Fortune tellers

redrose1 · October 2, 2010, 1:37pm

Re: Fortune tellers

If the fortune tellers are “truly gifted” in foretelling the future of people…why can’t they predict major catastrophes like war, genocide, natural disasters? Why can’t they predict that the election of a certain leader will prove devastating for a nation, the world in general? The thing is they can’t. They wait until the major events pass…and then they print out articles in magazines saying how they “divined” that a certain person was successful or dangerous because of the shape of their facial features, the total sum of the letters of their first name, the lines on their palm, or the position of the planets and the moon at the time of their birth,

And many of these fortune tellers…are not that successful or renowned…I’m guessing they don’t earn much. Also, I’ve always wondered…Were the fortune tellers able to predict their own future? Did they always “know” before hand that they would grow up to be fortune tellers? And would the fortune tellers want their own kids to follow in this profession? Also, do fortune tellers go to other fortune tellers to get their own fortunes read? LOL

**I’ve said it before, many of these astrologers/palmists/numerologists/etc make use of the PT Barnum effect…which means that they “word” their predictions in such a general way that it applies to most people. **For example, they might say that your adolescence was a very difficult time period…well…adolescence is a rather tumultuous period for most people. It’s a game of words.

But how are they able to do that?!