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Well, if you believe in tarot, then you should feel embarrassed
It's mechanical storytelling. It's up to you to interpret the outcome as would fit your current life situation and find analyses that you might not have before.
it's right fucking there. i can touch it. it exists. it's cards. i am confuse.
Sure, if you pick up almost any book on Tarot, it's going to have some mystical nonsense in it, but it's also a tool for brainstorming and an inexpensive way to get a lot of cool art. Check out The Sceptic's Tarot if you're curious about non-supernatural usage of Tarot cards.
Also, some people have found it to be an aid for psychology, similar to Rorschach tests. I don't think this has been studied, though.
Using tarot to spark discussion and introspection in therapy has always worked great for me with young witchy clients who say "I don't know" to every question I ask them lol
For non-witchy but otherwise similar clients, I like to use adapted versions of Chuck Klosterman's 23 Questions
hey that was my answer word for word except i ended at me
As someone who despises magical thinking: I think tarot art is fucking awesome
Are the cards telling the future? No.
But they're still neat! In always impressed at the the artistry, and attention to detail of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, and all the work that had to be done to tie it, visually and thematically, onto Golden Dawn-style Hermetic Qabalah, is all very interesting
We can’t all be as enlightened a thinker as you, FistingEnthusiast.
.. And here I am thinking FistingEnthusiast and FartMaster69 must surely have a lot in common.
When will I learn to never make assumptions on the internet ~sigh~
You can’t fart through a clenched fist.
I'll need photographic evidence of this
Oh yes you can
Well not with that attitude…
They are a master, they would know
Some people choose stupidity
Sadly, that stupidity leaks into other facets of life, like anti-vax bullshit and the like
It's no different to belief in any of the invisible men living in the clouds, it's just trendy among those who avoid soap.
That's cool if you don't believe in it. But it's weird to position yourself smug and superior to others, when your name is FistingEnthusiast.
Idk man, some people like fisting, others like occultism. At least reading a tarot card or summoning a goetic demon doesn't have the capacity to rip my holes open ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I don't believe in Tarot.
But I do own a deck because of JoJo's Bizarre adventure and because I have used it in my homebrew DnD campaigns to signify allies and enemies (like Persona 5).
I would 100% carry The Fool if I had a clear phone case, because whimsy.
There is nothing wrong in having one around.
Also the history of the imagery and the artistic reinterpretation of theme decks such as yours is fascinating. I have one that's emoji, one that's all cats, and one that's designed to look like crayon scribbles in a wide ruled notebook. In each one you can hold up equivalent cards and see how each artist interpreted the individual card under the overall theme.
here's some examples
Tarot is also a great introspective and meditative practice that allows you to mirror your own thoughts back to you and gain a different perspective. Esoteric spiritual practices are by the literal definition of that first word as diverse as the people who practice them.
Yeah, but not as embarrassed as someone going around belittling people for participating in harmless spiritualism.
The last thing this world needs is more people going in for bullshit woo without evidence
The Venn diagram of people who genuinely believe in horoscopes and tarot, and anti-vax idiots is fucking close to a circle
and yet I bet you suspend your disbelief when consuming media such as video games, film and TV.
Same instinct and process.
Temporarily suspending disbelief for entertainment and actually believing in the occult are different things. I'm sure there are lots of people who do tarot for fun and just suspend disbelief, but there's also a lot of people who actually believe in magic and use it to make important decisions. One is harmless, the other betrays a dangerous lack of critical thinking that pervades every aspect of a person's life.
and there are people who send death threats to tv writers and video game developers, far from harmless
Leave the reddit atheist thing at reddit.
The form spiritual beliefs and practices take is dictated by material and social conditions, its not productive to call everyone who responds to these conditions bad if you actually want to interact with society instead of whatever the fuck reddit atheists do.
I was born in the seventies
I have been an atheist my whole life, so I don't know why you think my contempt for woo has anything to do with reddit
I delight in the wonders of the world, and marvel at our universe
But I don't need to believe in absurdities in order to do so
There's a world of difference between being a romantic and enjoying whimsy, and woo.
hey, more contempt from a gen-Xer when we are polite to you. And then HEY WHAT DID GEN X EVER DO BESIDES DROP THE BALL FOR AN ENTIRE GENERATION AND TREAT EVERYONE WITH CONTEMPT i think i remember that conversation yesterday.
Why would you respond to a stranger whose thoughts you don’t give a fuck about?