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What's your take on the "I Ching"?
I'm skeptical when it comes to divination but after reading that authors like Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams and C.G. Jung used this tool extensively I started experimenting with it and I've got interesting results.
I don't believe it can predict the future (yet) but I think it allows your subconscious to come out and speak to you more freely, as if your mind accepted the message better when it comes from a superior "external power". The book tells you explicitly to use it only when you are "at peace, not troubled" and the questions should be in the form of "how should I act in this situation, what should MY position be" instead of "Is this going to happen", so it makes me think introspection plays a big role.
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I prefer the chow mein or the hookers
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>>18523627
I'd prefer that your father had pulled out, or at least invested the money on a jimmy.
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>>18523600
Sounds like pure logic to me, honestly. Analyzing own situation and applying logic to predict consequences, which isnt possible when you arent at peace or under immense stress.
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>>18523600
Sometimes you have to make a decision. The I Ching is there for when acting is better than not but you still don't know what to do. Like a super evolved "flip a coin and choose whatever you hope it is" shit too with the aphorisms.
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https://www.amazon.com/Trigrams-Han-Inner-Structures-Ching/dp/0850308089#
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>>18523600
I Ching > U Chang > Wi Chong
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>>18523600
Ask the I ching, or any divination tool, the same question twice in succession.
Be amazed in how you get different answers, despite having asked the same question.
Realize it's all confirmation bias and a tool of self persuasion, it provides a reflection, you impose your situation on it's vague generality, and voila, you have a course of action in your mind.
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>>18526606
Everybody have fun tonight
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the 8 fold path is love, the 8 fold path is life
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>watches the man in the high castle once
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>>18523600
I Ching is wrong. They misunderstood what Fu Xi meant.
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>>18526647
>muh confirmation bias
There he is.
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