Wouldn’t it be nice if schools taught useful skills ranging from managing your money to knowing a con artist when you see one? Never happen, of course. Too much money and power to be had from a population kept ignorant and stupid.
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“Wouldn’t it be nice if schools taught useful skills”???
Why the shot against the schools? What about the parents? I am a big fan of public schools, but that does NOT mean that parents can abandon all responsibility for teaching their kids common sense things.
This guy is a superstitious idiot*, and the “psychic” a con-woman. She should be charged with fraud, and he should learn from this.
*Ironically, had he given all that money to the Church of Scientology, or Latter Day Saints, or Catholics, nobody would have raised a stink about him being conned out of his money.
Everyone knows that psychics are fake. The guy got exactly what he deserved. I do not feel sorry for him. He probably also believed the load of bull from Barack Obama as well. He looks the type: squinty eyes and stupid loop earrings.
He also does not seem the least bit embarrassed about getting on TV in front of six microphones and declaring to the world what a fool he is.
What job can an idiot do to get $150,000 to lose? I bet he is a school administrator charged with enforcing zero tolerance policies. He has the right business acumen (none) for that job.
Rarely does a fool part with his money so publicly.
Hard to imagine, in this day and age, that someone could be surprised that a psychic isn’t on the up-and-up. Except for Scientologists, of course. :/
Do you have money in the Stock Market? Then are you also innocent?
Number one for the win.
I’m not a lawyer, but I think that as long as she only promised spiritual benefits (as opposed to something tangible), they cannot charge her with fraud. It seems like the only tangible item in the story was the tabernacle which I get the impression, his money actually bought one. If you could charge her with fraud for not providing the spiritual benefits, then every church out there would be vulnerable to lawsuits every time a prayer didn’t come true.
As a side note, I wonder how many people out there shake their heads at this guy’s gullibility in believing in psychics, but then go to their church/synagogue/mosque without seeing the irony.
#5–Chris==thats close, but what I see on tv ads is “This service is for entertainment purposes only.” I wonder how strongly she emphasized that before extracting the Dudes cash.
In my mind, the only relevant question is “Were you entertained?”
#2–Benji–beyond hypocrisy to mock someone believing rather than being rational. Someday you may experience a bright light==the flash of the obvious. Or not, but you are entertaining.
*Ironically, had he given all that money to the Church of Scientology, or Latter Day Saints, or Catholics, nobody would have raised a stink about him being conned out of his money.
You missed contributing money to the Republicans.
Well, obviously the psychic is no good. I mean, not so much as one accusation of child molestation!
It also proves that you don’t have to be particularly bright to have a spare $150,000 laying around.
spsffan, he didn’t have that money laying around. He used credit cards and loans to pay her the money. It’s all there…in the video.
9 Yes, indeed. Sorry I posted before watching.
But, I’ll still stand on the fact that lots of not too bright people manage to make a lot of money. And I don’t mean just in the entertainment/sports fields. There is some skill/knack/luck associated with making money.
#6 bobbo said, “In my mind, the only relevant question is “Were you entertained?””
I guess we all were since we sat here laughing at this fool.
bobbo added, “#2–Benji–beyond hypocrisy to mock someone believing rather than being rational. Someday you may experience a bright light==the flash of the obvious. Or not, but you are entertaining.”
No it is not hypocrisy. I don’t mock people with my own beliefs; I just mock people with stupid beliefs like belief in Barack Obama, fortune tellers, Islam, dinosaur deniers, 9/11 Truthers, holocaust deniers, and Scientology. (Not an exhaustive list.)
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#12, typical liberal tactic: call someone gay if you disagree with them, yet be for gay marriage. Hypocrite. Idiot.
ummm,
$150,000???
YOU BORROWED money to GIVE her MORE MONEY??
An idiot is an idiot NO MATTER how RICH YOU ARE..
“Too much money and power to be had from a population kept ignorant and stupid.”
Top of the list of benefactors of keeping the young ignorant. The US military. Who depends of recruiting from schools, in a manner that would be labeled as predatory and exploitative, for any other entity. I like how the US Senate’s very first question to the new Supreme Court candidate, concerned her stance against recruiting at Harvard. Really? That bothers them most?!
Next of course, is any sort of financial or credit entity. Like the major credit cards, and big banks. And somewhere down the list, is nearly all political and commercial advertising. Can’t have an educated public that can see thru most of the deceptions. They might choose not to smoke, drink, gamble, or vote for some lying bastard. So much of our modern democracy seems to depend on a carefully cultivated ignorant public. The schools spend far too much concern worrying that the kids learn about Darwin and war. And not enough about dollars and sense.