5mo ago

You don't have to fear these things

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You SHOULD fear alcohol and cigarettes, but from scientific reasons. Tarot is also unaceptable for a scientific mind.
- "Using a framing device to interpret your feelings is unacceptable to a scientific mind"
  Okay square.
  
  Okay square
  I'm not even mad
- Tarot cards have cool artwork on them, and they are as harmful as a RNG, or cootie catchers.
  
  Artwork is perfectly fine, but shaping your view about the reality and directing your life based on tarot is pure superstition and stupidity.
  
  They are however fantastic for shaping the lives of fictional characters. I love using them for NPCs in my games
  
  It's a random number generator. It's shuffled cards put in random order to tell a story, or focus someone on their own thoughts without distractions of self doubt. To bring order to a chaotic existence. Not all mysticism is superstition. Not all rituals are pointless, many attempt to bring people to a liminal state, an attitude of being in-between, standing at the threshold. We can keep the useful elements of these things and discard the rest. No one needs to base there life around anything they don't like.
  
  You speak like a religious person because this is a superstitious ritual, have fun I guess but I think it's incredibly stupid.
  You might as well try to read your future in PUBG loot boxes. Probably cheaper, too.
  
  Also, Tarot is also a completely normal card game like Skat--nothing wrong with that
- If you don't try to predict your life with Tarot, it can be a fun story creativity task.
  
  I'd say more that if you don't genuinely think it predicts your life, it can be fun. It's like reading horoscopes and chuckling at them.
- There's nothing wrong with tarot as a concept. It's a wonderful self reflection and guided meditation tool. Just don't ascribe magical precognitive powers to it and you're fine.
- Tarot can be used for other games, for example solitare.
  
  I played poker with a set of tarot cards and six people died. Steven Wright
  
  Or Balatro
- You SHOULD fear alcohol
  I think fearing it is going a bit overboard. Moderation is the key.
  
  Science says there is no healthy dose of alcohol - no moderation, but complete absence.
  
  Healthy for what, exactly? Because it certainly isn't incompatible with a long, good, moderately healthy life.
  I'm guessing if you want to perform at peak or reduce your risk of cancer as much as humanly possible, then sure. But that's probably the goal of a minority.
  
  https://www.who.int/azerbaijan/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health
  
  Yeah, it's a very technically correct wording of "We cannot talk about a so-called safe level of alcohol use. It doesn’t matter how much you drink – the risk to the drinker’s health starts from the first drop of any alcoholic beverage. The only thing that we can say for sure is that the more you drink, the more harmful it is – or, in other words, the less you drink, the safer it is."
  There's nothing wrong with this statement.
  It's simply that the risks are in practice pretty negligible for the most part.
  The exact same sentence structure also works with "We cannot talk about a so-called safe level of driving. It doesn’t matter how much you drive – the risk to the driver’s health starts from the first kilometer on any public road. The only thing that we can say for sure is that the more you drive, the more dangerous it is – or, in other words, the less you drive, the safer it is."
  I'm not sure on the statistics, but I'd guess if you compared the risks between drivers and drinkers at different segments of a normal distribution of drinking/driving quantity, driving would be more risky. I haven't checked, though. There would probably be a better way to compare the risks, I haven't looked at any of the statistics recently.
  
  Nobody claimed othetwise. Just that fearing it is silly. It won't have much of an effect at all on your health in moderation.
- Tarok is played with tarot cards and you can still get the OG set from Piatnik.
  Just in case you're trying to impress some Austrian grandma...

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