Anyone else study fortune telling techniques?

[Havelock Vetenari]

I'm sorry in advance for not adding much(sceptic to the core here),but IMAO if attaching some real importance to the practice it's probably best to spell i ching correctly(if possible the space in between the i and the ching would be fat and cursive ).

This way i(and perhaps) others might read it as itching,which would probably add some unintended psychological meaning to the phrase,if only subconsciously and possibly influencing your proposed scientific approach.
Again apologies!

 

[syrupy]

It should be Yi-Ching, if using the modern pronunciation. Not sue where the idea comes from that it gives yes or no answers. It does do flipping of a coin, but it is to establish a trigram patten (bottom, middle, top), which is then repeated to yield a hexagam of one trigram sitting atop another. Altogether 64 different paradigms.

People of high skill and sensitivity used to be able to follow patterns so well that it appeared they were predicting future events. But it's not a fortune telling tool. If used that way, it will just reveal what one wants it to. It's not designed for personal fulfillment, it's to understand how things work on heaven and earth.

 

[Jeremy Driscoll]

Well the book I'm reading has the sales pitch of exact prediction. I checked review sites, so far in the review it is the best of the best, and honestly the only system that is in english and that does not use the lunar calendar instead uses the solar calendar (at least the only system in regards to when the review made).

 

[lwien]

 

[Jeremy Driscoll]

I don't get it.

 

[lwien]

I don't get it.

Me neither. That's why my head exploded.

 

[Caligula]

Well the book I'm reading has the sales pitch of exact prediction. I checked review sites, so far in the review it is the best of the best, and honestly the only system that is in english and that does not use the lunar calendar instead uses the solar calendar (at least the only system in regards to when the review made).

Im interested to see these review sites. Also the Chinese used and still use a lunisolar calendar. Just saying.

@lwien wasnt that clip at the end of the old Daily Show (before Stewart)? I know if obviously originally from something else but its killing me trying to remember who used that clip on the regular...

 

[syrupy]

I think this was the Daily Show:

From the classic Story of Ricky:

 

[Caligula]

Oh yeaaaaa... so what show had the other clip?

 

[syrupy]

Oh yeaaaaa... so what show had the other clip?

Scanners, bro.

 

[Caligula]

I know it was from that movie, however the clip was used elsewhere.

 

[syrupy]

I know it was from that movie, however the clip was used elsewhere.

Old Spice commercial?

/iGotNothing

 

[Jeremy Driscoll]

I was watching this on youtube, and I just realized this famous genius is describing iching Wen wang gua by accident after 2:30 in to.

 

[Frederick McGuire]

My
If you're learning this stuff for your own education/fun - go for it, but please, never charge anyone for any kind of fortune telling service...

Either predict your way into money (there's the oft thrown out there lottery example - "just predict the numbers", or there's something like the randi challenge - prove something supernatural [fortune telling would be include in that], and they'll give you $1 million), or recognize that the fact that you can't, means its unethical to charge someone for the service...

I think it's a noble approach to only want something that actually gives direct answers, but honestly, (IMO?) you aren't gonna find any method of telling the future.

If you enjoy doing/learning about this stuff, then have fun, but please don't base any major decisions on the results you get.

 

[Deleted Member 1643]

Old-azz thread. Haven't read it at all. Let's revive!

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Interested in any insight. When I unexpectedly drew (clicked) it, I was thinking about:

• the recent elections and ongoing aftermath in a dangerously powerful country,
• participating in the #disruptJ20 mayhem at said country's inauguration,
• fleeing to the City of Angels and enlisting my skills in the fledgling recreational industry.

I'm surprised by my own reading and wondering what others think.

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