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05-16-2009, 02:28 PM | #1 |
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so my wife and I have been watching the medium John Edwards on his show "Crossing Over" for a number of years, and I have to admit I am a fan.
I do not put 100% faith into it all being real, I am always a little skeptical until they can find a way to prove it to me, which is rare. Anyway, He was in Chicago last night and my wife got tickets for it back in December so we went.....and this dude blew my mind! It was not televised, there were no cameras or recording devices to spy on his audience before the show. His staff consisted of him and 2 ladies that walked around the room with microphones for people. That was his entire crew. Skeptics say he is a master at Cold Reading, which is just educated guesses based on probabilities, and that he is fake. Last night folks was crazy. I can understand why they would say he was cold reading to find a specific person in the room with a familiar problem, but damn once he found them, the details that he came up with were remarkable. Names, Dates, Places, Numbers. I am open to the possibility of him just being really good at guessing and not communicating with dead people, but as of today I am sitting at about 95% belief that he's the real deal, amazing! The only downside to his show, tickets were $175 each for 2 hours, and we didn't get read. But I am glad that I went. What are your thoughts on all this?
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05-16-2009, 02:33 PM | #2 |
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There's a sucker born every minute. Sorry, man. You asked.
I've seen some people do things that shouldn't be able to be done. Even if Mr. Edwards can do these things, he's a jerk for capitalizing on it so much. People are much more receptive to an idea if they've paid a lot of money for it. |
05-16-2009, 02:50 PM | #3 |
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How do you know that the people he read in the audience were not "planted" by him?
A "true" Medium would probably not try and capitalize on their gifts.
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05-16-2009, 02:57 PM | #4 |
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There's a sucker born every minute. Sorry, man. You asked.
I've seen some people do things that shouldn't be able to be done. Even if Mr. Edwards can do these things, he's a jerk for capitalizing on it so much. People are much more receptive to an idea if they've paid a lot of money for it. I am very open to the possibilities of spirits, spirit communication, aliens, and many other things, unless there is concrete proof against the subject matter, I have to at minimum believe in the possibility of it...if that makes me a sucker....then I'm a sucker LOL
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05-16-2009, 02:58 PM | #5 |
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Hey, I'm not trying to insult you personally. That guy has half the country in his pocket. Like I said, I've seen people do some amazing things, and I believe that the things he says he can do can be done. But Mr. Edwards is just out to get rich, as far as I can see. You paid him $350 for two tickets and got nothing out of the deal that you couldn't get by watching his TV show for free.
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Also, there were only 500 people there and about 50 people were read or with someone who was read. Plants would be difficult to do in this number as a traveling show and using the same plants in the same city would not work, so being a medium plant would be a very short term job...about 2 hours. I could be wrong, I just don't see that happening.
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Hey, I'm not trying to insult you personally. That guy has half the country in his pocket. Like I said, I've seen people do some amazing things, and I believe that the things he says he can do can be done. But Mr. Edwards is just out to get rich, as far as I can see. You paid him $350 for two tickets and got nothing out of the deal that you couldn't get by watching his TV show for free.
I did get something out of it differently though, there was no "TV Magic" happening. There were no "breaks in production" or set up's or tie ins. It was not a 6 hour show trimmed down to 2 hours. (They say he does a 6 hour show and is only accurate 33% of the time so they trim the "wrong stuff). All the things that the skeptics charge him with in my opinion are false if he can do a 2 hour live show and be spot on 95% of the time and VERY close the other 5%. That's better than chance in my book. If you ever get the chance to see for yourself, I suggest it : - )
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