Can Tarot really foretell the Future ?

Placebo Scotsman said:

I think the replies about probable futures have been good ones and are as about as sensible as we are going to get

And if we put sensible aside where are we going to go with it?

What we have here seems to be the assumption that a reading that should have turned out right didn't and that this calls for an explanation

Now I do grasp the problem here, I have my own basis for relating to it, but it is nothing I can package in to a nice rational response.

If tarot is directed by spiritual forces, it does not necessarily follow they are going to like you or that the same ones will always be responsible for your readings.

I have been warned by entities that I deal with that if I ever actively pursue tarot as a public service I will have a reoccurring problem with my predictions being good until somebody comes to count upon them and then at the most opportune moment for maximum emotional devastation the rug will get pulled from underneath and the answer will be dramatically and destructively wrong. This can be blamed on whatever forces I have managed to antagonize while winding my way on my spiritual path.

Or so they tell me...

Explanations about interference from forces outside should only be used as a last possible resort, you can lose your ability to ever interpret things rationally again if you become dependent on them.

I don't see where we can go with this discussion with out dealing with Factor X

But stuff that is this subjective won't get us terribly far

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ravenest said:

For some , sensible has been put well aside! Reading some of the explanations sound like kiddies excuses as to why they messed up something. My two favourites are ; the cards are never wrong, the reader must have got the interpretation wrong .. and ... the cards are never wrong - the future changed, but the cards predicted what WAS GOING TO happen.

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ravenest said:

There is an old story about a man on top of a building looking down at the street corner. Down one street, a truck is coming rather fast, a car coming on the other street, both toward the corner. On the footpath a little girl is playing with a ball, it rolls out on to the road ... from the high vantage point the man on the roof can see how all 3 will converge if the girl chases the ball on to the road but all 3 cannot yet see each other, nor have a clue what is about to happen.

On the street , no one can tell. The man on top of the building predicts an accident. If the man on the roof, knew more, and could see more; he might know the girl and know she is well-drilled on not going out onto the road, he might see the car has its indicator on and is going to turn off, the truck driver has just had a heart attack and is unconscious .. or any number of VARIABLES .

The man on the roof might take a guess and predict an accident and he might be right... or not.

The point is, the better your view point and the more you know about as many factors concerned as you can know, the greater are your chances of prediction. But you cant know everything and all the factors.

As some have pointed out ... the future is unknown - until it happens. Sometimes we guess right ... when we do guess wrong, sometimes the 'excuses' ('reasons') made (because some people want to claim they CAN read the future) are really bad ... and that just feeds the skeptics ... because sometimes the excuses and claims are quiet puerile .

Its all based on understanding ' Euclidean vectors' and 'Probability'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_vector

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ravenest said:

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PS has described some type of spirit/s that influence him and his reading that if he offers his skill as a service, " until somebody comes to count upon them and then at the most opportune moment for maximum emotional devastation the rug will get pulled from underneath and the answer will be dramatically and destructively wrong" ...

I could not have worded that worse myself ! This is a warning about disaster ! And one that draws other people into it ... not your everyday 'bad reading' ... but a virtual lurking and waiting until the " most opportune moment for maximum emotional devastation" and not just a wrong prediction but ; " destructively wrong" ... !

And why ? " This can be blamed on whatever forces I have managed to antagonize while winding my way on my spiritual path."

Antagonise ? ? ?

Mate , no offense, but really, if what you say, you feel is really true - you need to sort that out.

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ravenest said:

Liked it ?

PS has described some type of spirit/s that influence him and his reading that if he offers his skill as a service, " until somebody comes to count upon them and then at the most opportune moment for maximum emotional devastation the rug will get pulled from underneath and the answer will be dramatically and destructively wrong" ...

I could not have worded that worse myself ! This is a warning about disaster ! And one that draws other people into it ... not your everyday 'bad reading' ... but a virtual lurking and waiting until the " most opportune moment for maximum emotional devastation" and not just a wrong prediction but ; " destructively wrong" ... !

And why ? " This can be blamed on whatever forces I have managed to antagonize while winding my way on my spiritual path."

Antagonise ? ? ?

Mate , no offense, but really, if what you say, you feel is really true - you need to sort that out.

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ravenest said:

Liked it ?

PS has described some type of spirit/s that influence him and his reading that if he offers his skill as a service, " until somebody comes to count upon them and then at the most opportune moment for maximum emotional devastation the rug will get pulled from underneath and the answer will be dramatically and destructively wrong" ...

I could not have worded that worse myself ! This is a warning about disaster ! And one that draws other people into it ... not your everyday 'bad reading' ... but a virtual lurking and waiting until the " most opportune moment for maximum emotional devastation" and not just a wrong prediction but ; " destructively wrong" ... !

And why ? " This can be blamed on whatever forces I have managed to antagonize while winding my way on my spiritual path."

Antagonise ? ? ?

Mate , no offense, but really, if what you say, you feel is really true - you need to sort that out.

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Nikita_ said:

OK, first you compared tarot readings to a tragically ambiguous weather report, now to a short-sighted man looking from a rooftop at what happens down in the street....what next ???

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Nikita_ said:

To a drunk who could have seen things right if only he had been sober ???

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Nikita_ said:

The point in my view, is this : is tarot science ? Or is it magic ? Or neither ? Maybe it's something else entirely ? Because according to our answer, our perspective changes completely...

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Nikita_ said:

If we think it's magic, we should believe it can see everything; if we think it's science, we should be able to demonstrate how and why it works....if we think it's crap,...well....that's the easiest way, I guess....

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