That’s how fake ones work, not real ones, and there are real ones. One of the best and most accurate I know has a PhD in cell-surface chemistry. One of the best examples I’ve seen was when an odd little old clairvoyant in Edinburgh did a Tarot reading for me. All I told her was that I wanted advice on a difficult relationship, and maybe that I’d had a quarrel with the person in question – it was nearly 30 years ago. I certainly did not tell her anything at all about the friend in question or anything which would remotely indicate to her that he’s fully bisexual (which is quite a rare preference), and she and I had never met before and she had no way to know whom I was asking about, but she gave the cards a sour look and said “Is he, er, half and half?” I used to make my own living doing Tarot readings, and far from making Barnum statements and then bending them to suite the client, I frequently ended up with the client sayin g “Oh yes, that must be X” and me saying “No, I really don’t think the cards support that”. I wasn’t 100% accurate, of course I wasn’t – but I was a great deal better than random chance. And which is more likely – that I am the only real clairvoyant in the history if the universe, or that there are a lot of real clairvoyants, as well as some fake ones? Just as there are, of course, fake doctors and fake accountants, as well as real ones.
That’s how fake ones work, not real ones, and there are real ones. One of the best and most accurate I know has a PhD in cell-surface chemistry. One of the best examples I’ve seen was when an odd little old clairvoyant in Edinburgh did a Tarot reading for me. All I told her was that I wanted advice on a difficult relationship, and maybe that I’d had a quarrel with the person in question – it was nearly 30 years ago. I certainly did not tell her anything at all about the friend in question or anything which would remotely indicate to her that he’s fully bisexual (which is quite a rare preference), and she and I had never met before and she had no way to know whom I was asking about, but she gave the cards a sour look and said “Is he, er, half and half?” I used to make my own living doing Tarot readings, and far from making Barnum statements and then bending them to suite the client, I frequently ended up with the client sayin g “Oh yes, that must be X” and me saying “No, I really don’t think the cards support that”. I wasn’t 100% accurate, of course I wasn’t – but I was a great deal better than random chance. And which is more likely – that I am the only real clairvoyant in the history if the universe, or that there are a lot of real clairvoyants, as well as some fake ones? Just as there are, of course, fake doctors and fake accountants, as well as real ones.