Brand New SentenceIndeed, this is called cold reading and is how most of these things work.
This is what AI/LLMs do also.
Let me guess, you're someone who, hmm, finds information on Wikipedia and, aaah, has an interest in decentralised open-source projects. The spirits tell me you are not a fan of Windows and you dislike genocidal maniacs.
Oh my god it’s like you KNOW ME
You also like Linux and Star Trek
Half correct! I never got into Star Trek.
Never got into star trek, yet.
IT WAS FORTOLD
I mean Star Wars
I once saw someone with a name tag get bent out of shape when the "reader" somehow managed to get her name from the ether. And then she got mad at me for pointing out her name tag.
To add to this, tarot and other divination methods are a great way to tap into your subconscious to get this kind of insight even if you can't do it normally. Every card can be a lot of things and having a bunch of them in various places could be interpreted in many ways, but (if you're good at it) your mind will snap into one specific interpretation according to your unconscious biases and convinces itself it is the only way to read that configuration.
Yeah. This is why some people can genuinely believe in the magic while performing the trick.
I been doing the same thing casting hot wing bones over a cardboard map of Atlanta
What do the bones tell you?
They told me how many snakes we would catch in the woods by Asheville (6 copperheads)
Told someone where to find their friend at the burn accurately
Told some people their children would find success, others that their music career would go nowhere
It told someone their relationship was failing while they bargained with the board asking additional questions
If anyone asked something like, "should I move to Atlanta?" "Is there anything for me in Atlanta?" The board always emphatically said FUCK NO
I probably spent about 15 hours doing readings over last weekend at a regional burn, been working on creating the set for a few months. Surprisingly magical, surprisingly accurate, at least if you ask it questions that can be verified within a day or two
The map is a work in progress, adding little sketches to it periodically until it's filled out completely
My partner and I doing readings, I'm the elf :p
This is amazing, thank you for sharing.
ceros is pretty cool, his youtube channel can be a trip
I love him, it's so obvious most of his stories are made up bs for clicks and I'm here for it!
It's like hearing a wildly exaggerated story being told by that one friend but you don't say anything and don't interrupt because he's a good storyteller.
Yeah I was gonna say the same!
He makes good content, is often quite funny, has insightful and honest takes... I don't agree with him on absolutely 100%, but, he's a straight shooter, not shilling anything... kinda guy you could actually agree to disagree with on less consequential stuff... which is rare, and admirable.
Hope his foot's doing better... fuck, that shit was crazy.
But I'm the asshole if I don't take people seriously when they go on about astrology and how it's the perfect system.
Tbh most people into astrology don't take it that seriously either it's just for fun.
Because if my parents had banged 3 days earlier I'd be much more agreeable
you wouldnt exist. they would've had one of their other possible children.
That's some Scorpio skepticism. You're a victim of the influence of the stars smh
So he does know how to read tarot cards.
Interested foreign language guy question:
Is this a correct use of the word "literally"?
It's emphasis in this context rather than its actual definition.
Literally literally means metaphorically now
And has since at least the 1700s.
I don't think it's technically correct, but that word has been mangled so badly at this point that I would say the way it's used here counts as common usage.
It has come to a point where literally means both literally and figurativelly depending on context.
You are literally correct
Thanks! Got me confused when reading the whole post but then I guessed something like what you just said already.
Just wanted to have some confirmation.
"foreign language guy"
speaks better English than most native English speakers
Speaks ~~better English~~ English closer to an arbitrary standard than most native English speakers
That's what usually happens when you focus on learning the "standard" in isolation instead of being exposed to stigmatized non-"standard" dialects as a child as you acquire your mother tongue.
Happens with literally every language, not just English.
It's not mangled, it's just used as a hyperbole. When you say someone is tall as a mountain you're not mangling the word "mountain" in doing so.
When you say someone is literally as tall as a mountain, that literally means that they would be at least 2,000 feet tall.
Yes. In that case it's not used as a hyperbole.
Right, so "literally" indicates that the statement is not a hyperbole.
Not always. When I say my head literally exploded, the word "literally" absolutely is a hyperbole.
This comment is literally correct, and all of the responses to it are /c/badlinguistics, so of course this comment is the one that gets downvoted.
That defeats the purpose of the word. It makes it mean literally nothing.
There's literally no difference in the usage.
yeah. it maybe looks like it isn't because because he's not literally looking at books but "judge a book by its cover" is an idiom so i'd say this is a correct literally rather than the shitty 2010s literally that means figuratively.
Yeah both of those uses are fine in English. The first usage is "more" correct I would say. Literally is supposed to be used to basically say that the thing is actually happening. The second usage is also common at least in American English. Usually it's used with common figures of speech. "I was literally judging books by their cover." Technically he wasn't, he was judging people. Some people will be pedantic and call you out for that. So if you're taking an English class I'd avoid that usage but it's really common to hear it used that way. "I would literally die." It strengthens the phrase.
Thanks!
And I've heard similar expressions like in the last example you mentioned being used before, so should have known by myself...
Good for him. Get that moonay.
I have a friend who is pretty spooky at it. Believe me I use to be a tarot doubter but she is legit in tune with something.
When she told me she couldn't go to antique stores because of energies I was sure she was full of shit. Then I kept seeing things that made me be more open to it.
Like pulling the death card then a random downpour of rain type shit. One of many.
She's a witch.
death
rain
Yeah close enough.
The death card signifies change, actually. Surely you've seen the Simpsons bit?
I don't believe in tarot reading at all, but I did enough middle school goth witch cosplay to know that death is a water card.
This is a Chapelle's Show bit.
Not racist or sexist enough lol
I love the mobile seat + table setup.
