Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Yes I agree. I don't believe tarot is in any way real or powerful or magic or anything supernatural, metaphysical etc. But I DO think that it serves as essentially a randomized nudge generator to your subconscious, and it's particularly good at it because the imagery and symbolism is so rich and exciting that it drags up a lot of things from your mind. It's a good way to prompt yourself to look at things a little differently. Not magic, just psychology. But very fun
Yeah I've always seen it as a form of self-reflection. A simplistic example would be: "flip a coin to choose, but instead of choosing based on the coin outcome, choose based on how you felt when the coin was in the air". Did you really hope it would be heads? Tails? Or did you not care about the outcome at all?
No matter your response, you now have more information about your feelings. You can then dig into the "why" of your feelings after acknowledging them.
Using magical terminology to explain psychology or technology to people is surprisingly effective. =S