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Anyone ever been to a fortune teller? Did his/her predictioms come true? Do you believe in them?

The reason i ask this is the other day i was at the Shell Garage and a gentleman came up to me offering me his services as a fortune teller. I was a bit taken aback at him asking me in the middle of a garage. Never happened to me before.

I'm sorta still on the fence about the validity of this profession.
 
Lol that's the first thing i thought: another oke looking to make a quick buck by exploiting the naive.
 
I think there may be people who could to some kinda extent not predict but rather for tell the future by some means or other. But the majority you meet, all a load of **** if you ask me. You will be extremely lucky to come across a single person who can tell the future in even just a small way in your life time.
 
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Just_Ice said:
I think there may be people who could do some kinda extent not predict but rather for tell the future by some means or other. But the majority you meet, all a load of **** if you ask me. You will be extremely lucky to come across a single person who can tell the future in even just a small way in your life time.
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Yea that's what i suspect too.

I'm also not so sure if i want to know what's going to happen next week or 3 months from now.

Also the whole idea of them forseeing me dying would not bode well with me. I wouldn't be able to say: "Don't tell me bad stuff!" The curiosity would kill me.
 
I'd say from personal experience and tying in friends and family, there has only been one or two genuine ones out of about 30 ........ the trick is to only go to ones that other people recommend ..... less chance of happening upon a chancer.

Onto the experience ..... stuff has been said that has come true over the years, some good some bad. The best way to tell if they are genuine is if their reading is 'normal' .... good and bad and no big claims of lottery, etc.
 
I also put a lot of this fortune telling stuff down to sheer statistics.
"You will have major surgery within the next 5 years" - Statistically this could very easily happen.

And another trick is that they give you these vague predictions that you, the person whos future they "tell", go and tie it to a real event.

@ MH: "one or two genuine ones out of about 30". Not a chance that there are that many.
 
Sorry, I keep forgetting that the stats are more real than what friends and family and myself have used ............
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
Sorry, I keep forgetting that the stats are more real than what friends and family and myself have used ............[/QUOTE

What were your reasons for going? And as I said, self-fulfilling prophecies probably play a big role in all of this, even if it's unconcious.
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Self-fulfilling prophecies probably play a big role in all of this, even if it's unconcious.
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Exactly. Statistically they will happen for one, and two, you will make it happen, "even if it's unconcious"
 
pos(t)er said:
What were your reasons for going? And as I said, self-fulfilling prophecies probably play a big role in all of this, even if it's unconcious.
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just heard that this guy was eerily accurate ...... turned out he was.
 
Well i think if a fortune teller had to tell me a certain scene that was going to unfold in the future i would naturally look out and subconciously seek out this sort of situation.
 
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