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AlexWong Veteran user 371 Posts |
Sometimes I had been wondering, in the field of cold reading and fortune telling, why people ascribe to Fortune cookies....
I mean.... how different if picking a fortune cookie and reading the fortune inside, from picking a random slip of paper in say a bag of random papers? Yet I think few people will truely ascribe to their fortune being told by a slip of paper from a bag of many pieces of other slips of paper? The Chinese has a form of divination which a person wishing for divination shakes a cylinder of sticks until one piece falls out. The person than takes the stick to an interpreter who then divines what that means. Following that logic, how many people think that people will be open to this. Place folk wisdom onto slips of paper, and perhaps proverbial wisdom as well, into a bowl or container. Have the person pick, or shake one out. And then the diviner then interprets the slip of paper. Perfect place for cold reading I think, but I mean without going into the logic and ethics of it all. Just thinking of what makes people accept one and reject another. Other more established forms like Tarot and Palmistry aside, I'm talking about what seems like random information for a bunch of others type of divination. What makes one more believable than others? Again, I'm talking about the psychology of a person, not techniques, or ethics. Any thoughts? |
J ack Galloway Inner circle 1309 Posts |
I have a 50 year old tube of sticks as you describe.
I would offer that it is accurate. Just as are the other form of random divination you mentioned. How could it not be if KaYouse theory is a real thing? Cheers Jack |
Alexander Marsh Inner circle England 1191 Posts |
Its all random!
Why some people belive that a randomly shuffled deck of cards baring pictures (Tarot) that are then layed out in some kind of order means that you should buy that house your thinking about buying, is quite beyond me. Some Tarot readers shuffle the cards themself! At least if the person being read shuffled them it would make some kind of sence as to 'why' the 'meanings' relate to them. And Palmistry! The lines on your palm are made when your inside the whome. Like your finger prints. You first start of with perfectly round finger prints, a bit like ripples on the surface of water, but inside the whome your skin rinkeles because you are growing thus forming the individual lines. However I know 2 people who, when they where growing inside there mother, they had fat fingers for what ever reason, so now they have perfectly round, cemetrical finger prints. Its quite rare. Why are they accurate? Its like a mgaic trick (a good one done by a good magician), in your head you make it convincing. You make it real. The spoon doesn't really bend via Mind Power, but inside your mind it does! The coins don't really jump from under one card to under the other, but in your mind they do! Ahhhh the Wonder of Words. Arnt we humans strange! Sorry about the spelling,
My stuff: AlexanderMarshMentalism.co.uk
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J ack Galloway Inner circle 1309 Posts |
Strange? Yes you but definitly not me.
Cheers Jack |
Alexander Marsh Inner circle England 1191 Posts |
And what do you mean by that?! (hands on hips)
My stuff: AlexanderMarshMentalism.co.uk
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enriqueenriquez Inner circle New York 1287 Posts |
As I heard last week: “some things give us a message, not because they know the truth, but because they have a story to tell”.
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J ack Galloway Inner circle 1309 Posts |
Enriqueenriquez,
I like that line, verry charming. I will use it. Thanks Jack |
enriqueenriquez Inner circle New York 1287 Posts |
My pleasure. I use it too!
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