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Jan 16, 2007 20:33



Who believes in fortune-telling, and why?

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hushed_hopes January 17 2007, 19:12:12 UTC
Ooooooooooh!

Sidenote[that is related to this!]:
So, in English, we're reading MacBeth! [I wanna be Lady MacBeth! xP] And as a joke, my English teacher made us answer questions relating to the overall plot of MacBeth. [ie, Money can make a person happy; Power can make a person happy; Witches exist and always have exist; AND 'People shouldn't put too much fate into fortune-telling'. So my whole group was like..."I don't believe in fortune telling."

And I was like..."I believe! I believe!" because well, my mother believes, and my grandmother believes because a fortune teller predicated the year of my grandfather's death correctly. D:

So...everyone in the group thought I was insane, and we laughed it off, since we found out that 2 people believed in witches. xP

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dancing_wings January 19 2007, 05:08:14 UTC
My family's fortune-teller predicted the year of my period. xDD

Well, not my period per-se. . . He said 'blood' was in my future, and that can be interpreted in a number of ways, rape, sexual-intercourse, death, abuse, yadda, yadda. . . X.x

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hushed_hopes January 19 2007, 05:19:27 UTC


Oooh. Ahhh.
o_o Awkward. It was a guy.....how is blood involved with sex?

Wait. Do I really want to know?
Gosh, don't they predict happy things?

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dancing_wings January 20 2007, 00:21:52 UTC
Tch, Lies. . .

LIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!

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quolloquial January 18 2007, 03:50:46 UTC

To start, I wouldn't say "Fortune-telling is absolute bollocks", primarily because such a statement would offend many who believe in and practice prophecy. I'm just disenchanted with the idea of fortune-telling, is all.

To make a long story short, I don't think people should rely on it as much as some do. Granted, some prognostications may be accurate, but frankly, many of them are statements of common sense [such as saying "it will rain tomorrow" on an overcast day], too generic to be trusted [such as "your loved one will return to you"], coincidental remarks, or pure strokes of serendipity.

So yeah, an oracle might be fun to hearken once in a while, but s/he shouldn't be depended upon.

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x1onexwo1fx January 18 2007, 13:49:58 UTC
i dont know much about fortune telling, but fortune cookies really suck.

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minhthegenius January 19 2007, 03:03:45 UTC
I believe in it! If I don't, no one's likely to pay me for tarot readings...
[remember when I told your fortune at the mall, Tammy?]

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