The Handy-Dandy All-In-One Do-It-Yourself Medium Reading
- The Handy-Dandy Medium Reading
Thanks to a brilliant idea from Christopher Brown from “Meet the Skeptics!” and Travis Roy of Granite State Skeptics, here’s the latest project we have been working on. I invite everyone to use this. I shot “The Handy-Dandy All-In-One Do-It-Yourself Medium Reading” (Lesson One) with the help of Susan Gerbic and Stirling Gerbic- Forsyth which pretty much covers every bullshit dodge and cold-reading phrase we could think of in six minutes. Of course there are many more, but for the sake of brevity, we put down as many as we thought generally employed by the grief vampires out there bilking the public. Once converted into a QR code (see it at top) it can be printed on small inconspicuous cards or larger flyers and posters. When scanned it will lead the curious to the “Handy” video here.
Whoever takes the time to do this as they wait in line, before getting to their seat or while waiting for the show to start at a performance of a John Edward type (or any other appropriate venue where cold reading bullshit is being pitched) they will now have Lesson One to consider.
Spread this around.
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Can you find the link between Guerrilla Skepticism and this video?
Happy Hunting!
The reading was amazing! You knew things about me “that there was no way for you to know”!!!
Where do I send all of my money?
I’ll shortly send you a link to my paypal. I handle all the money.
Incredible Mark! I felt a chill throughout the reading, a ‘cold-reading’ as it were. I’m now convinced that dead people hang around for eternity waiting to channel meaningless and mundane facts about my life so that psychics can make lots of money. Why didn’t I see this before??
Dude, this is uncanny. I went on vacation once.
How could you POSSIBLY have known that?
Okay, I’ll take a stab at the “challenge” question, since no one else has, and I NEED TO KNOW!! Is it something along these lines: Mole behavior is pretty well understood. If you know one Mole, you pretty much know them all. The same thing can be said about humans, though maybe not quite to the same extent. This knowledge of general, common human behavior can be used to make it seem as if you know everything about an individual, even though you really just know general facts about all humans. Great for cold readings, etc.
Is that even close, or am I so far off the mark that I have greatly embarrassed myself here?
Thanks for the intellectual challenge!
He asked how the video is linked to Guerrilla Skepticism, not to cold reading, so he’s talking about subversion, maybe planting skeptic “moles” among believers.
Good tries from everyone. I always try to go fra a spot of intellectualism whenever I can…
I would like more feedback, but Steve Muscarella gets the gold star so far. He sent me his thoughts which pretty much tell the underlying story I’m trying to spread: (without being a dick of course)
1) Skeptics (like moles) need to get under the surface to stir up the soil now and then.
2) Too much talk and not enough action makes for a boring video.
3) Guerilla skeptics should go underground and multiply.
Too much talk in the case of skeptics makes for a boring reality, but I know what Steve means. That’s why he moved to Belize…
Hope I can meet and talk Guerrilla with all of you at TAM9. I will be underground there too, but say hi if you see me in the runways and mole holes of the Southpoint Hotel.
If I move back from the QR code on-screen and squint, I can see a duck swimming away from me.
You know I can sorta see that too. I think its the FSM in the lower left corner.