Psychics Get Government Grant To Talk With the Dead

Paul and Deborah Rees have been given government funding to teach people how to "communicate with the dead." The couple, from Bridgend, south Wales, got £4,500 under the Government's Want2Work job creation program. The mediums insist the "mere £4,500" of public money will be put to good use at their center, the Accolade Academy of Psychic and Mediumistic Studies. Mr Rees said, "People who have lost mums and dads or a child deserve all the respect in the world in their grieving, and they deserve a medium who can give them respect. Our job is to provide substantial evidence to bring ease to people's grieving — and that's what I would say to people who query the award." Wait, it's coming to me....I see a queue of Alchemists waiting at the Want2Work grant office.

Obvious...

[VeNoM0619]

I never understood how this stuff could ever be successful. Find an orphan who never knew their parents, and have them contact their parents (or hell, have an only child contact their "dead brother") Then see what the psychic says, if they succeed 10 out of 10, then it's proof, otherwise they should be locked in a prison for being scam artists...

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[hort_wort]

Yeah, I agree, it reads like they got the money by saying "this makes people feel better", not by saying "we're genuine psychics".

I must admit, if the girl doing the reading looked like the girl in the picture, I'd go for it. I'd ask her a few questions about my future love life while winking at her.

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[v1]

Oh I'm sure they'd require you to have some tangible somethingorother as a focus, a picture or a drivers license etc. Tho you can't call them ALL scammers... half the psychics are scammers, the other half are diluted and stupid.

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[Anonymous Coward]

diluted and stupid.

Deluded is the word you were looking for btw.

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[orkysoft]

Unless they're homeopaths.

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[MBGMorden]

Eh - for the most part it's just for fun. Most of the services that I've seen on TV have "For entertainment purposes only." in the fine print, and I'm sure that physical locations have that too. Heck enough of us engage in role playing that I'm sure you can at least admit that there is some fun in pretending and acting out a fantasy that you know is not real.

Not funny at all

[Pharago]

vultures prying into people's pain, thats what they are. govs involvement into this is just another proof of the kind of person our politicians are. specially when the economy is thigh. sure a few grand aren't such a waste when talking about govs money and the pound was never so low, but the insult is just the same as if were a few millions or a few bucks. my 2 cents

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[skam240]

I find it incredibly unlikely that politicians had anything to do with this directly. It sounds more like a bureaucratic mistake or an unintentional loophole.
Using this event as a rationale for means of generalizing about politicians seems kind of silly to me.

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[Sanat]

I know what you mean by the intuition. I used it often years ago when flying from city to city fixing mainframes with problems no one else could fix. I was literally the last step before a lawsuit quite often.

I would intuitively go to a box, controller, or panel where the problem obviously was not, to check a signal that ultimately led to the repair. Why I decided where to start was not always clear in my mind but it led to the repairs and astounded many individuals who were responsible for the site.

When t

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[stonewallred]

You can call it intuition, but more probably it is your experience and knowledge being accessed unconsciously rather than actually thinking it out in entirety. I used to do the same things with HVAC/R equipment, hydraulics, and electrical systems. The vast amount of information you gather while working on these systems(whatever systems they may be) is not often noticed or remembered in a clearly recallable form, yet your mind can and does manage to sift through these memories, draw similar and related facto

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[Sanat]

Where intuitiveness comes from would be a interesting experiment. Perhaps you are right in that at a deep level I knew where to look for a problem... this was especially true if I got to sleep on it.

On the other hand, my father (a farmer) knew things that he had no way orf knowing and goes beyond the possibilities. For instance, he told my mother to call the insurance man and get wind insurance on the barn (which has stood for 70 years without insurance) and the very next day a tornado blew down the barn.

Th

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[dargaud]

People take millions of contracts with their insurances every year. The one time such a thing happens, everybody remembers it forever. All the other times are ignored. When you actually spend time running a statistics on it, there's no surprise.

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[fyoder]

Dad would know who was sick in the neighborhood or who was going to stop by for a visit. From where do these pieces of wisdom/knowledge come for I do not know.

Still just intuition. Intuition just knows somehow, without reasoning it out. When it's highly developed it can seem spooky, but it shouldn't be anymore than would be highly developed reasoning, empathy, or physical skills.

Priorities

[iitob]

What a great thing to spend a money on in a recession, but I hear http://www.peoplestarving.com/ [peoplestarving.com] need money too!