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julesandco Oct 29th 2013 4:52 pm

Ever had your future told?
 
Had my tarot cards read on Monday and she was SO accurate with every single detail - it was literally my life on a table (in card form :rofl: )

So........ do I act on what I've been told? Will I get struck down if I ignore her? lol

Have you (or anyone you know) had this sort of reading? Did they act on it? Did it shake them up to?

Seriously spooked!

:unsure: Jules x

Kelli28 Oct 29th 2013 5:58 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by julesandco (Post 10968296)
Had my tarot cards read on Monday and she was SO accurate with every single detail - it was literally my life on a table (in card form :rofl: )

So........ do I act on what I've been told? Will I get struck down if I ignore her? lol

Have you (or anyone you know) had this sort of reading? Did they act on it? Did it shake them up to?

Seriously spooked!

:unsure: Jules x

Yes I've had my tarot done and was totally overwhelmed same as you, I went in thinking it was just a bit of fun came out white with shock haha.

GarryP Oct 29th 2013 7:12 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

rosscov1970 Oct 29th 2013 7:32 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 10968387)

Not worth me paying someone to ask if they see jelly cubes in the near future for me then?

Amazulu Oct 29th 2013 8:04 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Nope

It's a load of bollocks

paulry Oct 29th 2013 8:44 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 10968387)

Ah Wikibollocks ;)


Originally Posted by rosscov1970 (Post 10968401)
Not worth me paying someone to ask if they see jelly cubes in the near future for me then?

Prolly not :o


Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 10968419)
Nope

It's a load of bollocks

yep

DeadVim Oct 29th 2013 8:55 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
I got into work this morning, looked at my Outlook calendar and thought the day was going to be shit.

I was 100% right.

Just call me Doris Stokes.

paulry Oct 29th 2013 9:01 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Septic Peg is good :D

Toe Dipper Oct 29th 2013 9:06 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Yes.

My wife tells me my future regularly, usually just after I have done something wrong - again!

TD :(

The Bloke Oct 29th 2013 10:36 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Yes....had my palm read by the mother of a female friend.....I think she was trying to drop major hints to me on a future with her daughter.....too bad her daughter had other ideas.....

Jon77 Oct 29th 2013 10:40 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 10968419)
Nope

It's a load of bollocks

Yep, couldn't have put it better myself :thumbup:

Pollyana Oct 29th 2013 11:43 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by julesandco (Post 10968296)
Had my tarot cards read on Monday and she was SO accurate with every single detail - it was literally my life on a table (in card form :rofl: )

So........ do I act on what I've been told? Will I get struck down if I ignore her? lol

Have you (or anyone you know) had this sort of reading? Did they act on it? Did it shake them up to?

Seriously spooked!

:unsure: Jules x

Was there any way she could've worked out the details she knew from anything you'd told her? If not she may well be genuine and worth listening to,,,,

Bernieboy Oct 29th 2013 11:57 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Mumbo jumbo bullshit.

eddie007 Oct 30th 2013 12:06 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Nope.....tiz the Debbils Werk

scottishcelts Oct 30th 2013 1:10 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 10968419)
Nope

It's a load of bollocks

:goodpost:

Alfresco Oct 30th 2013 9:18 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

John Conner

spuddyo Oct 30th 2013 9:21 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Peter Powers once whispered in my ear at the local RSL club "play the game or sit down, it's up to you"

scottishcelts Oct 30th 2013 11:09 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by Alfresco (Post 10969662)
The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

John Conner

Love it. Love John Conner, love The Terminator.

Alfresco Oct 30th 2013 4:05 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 10969834)
Love it. Love John Conner, love The Terminator.

Me too! Awesome movies. :thumbup:


I did actually have my future told to me... by my ex, but that's another story. ;)

Alfresco Nov 1st 2013 4:41 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
In all seriousness, I don't think I would like to know what my future holds in case it is seriously bad.

What else would you think about if you knew what was gonna happen to you?

Bermudashorts Nov 1st 2013 6:15 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by julesandco (Post 10968296)
Had my tarot cards read on Monday and she was SO accurate with every single detail - it was literally my life on a table (in card form :rofl: )

So........ do I act on what I've been told? Will I get struck down if I ignore her? lol

Have you (or anyone you know) had this sort of reading? Did they act on it? Did it shake them up to?

Seriously spooked!

:unsure: Jules x

I have had my cards read a few times and it has been very accurate. They have seen things about me that they could not possibly have known.

However, the accuracy is mainly about the past and present and who I am. I don't think any predictions have ever come true other than extremely vague ones anyway, because I think the future is not set. To be honest, I have found most readers don't say that much about the future as they do the past.

Pollyana Nov 1st 2013 9:35 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by Bermudashorts (Post 10973365)
I have had my cards read a few times and it has been very accurate. They have seen things about me that they could not possibly have known.

However, the accuracy is mainly about the past and present and who I am. I don't think any predictions have ever come true other than extremely vague ones anyway, because I think the future is not set. To be honest, I have found most readers don't say that much about the future as they do the past.

Very hard to foreacst the future, all one can really do is indicate the sort of options that might come up, but when they DO come up its up to the individual to choose the actual way they deal with those options. So to take a cliched example, one can forecast the arrival of a tall dark stranger, but its then up to the subject to decide how to react to and deal with that stranger. Thats where the element of shaping your own future comes in.
As an astrologer I can only show someone the paths that might be open to them and which might be a good option - I can't force them to follow those paths.

DeadVim Nov 2nd 2013 11:05 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams.

There is no future, no past, only the present moment, right now. If you are focusing on anything else then you aren't really present in your own life.

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness." - James Thurber

Knob gags will follow.

DeadVim Nov 2nd 2013 11:10 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 10973451)
Very hard to foreacst the future, all one can really do is indicate the sort of options that might come up, but when they DO come up its up to the individual to choose the actual way they deal with those options. So to take a cliched example, one can forecast the arrival of a tall dark stranger, but its then up to the subject to decide how to react to and deal with that stranger. Thats where the element of shaping your own future comes in.
As an astrologer I can only show someone the paths that might be open to them and which might be a good option - I can't force them to follow those paths.

There is a school of thought that it's all been determined anyway, we have no free will, we do what we have to do. There is no bad, no good, just stuff.

Anxiety and fear are functions of time, if time doesn't exist then you take this away.

I will leave it with Bill Hicks:

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The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly coloured, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

"Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real."

It's just a ride.

But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride.

And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride:

Take all that money we spent on weapons and defence each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace.
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scrubbedexpat098 Nov 2nd 2013 11:24 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
I went to get my palm read once, but the door was locked and a sign said 'closed due to unforeseen circumstances'

Alfresco Nov 5th 2013 6:50 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by stevenglish1 (Post 10974161)
I went to get my palm read once, but the door was locked and a sign said 'closed due to unforeseen circumstances'

:lol:

GarryP Nov 5th 2013 6:57 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 
Do you notice how you never see the newspaper headline "Fortune Teller scoops $20m Jackpot in the Lotto" ?

Pollyana Nov 5th 2013 10:45 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 10978617)
Do you notice how you never see the newspaper headline "Fortune Teller scoops $20m Jackpot in the Lotto" ?

:D
That's cos trying to foretell your own future is a seriously bad idea! Rarely works, cos you can't be objective and your predictions are inevitably coloured by your own thoughts.

GarryP Nov 5th 2013 10:56 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 10978787)
:D
That's cos trying to foretell your own future is a seriously bad idea! Rarely works, cos you can't be objective and your predictions are inevitably coloured by your own thoughts.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhhtttttttttttt...... .........

:whistle:

Pollyana Nov 5th 2013 11:26 pm

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 10978802)
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhhtttttttttttt...... .........

:whistle:

:lol:

Unlike many people in the 'New Age' environment at least I have a sense of humour and non-believers don't offend me :D

GarryP Nov 6th 2013 8:42 am

Re: Ever had your future told?
 

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 10978827)
:lol:

Unlike many people in the 'New Age' environment at least I have a sense of humour and non-believers don't offend me :D

And I'm a cynic, who thinks the obvious reason for clairvoyants not being multimillionaires is not that the "aura won't let them personally benefit", but that they have no more knowledge of the future than the average person presented with a tearful old woman with a hopeful look in her eyes.

Hell, if you thought that you had any future seeing capability you wouldn't be making money the hard way, talking to the credulous in town halls and on 'fortune telling hotlines' - you'd be finding a way of getting past the celestial killjoy and land the jackpot; predict the winner of the 3:30,; spot facebook before the rise; and generally focus on the big picture rather than "you'll meet a tall dark stranger".

Actually, that would kind of make a good plot for a hollywood film. Fortune teller actually starts to have some success, and realises the best bet is to ditch the flim flam and go for the lottery win - but then attracts the attention of the 'celestial killjoy', who proceeds to try to top them in the most gruesome way possible.

Where's my agent?
:typing:
:popcorn:
:starsmile::starsmile::starsmile:


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