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> some people stepped up to the Oracle and asked how to conquer Persia. Others probably asked where they left their sandals. And if the place would be any good
by krisoft 1y ago
> some people stepped up to the Oracle and asked how to conquer Persia. Others probably asked where they left their sandals.
And if the place would be any good at the second kind of queries you would call it Lost&Found and not the Oracle.
> illusion (or a projection) of latent knowledge being revealed
It is not an illusion. Knowledge is being revealed. The right knowledge for my question.
> That interpretive dance between human and oracle is the core of divination, no matter how mundane the interaction.
Ok, so if I went to a library, used a card index to find a book about bird feather anatomy, then read said book to find that the answer to my question is “barb” would you also call that “divination”?
If i would have paid a software developer to turn my imprecise description of a database table into precise and thight code which can be executed would you also call that “divination”?
- anon-3988 1y agoThe difference is between saying '"I want a hammer" and it magically pops in your hand' versus '"I want a hammer" and I have to chop some wood, gather some metals, heat it up...'. Both gets you a hammer, but I don't think anyone would call the latter magical/divine? I think its only "magical" simply because its incomprehensible...how does a hammer pops into reality? Of course, once we know EXACTLY how that works, then it ceases to be magical. Even if we take God, if we fully understand how He works, He would no longer be magical/divine. "Oh he created another universe? This is how that works..." The divinity comes from the fact that it is incomprehensible.
- BlueTemplar 1y agoThis sounds like Clarke's fallacy ? https://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/clarkes-fallacy.html https://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/clarkes-fallacy...