Fortune Telling

Serqet said:
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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Just_Ice said:
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.
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Exactly what I said. Dont waste your cash on all this bull. A mime is more entertaining, and real.
 
That said I wouldn't mind having my palm read by some Esmeralda type gypsy girl ;-)
 
Absolute BS - don't waste your money. Why would a person want to find out about their future though?
 
Did you know that Fortune Tellers are technically illegal? They could be charged under the "Suppression of Witchcraft Act"....

http://www.legalcity.net/Index.cfm?fuseaction=RIGHTS.article&Index=W&ArticleID=7440174&Page=1

n South Africa the law is governed by the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957, which states that a person commits an offence who:

* States that another has used supernatural forces to cause disease or damage, or names another as a wizard;
* Professes to a knowledge of witchcraft or tells anyone else how to bewitch or injure any other person or thing;
* Acts on the advice of a witch doctor to put into operation any process intended to damage or injure anyone;
* Pretends, for gain, to exercise supernatural powers or undertakes to tell fortunes or pretends to be able to discover where anything lost or stolen may be found.

In terms of the Act, a person may be fined R200 or sentenced to two years' imprisonment for pretending to exercise supernatural powers for gain; or up to 20 years' imprisonment for being by habit or repute a witch doctor or a witch finder.
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I don't believe in this at all.

And anyway, if they're psychic and they know so much, why do they ask your name when you meet them? Surely they looked in the crystal ball and knew who was coming :)
 
DJK said:
Absolute BS - don't waste your money. Why would a person want to find out about their future though?
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Aren't you sometimes curious what your life will be like 3 years from now for example?
 
Serqet said:
Aren't you sometimes curious what your life will be like 3 years from now for example?
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Of course - I often think about my future and set goals, then mould my actions for the next 3 years to achieve what I wanted in the first place.

I find it illogical to be told about your future, or to even see it. Seeing my future now would mean that the future me already remembers that.

The grandfather paradox comes to mind...
 
I see where you are coming from DJK. But ultimately there will be things in life you can't set goals to achieve. Random acts that effect your life that you have no control over.

That is what interests me.
 
Serqet said:
That is what interests me.
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And those are what make life interesting. Find out about them before they happen and you remove that element of surprise.

It's like reading the spoilers for an entire series then watching the series itself from episode 1 for the 1st time. You pretty much know everything that's going to happen - what's the point?
 
pos(t)er said:
Surely this doesn't apply anymore: how else would sangomas operate?
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as far as I know the act has never been repealed... but then it was one of those old anachronistic pieces of Calvinistic legislation... almost word for word from the Old Testament. They never really enforced it much. At least not in the last 30 years. I think they would be better off modernising it to prevent people from burning witches or falling for superstition.
 
Because i'm the sort of person who reads the last page of the book before i've read the rest of it. I'm terrible at waiting to find out what happens. I'm a classic example of curiosity killing the cat..

*c***blocks everyone before the jokes start*
 
Serqet said:
Because i'm the sort of person who reads the last page of the book before i've read the rest of it. I'm terrible at waiting to find out what happens. I'm a classic example of curiosity killing the cat..
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OK, I'll tell you your future quick:

Your husband dies a slow and tragic death, you take it badly, lose your job and move back in with your parents who's marriage you subsequently destroy due to your heroin addiction.

OR

You meet Mr Right, fall madly in love, have 3 beautiful babies, win the lottery, fund research which creates a cure for AIDS, become the world's most loved and appreciated person and using your fame, facilitate peace in the middle east.

Which one would you believe?
 
Fortune telling - definitely a trick made up to capture the imagination of the naive :rolleyes:

I barely know what I'm going to do in the next hour; someone else is going to tell me how my life is going to turn out?
 
DJK said:
OK, I'll tell you your future quick:

Your husband dies a slow and tragic death, you take it badly, lose your job and move back in with your parents who's marriage you subsequently destroy due to your heroin addiction.

OR

You meet Mr Right, fall madly in love, have 3 beautiful babies, win the lottery, fund research which creates a cure for AIDS, become the world's most loved and appreciated person and using your fame, facilitate peace in the middle east.

Which one would you believe?
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SECOND ONE SECOND ONE! *starts planning how i'm going to spend the money i won*
 
As in "you're going to pay me, because that's how this works"?
 
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