Tom wrote:
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> "Joseph Littleshoes"
isp.com> wrote in message
> news:4835B1EB.6020406@isp.com...
> >> Tom wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> I could use a reading.My x threw out my tarot deck while I was at
>>>> work....Am single now :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> These tawdry soap operas are a hoot.
>>>
>>> It's like Roseanne Barr's comment on the Jerry Springer-type daytime
>>> shows. She says she watches them because it's always nice to be
>>> reminded that there are people out there who are even more screwed up
>>> than she is.
>>
>>
>> Before i filter "Tom" from alt.tarot it should be pointed out that his
>> "Jerry Springer" comment is just another example of his inability to
>> consider, even hypothetically, a value to anything that differs from
>> his notions of acceptable value.
>
>
> A querant who's blubbering about how her ex threw out her Tarot deck in
> response to an offer of a Tarot reading from a person who is blubbering
> about how she got fired, has no friends outside of Usenet, and can't
> even get it together to keep her pets alive is a tawdry soap opera no
> matter what values you have.
So on top of all your other idiosyncrasies your a snob as well, im not
surprised.
It seems like a wasted effort to me though, to be a snob and have such a
low brow taste that you would use Roseanne and Springer to support your
snobbery is on a par with the rest of your rather elaborate, dubious &
generally flawed attempts at ratiocination.
--
JL
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>
>>
>> Much like his dismissal of the tabula rasa & particularist fallacies,
>> "Tom" consistently fails to do his research, and just makes
>> pronouncements based on his own ignorant prejudices.
>>
>> "Fortune telling" divination, oracles have a long history, they
>> fulfill a need, granted so do the latest fashions in cars and clothes
>> and food, and it may be argued that the 'need' is superficial and
>> especially in the modern west more a form of entertainment than
>> anything to be taken seriously, but at the same time, 'tarot readings'
>> are just one aspect of alternative consciousness that is being studied
>> under a number of new terms such as 'neurophysiology.'
>>
>>
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/postgraduate/cosmology/index.html
>>
http://www.esswe.org/
>>
http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/research/exeseso/index.htm
>>
http://www.farawaycentre.com
>>
>> And a local favorite
>>
>>
http://www.itp.edu/
>>
>> Two other worthwhile reads (that anybody but "Tom" may already be
>> familiar with) are; Jorgensen, D. L. (1979). Tarot divination in the
>> valley of the sun: An existential sociology of the esoteric and
>> occult. Dissertation Abstracts International, 40, (01), 47A. (UMI No.
>> AAI7915992)
>>
>> Rosengarten, A. (1985). Accessing the unconscious: A comparative study
>> of dreams, the TAT, and tarot. Dissertation Abstracts International,
>> 46, (08), 2822B. (UMI No. AA18523315)
>> --
>> JL
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