aristophanes

You get into the occult business, you get some aggravating people from time to time. This fellow who should have never been let on as to the existance of the English language really irked me though:

I found your website pretty interesting. And i would also wish to pay for much spells and forecast. But under one condition . I want you to beforehand predict something that without a doubt proves to me your legitimacy. If you would be willing to do that, you will find yourself with quite a fair amount of compensation.

First of all, I should point out that this is akin to going to a doctor and saying "I will give you lots of money for prescriptions and surgeries if you will first diagnose something about me for free and without a medical history or examination, and if you can't do it you're a fraud!"

That, and aside from how his grammarless offers of cash makes him sound like some sort of Nigerian scam artist (though I did an IP check -- I think it said he's from Kansas or something), what upset me was how he was questioning my "legitimacy" based on something I don't even claim to be able to do -- in fact it says right on the site, on www.taliastarot.com/Services.html I am not a psychic or a clairvoyant, and that I just do readings. And yet this villain, whose hotmail Email address lists his name as "Incrimination Area", questions my legitimacy based on whether or not I can do something that I plain out SAY I can't do?

Something really needs to be done about how 'tarot reader' has come to be perceived as synonymous with 'psychic.'

Then once we solve that, we'll have to tackle the "magic spells" = "Wicca" problem.

EDIT: That guy wrote me back. Now, I'd actually responded to him with just a simple short message reminding him that it says right on the site I'm not psychic. He responded "I appreciate your honesty."