Current Events > An unconventional divination idea

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I'm starting to get heavily into the idea that nothing that happens is truly random or meaningless. Like I played with my shortwave radio the other night and the stations I stumbled upon came to me for a reason and I recorded them and used them in a sound collage where they worked quite well and everything made sense.

So with divination, the act of using supposedly supernatural means to predict the future or gain insight people will traditionally use things like tarot cards for example. Which in their original form were just another type of playing cards for games. But they've taken on meaning and people develop ways to interpret them.

Now I remember a reddit post I read years ago that suggested anything can be used for divination, this person used Pokmon cards in place of tarot as they were on hand and felt quite satisfied.

I have a large watchlist of movies I intend to watch in my life, it's at around 3500 currently. I can also shuffle this list and get a movie at the top of the list at random.

My idea is to do this 10 times, each time watching the first movie that appears and attempting to interpret each one as a prediction for the next 10 years.

No I'm not high, maybe a little crazy.

Tldr: going to use random movies to predict the future

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This is highly unconventional and absurd. I love it! Keep us updated. I cant wait to hear what you come up with

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It's certainly very unusual. Although I can see parallels in bibliomancy.

I've been thinking about it for awhile but I lacked the belief and the right mindset. I think my brain is finally starting to understand the books and articles I've been reading.

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Here's a topic you should explore: Barnum effect.

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Paragon21XX posted...

Here's a topic you should explore: Barnum effect.

That's one way of looking at it I guess

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You could figure a whole lot from very minor things, but cards don't have the processing power for that.

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Dreamscissors posted...

It's certainly very unusual. Although I can see parallels in bibliomancy.

I've been thinking about it for awhile but I lacked the belief and the right mindset. I think my brain is finally starting to understand the books and articles I've been reading.

I assumed that was your inspiration for it, to be honest.

Is there any school of thought thats particularly piqued your interest?


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Big yikes

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