i can go tell everyone here that one day you will be a movie star.


to those who hear that and like what they hear, they start thinking "oh shit ima be a movie star?!" then they go out get some head shots done, send them to talent agencies, sure..maybe you'll get to be an extra in a movie here and there...eventually you might even land yourself a small role in a movie...no more then 5-10 minutes of screen time, but either way, your a movie star now.

you make things happen from what your told.

movie star is someone who is well known.
what ur referring to is an actor.

Here is my fortune telling.
"People are going to read this post."
dammmmmmm im good :)

:facepalm:

please tell me i read that post wrong before i completely lose faith in humanity.

Say no to fortunetellers
 

Fortunetelling is form of pseudo-science and pseudo-philosophy. It's an insult to both science and philosophy.

You don't even need to buy information. As the cold reading video above explains, it's just a mind trick.

Most people, especially the less educated ones, are too lazy and naive to develop a skeptical mind. When the crook tells a visitor twenty things, the victim gets an orgasm over the couple of general points the scam artist correctly guesses, but completely ignores the rest.

And that's how swindler can get by with a very low accuracy rate and idiots still believe in them.

But then, most fortunetellers only go after giving instructions (play on the victim's fear and insecurity) rather than providing precise predictions (as they don't want to be exposed).

Mixed with mumbo jumbo words like destiny, fate, meant-to-be, the scammers take advantage of the victim's lack of sophistication in philosophy and knowledge in science.

Finish watching the Roots of All Evil, it's a classic. They did a study on astrology mixing up all the signs and people still find the readings accurate:

you either read it wrong, or don't understand statistics

it's called a self-fulfilling prophecy

i find it kind of amusing that the ad in the first post on this page is for 3 free minutes of live fortune telling readings :p

Since you failed my first post in this thread for no apparent reason, I feel like you have something against the earlier questions I raised. I never said I was looking for a fortune teller, nor was I looking for my fortune in a cookie.... I was just asking if anyone has had experience in dealing with fortune tellers in any part of the world because I was reading something that sparked some interesting thoughts in my head.

Also, your argument is irrelevant since i'm not really talking about your run-off-the mill newspaper horoscope that says things like

"Like minds and hearts gravitate toward you -- together you could rule the world, or ought to. Use this smooth energy to make big strides, conquer new ground so you'll be in ever better position when the situation is less ideal. Make time to explore your inner self."

Thats my horoscope for today which I just googled for the hell of it....

full link: http://www.cosmicwindow.com/fortune.html

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. Shambhala, 1995, p. 47

she used a cpu and yes i understand the whole concept about that yadda yadda

the predictions? well while personal, i wont say exactly what but it does not at all explain how there were certain things in our personal lives that she knew without it ever being hinted or mentioned about.

as much as i would like to share.. alot of it is too personal and also its not my place to mention the experience/predictions she mentioned for my friends and brother.

when i went, it was with two of my closest friends.. and no one knows you better than two of your closest friends. everything she was saying about me was spot on, things she knew etc. i never mentioned a single thing to her and she already knew

What? How could a prediction be so personal that you couldn't share? It's not like we know who you are.

Hey, I have a prediction for you... that you will get failed! (for your incredible ambiguity)

Say no to superstition
 

Personally, when I see the word "spirituality", I run. Two words. Scam artists.

We really need more educated people in this world to express their naturalistic worldviews.

The following is one group for example, mainly made up of academics and scientists.

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Say no to astrologists
 

The crooks would of course want you to think that they understand statistics.

I doubt any fortunetellers know anything about math, or the science of the collection, organization, and interpretation of data. They are all con artists, stay away.

There are many things in this world we don't understand, if the scientists can't tell us the answers yet, I sincerely doubt any fortunetellers know any better.

We really need a better education system, we need more science classes in high school.

a fortune teller told my cousins in china i needed water in my room during i time i suffered bad insomnia, i didnt take the advice but i should have

Your mother probably told you to eat more healthily, drink lots water, exercise.. Yes, when it's dry, water around you is good, humidifier better.

And let's see, if you soak your feet in warm/hot water before you go to sleep, you sleep even better. Don't give the scammers credits they don't deserve.

The way I look at it is we are given a room of "variable" doors and each door leads to another room of doors these doors are in any amount of numbers of each room, every door is a choice you make, there is no real correct way and the only doors that are fixed in life is the 1st and last one (life and death) fortune tellers are just good bullshitters IMO.

hey i didn't say there was any sort of science behind any of this, cause there isn't!! All I said was, I went there, she told me some shit.. told me WHEN it would happen.. HOW it would happen.. and that shit came true!

I am a big believer in methodological naturalism. I understand that good and bad things happen to all people at a statistical rate all the time. I understand time dilation and length contraction actually occur. I understand the deeper levels of natural law, from the macroscopic to the microscopic. From the molecular to the atomic to the nuclear to the sub-nuclear levels of natures functioning. I know the earth is not flat. I understand that the earth rotates at over 1000 miles per hour which orbits the sun at 66,00 miles per hour which in turn spins our solar system around our galaxy at 483,000 miles per hour. I UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS!!

BUT what I can't understand is how some chinese lady sat there with a pen and paper wrote out some shit about me.. and it all came true!!

it still boggles my mind..

that's all i'm saying.

maybe i can shed a bit of light on this. what exactly did you tell her, and what did she predict?

anyone can apply basic cause and effect to make a seemingly "accurate" prediction based on information given

Let's see:

You may have some financial problems, changes in your relationship with others at work. You will have health issues which you can overcome.

When you turn ## next year, it will be a new chapter in your life. You will miss someone you love dearly, and you feel frustrated over what you cannot do..