Reply To: Spiritual atheist.
@Simonpaynton. You are seriously setting Davis up for what you believe will be a disaster? If I had information on how to persuade someone to do something I believed would damage them, I think I’d be keeping that to myself!
It’s not the fact that nothing is going to happen to @Davis that would not have happened if he hadn’t brutalized the cards. It’s the fact that you think something awful will happen to him and you’re encouraging it, that has me flummoxed.
Hey strega. Actually it was I who started the idea of this experiment and I who proposed to go ahead and do it. I really don’t think Simon is so secure per his belief in these Tarrot cards…since if he were…I don’t think he would be suggesting this experiment at all.
In any case…I am 99.9% sure that Tarrot cards are nothing more than paper and plastic which have rules that were randomly made up, improvised and changed per the creative whims of fraudsters, mystics and deluded colourful charming yet creepy charlatans. There is nothing special about tarrotcards, just as there is nothing special about the holy bible or a magic 8 ball. There is no conceivable mechanism per physics that would make Tarrot cards any more predictable than say, casting a whole bunch of cheerios on the table and reading the signs, or counting the amount of stairs in someone’s appartment and then predicting the future. I am convinced that cold reading is all it takes to hook people onto the delusion and that most people are taken in by it (especially if they haven’t been introduced to rigorous critical thinking, skepticism and or are aware of modern research on “why people believe crazy things”. It is not difficult to take specific sounding events in someone’s future and then later on project what happened back onto the memories of the actual tarrot card reading. All of the stock events that tarrot readers or other charatans give are likely or bound to happen to most people. They will get several people wrong and they will either stop going or wilfully ignore the mistakes and latch onto the right ones…and statistically a few readings will be very spot on and the victim will be blown away and truly believe the tarrot reader has special super amazing predictive powers.
If carrying cards around and pissing on them and ripping them up is what it will take for someone to drop the illusion…I am more than happy to oblige. Nothing will happen to me (because of the cards). If I am hit by a car…it was because I or the driver wasn’t paying attention (or perhaps Simon paid someone to take me down LOL).
