Sylvia Browne is really getting on my last nerve.

[Rozlee]

I love my niece dearly and she's going through a bad time. I know people need their crutches, but... Grrrr! Sylvia Browne is the biggest fake since Donald Trump's hair. I think if I hear the term "The Other Side" one more time, I'm going to go on a killing spree with a hair styling appliance. I mean, have any of you ever heard this woman or seen her on TV? My niece keeps showing me clips of her from Montel Williams. People ask her about their loved ones that have passed on to "The Other Side." One will say that he misses his wife. Sylvia will say, "I see her standing right next to you." Another one will say that she wants to tell her mother she loves her. Sylvia Browne will say, "Tell her. She's standing right in front of you smiling at you." How can anyone be on "the Other Side" if they're hanging all over us, smiling at us all the damn time?

This woman has made a fortune writing books about an afterlife where according to my niece, we'll be 30 years old (excuse me, I'd rather be 18) for eternity and we'll be reunited with our soul mates and have spiritual sex with orgasms that can last up to two hours. Browne says her son inherited her psychic abilities from her and now has his own guardian spirit or whatever the hell it is and he's making money hand over fist telling fortunes and seeing people's departed loved ones smiling all around them, too. Those two fakes are always sending my niece e-mails to join them on their "spiritual cruises" for several thousand dollars where they can enjoy the Caribbean sun and commune with their guardian spirits or whatever the hell they do.

Wotta racket. My niece wanted to borrow $5,000.00 from me to go on one of her cruises. I can't believe this crap. I gotta go take a dump. If any dead people are watching me and smiling at me right now, get the hell out of here and go back to the damn Other Side already.

[onager]

1. Now get a cup of coffee, set aside a few hours, and...

Google the phrase "Sylvia Browne fraud." You'll be reading for a while. Does your niece know she was convicted of grand theft and investment fraud in 1992?

The crap that really infuriates me is when Browne sticks her nose into a missing-persons case. People in that situation are already hurting enough, and the last thing they need is Browne making bad guesses about the fate of their loved ones:

In 2002, Browne told Lynda McClelland's daughters that their mother had been abducted by a man with the initials "MJ" and taken to Orlando, Florida, but was still alive. McClelland's body was found buried less than two miles from her home in Pennsylvania. The man charged and convicted for the murder was David Repasky, McClelland's son-in-law, who was present for the reading.

In 2003, Browne claimed that eleven year old Shawn Hornbeck had been abducted by a very tall man with long black dreadlocks and a blue sedan, and that his body could be found near two large, jagged boulders in a wooded area about 20 miles southwest of Richwoods. Her claims led to a refocusing of search efforts of numerous people calling in with tips regarding possible spottings of the rock formations Browne had mentioned. Hornbeck was found alive four years later, having been abducted by a white man with short brown hair who drove a small white Nissan pickup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Browne

Here's an interesting site from Isabella Snow, a woo who claims psychic powers herself: http://hubpages.com/hub/Sylvia_Browne_is_a_Fraud__Plagiarist_and_Convicted_Felon

[Rozlee]

5. That awful woman needs to be locked up

I told my niece about that Wikipedia site and she didn't believe a word of it. It's called cultism. That woman portrays an afterlife where everything you want comes true. You can go anywhere you want, be anything you want, do anything you please, and never experience unhappiness, hell or judgment and Jeebus is your tennis partner. I don't believe in any kind of afterlife myself, but if I did, I'd prefer to see Sylvia Browne in the nineth circle of hell for duping vulnerable and ignorant people like she does. My niece's husband committed suicide after she left him when she found out he'd been unfaithful to her. Now, she's living in a world of guilt, unhappiness and recrimination--prime meat for a charlatan like Sylvia Browne.

[SheilaT]

2. Even if Sylvia Browne were the real deal,

you have no obligation to lend your niece the money to go on one of her cruises. If niece wants to go on a cruise, on any cruise, she can pay for it herself.

[mr blur]

3. Despicable woman

[trotsky]

4. Been too long since I've seen a WoW card, mr blur!

:rofl:

[astral]

6. I used to hear her on Art Bell.

The sound of her voice just made my skin crawl. I imagined her in a tattered fuzzy bathrobe and pink slip-on slippers and a ciggy hanging out of her mouth. Some people just need someone to follow.

We had a lady come to our town years ago to give a talk. A roommate I had at the time was interested and I went along out of nothing better to do. She talked about the White Light, and past lives and "Walk-Ins" (those people who have said I will leave my body and let someone else take over because I just don't wanna bother anymore), and then she said something like vegetarian people are all wimpy because they don't eat meat or something. Which pissed my roommate off b/c she was a vegetarian.

I suppose, though, going on a $5,000 Carribean Cruise is something I would do if I had money to burn, or nothing to lose by asking to borrow the money from my rich aunt.

If the girl just really needs a vacation and you can afford to give it to her, it probably would not harm her to go. People often bark up the wrong tree in their spiritual quests but it doesn't mean they are going to stay there.