Anti Pleasure

So I can never bite my tongue when I sit down and my mom is watching Crossing Over with John Edward. I am the type of person who is very skeptical about a lot of seedy things that people believe in life. For me to believe certain ideas, occurrences etc. I have to at least experience it or see it to believe it. Know what I mean? Maybe I am not in touch with my “spiritual” side, but until I experience it, I won’t believe you if it has never happened in my life. Maybe I shouldn’t live my life like this, but I can’t help it. I just don’t believe anything silly that I see on TV or just because there is a photograph of some strange occurrence. 

I feel like we roam the earth not knowing anything, because we really don’t. Part of me wants to know or believe that when you die, your energy or “your soul” is carried elsewhere, to another dimension… or somewhere. But I don’t think we will know, until we are gone. 

Maybe I am very cynical and a skeptic about everything, but the only aspect of life that we know of, is that we are alive.

Anyways…

Back to my rant about John Edward. Do you really think all of it is real? I am sure they have to edit LOADS of what they have taped and then condense it into a half hour segment.  

If you don’t know who John Edward is… basically, he is a “physic” who does readings for people who have loved ones that passed away. Half of the time I am laughing my ass off because it seems like the people never know what he is talking about. Or he brings up random things that aren’t important. That’s what it seems like anyways. It just seems so weird to me that people believe this stuff.

I have read several articles on criticism and skepticism towards John Edward, saying that he does cold reading. Sure, he may know a few details about the people he is TRYING to do a reading for… but it seems like most of what he comes out with is bull. Cold reading is something that “physics” use to seem like they know more about the subject than they let on. 

From Wikipedia, “James Underdown of the Skeptical Inquirer attended a Crossing Over show in November 2002 and said “there were no indications of anyone I saw collecting information… none of his readings contained the kind of specific information that would raise an eyebrow of suspicion. … John Edward was a bad cold reader. He, too, struggled to get hits, and in one attempt shot off nearly forty guesses before finding any significant targets.”

Seems a little fishy, I’m sorry.

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