[the_enigma]

hey guys - do u have any cool stories about fortune tellers to share? do u believe in them? wat about horoscopes and other superstitious stuff

[HERMIT]

I once had a crush on this palm reader. But she wasn't all that good with her craft.
I wrote my phone number on my hand and she totally missed that.
I don't know if that was by design though. Just my luck.

Don't trust any of those psychic hotlines, by the way.
I called one of those fools one time and talked to her for like 6 whole hours.
And not even once did she realize that there was any way I was intending to pay that bill.

[iridescent]

We had tarot card readers at my high school's graduation party thing. Mine was a guy named Jack. He had me sit down, spread out his cards in an arc and told me to pick one. I accidentally picked up two, and he said that was meant to happen. Blah blah I can't remember, but what he said in the end was, "you're writing a story, aren't you?" (True.) He told me not to tell anyone about the plot of it, no matter who or why, because they would either use it for their own good or against me later on. But he told me that once it was published, I had to come find him, "Jack," and give him a copy. He said he had a big shelf of them (books that people wrote after he told them they would be successful at it). It sounds silly now but it wowed me at the time and I was walking on clouds, till one of my friends told me about the same fortune. She wasn't a writer

but I guess there's time for her to become one in the future!

It's funny; I haven't read enough about horoscopes to have any reason to believe they're based on anything reasonable, but my zodiac signs fit me to a tee. I was telling my brother about them yesterday and he asked me about this person's sign and that person's sign and looked more and more shocked the more I said. And the thing about horoscopes is I feel they're specific enough to be remarkable (i.e. they shouldn't really apply to just anybody? though I guess the more people I know the more I realize we share mostly the same pieces).

I don't believe in any of these things wholeheartedly, but they're fun and often good for the kind of rush I imagine one would get from "real" magic.

Oh and I do knock on wood. (It takes a second, and after something like "I never get sick" or "you've never broken a bone" I don't think it hurts) I do like to look for four leaf clovers and sometimes I'll designate an object a "lucky charm." If something works once I'll stick to it for a while. I don't like it when people open umbrellas indoors, and I'll be careful when it's Friday on the 13th. Just for fun...

There's a slip from a fortune cookie taped to the inside of my laptop that says, "you will overcome difficult times," and that's just nice

[Meenuh]

No.. I don't believe in them. I remember I went to this buddhist temple with a friend of mine. I'm not buddhist but the old vietnamese lady there was something like a fortune teller. She looks at your face and tells you stuff. She spoke in viet so I couldn't understand her so my friend translated. She said I was very smart and I forget what else. She said she wasn't sure about something about me and had to look in some book. My friend said usually when they say that they have to look at a book it's something good.

I've had random people come up to me and tell me stuff about my fortune and i'm just like "oooookay". Lol. This one lady tells my bf that he's studying very hard and he isn't. At all. LOL. So he was like no you're wrong. Hahaha.

Seriously... I can do that too. "You're having a lot of problems in your life". I'm a fortune teller.

[my.name.is.nine]

i don't really believe in the horoscopes or whatever.. but when it comes describe how you are. i got like.. ahahaha.. that's so true.. then move on.. haha

[G4nismo]

no

don't believe in any of that garbage

[sushiwhore]

whenever i go back to vietnam a big thing for me my sister and om is fortunetelling i remember when i was in 6th grade we went back there to get our 'life fortune'

basically for mine it said i was a lazy ass that would get no where if i didnt study sigh =(

it also said i shouldnt get married until i'm 30 not before or after or else i'd be divorcing.. i dont know if that parts true.. but life chnges right? o_o


i gave up in fortune telling though because i alwasy see that you become superstitious to it so you unconciously 'make it happen'


o_o so i jsut stop =/

[Temoin la Nuit]

I do tarot readings for people sometimes when we're chilling..

It's entertainment, in any case.

[2redJake]

Personally, I don't believe in it, but my mom used to before she became a christian. She was dating my dad and she went to go see a fortune teller to see if he was the right one. Apparently, this guy was close in a lot of ways. Among other things, said that my dad would make a good husband, they would marry and start a new life across the ocean, they would have three children, but they would be struggling financially.

My dad told us this one evening during dinner many years ago. He was teasing my mom for having once believed in all of this. Our family was doing really well financially at the time, and my dad used it as proof that all that stuff was fake. Then, a couple years later, my dad's business failed, and he lost almost everything. They're a lot better now, but to this day, they have to worry about their finances. Nothing really extraordinary here. Sounds like the story of many immigrant families, but still, a little weird.

I hope it's not true, bc the last thing this fortune teller told my mom was that for some reason, she would be unhappy for most of her life and then find contentment in old age. Yikes. She's a devout christian now, so hopefully, she's forgotten about this and is not being affected by self-fulfilling prophecy, etc.

[HERMIT]

I do tarot readings for people sometimes when we're chilling..

It's entertainment, in any case.

Just be sure not to play poker with tarot cards, that's for sure.

[livingdeaddoll]

when i was a baby my parents took me to a fortune teller, and some of the stuff that was predicted came true.
but i always take it with a pinch of salt. chinese culture tends to talk a lot about fate (buddhist/taoist influence maybe?) but a part of me likes to believe we shape our own future.
when i was younger i played with tarot cards, and stuff started coming true.
then i realised that maybe it came true because I believed it was going to come true- the whole self-fulfilling prophecy thing.
fortune telling is fun and entertaining as long as you don't take it too seriously.

[i/boss/top]

i saw a fortune teller when i was in korea... i'm waiting to see if anything she says come true...
what she said about -
job: i'll probably work in either business or travel industry
marriage: either 26 or 30. 26 will be a rushed wedding most likely either elope or get married because i got pregnant but the guy will not be my intended husband. if i marry at 30 it will be with my soulmate.
children: i will only have one child, a son
health: will be healthy starting in my mid~late thirites after an unhealthy childhood (the unhealty childhood part is right)

i was 25 in korean age when i got this read and she was referring to my korean ages when she said 26 and 30 (which makes me 26 now in korean age....) so we'll see what happens...

[wowastyle]

i've been to a palm reader back when I was in high school, it was pretty accurate.
i feel strongly about what zodiac signs are true... not for all people but for most.
never been to a fortune teller, but my sister goes to one every year.

[Myss Blewm]

I don't really believe in fortune telling because it's a lot of vague things that people read/tell and they start collecting stuff from their own lives and try to adjust it to the fortune telling so they convince themselves that it is real. But it's fun. And sometimes it's odd how it all fits in together. Like Wikipedia, when reading your horoscope or getting your fortune told take everything with a grain of salt. Some people believe in it all, some don't. It's fun stuff to discuss though.

My friends and I do tarot cards on each other, because we're so awesome, and once I asked if I would ever find the "one", and the cards revealed that I want to fall in love but I fear rejection so much that I won't allow myself to put me out there to meet someone. I tried to coyly say the cards and my friends were full of crap but....it's pretty true. I was rather ticked off at the tarot cards for the rest of the night.

One of my friends told me that she went to a fortune teller once and the fortune teller told her she'd become a doctor. She didn't. And then one of my other friends was like, "She only said you'd become a doctor because you're Indian. What a racist fortune teller!"

[be_mellow]

I watch too much dramas talking about how fake it is. So I don't believe it. I don't read horoscopes either. I find it too good to be true.

[Kamoku-Ai]

I don't really believe in it but my mum told me a story that happened to her when she and my dad first had my sister. A gypsy woman came to the house selling heather and offered to tell my mum's fortune. She said that my mum and dad had a baby girl upstairs (there was no way she could've known that) and that my mum and dad would eventually own their own house (they were renting at the time) and buy a car. She also said that after my sister they would have 3 other children close together and then wait a while and have 1 more. My mum and dad now do own their own house and cars, they had 3 boys after my sister and then had me -I'm the youngest by 14 years.

Another story: When I was little I had to go to another city to be treated for a heart condition I have. My mum and dad were off buying food whilst I was in the hospital. In the city a fortune-teller offered to tell their fortunes and they didn't refuse after the first story, because mum is a bit scared of them lol! S/he said that mum and dad had a sick child with a heart problem who was in the hospital. But the fortune-teller said not to worry as I would be fine. That came true as well.

So I dunno. Seems a bit strange that that happened but my parents promise it's all the truth. But I still dunno if I believe. Would be cool if it is possible for some people to tell the future though.

[naoto]

I once had a crush on this palm reader. But she wasn't all that good with her craft.
I wrote my phone number on my hand and she totally missed that.
I don't know if that was by design though. Just my luck.

Don't trust any of those psychic hotlines, by the way.
I called one of those fools one time and talked to her for like 6 whole hours.
And not even once did she realize that there was any way I was intending to pay that bill.

Don't stop hermit. Don't ever stop. What would we do without you.

-No I believe that stuff is baloney. It's almost like some evil mindset possesses you if you do believe in psychic stuff, that if you don't sprinkle water on your lawn you will have bad luck or something. Why think like that? Why do random things to preempt events in life? Life is full of unpredictable events. If you're religious it makes even less sense (unless you're a gypsy). If you don't take the other path to school tomorrow and avoid the one you usually take then God will punish you. God will never do that.

[-_-]

Stuff like that especially horoscopes and American psychics is for entertainment. Though when I was in Vietnam there's hardcore fortune tellers out in the countryside that seemed to be very serious about what they do and made me wonder whether there's any truth for it.

For the time being I don't believe in clairvoyance and wouldn't waste my money on it but but who knows.

[jshat4]

I think a good way is to walk into one and see if they know what you do for a living or what you're studying. Especially if I go to Asia, where they may not even know I'm from North America. See if they can figure that out. If they can, then I may believe what they have to say next lol.

[h0ney]

hmm..my whole family is really into the fortune telling thing.. they do it for our friggin wholeeeeeeeeee family (relatives n all) every couple of years. there was this old one that died but i heard he was really good.. he looked at ur whole body.. as in ur feet, hands, face, palm, etc

before i was born he told my mum id be a girl, and i wont be in china when i grew up but a country south of china (im in australia atm)
and heaps of other little things that all came true.

grandpa had a friend who apparently saw things at night and those things all came true too

but sometimes you can kind of guess these things..i duno..i believe in them if theyre good XD