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Should Psychics be held accountable for what they say

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Synergy:
But after seeing how many people have had so many predictions fail, how can we truly expect accuracy at all?  We can hope for it, but I'm not sure it can be an expectation.

Somnus, I agree.  There are some frauds out there who prey on people who are going through difficult experiences.  That is absolutely wrong.  I've read with many readers who I think fall into this category, and it does make me angry.  But again, I chose to take the risk and try them.  I think it just comes with the territory, in this case. 

bstalling:

--- Quote ---But after seeing how many people have had so many predictions fail, how can we truly expect accuracy at all?  We can hope for it, but I'm not sure it can be an expectation.
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Hope...expectation. It is the same thing for me. Well, I've had some predictions come to pass. Work, friends and other areas. So I know that detailed predictions are indeed possible. That coupled with what they claim on their profile is enough for me to have some level of expectation that they will be right about what they say. That is enough for me to rate them at the end of the day. I mean, it seems pretty fair to give an honest rating after paying for a service provided. At this point, I don't care about hurting their business because I don't get close to readers...or had a reader want to develop a friendship outside of me paying.  I put myself out there for readings, they put themselves out there as the providers of good readings.

I still call a few that have been right for other things and I am satisfied enough. If I could go back and rate every crappy reading I had about my fiance, I would. Too bad Keen only allows ratings for 90 days.

Zee:
There are medical needs for cosmetic surgery, but sometimes there isn't a need, it's a want. It's almost like some posters are dismissing psychic inaccuracies as the caller's fault for calling, because hey it was the caller's choice. 

If I see an ad for a plastic surgeon who claims they can make me look a certain way and they are fully degreed and are members in good standing with The American Board of Plastic Surgeons, and I pay them a lot of money and end up looking like a monkey, horse, or buffalo (something they did not claim nor anything that I paid for), then they are at fault.  They did not live up to their claim and I have every right to sue to recoup all or some of my money back, even if I signed a disclaimer. A disclaimer is a deterrent for lawsuits and blame, the same way 'for entertainment purposes' is used.

It's no different if you have a medical need and go to a doctor to have a leg amputated, because they claimed the amputation would stop the spread of the disease, but they amputate the wrong leg. Are you saying I'm at fault for choosing the wrong doctor although I'm now SOL and will need the other leg amputated as well, because the doctor hacked off the wrong one?

I do agree about the caller's choice if they are willing to pay some of the reader's prices, because we all know what we can/cannot afford. I've never spent some of the exorbitant fees many people are willing to pay to make a rushed 30 min phone call for upwards of $200-$300 dollars.  Often times you can't get everything in and you end up with more questions and another need to call again.  I'm very conservative with paying readers high fees and see it along the same lines as gambling (I only spend what I feel wouldn't hurt me to lose). The most I've blown for a reading was $150 for an hour.

I clearly don't understand the inaccuracy dismissal at all or why callers should be held accountable just for calling.

Synergy:
bstalling, I forgot to respond.  Most readers would still be WRONG when it comes to C.  Kisha said he and I would reconcile, and we would be on and off for two years.  She made specific predictions about him and my children.  These things simply did not happen.  And even though he and I are now friends again and shared one evening of intimacy, the predictions of a reconciliation were wrong. 

Barbara, for example, said we would get married and even told me what city we would move to.  She said his ex gf would create a problem by communicating a fake pregnancy, but we would get through it... and lots of other very specific, and very wrong predictions.  Those are just two examples.  Many members know that I have read with lots and lots (honestly, I think maybe in the hundreds bc I did go through a very low point when I was getting multiple readings daily from all of the main psychic sites) and only about 5 readers said we wouldn't reconcile.  Everyone else had some sort of positive outcome prediction. 

If I do have to give credit to anyone regarding C, it would have to be both LadyP and Gaylene.  Both said he'd be back around at some point but not for anything serious, and this is absolutely the case... and Gaylene actually made a huge prediction about him that I didn't believe that ended up panning out.  Which is funny because for the most part she has been wrong about everything else.  So really you never know. 

Synergy:

--- Quote from: Zee on December 10, 2013, 10:09:45 PM ---There are medical needs for cosmetic surgery, but sometimes there isn't a need, it's a want. It's almost like some posters are dismissing psychic inaccuracies as the caller's fault for calling, because hey it was the caller's choice. 

If I see an ad for a plastic surgeon who claims they can make me look a certain way and they are fully degreed and are members in good standing with The American Board of Plastic Surgeons, and I pay them a lot of money and end up looking like a monkey, horse, or buffalo (something they did not claim nor anything that I paid for), then they are at fault.  They did not live up to their claim and I have every right to sue to recoup all or some of my money back, even if I signed a disclaimer. A disclaimer is a deterrent for lawsuits and blame, the same way 'for entertainment purposes' is used.

It's no different if you have a medical need and go to a doctor to have a leg amputated, because they claimed the amputation would stop the spread of the disease, but they amputate the wrong leg. Are you saying I'm at fault for choosing the wrong doctor although I'm now SOL and will need the other leg amputated as well, because the doctor hacked off the wrong one?

I do agree about the caller's choice if they are willing to pay some of the reader's prices, because we all know what we can/cannot afford. I've never spent some of the exorbitant fees many people are willing to pay to make a rushed 30 min phone call for upwards of $200-$300 dollars.  Often times you can't get everything in and you end up with more questions and another need to call again.  I'm very conservative with paying readers high fees and see it along the same lines as gambling (I only spend what I feel wouldn't hurt me to lose). The most I've blown for a reading was $150 for an hour.

I clearly don't understand the inaccuracy dismissal at all or why callers should be held accountable just for calling.

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I never said the readers haven't been inaccurate, nor that they escape all responsibility. But you can't deny this isn't a science. There would be NO basis for suing a psychic or somehow holding them accountable for incorrect predictions.  And I hate to be blunt or seem insensitive because I've lost a lot from these readings too, but I think most clients here aren't accepting their own responsibility in this.  That's all.  People can't throw their arms up in the air and say, "But they told me we would get married!!"  So what?!  No one can PROVE psychics are real. So we each call because we have blind faith and we WANT to believe.  The few friends who know I call psychics think I'm insane... there's a reason for that... there's nothing to indicate anyone can tell the future.  I CHOOSE to believe someone can.  If they are wrong, I have to accept my responsibility in making that choice.  And yes, they are wrong in their actions if they have purposely lied to a client, but that cannot be proven. And that is what's key here.  We cannot really differentiate the "real" "gifted" psychics from the charlatans. 

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