{"id":1489,"date":"2008-05-19T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/19\/even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day-you-can-decide-who-the-clock-in-question-is\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T17:11:00","slug":"even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day-you-can-decide-who-the-clock-in-question-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/19\/even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day-you-can-decide-who-the-clock-in-question-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day (You Can Decide Who the Clock in Question Is)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look, it’s finally happening…the me and Billy Graham blog!  <\/span>I almost bumped it again because of the “Evangelical Manifesto” press conference, but then I thought maybe I should actually read the manifesto before writing about it.  <\/span>
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<\/span>Perhaps it’s hard to imagine, but I recently came across some advice Rev. Billy Graham gave someone, and I kind of agree.  <\/span>I know, spooky.
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<\/span>The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an Ask Dr. Graham section, weird but true.  <\/span>The column I read<\/a> involved a Mrs. N.D. writing to Graham about her recently passed husband.  <\/span>Her friend says she knows a psychic that can put her in touch with a loved one who has passed, and asks if there is any reason to not visit this psychic.
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<\/span>Well, Graham advises against it, of course.  <\/span>First he explains that much of what passes for psychic activity is actually fraudulent, so she would be wasting her money.  <\/span>Then he goes on to play the usual song of “Let no one be found among you who…is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.”  <\/span>Party poopers.
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<\/span>If Mrs. N.D. had asked me, I would have also advised her against it.  <\/span>I truly believe there are people with psychic abilities, but I also believe that the profession of psychic is a nebulous one that is rife for abuse.  <\/span>When you visit most psychics they emphasize that it’s “for entertainment purposes only” and although I try not to make light of psychic readings I do try to put them into a perspective.  <\/span>I would not let anyone’s opinion, regardless of how informed; blindly tell me how to live my life or what to believe.  <\/span>Sure, a psychic may knows things that you don’t, but you know, my Mom does too and I don’t let her tell me what to do (much).  <\/span>I view the advice of a psychic the same as I view advice from my Mom, well intended.
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<\/span>And then there is the matter of who she wanted to speak to.  <\/span>That’s risky business in my book.  <\/span>Penn Juliette kind of sums it up on his show “Penn & Teller: Bullshit”.  <\/span>He talks about how when someone dies, you have the memories of them.  <\/span>Some are good, some are bad, but they are all 100% true and real memories.  <\/span>When you ask a psychic to communicate with that person after they passed, whatever that psychic tells you rewrites your history of that person and your relationship with them.  <\/span>In my opinion, that’s too big of a chance to take.  <\/span>I would talk to a psychic about my love life, or my career, but I don’t think I would trust a stranger with the memory of someone I loved.  <\/span>Maybe that’s just me.
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<\/span>So, there you have it, Graham and I would actually have given this woman the same advice.  <\/span>For different reasons, but still, we agreed.  <\/span>Yep, definitely scary.
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Look, it’s finally happening…the me and Billy Graham blog!  I almost bumped it again because of the “Evangelical Manifesto” press conference, but then I thought maybe I should actually read the manifesto before writing about it.   Perhaps it’s hard to imagine, but I recently came across some advice Rev. Billy Graham gave someone, and I …<\/p>\n

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