Horoscopes, astrology, palmistry…they’ve never been easier to access than they are today, thanks to the advent of the Internet. Free psychic readings are easily available all across the Web, fulfilling any possible desire you might have for a psychic consultation. From online chats with psychics to interactive tarot programs, free psychic readings are available everywhere and anywhere. Which raises the question, however, of whether or not this is a good thing.
Psychics have been around for centuries; most of the time, free psychic readings are given out by psychics as a means of luring customers in for another, longer, “better,” paid session. Psychics can generally be quickly and easily proven to be little more than actors pretending to fulfill a role for their customers, and the free psychic readings they offer are just a way to get those customers interested in the first place. People who would never otherwise choose to engage in a psychic consultation can be lured in by the promise of free psychic readings.
So what’s wrong with giving out such free psychic readings? After all, it’s not as if customers are being forced to come to the psychic, and these are free psychic readings. Furthermore, if the free psychic readings lead to people feeling better about themselves or the world around them, then those reading would seem to be worthwhile somewhat.
There is something to the above argument, that any kind of comfort that can be gained from free psychic readings should not be frowned upon; only when people begin paying exorbitant sums of money in the search for the same kind of comfort should something be done about the situation. There is, however, another argument to be made, under which the kind of comfort being offered by free psychic readings is false and empty, and therefore should be avoided simply because of the way in which it manipulates you. Most free psychic readings are based on simplistic facts and generalizations, designed to allow you to fill in the blanks left by the vague statements so that you feel that these are actually personalized statements, directly about yourself. In other words, the psychic is playing off of your own emotions and desire for the readings to be true, in order to lure you into paying money. This is a technique called cold reading, and it is often used in free psychic readings.
Belief in the ability of psychics to genuinely perform psychic readings that are true and complete is perhaps the most dangerous consequence of attending too many free psychic readings. After all, generally speaking, psychics can be proven false with ease, unless they are making such general statements that they cannot be proven either true or false. Essentially, a psychic’s statements will either be falsifiable, in which case they can be disproved, or they will be non-falsifiable statements that require the customer’s interpretation to have any meaning. Belief in the truthfulness of these non-falsifiable statements is the most unfortunate consequence of attending free psychic readings.
Regardless, however, it is the decision of every person whether or not he or she wants to partake in free psychic readings. After all, who knows? The psychic might, this time,
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