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When You Gotta Get the Clue by Four Deck Out (media.piefed.zip)

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[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They are about as religious as a paper fortune game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller

Even among people who take their cards "seriously" they aren't religious in nature. It's that "I'm spiritual, not religious" line because there's basically no religion that's welcoming to Tarot.

It's a hundreds year old Italian & French card game that has a reputation. You can play standard card games like War and Go Fish with tarot and you can lay a reading with Grandma's bridge deck.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

It's all the same magical thinking that's ruining the fucking planet

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I am aware of what Tarot is - to quote wikipedia:

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, ethics, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

It is not a spiritual practice or religious belief because of the deck of cards it uses - it's because tarot reading is a supernatural means of generating prophecies.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So is the Groundhog:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/02/groundhog-day-2026-shadow-results/88393885007/

We read prophecies all the time. They made a whole industry out of betting on such things.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't disagree? While I doubt there are many who truly believe in the prediction of punxsutawney phil, it would absolutely be a spiritual or religious observance/ritual for those that do.