You don't need to be 100% to make yourself incredibly rich knowing the future. That means either no one can do it or the people who can do it aren't selling their services in a 3 bedroom house on a busy street in the suburbs.

To put it another way, I hand you a phone and I say "You can tell good dolphin from 3 days ago 10 things about what has happened but only 7 of them will still come true" and with a small amount of effort you have at least $10,000 more in your bank account.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Then he is really bad at his job.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

The military application didn't involve telling the future. They were doing something they called remote viewing, which involved only the present.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

You can't deny there have been several cases where detectives closed cases in homicide or missing persons they wouldn't have on their own.

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I only care about psychics that can see the future. Just send a drone to see the present.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It's all BS but find the stuff on how people pretend to have abilities in order to trick people and take their money fascinating.

They all use similar methods, usually ask a few general questions, or in the case of the faith healers, have plants sitting next to people that strike up a conversation with a mark and find out a few things which they then pass along to the person doing the scam.

Kinda goes something like this, they find out the persons dad just died, start out by supposedly picking the person out of the audience seemingly randomly, but the plant is usually sitting right next to them. The person is of course, shocked they have been picked at random, and has been prepped by the plant, usually they tell them stuff like, "I feel the power in this room that will speak to you and help you", or some BS like that. Then the scammer says, "I see a man standing next to you", to which the mark is stunned because how would the scammer know they just lost their dad, the person must have psychic powers, and then the scam is on and the person buys it because they have been prepped and are now mentally open to any suggestion.

It encompasses many traditional techniques, including the Delphi Technique to manipulate and build crown consensus, and other aspects of Emotional Intelligence or mental manipulation to convince people to adopt a consensus that is not actually factual.

You see this used in "Town Hall", or "Focus Groups", in politics all the time, if you recognize the techniques it's easily dismantled, but once you get the subjects to buy into what you are selling, you will get the result you want from the event.

Politicians use this all the time and enlist the like-minded members of the media to help sell the con.

Drones are only to be used to bomb innocent civilians

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

The fact that you need an appointment to see a psychic proves they’re full of shit.

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Project Stargate was/is useful.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

The MacGyver show?

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No, the "closed" CIA project out of Maryland.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!