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Cabbages and Kings posted:I like tarot though I will defend tarot: It has legitimate use as a storytelling tool, which is what makes it useful for people as a sort of "fortune telling" thing. There's absolutely nothing mystical or magical or arcane about it, but a good tarot reading will create a small fictional narrative (about the cards and their meanings) that lets the person the reading is for imagine their own personal problems as if they're part of this third-person fictional narrative that isn't about them. It lets them turn themselves into a 'character' and look at their problems from the perspective of an outsider, with less personal and emotional attachment because everything is made ambiguous enough to not be about "them". It's helpful that it gives no actual advice because that's not the point - it's not here for me to be able to tell you how to fix your problems - it's here for me to give you a different perspective on your problems that might lead to an epiphany yourself about what to do. And it's vague enough that the person reading the cards doesn't have to know anything about your personal problems to help. I learned how to read tarot purely as a storytelling tool because it's just a great way to generate a narrative - if you don't know what to write next, draw a card, because they all have vague ambiguous meanings with just enough semblance of continuity and symbolism to give you a fairly solid idea of how that little meta-narrative could apply to your character/story. And I also like doing tarot readings for people because it's surprising how helpful they find it, but I always explain my whole thing about how there's nothing mystical and magical about it and how/why it works immediately before or after the reading. Astrology is absolute bullshit though it's all based on made-up pseudoscience about the position of planets and stars and it's all explicitly written to make the reader feel like their special day is finally (or almost) here, it's a product made to suck up your money because it makes you feel good. And anyone who tries to tell you that there's any actual magic to tarot is similarly absolute bullshit. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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I am pretty sure tarot is just astrology with more shuffling
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deep dish peat moss posted:I will defend tarot: It has legitimate use as a storytelling tool, which is what makes it useful for people as a sort of "fortune telling" thing. There's absolutely nothing mystical or magical or arcane about it, but a good tarot reading will create a small fictional narrative (about the cards and their meanings) that lets the person the reading is for imagine their own personal problems as if they're part of this third-person fictional narrative that isn't about them. It lets them turn themselves into a 'character' and look at their problems from the perspective of an outsider, with less personal and emotional attachment because everything is made ambiguous enough to not be about "them". It's helpful that it gives no actual advice because that's not the point - it's not here for me to be able to tell you how to fix your problems - it's here for me to give you a different perspective on your problems that might lead to an epiphany yourself about what to do. And it's vague enough that the person reading the cards doesn't have to know anything about your personal problems to help. Huh. I never thought about this before. By your logic though, astrology can do the same thing. Or at least getting your birth chart done i guess. It throws out a bunch of traits and you think about whether they apply to you or not, changing your perspective on yourself and your personality, maybe it helps some people recognize their good traits when they are usually focused on their failures or vice versa. Horoscopes are just narratives too. So you would think about your problems or what is going on in your life and how it compares to that narrative. I think the whole "daily horoscope" thing is pretty dumb and they're just throwing things out every day and you just remember the ones that apply to you. But I've also seen where some astrology focuses on different time periods during the year and more general concepts vs "stay away from gambling today!" Or whatever. Then there's compatibility between signs. I feel like that gives you a new perspective on the relationship and I've seen some pretty good general relationship advice come up on those things.
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Like this is what my chart says about my sun sign I actually relate to a ton of this (but not the"usually well liked" part). Does that mean astrology determined who i am? It doesn't make logical sense but emotionally it makes me feel like i understand myself better. That's what astrology is really supposed to do i feel like. So does it matter if it accomplished that by predicting who i am or if it did it by giving me a different perspective?
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deep dish peat moss posted:I will defend tarot: It has legitimate use as a storytelling tool, which is what makes it useful for people as a sort of "fortune telling" thing. drat, now I want to do a tarot reading, that’s pretty cool
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:posting on SA Answered in the first reply, close the thread I would confess to being into lots of the other hobbies listed in this thread, but posting on SA is definitely a secret shame
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Konar posted:Skincare, astrology, self help poo poo, stuff like that. Really anything focused on the self is a stupid and bad hobby the misogyny thread is in CSPAM
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Dixville posted:Huh. I never thought about this before. By your logic though, astrology can do the same thing. Or at least getting your birth chart done i guess. It throws out a bunch of traits and you think about whether they apply to you or not, changing your perspective on yourself and your personality, maybe it helps some people recognize their good traits when they are usually focused on their failures or vice versa. The reason I feel differently about astrology and horoscopes is mostly because they're not "interactive" or personal - it's one blanket reading that the newspaper or book or whatever gives to an entire 1/12 of the population, and the outlook they provide is generally more vague and overall positive ('today is your day!') because it's a syndicated daily/weekly/monthly thing that they want their reader to keep coming back to, compared to tarot which is a one-time event (usually) where the meaning of any given thing could be either positive or ominous. Yeah sometimes horoscopes will say "Be wary of <xyz> today!" but with Tarot you'll get a card that on one hand could "mean" overcoming your greatest adversities and triumphing over them, or it could mean succumbing to them - and yeah that's absolutely "bullshit" but the point of it is that in the listener's mind, they're subconsciously associating that greatest adversity with something specific and personal to them, and looking at the situation from the outside perspective that tarot gives them they have a clearer-than-normal idea of whether "they" (the character in the "story" that tarot is creating) would overcome that adversity or not - so on a subconscious level, they "know" which one of those two meanings the card has. Or maybe they don't and that helps narrow down the problem: that they don't know. But I get your point and yeah you're right that Horoscopes could be used the same way. I think (? Maybe I'm wrong, I am not that familiar with them tbh) you'd have to kind of deliberately think about a horoscope in that framing to get that use out of it , where with Tarot that's just kind of what it does organically, without the listener (or oftentimes even the one reading the cards) knowing it. And that other astrology stuff (seasonal planet charts or whatever) might be just as useful, I don't know enough about them to have an opinion. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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dk2m posted:drat, now I want to do a tarot reading, that’s pretty cool If you mean you want to do one yourself then I would suggest the Celtic Cross because it's ideal for the kind of thing I talked about with tarot. First think of a problem that you want to analyze. Draw one card at a time to fill out each of the positions, after each draw look up the "meaning" of that card in whatever tarot reference you want (they're all over the internet and they're all slightly different), and think about how that card could be analogous to that position in reference to the original problem. You don't have to worry about doing the whole laying the cards out in the shape of a sacred astral sigil mumbo jumbo unless that kind of stuff is fun to you. It doesn't always "work" but surprisingly it does more often than not. But it probably works better when someone else does it for you because the whole point is kind of detaching yourself from the problem, and if you're doing a reading for yourself with the explicit purpose of analyzing that problem it will probably still feel personal. When someone else does it for you without knowing what the actual problem is, they can be vague about it and look at it pragmatically which helps provide a perspective different from your own. If you mean you want to have someone do a reading for you I can post a thread sometime, I've done it before and it was fun, but I'm about to have to go without my meds for a couple days so it would need to wait 
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once I had a dream that spiders were crawling all over me and when I got in my car to go to work that morning a spider crawled across the windshield, so I went inside and called out sick. is that what we're talking about here?
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:once I had a dream that spiders were crawling all over me and when I got in my car to go to work that morning a spider crawled across the windshield, so I went inside and called out sick. Doing the right thing is a lame hobby yeah
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Off road driving/mudding, Oh look at me I'm a big man driving my 2 ton 4WD through the bush 20 meters away from a paved road tearing the poo poo out of what little bushland still exists Bro It makes me hard thinking about how much native habitat I destroyed today just loving around for the hell of it.
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Dixville posted:Like this is what my chart says about my sun sign By your best estimate, how do you think it accomplished that? It's not tailored to you in any real way, other than being arbitrarily assigned to people who were born around a certain part of the year. The person who wrote this knows nothing about you and has never met you. If it feels profound, it's probably more because of its initial claim that it's specifically made for you, rather than any of its actual content. You'd get the same effect from reading Leo's or Virgo's description if they simply changed the title to Aquarius. These things are basically just collections of generic motivational phrases. Most of the statements are positive things that almost anyone would like to apply to themselves, sprinkled with less likely but more exciting gambles that delight the reader when true but can be easily brushed the side when they don't land.
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Lyrics Videos Shopping Images Books News Maps Flights Finance All filters Feedback Tools Your Horoscope for Today / Lyrics Main Results Aquarius There's travel in your future When your tongue freezes to the back of a speeding bus Fill that void in your pathetic life By playing whack-a-mole 17 hours a day Pisces Try to avoid any Virgos or Leos with the ebola virus You are the true Lord of the dance No matter what those idiots at work say Aries The look on your face will be priceless When you find that 40 pound watermelon in your colon Trade toothbrushes with an albino dwarf, then give a hickey to Meryl Streep Taurus You will never find true happiness What you gonna do, cry about it? The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up Do a bunch of stuff and then go back to sleep That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) That's your horoscope for today That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) Gemini Your birthday party will be ruined Once again by your explosive flatulence Your love life will run into trouble When your fiancé hurls a javelin through your chest Cancer, the position of Jupiter says that You should spend the rest of the week face down in the mud Try not to shove a roll of duct tape up your nose while taking your driver's test Leo Now is not a good time to photocopy your butt And staple it to your bosses face, oh no Eat a bucket of tuna-flavored pudding Then wash it down with a gallon of Strawberry Quik Virgo All Virgos are extremely friendly and intelligent, except for you Expect a big surprise today When you wind up with your head impaled upon a stick That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) That's your horoscope for today That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) That's your horoscope for today Now you may find it inconceivable or rather very least a bit unlikely that The relative position of the planets and the stars Could have a special deep significance or meaning That exclusively applies to only you But, let me give you my assurance that These forecasts and predictions are all based on Solid, scientific, documented evidence So you would have to be some kind of moron Not to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true Where was I? Libra A big promotion is just around The corner for someone much more talented than you Laughter is the very best medicine Remember that when your appendix bursts next week Scorpio, get ready for an Unexpected trip When you fall screaming from an open window Work a little bit harder on improving your low self-esteem, you stupid freak Sagittarius All your friends are laughing behind your back (kill them) Take down all those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine, you've got hanging in your den Capricorn The stars say that you're an exciting and wonderful person But, you know they're lying If I were you, I'd lock my doors and windows And never, never, never, never, never leave my house again That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) That's your horoscope for today That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) That's your horoscope for today That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today) That's your horoscope for today That's your horoscope for today (yay, yay, yay, yay, yay) That's your horoscope for today
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Strategic Tea posted:Anything involving beards or beard maintenance. On the other end of the spectrum, being obsessed with wet shaving.
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Devils Affricate posted:By your best estimate, how do you think it accomplished that? It's not tailored to you in any real way, other than being arbitrarily assigned to people who were born around a certain part of the year. The person who wrote this knows nothing about you and has never met you. If it feels profound, it's probably more because of its initial claim that it's specifically made for you, rather than any of its actual content. You'd get the same effect from reading Leo's or Virgo's description if they simply changed the title to Aquarius. These things are basically just collections of generic motivational phrases. Most of the statements are positive things that almost anyone would like to apply to themselves, sprinkled with less likely but more exciting gambles that delight the reader when true but can be easily brushed the side when they don't land. Yeah I don't really believe in it either. I don't make decisions in my life based on it or anything. I was kinda playing devils advocate just trying to make astrology make sense somehow. That was my first mistake
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Its weed. Weed is cool and fun to smoke but if you've incorporated it so much into your identity and overall consumption habits that it approaches hobby territory you're a massive boring dork.
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laserghost posted:my idiot father just bought bread machine so I'm gonna add making your own bread at home, too this is the worst opinion Ive ever seen wtf
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Caesar Saladin posted:Its weed. Weed is cool and fun to smoke but if you've incorporated it so much into your identity and overall consumption habits that it approaches hobby territory you're a massive boring dork. so glad my drug hobby involves cracking open cold ones at the bar with near-strangers
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wizard2 posted:this is the worst opinion Ive ever seen wtf it's also weird to regard it as a hobby at all. is ordering takeout once a week a hobby? maybe some people make it into something more? but we just make the same two loaves every couple weeks and it takes like 20 minutes work total, and the bread is better than anything we can buy economically. i imagine that to be common (more common than being a bbq nerd but for bread, i mean) Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Jelly posted:i've started to feel bad about dunking on astrology earlier because it's still cooler / less insane than actual religion We literal billions of theists who don't gently caress kids would like to personally apologise to you for boring you with our I've met a number if people who do charts for money, and it turns out any bad astrological advice anyone's ever received is because punters didn't hire the likes of them at a very premium reasonable rates. Yes, why don't you find such an '"expert", and then choose your partner, job, place to live, vehicle, internet forum and indeed hobby, based on the constellations and planets, how could that go wrong, I bet many lives have been saved and massively improved that way, really makes u think. Perhaps your hobby could be joining some space sign group like those ones who "took a trip" out of life as we know it on that comet, it's OK you know they're good and harmless, just do everything they tell you. BigBadSteve fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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I make music as a hobby. So yeah, sorry, deep dish peat moss nailed it on page one y'all.
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Cast iron cookware collecting. Everything I read online is essentially weirdos stripping and reseasoning their pan several dozen times a week because a microscopic blemish appeared after using it to cook fried eggs. Using kosher salt and paper towels to “clean” them after each use. Grinding down the gritty surface of a new Lodge pan because they’re too impatient to cook a couple of rounds of bacon it and want that slick non-stick surface right loving now  That 1930’s Griswold pan has been used and abused for almost 100 years and you’re gonna ruin it babying it like that. Just loving cook in it and wash and dry it like a normal pan, holy poo poo.Pneub posted:On the other end of the spectrum, being obsessed with wet shaving. Yeah, if you call your bathroom a “shave den” and have multiple brushes and razors on open display, just fuckin’ 
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Jelly posted:i've started to feel bad about dunking on astrology earlier because it's still cooler / less insane than actual religion
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coldpudding posted:Off road driving/mudding, yeah i hate this purposeless off roading. if it's for a reason like overlanding to camp at a climb site or recce for rally or whatever then at least its justifiable. and typically you try to find the best driving line. purposely seeking out bad terrain to get stuck in is so loving dumb lol
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Caesar Saladin posted:Its weed. Weed is cool and fun to smoke but if you've incorporated it so much into your identity and overall consumption habits that it approaches hobby territory you're a massive boring dork. i smoke a poo poo ton of weed but nobody really knows except my GF. i save it for the end of the day, that has always been the rule. yeah sometimes the day ends at 2pm hot cocoa on the couch posted:yeah i hate this purposeless off roading. if it's for a reason like overlanding to camp at a climb site or recce for rally or whatever then at least its justifiable. and typically you try to find the best driving line. purposely seeking out bad terrain to get stuck in is so loving dumb lol oh yeah gently caress this poo poo. 4 wheelers/snowmobiles the whole culture of that is garbage poo poo. just noise and trail pollution for cheap thrills. but occasionally those idiots decapitate themselves on a fenceline or body slam an oak tree at 90mph 20 Blunts fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Trust me everyone knows you smoke weed it's a distinctive smell
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BigBadSteve posted:We literal billions of theists who don't gently caress kids would like to personally apologise to you for boring you with our Looks like someone owns a Ford Taurus
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