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MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
News / Who are you voting for in the 2010 Poland's presidential elections and why? [82]

Whether he possesses powers of clairvoyance or these were all coincidences and lucky guesses - who is to say?

It gets rather easy when you know that opposite of every correct guess there are dozens of failed guesses. But that's not what worries me, what worries me is that those individuals often haven't got a clue about the pain and misery they create with the family members of the missing person. By simply saying he was murdered, they cause much harm to the relatives, especially when it turns out that the person is still alive or that it was an accident.

Anybody can be a clairvoyant. As long as you have the power to actually listen to what ppl say and carefully can observe the person as he or she always will give clues that you're in the right direction. It will give you handles as to which direction your questions need to go. And if you are in the wrong direction, you can quickly mumble sth about different visions or sth.

At the above mentioned "paranormal fair" I did a trick with one of them. It was only 5 guilders, so what the heck. I just sat there and asked him to tell me about myself. I didn't give him any clue with facial expressions and he started and he twisted and turned and in the end all info he gave me was wrong. Also, all the guesses were wrong. This is just to show that in fact all the advice and tips the clairvoyant gives you in fact you give yourself.

In the case of the drowned boys: somebody must have told him that the police didn't look in a certain corner of the lake, otherwise he would not have given that advice. Why would they skip that part of the lake? I don't think that lakes in Poland are that huge that they don't manage to cover the whole area in a day or two. But how big do you think the odds are that when two kids go out for a swim and don't return home at all, that they may have been drowned? 50 per cent I say. The other 50 per cent could be that they ran away from home. But given the fact that kids really don't run away that frequently from home without being found somewhere or returning home within 24 hours it's a very safe guess that the kids would have been drowned or otherwise killed.

>^..^<

M-G (well, don't waste money on them)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
News / Who are you voting for in the 2010 Poland's presidential elections and why? [82]

If people are stupid enough to believe then they deserve to be told a load of bullshyt!

True. It's like those Nigerian 419 scams. If ppl are stupid enough to buy that bullcrap, they deserve everything what happens to them. Same goes if you're stupid enough to believe this "mystic" nonsense.

Beware! This is actually a very cruel and touching story, but it's a true one and should serve as example for anyone who is contemplating the help of one of them charlatans:

About 10 years ago in NL there was a woman on tv who wanted to know what happened to her daughter, who had disappeared without a trace a couple of years before that. She was really at the edge of a nervous breakdown (understandable). Enter a famous Dutch (or American, can't remember) psychic. In footage shown you could see how the psychic talked to the woman at home and how the woman showed the psychic pictures of the daughter. On one of them she was seen handling a dog.
It ended with, and I remember to this day, the last words of the woman to the psychic "pls help me, pls. My daughter is the only one in this life that I have left (her husband had died some time after the daughter had disappeared) and if you tell me she is dead, I have no reason to live anymore."

Enter showhost who invited the woman on stage and after that enter the same psychic as seen before in the footage. The psychic took the woman's hand and got "visions" after a short while and rapped about how sorry he was, but that her daughter was dead, killed by a "passing stranger" and buried under some bushes. He got visions of a Rhododendron. Also he got visions of a dog. The woman, in tears, confirmed that her daughter was very fond of dogs and thanked the psychic for the security he finally had given her.

Three days after the show was over, the woman committed suicide. A week after the show the showhost told the audience that they had received a phone call from a woman abroad who claimed to be the daughter of the woman in the show. She had run away from home to start a new life and so on. The identity was confirmed that this was indeed the daughter of the woman. But the woman committed suicide, believing her daughter wasn't alive anymore. When confronted later on with this, the psychic just laughed. Needless to say he has become persona non grata in NL ever since. With a flat face he just said: "well, sometimes I am wrong, hahaha, it happens." You could see the interviewer get stunned and then get angry. If I were the reporter I would have punched him so hard in his face that he would not awake for a few hours.

This is just an advise never to go to those charlatans.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
News / Who are you voting for in the 2010 Poland's presidential elections and why? [82]

In February 2010 the clairvoyant was visited by Andrzej Lepper who wanted to know if the winner o the election would be Lech KaczyƄski. "I told him of my vision of the acting president as a lying and sleeping man". Jackowski says he was indicating a crash of a plane or planes over Ukraine in the not-too-distant future as early as in 2009.

According to a Dutch comedian: "whenever I want to visit a clairvoyant and he answers my knock on his door with a 'who's there?' I always turn around and leave immediately."

Come on, you don't really want to believe what quacks like that have to say? These guys have been unmasked so many times, it's a shame they still practice anyway. In hindsight it's always easy to mark certain remarks as prophecies or truthsayings, but that's only interpreted from within a certain mindframe and therefore it will always be correct. A bit like the horoscopes: they are so general, everybody will recognise sth of himself in it.

And besides, it's more psychology than anything else. What these guys study most is the way they ask you questions and how to observe your reaction to it. Any prediction you receive from a guy like that you have basically given yourself. Have you ever been to a "paranormal fair"? I did once, because a friend wanted me to come. It's a disgrace to see all these guys clutched together: on this table handreadings, on the next table cardreadings, at the third table clairvoyance...And it's all about the money. Don't fall for that nonsense.

>^..^<

M-G (doesn't like this type of merchandise)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]

See, racists don't like to be called racist as it's a bad thing, but this doesn't diminish the fact that they are racist, even if we were to call them nopwits or sth. Racists also always come with "facts" which very conveniently "proves" they are "correct". However, trouble with these "facts" is that it's usually only one opinion of one person. Racists are in general also always looking for confirmation. That it's "ok" to say the things they say.

Example, taken from the Dutch govt how a racist thinks he can "prove" his statements:

You're in a bus with 20 scientists. It's very foggy outside and you cannot see any further than 5 metres, yet you're driving very fast as it's a straight road. The scientists have all instruments with them and 19 of them tell you that their instruments indicate a sharp turn in the road and that it's better to slow down the speed if you don't want to crash. But one scientist says that according to his instrument there is no upcoming turn and it's ok to drive ahead full speed. What will you do?

Normal ppl will rely on the majority of scientists and slow down as it's safe to assume a turn in the road is coming. The racist will say "because this one scientist says there is no turn in the road upcoming, there is no turn upcoming, so I will drive full speed ahead.

I think this pretty much explains how racists think and how they think they can "prove" their claims.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
History / Battle of Warsaw movie in production [24]

You know, that's why we call this conglomerate of wars immediately succeeding WW1 "Birthpain Wars" as they form part of the birthpains of the new nations that emerged. But in all it's all part of the 30-year war of the 20th Century as the period 1914-1945 has come to be known.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
History / Battle of Warsaw movie in production [24]

You turn things around. In 1983 Reagan proposed his Star Wars project. The SU, used to keep on par with the US knew they could never afford such an expensive program. It was this project that caused Gorbi to write his Glasnost and adopt Perestrojka as the SU was already on its knees economically. He knew the only way to survive was reform in order to get the economy going again. It's all about pure economic reasons. Nothing political and for certain nothing coming out of the Eastern European countries.

>^..^<

M-G (sorry)

You know that I'm right. At the time Solidarnosc was just another attempt to revolt against Communism. Or don't you understand that through political reform one can retrieve economic gain? Star Wars was the final blow, if it were to be put in effect, the SU wouldn't stand a change against the Americans as any counter strike would have been deflected successfully, taking away the basis of mutual destruction threat. SU couldn't afford a program like that, financially and with the basis of the Cold War gone, Gorbi offered this change of course. That's what started and finalised the demise of Communism in Europe.

>^00^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
News / 10,000 ISRAELIS READY TO CLAIM FOR POLISH CITIZENSHIP AND POLISH LAND! [628]

M-G, are you denying Jewish involvement in communist movement? Perhaps it’s your brethren that should apologize for the remark he has made, don’t you think?

I asked you to apologize for it. I'm getting fed up with all those accusations addressed to a minority that were part of a dreadful organisation. If you want to blame some group, blame the Russians, your Slavic brothers as they formed by far the biggest group of communists.

Edit: after you guys in 1968 and the Russians a little later, kicked out most of the Jews, Communism still went on. How do you explain that if it was a Jewish thing? If it was, wouldn't it cease to exist as soon as the guys who kept it alive were gone?

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
History / Battle of Warsaw movie in production [24]

Polonius3

Come on, let's not exaggerate the Polish role in the demise of Communism. While she for certain did her part, Poland is not the only country that helped bringing Communism down. Hungary for example did her part by opening up the border with Austria. Czechoslovakia did her part, and so on. Heck, even East Germany did her part. While some point at Solidarnosc (or how the heck you write it) as the starting point, culminating in the first free elections of 4 June 1989, one could argue that it in fact were the chanced politics of Gorbatschov who created the atmosphere that a change was pssbl. I know that Gorbi didn't mean to end Communism as such, but his more liberal approached definitively created the context in which the "Revolution" could take place. It was the only circumstance that was substantially different from the ones in 1953, 1956, 1968 and 1980.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
History / Battle of Warsaw movie in production [24]

depict the preparations for repelling the Soviet invaders.

I imagine that would be sth like: "hey, can you put tha bullet-crate a little to the left yes? No, a little more to the left. Am I speaking Spanish? I said TO THE LEFT! No, your other right handside. Yes...Yes, that's where I want them. A little bit more, pls. Are those cannons coming yet? No? Why not? I ordered them 2 weeks ago! No, don't move that bullet crate! Damn, can't anybody get me a coffee? Black two sugar pls. Guys, guys GUYS! Why is that hole dug here? No soul can get past it now...Damn, ok, fill it up again and dig it there under that pear tree...Everything you have to tell them!"

Hm, sounds like an action movie.

:)

>^..^<

M-G (is going to the cinema when it's released)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
History / Warsaw Uprising - The Forgotten Soldiers [117]

All that national pride crap goes out of the window when it comes down to it, and then you see which individuals are capable of misdeeds and which ones will take up the arduous task of re-asserting morality in the world.

Well said. War can bring out the worst in ppl, but also the best. This is with every ppl. Too bad that some on here see it as black and white and after the war almost completely white.

>^..^<

M-G (the line is not that clear when your own life is at stake)
MareGaea   
1 Jul 2010
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

What are you talking about? I haven't used the word in ages. This quote probably is from before the problems you had with the Dutch version of the Polish capital's name.

>^..^<

M-G (now apologize)
MareGaea   
30 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / polish people in usa that wanted germany to win [34]

Lower taxes.
Better roads.
Strict immigration policy.
No need the work permit in Germany.
Free train ticket to Germany or Austria

Here's a few more:

- restriction and proscecution of all political opponents
- violence in the streets
- no freedom of speech
- being considered a rogue state abroad
- killing of disabled (yes also when it's your kid)
- disappearing of ppl overnight
- your kids being abducted and brainwashed by the HJ

and there is more.

>^..^<

M-G (still doesn't believe that the majority in Germany wants Hitler cs back)
MareGaea   
30 Jun 2010
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

You mean the "fat boy" joke?

No, that's just when he gets obnoxious :)

Maybe it's good to know that to me PF is entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. Should put some of my remarks into context.

Mind you if they ever ban Prozac for browsing more than three threads I think I'm going to have to leave!

Same here - Prozac, my lifeblood here on PF :)

(nah)
MareGaea   
30 Jun 2010
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

I don't know. He doesn't seem to appreciate my jokes. And once he gets into a fit like that, who am I not to put some gasoline on the fire? :)

But btw, isn't the use of anabole steroids forbidden on PF?

Edit: maybe he wants to get back at me for calling his muscle-thread gay?

(wonders)
MareGaea   
30 Jun 2010
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Two years on and they're still at it I see.

It's just started again recently when WB got yet another of his jealousy rages. Must be the steroids :)

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
30 Jun 2010
Law / Where is it cheaper to buy cars, Poland or other EU countries? [7]

holland

Cars in Holland are not cheap. Neither is gasoline and taxes.

>^..^<

M-G (plus I thought you cannot buy a new car in another memberstate and then drive with it on local licenseplates, but I'm not fully sure about that)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
History / Should HMG compensate Poland and/or Polish veterans? [90]

I think it's a major fail of Ozi dan to involve the Teheran conference in it. The Teheran conference has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand. Ozi dan reveals himself now as a revisionist, unfortunately and disqualifies himself. Sorry, Ozi dan. You have disqualified yoursefl as serious historian and. Goodbye.

Edit: that's what you get when you try to make real historians ridiculous.

>^..^<

M-G (I am not regarding his useless remarks about my sigs and all)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Jogging is an internationally accepted term for the activity. It's actually correct to use it as it is. Any attempt to "localize" the word would lead to silly and laughable situations, like the French had when the authority to preserve the French language decided there should be French versions of Internet terms like "Message Electronique" for E-mail and so on.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
History / Israeli wants to wipe Poland off the map! [198]

For entertainment purposes. The program is called "Hard Talk", so you can expect the interviewer giving the interviewee a hard time. And the art of engaging in this is not to get angry, upset or give in to any decoys the interviewer may lay for you and just to stick to your version of things. This woman had a field day when the guy got angry (you could see him getting angry), so of course she bashed in on him more and more. You don't have to blame her for this. It's her job to do so, it's what the viewers want to see.

Nobody is telling the full truth ever, anyway. Everybody gives their own version of it and the full truth can only emerge once all versions have been put together and you determine the greatest common divider, only then you will know a story which is closest to the truth. So all stories should be laid together and an impartial person should determine the gcd and only then you will come the closest you can to the truth.

>^..^<

M-G (but there will always be missing links, so the truth we will never know anyway)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
History / Israeli wants to wipe Poland off the map! [198]

How about corroboration to make sure that his story checks out? Israel conducting its own investigation and making it out to be the official one is wrong too.

I'm all for corroboration. I'm just against the unconditional acceptance of anything witnesses say as the truth. Research has shown that witnesses usually don't tell the truth, either because they are too shocked by what happened or they are member of the group which has an interest in any of the outcomes.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
History / Israeli wants to wipe Poland off the map! [198]

he was there

What else can he say than what he did? You really expect him to say: yes, we did attack the soldiers? That wouldn't look so good, now wouldn't it? How do we know that he indeed seperated the bullets from the gun he retrieved from an Israeli soldier? How do we know? Because he says so? The fact that he was there is no proof at all that his version of events is the truth. Just like the Israeli version his version is biased beyond doubt. What annoys me about this discussion is the unconditional acceptance of everything that counters the Israeli version of events by all participants so far. I'm not saying the Israeli version is the correct one, but I haven't seen any proof so far that the other side is telling the truth. It's just accepted as is and that is actually a bad thing.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

Actually, no I don't

So it's ok to call the Brits ineloquent nitwits, but oh dear when the Poles are being called like that?

Many of you does not mean everybody.

Many of you Poles are ineloquent nitwits. How does that sound?

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
History / Should HMG compensate Poland and/or Polish veterans? [90]

No. Nowhere it states "militairy aid" in the agreement. All it says "to the best of her abilities", and that is what Great Britain did. That this might not be enough in Polish eyes is not to be blamed on the British.

en.wikisource.org/wiki/Agreement_of_Mutual_Assistance_between_the_United_Kingdom_and_Poland-London_(1939)

What I am more interested in however, are the secret protocols attached to it, especially this part:

2. (...) and that the cases contemplated by paragraph (2) of Article 2 are Belgium, Holland, Lithuania. (c) Latvia and Estonia shall be regarded by the two Governments as included in the list of countries contemplated by paragraph (...) As regards Roumania, the Government of the United Kingdom refers to the guarantee which it has given to that country; and the Polish Government refers to the reciprocial undertakings of the Roumano-Polish alliance which Poland has never regarded as incompatible with her traditional friendship for Hungary.

So, in case of a German invasion of any of the countries mentioned in this secret protocol, war would erupt. From the secret protocols as well as the document itself, it's pretty clear that it served as diplomatic foundation for the fact that Britain would use any further invasion by Germany as casus belli. When Germany invaded Poland later on, it declared war on Germany and performing all that was within her powers to assist, thus keeping her part of the deal, which did not include any militairy presence in Poland.

What I am curious about is, however, why wasn't a copy of this agreement provided to the countries mentioned in the secret protocol? As far as I know, the Dutch govt never received a copy of it, whereas it concerned her independence as a casus belli as well.

Edit: furthermore, you make the mistake to involve the Teheran conference into this agreement. Teheran had as such nothing to do with it.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / polish people in usa that wanted germany to win [34]

When I was in Germany there were a lot of Germans wishing for Hitler to win the war but not all

I find that very hard to believe.

>^..^<

M-G (Germans usually are most embarrassed nowadays by Hitler cs)
MareGaea   
29 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

You English natives use your language to criticise Poles.
Why do you do this?

Because vice versa Poles use their language to criticize the Brits, or in your case, you use English:

I will tell you that many of you here are silly and conceited people without a clue about what does it mean to be Polish but with a fake certainty that Poland is far far away from the rest of Europe not even mentioning about a world.

See what I mean?

And btw, English is not my native language.

>^..^<

M-G (halleluyah!)