Tarot? Seriously?

[PujolJunkie]

I didn't realize this was a problem. I haven't seen a tarot cards in years.

I do remember once after going out to dinner with a boyfriend and his father and brothers - the father says lets go across the street to the fortune teller and have our fortune told!

So we go across the street and when they get to me the guy says "wow your dad really doesn't like your boyfriend".

It turns out years later my dad admitted he couldn't stand my then-boyfriend. But that isn't that big of a coincidence, he hasn't like many of my boyfriends.

I know one girl who is so into tarot that she actually cries when she sees her readings and starts fearing for the worst. She literally lives her entire life by them.

[M1IRONMIKE]

I didn't realize this was a problem. I haven't seen a tarot cards in years.

I do remember once after going out to dinner with a boyfriend and his father and brothers - the father says lets go across the street to the fortune teller and have our fortune told!

So we go across the street and when they get to me the guy says "wow your dad really doesn't like your boyfriend".

It turns out years later my dad admitted he couldn't stand my then-boyfriend. But that isn't that big of a coincidence, he hasn't like many of my boyfriends.

As the father of a 19 year old girl I can say with confidence that we all hate our daughters boyfriends

[TabascoElvis]

I didn't realize this was a problem. I haven't seen a tarot cards in years.

I do remember once after going out to dinner with a boyfriend and his father and brothers - the father says lets go across the street to the fortune teller and have our fortune told!

So we go across the street and when they get to me the guy says "wow your dad really doesn't like your boyfriend".

It turns out years later my dad admitted he couldn't stand my then-boyfriend. But that isn't that big of a coincidence, he hasn't like many of my boyfriends.

As the father of a 19 year old girl I can say with confidence that we all hate our daughters boyfriends

++ As the father of 9 and 11 year old daughters I can agree with confidence that I will uphold this solemn duty.

[JCShutout]

Lol, nice rant! I volunteer with some people who do a quasi-christian, monday morning quarterbacking version of this.

An example from a couple of months ago:

"Wow, I had two errands to run, A and B, and could not decide which to do first. I did B first, and there was a 5 car pile-up on the route to errand A. God must have guided me to errand B to keep me safe."

ORLY?

Wow, this all-loving God who kept you safe was a dick to the 9 people who are dead or in the hospital in the 5 car pile-up. Why did God help you and not them?

Maybe you were just lucky fool!

[maddash]

I've been wondering about this for a while. I get the feeling that whenever there's a shift towards science and technology in society, there's a backlash where these quasi-spiritual mumbo-jumbo fills a void. I've notice quite a few more shows on TV devoted to this stuff. The douche bag John Edwards (the supposed medium) has a popular show, and there are other shows of that ilk popping up on TV and in other media outlets. I think people feel this isolation from spirituality when so much of their time (and the coverage around them) is devoted to science and technology, so they reach out to these groups - some are traditional religions/churches, but some are these fringe spiritual groups (the tarot readers, mediums, etc...)

I don't know if there's been a sociality study on this, but I think they'd find this kind of tug of war between spirituality and science over the years. That's not to say you can have both in your life (many do) but I think there are pockets of our society that see the two in conflict, so they steer towards the other side when one takes a greater roll in society.