The Fool (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
 
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[–] 53 points 6 months ago (30 children)

Well, if you believe in tarot, then you should feel embarrassed

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  • [–] 74 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    We can’t all be as enlightened a thinker as you, FistingEnthusiast.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    .. And here I am thinking FistingEnthusiast and FartMaster69 must surely have a lot in common.

    When will I learn to never make assumptions on the internet sigh

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    You can’t fart through a clenched fist.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Some people choose stupidity

    Sadly, that stupidity leaks into other facets of life, like anti-vax bullshit and the like

    It's no different to belief in any of the invisible men living in the clouds, it's just trendy among those who avoid soap.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's cool if you don't believe in it. But it's weird to position yourself smug and superior to others, when your name is FistingEnthusiast.

    Idk man, some people like fisting, others like occultism. At least reading a tarot card or summoning a goetic demon doesn't have the capacity to rip my holes open ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah, but not as embarrassed as someone going around belittling people for participating in harmless spiritualism.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    The last thing this world needs is more people going in for bullshit woo without evidence

    The Venn diagram of people who genuinely believe in horoscopes and tarot, and anti-vax idiots is fucking close to a circle

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Leave the reddit atheist thing at reddit.

    The form spiritual beliefs and practices take is dictated by material and social conditions, its not productive to call everyone who responds to these conditions bad if you actually want to interact with society instead of whatever the fuck reddit atheists do.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I was born in the seventies

    I have been an atheist my whole life, so I don't know why you think my contempt for woo has anything to do with reddit

    I delight in the wonders of the world, and marvel at our universe

    But I don't need to believe in absurdities in order to do so

    There's a world of difference between being a romantic and enjoying whimsy, and woo.

    !and I don't give a fuck what you think!<

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    and yet I bet you suspend your disbelief when consuming media such as video games, film and TV.

    Same instinct and process.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Temporarily suspending disbelief for entertainment and actually believing in the occult are different things. I'm sure there are lots of people who do tarot for fun and just suspend disbelief, but there's also a lot of people who actually believe in magic and use it to make important decisions. One is harmless, the other betrays a dangerous lack of critical thinking that pervades every aspect of a person's life.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I don't believe in Tarot.

    But I do own a deck because of JoJo's Bizarre adventure and because I have used it in my homebrew DnD campaigns to signify allies and enemies (like Persona 5).

    I would 100% carry The Fool if I had a clear phone case, because whimsy.

    There is nothing wrong in having one around.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Also the history of the imagery and the artistic reinterpretation of theme decks such as yours is fascinating. I have one that's emoji, one that's all cats, and one that's designed to look like crayon scribbles in a wide ruled notebook. In each one you can hold up equivalent cards and see how each artist interpreted the individual card under the overall theme.

    here's some examples

    Tarot is also a great introspective and meditative practice that allows you to mirror your own thoughts back to you and gain a different perspective. Esoteric spiritual practices are by the literal definition of that first word as diverse as the people who practice them.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Sure, if you pick up almost any book on Tarot, it's going to have some mystical nonsense in it, but it's also a tool for brainstorming and an inexpensive way to get a lot of cool art. Check out The Sceptic's Tarot if you're curious about non-supernatural usage of Tarot cards.

    Also, some people have found it to be an aid for psychology, similar to Rorschach tests. I don't think this has been studied, though.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Using tarot to spark discussion and introspection in therapy has always worked great for me with young witchy clients who say "I don't know" to every question I ask them lol

    For non-witchy but otherwise similar clients, I like to use adapted versions of Chuck Klosterman's 23 Questions

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Are the cards telling the future? No.

    But they're still neat! In always impressed at the the artistry, and attention to detail of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, and all the work that had to be done to tie it, visually and thematically, onto Golden Dawn-style Hermetic Qabalah, is all very interesting

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