3 ms·

Fair enough, but my wife made the appointment a month or two in advance and the venture financing was 4 months away and I don't think that I'd mentioned the pos

Fair enough, but my wife made the appointment a month or two in advance and the venture financing was 4 months away and I don't think that I'd mentioned the possibility to her (we're a cash-flow shop). But other than missing the point entirely, you were spot on (by which I mean: totally wrong). [<--That Mitchell And Webb Look anyone?]. Also, as my original comment noted, I think psychics are BS. My point was that value may be be extracted from them.

BerislavLopac 15y ago
Believe it or not, but you told her about the funding yourself.
- vidarh 15y ago
  You miss the point. He's not saying this person found out something about him that he didn't tell her. He's saying that this person was able to pull things out of him in conversation that other people normally wouldn't, and that he doesn't quite know how. He's also saying that she engaged him in a conversation about it in a way that was useful to him. I don't see him claiming any kind of mystic powers or anything - just that this person was very good at pulling information out of him through conversation and summarizing it in a beneficial way.
gbhn 15y ago
I also don't believe in psychics, but I do think that someone skilled in this kind of intuitive stuff can really help you think about your situation from the outside. I mean, that's what psychotherapists do, and many are very good at it. I think it would be fair to be critical of the style of astrologers as compared to a good therapist, but like you, I think that sometimes the kind of serendipitous input from such a source can be very interesting.
colanderman 15y ago
I got the point of your post. I just thought I'd take a tangent to make a possible suggestion as to how the "psychic" extracted the information from you (since you did not indicate that you deduced how it was done). No need for snark.

BerislavLopac 15y ago

Believe it or not, but you told her about the funding yourself.

vidarh 15y ago
You miss the point. He's not saying this person found out something about him that he didn't tell her. He's saying that this person was able to pull things out of him in conversation that other people normally wouldn't, and that he doesn't quite know how. He's also saying that she engaged him in a conversation about it in a way that was useful to him. I don't see him claiming any kind of mystic powers or anything - just that this person was very good at pulling information out of him through conversation and summarizing it in a beneficial way.

gbhn 15y ago

I also don't believe in psychics, but I do think that someone skilled in this kind of intuitive stuff can really help you think about your situation from the outside. I mean, that's what psychotherapists do, and many are very good at it. I think it would be fair to be critical of the style of astrologers as compared to a good therapist, but like you, I think that sometimes the kind of serendipitous input from such a source can be very interesting.

colanderman 15y ago

I got the point of your post. I just thought I'd take a tangent to make a possible suggestion as to how the "psychic" extracted the information from you (since you did not indicate that you deduced how it was done). No need for snark.