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> Sometimes I'll also do "acute divination" -- my favorite method is fortune cookies, not even kidding. I'm not religious or superstitious, but I get the most

> Sometimes I'll also do "acute divination" -- my favorite method is fortune cookies, not even kidding. I'm not religious or superstitious, but I get the most unscientific thought that fortune cookies may actually be personal messages from the universe. Don't really put much credence into this thought but I can't help but think it when opening them. Not sure why.

bckr 5y ago
> fortune cookies may actually be personal messages from the universe. Try this next time you get one: Take a few seconds and hold the fortune cookie in your hand. Deeply consider for a moment the comedic possibility that this fortune cookie contains a message from a higher power. Suspend your disbelief, just like you do when engrossed in a work of fiction. Now, the key: ask a question. Questions in the form of "Tell me about...", or "How should I approach..." etc are most suitable for the form of divination at hand. Close your eyes and ask the question to the higher power in the cookie. Now, have a predetermined method for opening and reading the fortune. I crack in half, eat one half, read, and then eat the other half (or don't, if I am being a brat / don't like the fortune). This part is about making a clean ritual of it. My hit rate for meaningful messages skyrocketed since applying the above approach.
- anon9001 5y ago
  > My hit rate for meaningful messages skyrocketed since applying the above approach. As a skeptic and non-believer of all things spiritual, whenever I have one of those "meaningful messages" moments (we get them too), my reaction is to debunk that feeling by thinking about how others might have interpreted the same event, or how the fortune cookie supply chain actually works. It's funny that some people lean into that feeling and assign it great cosmic meaning while others rationalize it away.
  - metadaemon 5y ago
    You can go a little crazy assigning meaning to everything, but at the same time it's a lot of fun.
  - bckr 5y ago
    > It's funny that some people lean into that feeling and assign it great cosmic meaning while others rationalize it away Yep. There's a point in that spectrum named "trans-rational" where you have a conversation with yourself that goes something like 0) pre-rational: this is significant 1) rational: it's probably not significant, due to <reasons> 2) trans-rational: well, it may or may not be significant, but what do I stand to gain or lose from assigning some significance or other to it?

bckr 5y ago

> fortune cookies may actually be personal messages from the universe. Try this next time you get one: Take a few seconds and hold the fortune cookie in your hand. Deeply consider for a moment the comedic possibility that this fortune cookie contains a message from a higher power. Suspend your disbelief, just like you do when engrossed in a work of fiction. Now, the key: ask a question. Questions in the form of "Tell me about...", or "How should I approach..." etc are most suitable for the form of divination at hand. Close your eyes and ask the question to the higher power in the cookie. Now, have a predetermined method for opening and reading the fortune. I crack in half, eat one half, read, and then eat the other half (or don't, if I am being a brat / don't like the fortune). This part is about making a clean ritual of it. My hit rate for meaningful messages skyrocketed since applying the above approach.

anon9001 5y ago
> My hit rate for meaningful messages skyrocketed since applying the above approach. As a skeptic and non-believer of all things spiritual, whenever I have one of those "meaningful messages" moments (we get them too), my reaction is to debunk that feeling by thinking about how others might have interpreted the same event, or how the fortune cookie supply chain actually works. It's funny that some people lean into that feeling and assign it great cosmic meaning while others rationalize it away.
- metadaemon 5y ago
  You can go a little crazy assigning meaning to everything, but at the same time it's a lot of fun.
- bckr 5y ago
  > It's funny that some people lean into that feeling and assign it great cosmic meaning while others rationalize it away Yep. There's a point in that spectrum named "trans-rational" where you have a conversation with yourself that goes something like 0) pre-rational: this is significant 1) rational: it's probably not significant, due to <reasons> 2) trans-rational: well, it may or may not be significant, but what do I stand to gain or lose from assigning some significance or other to it?