21st Century UK Faith Healers

[Vincent]

I found out a while back that someone close had been seeing a "Faith Healer" to help get over a loss. I'm not sure if it's a ball gazer, tarrot thrower, teal-leaf reader or what but I do know they charge for their time and "advice".

Are these people quite popular in the UK again? Do you have one operating in your area?

I'm hyper-skeptikal myself.....I've met some pretty freaky/strange characters over the years but none of them charged for being that way

I like Stevie Wonders take on the matter:-

"When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer....."

What's the general consensus? Harmless fun or damaging con?
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[Rogerborg]

People pay more to go to psychiatrists, with about the same amount of scientific evidence backing their methods.

Psychlo-FITE.
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[hellkat]

Fuckin' charlatans.

I live in quite a high Asian/African population area, so I keep getting cards thru my door for Djinn Bubaji or Mr Boombastic or some other such twaddle, promising all manner of psychic and emotional healing abilities.

They make good roach material.
That's all I'm sayin'
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[Itchy]

I see them advertise on gumtree now and again. TBH I would just treat them as unqualified psychological health professionals.

There's a BIG variation between psychotherapist counsellor therapist most prominent in terms of cost.

psychotherapist £100-300 for 30 mins
counsellor £25-50 30 mins
therapist £25-100 30 mins.
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[hellkat]

Its entirely true that maybe people just need someone to talk to and give them advice, or even just to listen to their problems.

I'm not knocking the "talking therapy" thing, cos I've found it surprisingly useful myself earlier this year, even though I thought it wasn't working, when in fact it just gave me space to think things out a bit, and get a grip of myself.

But I think its people's actual gullibility in the voodoo items: jars of water with bits of burnt paper in them, that sort of thing, which does my nut in.

Having said that, I'm fascinated with that whole side of things. Why DOES that jar of water represent some important process for people? It's not in any way different than a piece of round unleavened bread with a cross printed on it, is it now.
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[MCN]

Why did we stop Dipping those arss-wholes?
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[hellkat]

What?

What are you dripping in arseholes?
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[Alpineandy]

[Alpineandy]

[M.C]

As hellkat says, quite popular amongst immigrant communities (African round my way). I could say something quite intolerant about how we'd moved beyond all this BS and now we're importing it back in... but I won't

[MCN]

[hellkat]

I must be spending too much time on the wrong sort of websites again.
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[Vincent]

It's a shame there's still so much stigma over councelling, and it's a shame it's in so much more demand
I'm guessing that communication has taken a beating over the last few "Interweb Years" where emotions can't be shared so easily?

It's the financial aspect that doesn't sit well for me. I had a friend once paying someone a lot of money to help her get through....what's it called? Repressed Memory Syndrome? Something like that. I came to the conclusion it was a scam.....quite an elaborate one too.

I'm hoping to find out a bit more over Xmas....see what the score is
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[Alpineandy]

[MCN]

[Vincent]

[MCN]

[Alpineandy]

[reckless_b]

Alex Harvey?
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[GhostRider]

They advertise daily in the back of the metro, they live in the shithole parts of the city too. Guessing that's mainly where their demographic live.

Psychics aren't going out of business anytime soon either, see people asking for "good ones" or pushing them on facebook often enough. Again, I think that's a case of enjoying people telling them what they want to hear.

GhostRider
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[Vincent]

[Pete.]

Tracking's off on that trolley, and the mast to lever ratio is wrong, the stool will hit the bank. Migth be lucky and roll them head-first into the pond but then it would probably pull the whole lot over too.
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[Vincent]

A lot of 18th century sketches were done from word of mouth, there are some cracking drawings of African animals done at around the same time:-

https://boredomtherapy.com/18th-century-animal-drawings/
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[Rogerborg]