This video is hilarious. The “psychic” tells how she got involved in this missing person case in Nevada. I love the quote: “It’s called psychometry”. That’s a made up word where the psychic feels objects and gets feelings, and visions from them. I also like “I try to stay out of my mind”. No duh. (I wish I could embed the video here, but the code the source site supplies defies my technical ability:
Psychic InterviewWhat’s really bizarre is the “reporter’s” nonchalant acceptance, even encouragement of this cock and bull story. Where is the reporting? Where is the skepticism?
“Psychometry” is a simple portmanteau word (e.g., brunch, camcorder). The problem is that right-thinking people, like us, would never coin nor use such a word.
All words aren’t “made up” out of the “ether” to legitimize nonsense. Most have s long legitimate cultural heritage. But in the literal sense, yes. Just ast the universe was made up, all words have been constructed.
Where is the skepticism? It was replaced by cynicism and complacence.
And all words are “made up,” but psychometry is an oxymoron.