The following message was channeled from the mind of Sweetheart:
Any psychic could have
advised the US not to meddle in the affairs of other nations, who's{sic}
people will, as a covenant with their god, extract vengence{sic}. When
masses of a population are filled with hatred and curses, bad things
seem to happen... any blooody{sic} psychic could have told you that.
To which, as I focus my thoughts and energies, I concentrate on sending the following reply:
Uhm, I suppose any psychic could have told us that.
Even
Sylvia Browne could have known that, and she's not exactly the straightest spoon in
Uri Geller's drawer.
And any psychic could have also told us, "Do not use a hairdryer in the shower, or bad things will happen."
They could have also told us, "Don't try to advertise a gay-friendly church on television, or the fundies will get mad."
Pretty much
everyone-- psychic or not (and they're
all not) could have told us "not to meddle in the affairs of other nations... bad things {will} happen..."
All the people in the whole wide world who did
not know that bad things would happen can be counted on one hand: Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Bush.
Even Colin Powell knew it was a bad idea, and he didn't need to rely upon chicken entrails, tea leaves or a
Rumpology reading by Sylvester Stallone's mom, Jacqueline, to tell him that.
If you want to impress me, show me any psychic who predicted the tsunami in advance, said that CNN could cancel crossfire, Senator Boxer would contest Ohio, or that Andrea Yates' conviction would be over-turned.
I can hardly imagine being less impressed by what I have seen so far.
See my previous post, #8
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1129033#1129514---------------
You cannot build an informed democracy out of people who will believe in little green men from Venus. Credulity — willingness to accept unsupported statements without demanding proof — is the greatest ally
of the dictator and the demagogue.-- Arthur C. Clarke, Voices from the Sky: A Preview of the Coming Space Age (1974) "The Lunatic Fringe"
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. -- G.K. Chesterton
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
-- William A. Orton, Everyman Amid the Stereotype
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.--
Isaac Asimov