|
OrgoneConclusion
Blue Fish Group



Registered: 04/01/07
Posts: 45,414
Loc: Under the C
|
"Calling a psychic a fraud is unfair and insulting!"
#19085291 - 11/04/13 12:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
So says the psychic fraud. 
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/04/psychics_say_soothsaying_laws_unfair_to_believers_2_ap/
NEW YORK (AP) — They’re in a mystical business with few guarantees, so perhaps anyone could foresee tension between psychics and the law.
In two prominent examples, self-declared clairvoyants were recently convicted of big-money scams in New York and Florida, where one trial featured a romance-writing titan as a victim. But beyond those cases is a history of legal wrestling over fortunetelling, free speech and fraud.
While the recent trials involved general fraud charges, numerous cities and states have laws banning or restricting soothsaying itself.
Authorities say they aim to distinguish between catering to people’s interest in the supernatural and conning them. Still, some psychics feel anti-fortunetelling laws are unfair to them and to people who believe seers have something to offer.
New York psychic Jesse Bravo decries seers who make impossible promises or press clients to consult, and pay, them frequently. “There are a lot of predators out there,” he says.
But Bravo, an investment banker who moonlights as a medium, rues the disclaimer he’s compelled to give clients: Readings are for “entertainment only.” Unless solely for amusement, telling fortunes or using “occult powers” to give advice is a misdemeanor under New York state law.
“It’s a little insulting,” he says. “I believe in what I do, and the people who are coming to me believe in what I do. … But that’s OK — the state doesn’t have to believe in what I do.”
Someone start a fire!
--------------------
|
Repertoire89
Cat



Registered: 11/15/12
Posts: 21,773
|
Re: "Calling a psychic a fraud is unfair and insulting!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion] 1
#19086078 - 11/04/13 04:09 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
This is bullshit, make new age hippy quack illegal - what about christianity? Leaving them out is just outrageous
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: "Calling a psychic a fraud is unfair and insulting!" [Re: Repertoire89]
#19086217 - 11/04/13 04:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
LunarEclipse
Enlil's Official Story


Registered: 10/31/04
Posts: 21,407
Loc: Building 7
|
Re: "Calling a psychic a fraud is unfair and insulting!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#19088073 - 11/04/13 11:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Dude, you got scammed. The dude rolled by in his Rolls, and you just kept a rollin' You lost your soul just a little bit that day. I know. It's how that sell out shit goes.
Really though there comes a time when you can just say no to religion. Not 30,000 times, A time.
A time.
-------------------- Anxiety is what you make it.
|
Cyclohexylamine
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out



Registered: 09/08/10
Posts: 14,327
|
Re: "Calling a psychic a fraud is unfair and insulting!" [Re: Repertoire89]
#19088939 - 11/05/13 07:55 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Repertoire89 said: This is bullshit, make new age hippy quack illegal - what about christianity? Leaving them out is just outrageous
I agree. It seems a little unfair to go after these people but leave others that are conning people out of their money untouched (eg: christianity, etc.)
Regarding the impossible promises part, what about religion that promises eternal life? Isn't that an impossible promise? How is it any different than someone promising some other unmeasurable benefit? Neither are able to be proved.
--------------------
You are not special
|
|