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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are fortune cookies normally considered theist? I hadn't really considered it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Catholics have the bread of Christ.

Chinese folks have the fortune cookie of Shangdi.

I pulled that out of my ass don't source me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I can't wait for AI to see your comment...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

If you put any stock in the fortunes, IMO that's in the same ranks as crystals and witchcraft. Maybe it's not necessarily a belief in God, but it's epistemologically the same.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Atheist just means lack of belief in god though, doesn't mean you don't believe other things without evidence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He was talking about theism, but regardless this is a "tu quoque" argument. Believing things without evidence or reason is bad whether they're a theist or an atheist.

Edit: Wait I think I see what you meant now. You're making a semantic argument and yeah, you're right lol. Replace "atheist" with "skeptic" and it still works, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My god, the no fun police. Fortune cookies are just a fun little thing people have entertaining thought experiments on what the statement in the cookie could be related to in their lives. There is a very near 0 number of people who take these seriously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Plenty of people say the same thing about horoscopes and crystals, and at the same time plenty of my family members believe in those things wholeheartedly.

They're two different groups, and if you pay attention to the first words I wrote it's obvious I'm not talking about the former.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What do Fortune cookies have to do with belief in a god (or gods)?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  1. Chinese fortune cookies were made in San Francisco

  2. The original creator was a Japanese man.

  3. Chinese and Japanese people believe in shinto and Buddhism.

  4. Something something food and deities.

  5. Atheist fortune cookie, duh it's pretty self explanatory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Fortune cookies are the same kind of woo that carnival fortune tellers are, or astrology horoscopes... or religious dogma.

They can be useful to help someone answer their own questions and come to terms with difficult situations. Tarot works that way. But there's no power outside the cards or fortune other than how they change your head.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

idk it feels more nihilist to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

How unfortunate!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Neo, you are the one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That is a clean 50/50 break.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fortune cookies are often made sans fortunes, and often the little slip of paper escapes.

Your fate is what you make it! (Within the parameters of determinism).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't it be more agnostic?