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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:00
Irrefutable facts about psychics.
Author: "skw"
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0062_01BFDA39.072ACDE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Consider some irrefutable facts: Supposing that psychics & seers had access to all cosmic enlightenment and wisdom, including the spirit-realm, would not psychics & seers be the most prominent and richest people on earth? Could they not predict the winners of every horse race, or every lottery? Would they not be able to walk into any gambling-casino on earth and exit as a winner, owning the entire casino? Would they not be able to know the behavior of the stock markets on earth, and enrich themselves that way? Assuming they were more gifted than an average human (as they boast to be), would they not with ease locate all the natural recourses on earth, such as gold, platinum, diamonds, oil, uranium etc., and have a monopoly over earth's wealth and resources? in truth: Psychics & seers are powerless and helpless in their ability to enrich themselves this way. Consequently, they have invented crafty schemes how to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible people by pretending to have access to all the mysteries of the universe and are willing to unveil to people all the secrets of their future life of fame, fortune and bliss. Combining it with enticing propaganda, they act in a similar way as the modern drug-dealers do, who are handing out free samples to ensnare people into a dangerous bad habit, and therefore helplessly have to depend on the drug-dealer for another fix. Psychics & seers are similar in their endeavors. Free readings are used to entice people, to have them depend upon the charts of psychics & seers to create a steady financial income for themselves. Besides, striving to empty the victim's wallet, the greatest danger in the long run is that humans become habitually enslaved toward the predictions of seers and the charts of psychics & seers. This in return will in a negative way effect the human will and decision making abilities. Victims become indecisive in their behavior and as a result rely more and more on others to make rational decisions for them. In due time victims ceases to be a "Free Moral Agent" any longer. Some humans even have ended up in psychiatry's office or worse, in a mental institution. Notice, MODERN EVENTS in which Seers WhERE UTTERLY Wrong: u Millions of persons follow the predictions of psychics or "seers." However, Jack Mabley, writing for the Chicago "Tribune," states: "If you take them seriously, and would buy a stock or sell silver on their say-so, my suggestion is to do the opposite of what they say. The seers are consistently wrong." Noting 62 of their predictions for 1980 published by a newspaper, Mabley said: "Not one of those 62 predictions was on the mark." u Further, a California psychic predicted that in 1980 "interest rates will decline as the economy improves." The opposite happened. seven psychics predicted that Ted Kennedy would be elected president. He did not even win his party's nomination. Jeanne Dixon predicted regarding the then president Jimmy Carter: "An attempt on his life, related to a church, will be made in the fall." She also predicted that scandals would cost him several close, high-ranking officials. None of those predictions came true. TAKE ALSO NOTE OF HISTORIC RECORDS FROM THE PAST: The Bible testifies to the fact, that in the most crucial time-period, when sound decisions are needed, the predictions of all seers are futile, they have failed miserably those who depend on sound counsel. Such a historic record can be found in Daniel 2:1-49. In this account the king of Babylon (Neb·u·chad·nez'zar) had ordered all wise men, psychics & seers to be put to death in all of his dominion. For they had become filthy rich in his court-yard due to their crafty schemes by claiming to have a gift other humans do not have namely, a direct pipeline to the cosmic enlightenment and wisdom and yet, they could not as much as to explain to the king the dream he had during the previous night. In addition, three other events have been written down for our instruction, of total failure on the part of psychics & seers in attempting to reveal future events. (See Daniel 4:4-37; 5:5-31; Genesis 41:1-8) IN FACT: The historic record of the past is lined with wrecked nations who had made wrong decisions. Since they obeyed the shortsighted and useless advice of psychics and seers. They all therefore wend the way the Babylonian empire wend-vanished from the earth, because they could not comprehend "the writing on the wall". Furthermore, these nations refused to conform to the boundaries the Creator of heaven and earth has set for all mankind. These nations, did not take note as to the warning given to the nation of Israel, Deuteronomy 18:10-12 says: "There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah, and on account of these detestable things Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you." IN ADDITION: Humans, have the ability to develop their minds and mental disposition by learning how to use common sense, sound thinking ability and the faculty of reason out difficult problems, yes even educated guesses and gut feelings, are more beneficial and fulfilling for humans to utilize, rather then to pay attention to the chirping of seers, their reading of charts and all their phony predictions combined. Those professional foreteller of events and clairvoyants, are seeking directions from the wrong source¾the creation-rather than from the all wise Creator of heaven and earth and in doing so, they have rejected God's sovereignty over mankind and therefore remain ignorant of the devastation they will encounter in the near future because they are unable to decipher "the writing on the wall" in modern times. This of course is also true of people who team up with those crafty psychics & seers and act on their worthless and futile information. HENCE: I hope that these 2 pages of information will place the practices of clairvoyance and celestial predictors in to the proper light. In fact, psychics & seers attempt to establish themselves priestly over mankind similar as in ancient times, and thus constituting again a clever parasitical conspiracy-freeloading off their fellow man. ULTIMATELY: It is only the Creator of heaven and earth who has the ability to foretell and also will indeed change the future for mankind into an enjoyable and refreshing time. Notice, Psalm 37:10,11; 29, says: "And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place (the Earth), and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever upon it." IN CONCLUSION: As you can notice the Creator of heaven and earth is in favor of the meek, the peaceable, and those practicing righteousness. He has already decided an endless future on earth in their behalf. John 3:36 explains this provision this way: "He that exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life; he that disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him." a JW named Louis ------=_NextPart_000_0062_01BFDA39.072ACDE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">Consider some irrefutable facts:</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Supposing that psychics & seers had access to all cosmic enlightenment and wisdom, including the spirit-realm, would not psychics & seers be the most prominent and richest people on earth? Could they not predict the winners of every horse race, or every lottery? Would they not be able to walk into any gambling-casino on earth and exit as a winner, owning the entire casino? Would they not be able to know the behavior of the stock markets on earth, and enrich themselves that way? Assuming they were more gifted than an average human (as they boast to be), would they not with ease locate all the natural recourses on earth, such as gold, platinum, diamonds, oil, uranium etc., and have a monopoly over earthâs wealth and resources?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN> <P align=left class=MsoBodyText2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">in truth:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Psychics & seers are powerless and helpless in their ability to enrich themselves this way. Consequently, they have invented crafty schemes how to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible people by pretending to have access to all the mysteries of the universe and are willing to unveil to people all the secrets of their future life of fame, fortune and bliss. Combining it with enticing propaganda, they act in a similar way as the modern drug-dealers do, who are handing out free samples to ensnare people into a dangerous bad habit, and therefore helplessly have to depend on the drug-dealer for another fix. Psychics & seers are similar in their endeavors. Free readings are used to entice people, to have them depend upon the charts of psychics & seers to create a steady financial income for themselves. Besides, striving to empty the victimâs wallet, the greatest danger in the long run is that humans become habitually enslaved toward the predictions of seers and the charts of psychics & seers. This in return will in a negative way effect the human will and decision making abilities. Victims become indecisive in their behavior and as a result rely more and more on others to make rational decisions for them. In due time victims ceases to be a âFree Moral Agentâ any longer. Some humans even have ended up in psychiatryâs office or worse, in a mental institution. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyText style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">Notice, MODERN EVENTS in which Seers WhERE UTTERLY Wrong:</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Wingdings 3'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: 'Wingdings 3'"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: 'Wingdings 3'">u</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Â </SPAN>Millions of persons follow the predictions of psychics or âseers.â However, Jack Mabley, writing for the Chicago âTribune,â states: âIf you take them seriously, and would buy a stock or sell silver on their say-so, my suggestion is to do the opposite of what they say. The seers are consistently wrong.â Noting 62 of their predictions for 1980 published by a newspaper, Mabley said: âNot one of those 62 predictions was on the mark.â<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Wingdings 3'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: 'Wingdings 3'"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: 'Wingdings 3'">u</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Â </SPAN>Further, a California psychic predicted that in 1980 âinterest rates will decline as the economy improves.â The opposite happened. seven psychics predicted that Ted Kennedy would be elected president. He did not even win his partyâs nomination. Jeanne Dixon predicted regarding the then president Jimmy Carter: âAn attempt on his life, related to a church, will be made in the fall.â She also predicted that scandals would cost him several close, high-ranking officials. None of those predictions came true.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U style="text-underline: thick"><o:p></o:p></U></B></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyText style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">TAKE ALSO NOTE OF HISTORIC RECORDS FROM THE PAST:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> The Bible testifies to the fact, that in the most crucial time-period, when sound decisions are needed, the predictions of all seers are futile, they have failed miserably those who depend on sound counsel. Such a historic record can be found in Daniel 2:1-49. In this account the king of Babylon (Neb·u·chad·nez'zar) had ordered all wise men, psychics & seers to be put to death in all of his dominion. For they had become filthy rich in his court-yard due to their crafty schemes by claiming to have a gift other humans do not have namely, a direct pipeline to the cosmic enlightenment and wisdom and yet, they could not as much as to explain to the king the dream he had during the previous night. In addition, three other events have been written down for our instruction, of total failure on the part of psychics & seers in attempting to reveal future events. (See Daniel 4:4-37; 5:5-31; Genesis 41:1-8)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">IN FACT:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> The historic record of the past is lined with wrecked nations who had made wrong decisions. Since they obeyed the shortsighted and useless advice of psychics and seers. They<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>all therefore wend the way <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">t</B>he Babylonian empire wendâvanished from the earth, because they could not comprehend <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">âthe writing on the wallâ.</I></B> Furthermore, these nations refused to conform to the boundaries the Creator of heaven and earth has set for all mankind. These nations, did not take note as to the warning given to the nation of Israel, Deuteronomy<SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase"> 18:10-12 </SPAN>says<SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">: </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">"There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah, and on account of these detestable things Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you."</I></B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyText2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">IN ADDITION:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Humans, have the ability to develop their minds and mental disposition by learning how to use common sense, sound thinking ability and the faculty of reason out difficult problems, yes even educated guesses and gut feelings, are more beneficial and fulfilling for humans to utilize, rather then to pay attention to the chirping of seers, their reading of charts and all their phony predictions combined. Those professional foreteller of events and clairvoyants, are seeking directions from the wrong source</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol">¾</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the creationârather than from the all wise Creator of heaven and earth<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>and in doing so, they have rejected God's sovereignty over mankind and therefore remain ignorant of the devastation they will encounter in the near future because they are unable to decipher <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">âthe writing on the wallâ</I></B> in modern times. This of course is also true of people who team up with those crafty psychics & seers and act on their worthless and futile information. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P align=left class=MsoBodyText2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">HENCE:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> I hope that these 2 pages of information will place the practices of clairvoyance and celestial predictors in to the proper light. In fact, psychics & seers attempt to establish themselves priestly over mankind similar as in ancient times, and thus constituting again a clever parasitical conspiracyâfreeloading off their fellow man. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">ULTIMATELY:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> It is only the Creator of heaven and earth who has the ability to foretell and also will indeed change the future for mankind into an enjoyable and refreshing time. Notice, Psalm 37:10,11; 29, says<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">"And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place (the Earth), and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And <U style="text-underline: thick">they will reside forever upon it."<o:p></o:p></U></I></B></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">IN CONCLUSION: </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">As you can notice the Creator of heaven and earth is in favor of the meek, the peaceable, and those practicing righteousness. He has already decided an endless future on earth in their behalf. <SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">John 3:36</SPAN><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line"> explains this provision this way: <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">âHe that exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life; he that disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.â</I></B></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">a JW<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">named Louis<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Â <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0062_01BFDA39.072ACDE0--
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