The paranormal in Whitby?

[Ian]

Supernatural or super way to make money?
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[Sandy]

I like your idea to have the mediums keep an eye out for terrorists. At least someone is giving it some thought. It's difficult for the authorities to allow people their freedom of speech, and to buy dangerous chemicals, but try to pinpoint if these numbskulls are going to kill others that day. If mediums have genuine gifts, they could be helpful. But maybe the spirits who contact them don't have knowledge of the bad people or of the future, even. They only pay attention to their loved ones perhaps. My idea to combat terrorism is to hire either old people or a brigade of kids to watch these suspicious individuals. After all, Sherlock Holmes employed such. My friends tell me "but Sandy that was fiction!" Whatever. It seems a good way to create jobs, at any rate. Love your website, by the way.

[Ian]

Thanks, Sandy. The post is tongue in cheek, but both the Russians and Americans dabbled with employing psychics for 'remote viewing' and psychic spying back in the seventies. Their success, or lack of it, depends on which book you read. I don't know if a medium would get any help from spirits on terrorism, but they supposedly sense things from looking at and touching stuff - watch list pictures and objects recently handled by known terrorists, for instance - and that could be useful. Instead of staring at a person and saying 'I'm sensing you're having problems at work. Your superiors don't appreciate you,' they could stare at a suspect's picture and say 'I'm sensing a waste bin at the Chelsea football ground this coming Saturday'. I like to keep an open mind.

[Jay]

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Richard Dawkins

I'm also reminded of the most famous quote of Nostradamus:
"I didn't see that coming."

[Ian]

I love Dawkins, but I found the Nostradamus books a bit predictable