Good day everyone. I want to share a true story.
I have a friend who paid a psychic to tell her future. The psychic bet her $5 that it would come true within five years. It cost $80 for the reading. My friend feels the bet is some kind of guarantee. She likes to hear good things will happen to her and she's willing to pay for it. She did feel guilty telling me she went to a psychic but insists it's all in good fun.
My mother read tea leaves freely to friends and family and they loved hearing what she told them. As I grew older I realized how reasonable and popular she was with others. She had great intuition and used common sense to help people with problems greater than themselves. We never went to church, but she did mention Christianity and never forced belief in her children. Which now makes me wonder why she didn't. Maybe she knew more than I give her credit for.
"Oh for heaven sakes!"
Thanks mom
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Are you saying that some psychics are using the belief a person has in their power to give them advice that is good for them? Is this a goal of the psychic?
I am trying to understand a situation my ex-boyfriend is in. He himself felt he had psychic powers years ago and saw something in a dream that continues to affect him to this day, a promise to to look after a particular woman, which he has done, but his devotion to this particular woman makes him miserable, yet he feels bound to continue with his devotion.
I am trying to learn how an otherwise reasonable person can have his life ruled by something he saw in a dream or vision. I think at this point, it's just a habit and he can't forsake her now. Perhaps he was just missing having someone to look after, since he has no family, and his mind directed him to a person he could look after. He says he no longer has his psychic power, so there he stays. I can't reason with him, and I don't need to since we are no longer together, but the puzzle still remains in my head.
Julie808
Level 8
Oct 21, 2018
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@Julie808
Sounds puzzling enough. The sense from mother was good advice. I didn't see her as psychic I saw her as very wise.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink and when they suffer comfort them.
Thanks for your reply. I think his suffering is his comfort. I think he maybe feels he deserves this "sentence" for not being a good son or brother or boyfriend to those no longer in his life, so his conscience gave him this project. -- Yep, tried to lead him to reason, but he seems happy in his suffering. That's one reason I'm glad I'm out - tried to help him - but he was just not open to it. Suggested professional help. I'm sure he won't try that.
Christianity wants fortune-tellers, witches, necromancers put to death! Disconnect, big-time!
AnneWimsey
Level 9
Oct 21, 2018
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Yes, I've read that in the bible. It's okay to have a talking donkey though.
in our profiles it asks us, among other things, if we believe in tarot cards. i didn't check them as something i believe in, because the cards are just cards. however, they're a tool that somehow enhances the use of intuition (dumbo's feather, maybe). i happen to have a lot of intuition. i have read people's cards. i don't try to tell them what's going to happen in the near or far future; i can tell them more intuitive things, about their feelings, for example. one uses what one can. your friend's psychic was trying to do what cannot be done, and it made your friend happy. happiness is good but it's still silly.
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genessa
Level 8
Oct 21, 2018
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My cards were read along time ago and they told me I would have a lot of powerful women in my life. So far so good. 
@flower_nut your reader was good! the cards were just a tool. pretty pictures!
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