Comments for As Predicted: A Psychic Failure at http://www.randi.org/site , comment 1 to 30 out of 20 comments http://www.randi.org/site Mon, 20 May 2013 08:37:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-20273 Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Youtube (web), Creative Zen, iRiver PMP, Archos, MP4, various mobile phones and many other digital video and audio players. - lvmj1314 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:27:25 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-12292 Easy grip with ergonomic design and felt at the tip allows for an easier hold and control. The CHI Turbo Digital Ceramic Hairstyling Iron also provides versatile heat settings to achieve the perfect temperature specific to your hair type and style. [url=http://www.newshopstyle.co.uk]GHD Hair Straighteners[/url] [url=http://www.newshopstyle.co.uk]CHI Hair Straighteners[/url] - newshopstyle Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:57:57 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-11218 [quote]There are things which can be predicted based on recurring patterns or probability.[/quote] I wonder what the psychics know about this. - Quakeulf Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:39:46 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-11058 I guess nobody predicted the WTC events, however the idea of an aerial assault, goes back to the last Tsars, whereby they banned the Proletariat from flying, because there was a danger of them flying the planes into the palaces etc. - Tebtenri Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:43:56 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10975 This idiot's been saying that he predicted 9/11 http://www.scottrussellhill.com.au/about.html - jr335 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:30:55 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10875 [i][quote]Predicting a psychic failure? Are you clairvoyant? Quick! Call the skeptics! Oh, wai-[/quote][/i] You don't have to be a psychic to predict something accurately. There are things which can be predicted based on recurring patterns or probability. I predict that tomorrow the sun will rise - or rather appear to rise due to the rotation of the earth. I also predict that I will not have lunch until after 2 o'clock today. - Steve Packard Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:27:37 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10667 [i]They will tell you that they don't always have complete control over their powers or what they see. Sometimes it works better than others and sometimes it does not come in very clearly.[/i] A bit like guessing really. - AndyD Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:10:38 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10619 Let us not forget that 9/11/2001 was not only an abject failure for the psychic community, which has no exclusive insider information as to the actions of terrorists, but it was also a failure for the government's intelligence organizations. If this event could not have been even remotely predicted by those who had extensive access to intelligence information then it is highly unlikely that someone who is staring into a crystal ball, reading tea leaves or dealing cards could predict. Psychics are bogus and this proves it beyond a reasonable doubt. - DKrap Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:45:44 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10618 I'm late to to the party, but John Edward was Larry King's guest on September 10, 2001. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/10/lkl.00.html - expedient Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:16:34 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10615 Predicting a psychic failure? Are you clairvoyant? Quick! Call the skeptics! Oh, wai- ;D - Quakeulf Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:26:30 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10604 "Arthur C. Clarke posited some of his fiction in 2001 because he knew, with nit-picking thoroughness, that that was the first year in a new millenium in the common era (unlike 2000). As a rationalist and opposer of all things spiritual, psychic, and supernatural, he did not attribute any other significance to that date (the fact that he insisted in his legal documents that any and all memorial services for him should avoid all references to the supernatural, no mention of any gods, spirits, or other influences indicates his standing on the matter). To attempt to represent that he believed that 2001 had any kind of significance for any other reason would be to do violence to his memory and intellect. " Maximally agree, and I must apologize for the misunderstanding (may be because of my very poor english), or confusing the main aspects of the great article here..., which is more than impressive..., important, I would say historical... I`am more happy for that brilliant article than some readers could imagine... :) Things change... :) Thank You... - alexthemagician Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:26:05 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10596 Arthur C. Clarke posited some of his fiction in 2001 because he knew, with nit-picking thoroughness, that that was the first year in a new millenium in the common era (unlike 2000). As a rationalist and opposer of all things spiritual, psychic, and supernatural, he did not attribute any other significance to that date (the fact that he insisted in his legal documents that any and all memorial services for him should avoid all references to the supernatural, no mention of any gods, spirits, or other influences indicates his standing on the matter). To attempt to represent that he believed that 2001 had any kind of significance for any other reason would be to do violence to his memory and intellect. If our common era followed the enumeration of AUC (Foundation of the City [Rome], AM (Jewish Year of the World from Creation), AH (Year from the Hegira of Mohammed), Year of the Republic (France), Year of Independence (USA), The Olympiad, Mayan, Aztec, Chinese, he would have made appropriate adjustments, and regarded all these as what they are: arbitrary denotations of a timekeeping system of use to the hominids on the 3rd rock from the sun. - StarTrekLivz Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:34:05 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10593 Sometime after the Peoples' Princess died I did an extensive on line search for any prediction of her death. Given her interest in things wooish, you would have thought one of her psychic friends would have given her some warning! The best I found was the someone had "predicted" that Charles would have what amounted to a "Bad Hair" day. Gord - Gord_in_Toronto Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:50:01 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10592 I always thought of that when that dufus Rice asked, "Who could have ever thought they'd fly airplanes into buildings? - Alan3354 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:36:48 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10567 you rammble on that nobody predicted 9/11 so I post a link to google groups with a 1998 timestamp that gave the city and date. so you'd rather censor that and all continue in ignorant bliss patting each other on the back what brilliant skeptics you are. what a tosspot moderator, JREF is a joke - Herc Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:32:22 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10565 Regarding people who made logical guesses... Tom Clancy wrote a book in the Jack Ryan series that ended with a disgruntled Japanese pilot crashing an airliner into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress. The book was titled "Debt of Honor" and was published in 1994. So the idea was around for quite some time before 9/11. Squid - Squid Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:19:52 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10562 Steve, I didn't mean to imply that the predictions made by intelligence agencies were psychic, far from it. They were predictions based on "actionable" intelligence. Totally rational predictions based on known human behavior and activities. No woo at all. ;) It still bewilders me why some people would believe psychics and mediums when there isn't a drop of evidence to support their claims. Even more bizarre is that some even deny the factual accounts of that terrible day in September, i.e. the "9/11 Truthers" :'( - Willy K Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:14:10 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10560 @Willy K: I do understand that predictions had been made before this about the use of civil aircraft as a WMD in a suicide attack. I even recall that being speculated about long before 9/11. There was someone in the 1970's (sorry the name escapes me) who tried to hijack an aircraft with the intention of crashing it into the Nixon Whitehouse. Also in 1994, a disgruntled employee of FedEx attempted to hijack an aircraft with the intention of crashing it into the main distribution hub. Having intellegence that terrorists had been considering using an aircraft in that capacity hardly counts as being "psychic" - Steve Packard Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:08:53 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10559 Well Stephen, there WAS a prediction about impending attacks using planes as the weapon. The August 6th "Daily Intelligence Briefing" given to then President Bush. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames/63/the_9_11_warning_game_blame_for_bush_and_many_others The really amazing thing is that it was ignored. >:( I guess that a rational prediction can't be understood by the irrational. P.S. This is not a partisan political attack on the GWB administration. The Clinton administration made its share of bone-headed errors too. - Willy K Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:50:04 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/705-as-predicted-a-psychic-failure.html#comment-10556 "Really sensational article brilliantly proving the fact that from that time point in the year 2001 a totally new world started..." connected to the fact of the article... :) Most of the well known, famous prophets and swindlers, psychics are fails (exposed in the same time) from now on because of that "historical" article!, but we must really accept the reality: we still can`t say finally as a scientific fact that real psychics are not exists, or supernatural powers are absolutely not exists..., we still need to prove it... (both directions)... I think and suggesting also in the same time Randi`s further explanations needed connected to the article`s facts of that terrible tragedy... in the fields of belief, and the to many psychics around the world... I also ask the readers to not to misunderstand my A. C Clarke example, I meant it in the really true way as I wrote earlier, as we know that He was also a very good Friend of Randi, and many other great thinkers worldwide... I still believe, that man knew and saw "Something" about the future as a great author, futurist, scientist, investigator, etc... :) I also feel that while we remembering still shocked at more than sad day, it was mistake to put that article here... - alexthemagician Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:49:52 +0100