Haunted country MH: The caller who admits that her profession is nothing

"They have no evidence, they come to ask you are calling, do you understand how absurd this is?" The caller asks Shula Zaken, who was Ehud Olmert's secretary, and became a state witness against him.

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It is said that there is no signature indicating its pulp. Surely he should not have done this when the dough spoiled during baking, but this is what happened to the caller Ofira whose conversation was with the person who was the director of Ehud Olmert's office throughout his political career as minister, mayor of Jerusalem and prime minister of Israel.

I read this sentence several times to believe that someone admits that his profession is not something "They don't have enough evidence, they come to ask a caller. You understand how absurd this is," the caller is quoted on the tape (See for example in Vala).

So that no one has a claim that I am taking the sentence out of context (besides cutting it short), here is the full sentence, in which Ofira refers to the attorneys working at the State Attorney's Office: "I know all the attorneys, they come to me for communications. If someone came to ask about you, I told him like this - "Amina, she didn't do anything". As I was told in heaven, the same. Some lawyer whose name I can't say, they come and ask, do you understand? They don't have... they come for evidence because they don't have enough evidence, you understand? They come to ask you call, do you understand how absurd this is?"

There are indeed some absurdities here, the readers of this website do not need to exaggerate the absurdity of the channeling itself (see links at the bottom of the article), since there is no logical reason to think that there is anyone to communicate with, spirits and demons only exist in folktales and they are always attributed infinite knowledge, which may not be They had in their lives, but it is nothing more than a guess, sometimes informed, sometimes not. For example, the first half of the sentence makes sense, there is no question of ghosts here, one of the lawyers asked about the reliability of an old man and the caller replied that she is reliable, but this could be due to the friendship/work relationship between them, but in the second half the caller also admits that there is nothing in her profession, because if it were possible to communicate with spirits or with dead souls (for the first time I hear of a difference between these two titles, which until now had the same meaning), then from their seat they had the opportunity to examine evidence that was not in the hands of the researchers.

The "Dictionary of Skeptics" website Explains that those engaged in cold reading (and gave as an example the mediums - the callers), he explains that the callers use several tricks from the marketing world to appear credible. They say a lot of things, including many general sentences, and hope that something will be found between them that the client will associate with something in his world. "Selective memory is also involved in subjective validity because it does not make sense that every client will be able to find meaning in every expression that comes out of the medium's mouth. Fortunately for these readers, customers usually forget the misses and only remember the right hits. Therefore, the listener will remember that she managed to find meaning and forget all the things that were meaningless to her. Also, it is rare that someone will independently examine the correctness of the reader's ratings by the client. Therefore, if a client is satisfied with the reader, he will usually tell his friends and see this as evidence of the success of the medium, and the validity of his reading. The greater the desire to make contact, the more the client will tend to work harder to find meaning and connection in the medium's words."

Beyond the fact that the caller admits the weakness of her profession, there is another point that needs to be taken into account: that our fate is determined not by people we have chosen but by professions that have no basis in logic, even if they believe in it themselves (unlike in the current case). I am sure that most readers will not want to place their trust in callers (who knows if callers were not consulted at the beginning of the Second Lebanon War and therefore the Israeli response was delayed?), and perhaps the callers, who want to take care of other generations of people with a low level of education, who are a good target audience for them recommended For prime ministers to cut higher education budgets?

Thanks to Gilad Diamant, the owner of the blog (and the book) "sharp thinking" who drew my attention to the caller's punch line.

See:
A country haunted by demons XNUMX: Why is there a tendency to believe readers of all kinds?

A country haunted by demons XNUMX: Communication - Sherri Arison as a parable

Carl Sagan on psychics

Haunted country XNUMX: Why is there a tendency to believe readers?

Haunted country C - NRG and communication with Zohar Argov - crossing a red line

A country haunted by demons B - the politicians are going to the Acetganines

Gilad Diamant/The Whisperer for the Dead

Gilad Diamant/cold reading - a hot profession