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> pretending to be a psychic This is redundant.
by gre 3y ago
> pretending to be a psychic
This is redundant.
- pbsladek 3y agoWell said
- bryanrasmussen 3y agowell "being a psychic" has a particular meaning in English so I figure it has to be pretending or claiming to be a psychic.
- humanistbot 3y agoThe moment I read the headline, I was expecting to find a bunch of low-effort comments that don't engage with the article, which actually speaks directly to this issue. Congrats. Yes, all psychics can be seen as committing a kind of fraud, but most stay in their unfalsifiable lane. This psychic used the mail to advertise health services. They didn't just claim to predict the future or sending good energy into the universe, which you can still legally charge for. They claimed to be able to cure diseases in exchange for a fee, which is fraud, and they did it over the mail. But then they rebutted that they were basically selling the placebo effect, which is kind of real... it makes for a much more interesting case than your comment makes it seem.
- jrflowers 3y ago>The moment I read the headline, I was expecting to find a bunch of low-effort comments that don't engage with the article When did you first realize that you have the Gift of premonition?
- pessimizer 3y agoPlenty of people think that they are psychic. We all think, at least on some dumb lizard-brained level, that we can continue to steer the bowling ball after it's been released.
- Aurornis 3y agoThe fraudsters were pretending to be someone else, who claimed to be a psychic. They tricked people into paying for communications that were supposedly from a specific, real person. The letters they received did not actually contain communications from that person.