• 33550336@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You SHOULD fear alcohol and cigarettes, but from scientific reasons. Tarot is also unaceptable for a scientific mind.

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      4 months ago

      “Using a framing device to interpret your feelings is unacceptable to a scientific mind”

      Okay square.

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      4 months ago

      Tarot cards have cool artwork on them, and they are as harmful as a RNG, or cootie catchers.

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        Artwork is perfectly fine, but shaping your view about the reality and directing your life based on tarot is pure superstition and stupidity.

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          It’s a random number generator. It’s shuffled cards put in random order to tell a story, or focus someone on their own thoughts without distractions of self doubt. To bring order to a chaotic existence. Not all mysticism is superstition. Not all rituals are pointless, many attempt to bring people to a liminal state, an attitude of being in-between, standing at the threshold. We can keep the useful elements of these things and discard the rest. No one needs to base there life around anything they don’t like.

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        4 months ago

        Also, Tarot is also a completely normal card game like Skat–nothing wrong with that

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      If you don’t try to predict your life with Tarot, it can be a fun story creativity task.

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        I’d say more that if you don’t genuinely think it predicts your life, it can be fun. It’s like reading horoscopes and chuckling at them.

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      There’s nothing wrong with tarot as a concept. It’s a wonderful self reflection and guided meditation tool. Just don’t ascribe magical precognitive powers to it and you’re fine.

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      4 months ago

      You SHOULD fear alcohol

      I think fearing it is going a bit overboard. Moderation is the key.

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        4 months ago

        Science says there is no healthy dose of alcohol - no moderation, but complete absence.

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          Nobody claimed othetwise. Just that fearing it is silly. It won’t have much of an effect at all on your health in moderation.

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      Tarok is played with tarot cards and you can still get the OG set from Piatnik.

      Just in case you’re trying to impress some Austrian grandma…