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princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

What do think of tarot card readings done in Hongdae? In my opinion, it can be quite a creepy experience, especially if you are told something you have actually been doing/not doing. Shocked

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I think it's completely bullshit and refuse to spend any money or time on it.

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

It was 5,000 won per question. Shocked

Not so cheap, huh? I only asked about one thing. You can choose between love, marriage, career, etc readings. 5,000 per topic. There were 3 guys in the tent. Two older ones and a younger one.

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

That's all it is. It's always rather amazing how the power of the tarot et al disappears when the subject only gives yes or no answers.

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

My now ex-coworker believed she was a witch and gave tarot card readings. She gave them to a couple of the Korean teachers in the office, and they secretly laughed about it behind her back. She gave me a reading, and promptly began crying, because there was "so much emotion in my life."

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

5000 won is cheap for a con artist.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

I have in the past predicted some things about some people (I can't do this all the time) by feeling their energy. However, I didn't ask for money, I have no control over this, and I don't believe in tarot readings. However, I think it is possible that some people do possess a sixth sense, but that is a different topic. It was found through some experiments that animals possess a sixth sense, so why not humans and sometimes by questions people pose you can guess their situation. If I were a tarot card reader, I see many people and many people have similar situations.

Capisce?

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

trubadour · Joined: 03 Nov 2006

A 'sixth sense' is the power to know what you can't explain by merely physical. It is only one aspect of thought, knowledge and perception. The power of thought to know thought. Thought is work or action so that is why it can be called energy.

We are thinking, imaginative living beings by definition, not only rational-logical or even just material. Indeed, the evidence of the 5 senses will not explain much about what makes a human life or the sophistication of human culture, and is barely able to explain our experience of the animal world.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

What happens if you ask the tarot reader to redeal the cards?Do they come out in the same order? Though not, and if that's not important then why use them.

Please don't go to the tarot reader with your GF, even if you are just doing it out of curiosity, the reader will often make a decision on whether you make a good couple or not. Do you want a stranger making those decisions? Of course you could bribe the reader before hand to say good things Wink

This of course depends on how gullible your gf is, which if she is going out with 'you' I would say is 'very'.

Adventurer, sorry your claims are far to anecdotal and lacking in detail to be taken seriously. We often think about distant loved ones and feel what they are feeling. This is because we know them well and what they are doing, so we can imagine what they are going through.

If we also throw in a bit of paranoia and start worrying about loved ones then one day are worries are confirmed we forget about the times nothing happened and cling to the coincidence as something supernatural. People can be very selective about their hits and misses.

I often worry about folks back home and if they are still alive, I know one day I may get a call confirming my worries. I won't see this as some special power.