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Why is clairvoyance always for useless stuff like stock prediction? Why can't anyone do the important work of guessing the shape that's on the card I'm holding??
Lots of triangles
I prefer to use mine to solve sudoku on a sinking ship
Spades
It's a couple of wavy lines?
Nope, Circle. presses shock button
Two frogs on a bench.
Why did you draw dickbutt on the back of your business card?
I know your joking but the answer to your question is intent. A lot of forms of divination are for seeking guidance in your life and a tool for being mindful of what you are doing and where you are going more meditative if that makes sense. The idea that it's for picking the lotto numbers or a winning horse is rooted in greed so it doesn't work because of the intent. Apparently you can game the system though by using people with no knowledge of the intent. Russel Targ had some success with trading silver using remote viewers. I remember hearing about RV people working together to pick stocks not sure if they where successful though.
If you didn't hear about the results it probably means they were either completely unsuccessful or extremely successful.
That's a pretty big assumption if you had a system to always win or have better odds on the stock market why would you tell anyone about it?
The Russel targ experiment I think there was a paper on it. It's not even like a 100% sure thing either from memory they did slightly better than the silver market.
I was making a joke but that was my point, that if they did really will they wouldn't tell anyone...