You're taking this "Bullshit Artist" title next to your name rather far. You're being taken advantage of by hustlers. From conspiracy theorists, pseudo-scientists, New Age woo people, anti-vaccines and now straight up psychics.
Why charge you some insignificant fee when they could get a million from the James Randi foundation for simply demonstrating their abilities?
Never mention that name in my presence ever again.
When I was a kid I had tummy pains all the time. Once I spend three weeks in the hospital for observation. They found nothing. In kindergarten I crept on the lap of my teacher in pain. And then was taken home by my mother.
At some point my mom took me to a nearby city to a paranormal healer. My dad was there, I sat in his lap, he was on a chair. This man called dr. Veeman stood behind my father, held his hands above us and said it was my appendix. He never touched us.
When my mom went to the child physician Dr. Pol, he and the nurses that were present laughed at her. This was back in the 70's mind you, when these things were not taken seriously.
But the man would have a look anyway, to humour my mom.
The next day she came visit me and I said 'Look, I have red crosses on me'. These were marks for surgery. My appendix was so enflamed I needed immediate surgery.
So my mom said that Dr. Veeman was right all along. And he didn't laugh anymore.
Dr. Veeman was no quack. Paranormal abilities exist. My family was the first in my country to start a foundation to test paranormal healers and to weed out quacks. This was back in the 1960's and it was revolutionary.
But if you are a reductionist, materialist scientific type, you are unable to take it seriously. That is alright. One day you will learn, then again, you might not, depending on how your self-worth is connected to materialism and scientism.
Many members of my family on my mothers side had paranormal abilities. My grandfather was a medium. My grandmother could see aura's. My mother could heal, as well as her brother and an uncle, who had a verya ctive practice in Amsterdam.
That mean used to come to my city, his hands swollen from doing his work. He wouild have people lined up into the street, because he asked very little for it.
Because he called himself a 'doctor' he was once arrested and appeared in court. All his equipment confiscated. But the judge was one of his patients. So the judge lined up 5 or so people with different ailments and he was asked to tell what they had. And he scored 5 out of 5. And yet, the judge was bound by law to fine him anyway.
Never talk to me about paranormal abilities and whether or not they exist or are real. They are real when you can accept that consciousness, self-awareness and the nature of reality allow for these things to be. But only then. When you are of another mindset, that demands proof, as if proof somehow ontologically dictates the nature of reality, then you cannot discern it. It will just not register.
I find such people ludicrous and sad. My own girlfriend had an inoperable tumor in her breast and the doctors wanted to cut both her breasts of, the panicky bastards.
We said no, we used a combination of special supplements and a diet given to us by an authority in my country, a biologist-homeopath in combination with chemo therapy to fight this cancer. And we won. The docs were amazed and wanted the info on the supplements and diet. The chemo therapy we did with ease. The supplements of which medical scientists claim has little value gave such a boost in energy and vitality that my gf could just go there on bike, while many other people are so sick and tired they crawl around on the floor with nausea.
Alternative medicine and paranormal abilities are part of the human existence. And James Randi is nothing but a fraud, who has a partner who is guilty of identity theft. A hypocrite and single minded bastard and I for one cannot believe anyone would to be associated with his organization.
