Up Your Own Botty or What?

david hobbs · Up Your Own Botty or What?

You know it have come to realise that some people who ask for readings and psychic help are so far up them selves that I just have to let them have it with both barrels.

Their's is not to ask for help in times of darkness and self doubt but rather to ask what they might do to further their own careers and enhace their self esteem and their flagging love life the snivelling little swines.

Why am I not a success? why does my love life always turn so viciously bad? When will I succeed in my career.?

In future I shall have to explain that the reason is this.

YOU are just an insignificant twat and you shall always remain so.

Now go away and take a really good long look at yourself.

Phew.

No charge by the way.

evergreen

LOL

beantighe

I love the way you think, David!

meiah

Whilst I laugh, I can't help wondering why you attract them? ( nearly deleted that twice, not meant to be offensive, but then, odd that)

Why you?

evergreen

its everyone that attracts them its how we deal with them that differs... I no longer do free readings I found that helped me :)

Raymond

This actually leads onto a very interesting subject which I have been pondering for quite a few years actually.

Every now and then my local spiritualist church holds a 'psychic supper' where they raise money for a local charity.
All the readings are free but the church manages to fleece money out of the punters in other ways, raffles, tombolas, etc...

I know the lady who runs the chuch very well and when she has these meetings she always asks me to go along to do tarot readings.
Even though I am not a spiritualist I do feel a pang of allegiance to this church because I've been going there since a teenager and they have helped me out on many occasions over the years.

Obviously I do the exact same readings for free as I do when I charge yet people always seem a lot happier with the reading when I charge them.

I find that odd.

Over the years I have found that generally people have more respect for you as a reader when you charge them.
It's almost as if they see doing something for free as second best.

david hobbs

In the eyes of society paid for services are professional and free services are not.

Such is the nature of the material world that we live in.

The shaman of olden times charged plenty and were respected.

Perhaps they had it right because it eliminated the time wasters and the facile.

meiah

Its a value thing.

david hobbs

meiah

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Raymond

A very wise old Medium friend of mine said to me before she died "You are your best teacher".

R.I.P Eugenie.

meiah

I would love to have a list of sage advice given to us, to reflect on now and again.

Much of mine was disregarded at the time, but comes back to me when I need it.

Here is one. " Never regret anything you have done, it was the right thing for you at that time"

Raymond

Many a mickle makes a muckle.

Lilly

Most of my friends get fed up with the 'quotes' I bring up. My Mum and Dad were always quoting and I found so many of them so valuable in my life,I remember them at certain times- then I sound like Confucius ,I just come out with them!
Though many of Dad's were mixed in with his cockney humour,I still found them thought provoking.
Naturally,at this moment in time,I can't think of one of them!
I have noticed that most of the old proverbs contradict each other,as in ;
Many hands make light work,whereas; too many cooks spoil the broth.

This was one of Dad's favourites;
If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.

beantighe

Perhaps we should have a 'Quotable Quotes' thread?

That's very good advice, Raymond, about being your own teacher. Many of us can't find a teacher of any sort, never mind the right one, and if we were to wait indefinitely for a teacher,we'd never learn anything, just stagnate.

I felt so adrift as a newbie, after I'd split from that coven which treated me so badly, and led me to think that I couldn't, or shouldn't, do anything whatsoever on my own. That made me angry, and one day soon after, it occurred to me that I would be my own teacher and follow my own heart and instincts. I may not be as magically knowledgeable as others, but then maybe that wasn't meant to be my path, and I was meant to find my own. After all, we can only walk our own path, not somebody else's, and what's right for some isn't necessarily right for you.

Raymond

All you need to know about Magick is the most powerful Magick comes from the Magickian's intent not the props he uses.

All the rest is just gravy.

beantighe

Now you know it's impossible to think about magic when you're too busy drooling, Raymond!

Now all I need is a way to teach our selfish, greedy landlord a lesson for refusing to help us pay for the installation of our central heating, which is being put in under the Warm Front scheme, simply because he's not allowed to put the rent up for two years after the work's been done! Grrrrrrrrr!!!

david hobbs

Perhaps not being able to put the rent up is revenge enough.

If he really is as greedy and selfish as he sounds then that will hurt quite a bit.

I would try to make plans to move in two years time though.

beantighe

Yes, I'm sure you're right, David. But think about it, we'll have gone through all this trouble to get a house that's nice and cosy, and it's actually quite a nice little house, it's just cold at the moment. Moving is a terrible hassle and stress, and the way rents have gone over the last few years, it would cost just as much, if not more, for a 2-bed house, and then we'd have to start all over again. I don't think either of us could face moving again if we don't have to. And there's no guarantee that we wouldn't be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Better the devil you know......................

david hobbs

Yes it's always easy for me give good advice just as long as I don't have to do the hard work.

Moving is a bugger and I sometimes entertain the idea but then think of the work, and time, that I have spent on this house. to say nothing of the financial costs.

I suppose the grass is always greener.

At the moment in my area there is a lot of available rentable property on the market and I believe that in this situation rents can be negotiated. I think that letting agents are to blame as they hike up the rent as much as possible to get the maximum commission. What with Bankers and estate agents and letting agents greed we are now in a state of economic uncertainty.

I mention all three together because they all share a common trait. GREED.

I love it when their greed catches them out and they go bust as one of the largest estate agents in my area has recently. They were known for greed so the old saying"what goes around comes around" holds true.

beantighe

That's what I believe too, David. I'm absolutely sure that greed never prospers. But whatever sort of come-uppance the landlord gets, I really hope it won't affect our home or our tenancy. We've put a lot of our own effort into this house, and I'd hate to have to leave it now. It's not only a nice little house, it's in a quiet little road and we have nice, peaceful neighbours. We could do a lot worse. Once we have heating, it'll be just right. I think it would be really hard to find another place like this in this town for the price, even though I still think the rent is steep for the wages in this area, which is notoriously low paid. Even now, we couldn't afford it without help. I think my very worst nightmare would be to end up in a poky flat with no garden and nowhere to hang the washing out or sit outside, and nowhere for the cats to go. It would be a frightful prospect, and we just wouldn't accept it.