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	<title>Comments on: A: Ghouls. Q: What do you call psychic mediums?</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Martin</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/08/a-ghouls-q-what-do-you-call-psychic-mediums/comment-page-2/#comment-199614</link>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The irony of this is that I read an interview with a psychic on CNN who stated that no self-respecting or honest psychic will try to contact Michael for at least a year after his death.

I realize that &quot;self-respecting or honest psychic&quot; is a bit of a misnomer as no such bird actually exists.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The irony of this is that I read an interview with a psychic on CNN who stated that no self-respecting or honest psychic will try to contact Michael for at least a year after his death.</p>
<p>I realize that &#8220;self-respecting or honest psychic&#8221; is a bit of a misnomer as no such bird actually exists.</p>
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		<title>By: Cold guessing &#124; Bad Astronomy &#124; Discover Magazine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/08/a-ghouls-q-what-do-you-call-psychic-mediums/comment-page-2/#comment-198981</link>
		<dc:creator>Cold guessing &#124; Bad Astronomy &#124; Discover Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I won&#8217;t even be briefer and call them all ghouls. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] I won&#8217;t even be briefer and call them all ghouls. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mark  Hansen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark  Hansen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope you&#039;re right about the sense of humour, JB, but I doubt it. I did get a laugh out of one part though;
&quot;&lt;i&gt;...but all the Manuscripts I have sent out over the years have all disappeared without a trace&lt;/i&gt;...&quot;
I suspect that they were all filed in the same round filing cabinet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope you&#8217;re right about the sense of humour, JB, but I doubt it. I did get a laugh out of one part though;<br />
&#8220;<i>&#8230;but all the Manuscripts I have sent out over the years have all disappeared without a trace</i>&#8230;&#8221;<br />
I suspect that they were all filed in the same round filing cabinet.</p>
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		<title>By: JB of Brisbane</title>
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		<dc:creator>JB of Brisbane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a sneaking suspicion that Rosemary has a wicked sense of humour, if not writing skills, but just in case she&#039;s serious - notice how she only gets visited by famous people she has heard of, not Joe Bragatelli from Farmington, Maine, who died after receiving an infection from a lobster bite. This is much like the &quot;previous lives&quot; that revolve around prominent people/events from history. No one wants to say they once lived as a chicken farmer  in an Irish bog in the seventh century A.D. (okay, C.E.).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a sneaking suspicion that Rosemary has a wicked sense of humour, if not writing skills, but just in case she&#8217;s serious &#8211; notice how she only gets visited by famous people she has heard of, not Joe Bragatelli from Farmington, Maine, who died after receiving an infection from a lobster bite. This is much like the &#8220;previous lives&#8221; that revolve around prominent people/events from history. No one wants to say they once lived as a chicken farmer  in an Irish bog in the seventh century A.D. (okay, C.E.).</p>
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		<title>By: shane</title>
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		<dc:creator>shane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Rosemary
&lt;i&gt;He knows who you are having sex with&lt;/i&gt;

Thank god someone does. Jeeze, once upon I&#039;d flat knowing so to have god as a PA to remind me of names would&#039;ve been a good thing - assuming I&#039;d want to remember.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Rosemary<br />
<i>He knows who you are having sex with</i></p>
<p>Thank god someone does. Jeeze, once upon I&#8217;d flat knowing so to have god as a PA to remind me of names would&#8217;ve been a good thing &#8211; assuming I&#8217;d want to remember.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark  Hansen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/08/a-ghouls-q-what-do-you-call-psychic-mediums/comment-page-2/#comment-198662</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark  Hansen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rosemary (64), &quot;&lt;i&gt;...and he can even see into your future and know what is to happen to you and sometimes he stops it and sometimes he can’t get the message to you of danger in your path because you are not listening to those little fear hunches that you get or you are not analyzing your dreams to see danger in your path because thats the way God speaks to humans here on earth through hunches, sublimal&lt;/i&gt;{sic}&lt;i&gt; thoughts and through dreams.&lt;/i&gt;

So when a parent loses a child to choking, or disease, or a drunk driver, it&#039;s entirely their fault for not picking up on hunches, or dreams, or subliminal thoughts supplied to them by a loving, cryptic, cruel god. That&#039;s very relieving to learn and must make many people feel soooooooo much better about the loss of a loved one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rosemary (64), &#8220;<i>&#8230;and he can even see into your future and know what is to happen to you and sometimes he stops it and sometimes he can’t get the message to you of danger in your path because you are not listening to those little fear hunches that you get or you are not analyzing your dreams to see danger in your path because thats the way God speaks to humans here on earth through hunches, sublimal</i>{sic}<i> thoughts and through dreams.</i></p>
<p>So when a parent loses a child to choking, or disease, or a drunk driver, it&#8217;s entirely their fault for not picking up on hunches, or dreams, or subliminal thoughts supplied to them by a loving, cryptic, cruel god. That&#8217;s very relieving to learn and must make many people feel soooooooo much better about the loss of a loved one.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg in Austin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Greg in Austin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Rosemary,

Hearing voices in your head is a form of schizophrenia, and there are treatments for that, similar to anxiety attacks and depression. For your own health, you may want to consider being tested.

That being said, what evidence do you have that there is an afterlife? If spirits cannot bring back any proof, then how can we tell the difference between a real psychic and someone just making up nonsense for profit or just for fun? How do we know that you were really having a visit from MJ, or if you were hallucinating on drugs while reading the tabloids?

8)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Rosemary,</p>
<p>Hearing voices in your head is a form of schizophrenia, and there are treatments for that, similar to anxiety attacks and depression. For your own health, you may want to consider being tested.</p>
<p>That being said, what evidence do you have that there is an afterlife? If spirits cannot bring back any proof, then how can we tell the difference between a real psychic and someone just making up nonsense for profit or just for fun? How do we know that you were really having a visit from MJ, or if you were hallucinating on drugs while reading the tabloids?</p>
<p> <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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