |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: The Beautiful Finger Lakes
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Sollog is good for a laugh occasionally! He must be a psychic, or at least he's predictable.
At least with Mozilla I don't have to beat down all the porn pop ups associated with that wanker anymore.
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Illuminator
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,790
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Obviously you must have misunderstood 1 inch rist's prediction. When he said "captured", he meant killed. When he said "Bin Laden", he meant "Asians". And when he said "October" he meant "December".
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Muse
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 961
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I suppose the 'prediction' made by this palmist (if the story is true) might be said to all his customers and have a chance of coming true in a beach resort, even if just the "darn, I should have listened. That big wave got my hair wet" scenario were the case, rather than a tsunami.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: 44:57:19N, 73:16:18W
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A few minutes later: Hmm... I just went and read that article. One thing that struck me immediately was how many victims managed to communicate with the Daily Record, even though completely cut off from everyone else. Like the guy who was surrounded by crocodiles, and the Daily Record was apparently the only people he could contact. And the family who "remain trapped in an isolated village." An isolated village with a cell phone tower? Are cell phone towers that pervasive in that part of the world? Are cell phone towers that sturdy? Do that many people carry cell phones while sunbathing? Do that many people have the Daily Record's phone number in their cell phone memories? Why is the Daily Record so much easier to contact than virtually anyone else? Why are these people contacting the Daily Record and not their families back home? |
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King of the Pod People
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA
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ARRGGGHHH!!!!!
This is on Sylvia "I don't need the million" Browne's home page:
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But man, I wish I was wrong; just so fraudulent charlatans like her, who use tragedies like this to bolster their own careers in selling snake oil, roast in its deepest pits. Randi, if you're reading this, keep going after her. Do your damndest to let people know how she exploits people's suffering.
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Yorkshire,Uk
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Geta load of this one:
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But just in case it doesnt happen...
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Blanchester, OH
Posts: 4,930
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of course
a whole bunch of them did, you ninny - right after it happened.
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