Do you believe the 'stars' tell, that you are a CD?

[faltenrock]

Hi there,

when living in the US, I had a roomate I went to art school with. He could not know about my CD, beacuse that time I did not dress and did not have any fem item. He is half indian american, half philippines and extremely into astrology. he alwayes used to acrry at least one thick bock with him.

Anyway, I visited six years later with my wife. He already had the first kid.

So he wanted to read our hands (he actually makes his living with astrology since many years now). So he got our birthdates, time of the day when born and the birthplaces. We started with me. Saying many things, he came to the point of gender and gender identity. He said, at some point that would be a strong issue between me and my wife and could cause trouble. He did not directly talk about my crossdressing. My wife, who I actually met while on a scholarship in the US, did not speak English as good as I did - so she missed most of what he said.

That was a weared experience, how could he know - I don't have a clue to this, but very interesting anyway.

[Tamera]

My ancestors are from Hungry,
And of course in Hungry is Transelvania,
So I do beleive in:
Spirits, Witches, Paranormal, Hauntings, Dreams, etc.
I am a little skeptical on Palm Readings, And I don't beleive my life is in the stars.

Personally, I have seen Spirits.
And my mom and grandma have had similar experiences.
LOL
Tamera

[Kate Simmons]

We are made of star stuff but I'm not sure how much they influence us , except from a point of origin standpoint maybe. Your friend may have been channeling the information but that's another 'ball game" altogether.:happy:

[Teresa Amina]

How nice do you keep your nails? Might have triggered the link subconsciously if you have femmy hands.
I've had a couple readings from mediums in the last year or so. Only one "kind of" picked up on my Teresa-ness, and she didn't understand what she was seeing.

[Stephenie S]

Hi there,

when living in the US, I had a roomate I went to art school with. He could not know about my CD, beacuse that time I did not dress and did not have any fem item. He is half indian american, half philippines and extremely into astrology. he alwayes used to acrry at least one thick bock with him.

Anyway, I visited six years later with my wife. He already had the first kid.

So he wanted to read our hands (he actually makes his living with astrology since many years now). So he got our birthdates, time of the day when born and the birthplaces. We started with me. Saying many things, he came to the point of gender and gender identity. He said, at some point that would be a strong issue between me and my wife and could cause trouble. He did not directly talk about my crossdressing. My wife, who I actually met while on a scholarship in the US, did not speak English as good as I did - so she missed most of what he said.

That was a weared experience, how could he know - I don't have a clue to this, but very interesting anyway.

He didn't know and he doesn't know. These kinds of wildly open statements that have NO specifics in them are common tricks of parlor magicians. He gave you a vague general statement, "he did not directly talk about my crossdressing" and left you to fill in the blanks in your mind with specifics that would then make his prediction seem real to you. It's done ALL the time hon, don't be sucked in to this claptrap. Go to ANY fortune teller and you will get much of the same stuff. The better a person is at open ended suggestions like this, the better charlatan they can be. You said he was making his living at it. Well, he got you good.

Lovies,
Steph

[Dixie]

DITTO

[faltenrock]

Hi Stefanie,

I'm not into astrology, he was a friend and former roomate - that's it.
Anyway, I thought that was very interesting, of course I didn't pay anything to him.

[Dixie]

...On second thought I am a Leo, maybe that's why I'm such a big "Pussy Cat"! Then again,....maybe not..... I'm soooooo confused!:D:D:heehee:

[Sheri 4242]

On one side of the coin, I think Stephenie was correct about "how" those who dabble in, and/or practice, astrology, the occult, etc., can make open-ended statements which your mind translates into some sort of factual knowledge however vague or specific. The mind can be a very powerful tool! On the other side of the coin, as a Christian, if I believe in "good" spirits, so-to-speak (angels, the Holy Spirit, etc.), then I must also believe that there are "bad" or "evil" spirits which can channel through willing participants like your friend, even if your friend doesn't realize the source.

One last thing: maybe he suspects something from your mutual past -- an obviously long-standing suspicion about something that you don't remember or recall, or even something you don't know anything about. He might be projecting something known to him, or maybe even of unknown origin -- or even just a very general suspicion -- into his open-ended statements, to which the general reaction by you would be "ah-ha, he knows something . . . or does he?" This is how fortune-tellers and astrologers get their hooks into people, not that you paid him.

[Seville]

I believe in Science, not hokum.

[trannie T]

Any type of fortune telling is a fraud. It is easy to make a few general statements that the subjects believe fit them.
You asked how could he know. He did not know a thing.
Did he describe your crossdressing?
Did he know what color panties you were wearing?
Did he talk about your favorite dress?
Pay no attention to these people, they are fakes.

[Dixie]

That is not entirely true. My father-in-law rest his soul could see things. He came back from the grand canyon once and told us he saw this stuffed eagle in a trading post. He said the eagle was trying to get his attention so he looked closely at it but all he could see was fire. Three days after he told us this the place burned to the ground. Nothing vague here, very specific. There are a thousand other such stories, my wife has this ability, and when she warns me to look out for something I listen, it has saved my life more than once.

[battybattybats]

I have some small amount of Transylvanian gypsy in my bloodline :)

While I do take a rational and scientific view of things I have had some interesting experiences. Sudden unexplained pains that coresspond both in time and body part to the injuries of relatives, weird dream crossovers where I'd have an uncharacteristic dream only to overhear someone I knew relating their dream from the same night which seemed to be the same dream but from another perspective, dreams that come true (only with small and odd differences like there were only two kittens that ran into the house through the back door and not four like in that nights dream, the two black kittens were identical to the dream so I stood stunned for several moments looking for the patchy and the grey kitten and wondering when I would wake back up before I realised it was real) and other odd things.

Still it is enough for me to acknowledge some sort of phenomena is at work but not enough for me to credulously swallow any methodologically unsound explanation.