4:02 am and the clock goes tick-tick-tick Musings

Ok, so I don't have a handle on the speed of light thing, and how an observer would see two objects traveling at the speed of light that are heading towards each other.

So I revisited the super-power thing again. Two more came to mind. They are similar

• Making yourself super-hot - The Human Torch - or turning into flames


• Making yourself super-cold - Mr.Freeze.

Both rubbish.

The calorific output or calories required would preclude either of these two ever bring a thing. Can you image the amount of food you'd have to eat to sustain a body of flames, or how weak and frail you'd become after a quick jaunt.

OF course you could pair both of these up with flying ability for a double-rubbish.

And then one that I'd forgotten about Telekinesis, or the ability to move things with the power of your mind.

Rubbish. Particularly if I understand physics a bit, and force and reaction.

Oh and Remote Viewing, being able to visualise remote places and scenes. Or as most people call it, having a good imagination.

I have to come up with some new things to think about.

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The Fleece Machine – Spiritual medium to meet with Pike River families - wait there's more !

"I only want to help: Psychic to sceptics"

Says the headline today.

A celebrity psychic who wants to get in touch with earthquake and Pike River coalmine victims from beyond the grave says she only wants to help families heal, despite criticism by sceptics.

Australian Sensing Murder psychic Deb Webber will hold a free "private reading" on Monday for families of those killed in the February 2011 quake and another for Pike River mine disaster families in Greymouth next month.

She will also hold a free public meditation session and a sold-out public show that seats 150 and costs $70 a head in Christchurch tomorrow.

Webber said those who considered her work a money-making venture should "look at my bank account". "I'm actually skint," she said.

The tour of fleecing the gullible is called "a "Hope and Heal" New Zealand tour,  and Deb Webber said she "can't understand" the criticism.

Like she didn't see it coming.

And then ............

Psychics' killer lead hits a wall...

Friends of Deb, Sue Nicolson and Kelvin Cruickshank made some guesses on a TV program "Sensing Murder", and they came up with.....

The psychics both concluded Mrs Calvert was murdered, but her husband was not responsible.

They gave a detailed description of the alleged culprit, who still lived in the Waikawau area, stating what he did for a living and the vehicle he drove.

Detective Senior Sergeant Grant Coward, of the New Plymouth CIB, said a significant amount of work had been done on the case over the past two to three years.

"A number of further inquiries were made but as a result of those there was nothing further gained that would add evidential weight to the inquiry," Mr Coward said.

Or as we say in the real world...... nothing.

Why would a spirit lie? What advantage would a spirit gain from telling you something that was untrue?

The people that can talk to dead people will tell you that they don't understand the messages and that there may be many interpretations of the messages they receive.

This "gift" they have is one they have to monetize, by fleecing the gullible. If they had a "gift" why  would they not monetize it in other ways, by discovering things, shrewd investments, invention of things, or perhaps by undertaking a JREF challenge to prove their ability and claiming the million dollars.

I've said before I've been to a psychic show, with Kelvin Cruickshank, it was entertaining and weird, I got nothing from it, clearly the spirits of my ancestors are all in the UK and NZ is a bit far to travel.

I'm prepared to be proven wrong, there is plenty of me on the interweb and you could pretend to know a lot about me, but there are things that you can't know, and if you want to have a crack and make a guess I'd be delighted to hear from you. But you knew that didn't you?

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One-third of Kiwis believe in alien visits

A third of New Zealanders believe aliens have visited Earth and a majority think psychic powers exist, a study has found.

One thousand respondents were asked by UMR Research if they believed "that Earth has been visited by UFOs from other planets".

via One-third of Kiwis believe in alien visits - National - NZ Herald News.

• Nearly 8 in 10 believe that Jesus was a real person who lived 2000 years ago


• 57 per cent believe in life after death. That belief declined with age, falling from 65 per cent among under-30s to 49 per cent among over-60s.


• A quarter believed astrology can predict people's futures.


• Six in 10 - 72 per cent of women and 52 per cent of men - believe in the existence of God or a universal spirit.


• 55 per cent believed that at least some people have psychic powers such as ESP.

I have an opinion on this, like that's never happened

Aliens exist. In a infinite universe, with infinite suns and infinite planets (give or take) the odds are that there are other life forms in the universe. What like that's a surprise. What isn't a surprise is that they've never visited our planet. If they have ask yourself why? and where are they from. How come they conquered the travel distance thing, and if they are so advanced how is it they can fly vast distances only to get to Earth and crash at places like Roswell. And also ask yourself that with the billions of camera phones that are currently in use that there aren't more pictures and, er, evidence.

There isn't actually a lot of evidence to support a person called "Jesus" ever having existed.

There is only death. That is it.

That an arbitrary planet can exert some life force upon you and 1/12 of the population seems likely.

Man invented God, any God, pick a god, we've always done it, mostly from ignorance and fear. We've had sea gods, tree gods, air gods, fire gods, animal gods, cat gods, stone gods the list is almost endless

Yes of course ESP. If it was real you think we'd need stockbrokers and market gamblers?

I surprised they didn's ask about Homeopathy, Bio-Mag blankets and the PowerBlanace band to be honest.

Things that never occurred to me #2 - Psychic Fraud

These are the people who think they can talk to the dead, get cryptical messages from the beyond, can pass on messages and give guidance on where to find things that are lost. For realsies. 



But of all the deluded people who think they can why is it that there is not one instance of a psychic fraudster? One that has used their "powers" of "seeing" to gather information about you. Say your bank account number, or credit card details or even your eftpos card and pin number. Ok so getting your eftpos card is plain old theft, and I'm sure there are plenty of instances of fraudulent and thieving psychics that have used their conniving ways to get money out of people.

But you're telling me that of all the criminals in the "afterlife" are reformed, and that not a one of them is willing to torment and wreak havoc on the living by passing this type of message to the "seer"

Of course not. They can't talk to the dead.