Tarot? Seriously?

[PujolJunkie]

Okay, I'm sorry for this rant I'm about to go on, but it's been bugging me for a while and I have to let it out. What is with this tarot crap? The more I look around, the more people I see turning to a deck of glorified playing cards for big life decisions. People live by this stuff. They breathe by it. Big decision to be made? Break out the cards. Deciding on McDonalds or Subway? Break out the cards. And when they go against them and it happens in the favor of the cards, they say they "should have listened to the cards." Is there really a difference between tarot and paranoid schizophrenia?

I understand this can be said about most religions, but I find it a bit more hilarious, and beyond aggravating that someone is taking a pack of playing cards with funny drawings and mystical names on the front and letting it decide their life path rather than using their intelligence and heart to steer them in the right direction. If you flop down a card that tells you something big is gonna happen and it's gonna be the worst moment in your life, do you fear the worst for a week or two and just get all down? And then you stub your toe on a coffee table and you start screaming that the tarot knew all along?

I just don't get it. I don't get the appeal. I understand that everyone wants to think it's as easy as flopping down 3 or 4 cards and boom, all of their answers are in front of them, but that's not life. That's not realistic. On another side of that spectrum, I've never had a horoscope come true. Ever. It's always generalized and a "it could happen to anyone, anywhere, any time thing." And you know what's funny? Every Gemini gets the same Gemini horoscope. Every Aquarius gets the same Aquarius horoscope. Isn't this a red flag in itself? That every single person with a birthday in that time frame is gonna have the SAME EXACT month/year? Come on.

Back to tarot. If you lay down cards that say "This week is gonna be great" and it isn't, who's fault is it? Do you say 'Maybe I made a decision that altered the course'? Well, if you're driving down a road and your GPS shows no obstacles in your way and you end up driving off a cliff, do you blame yourself or the GPS? I know it's an extremely hyperbolic statement, but it's the best I can think of at 2:45 in the morning.

I'm just venting. Tarot seems just like astrology. Hit and miss. What if you lay down cards 3 times in a row and they all come up different and contradict each other? Doesn't that show that it's just a completely freaking random draw of the cards? I just.. don't get it.

[TheoSqua]

Technology made me drive my car into a lake!

[PujolJunkie]

Technology made me drive my car into a lake!

Computers are about trying to murder you in a lake, and to make the choices easy.

[TabascoElvis]

I'm just venting. Tarot seems just like astrology. Hit and miss. What if you lay down cards 3 times in a row and they all come up different and contradict each other? Doesn't that show that it's just a completely freaking random draw of the cards? I just.. don't get it.

Up yours, Jobu...

[Arthur Dent]

*For entertainment purposes only.

[lukethedrifter]

That's ridiculous. Only a Ouija board should be used for that sort of decisionmaking.

[clevername]

it's amazing what people will believe to put meaning behind blind luck.

[docellis]

I didn't realize this was a problem. I haven't seen a tarot cards in years.

I do remember once after going out to dinner with a boyfriend and his father and brothers - the father says lets go across the street to the fortune teller and have our fortune told!

So we go across the street and when they get to me the guy says "wow your dad really doesn't like your boyfriend".

It turns out years later my dad admitted he couldn't stand my then-boyfriend. But that isn't that big of a coincidence, he hasn't like many of my boyfriends.

[clevername]

Dad's usually don't.

[PujolJunkie]

I didn't realize this was a problem. I haven't seen a tarot cards in years.

I do remember once after going out to dinner with a boyfriend and his father and brothers - the father says lets go across the street to the fortune teller and have our fortune told!

So we go across the street and when they get to me the guy says "wow your dad really doesn't like your boyfriend".

It turns out years later my dad admitted he couldn't stand my then-boyfriend. But that isn't that big of a coincidence, he hasn't like many of my boyfriends.

I know one girl who is so into tarot that she actually cries when she sees her readings and starts fearing for the worst. She literally lives her entire life by them.