Thread by @sadalsvvd

I've given up trying to explain to people that astrology/tarot can repeatedly, concretely used to predict and reveal information you couldn't know otherwise because it just doesn't go into people's heads. you can repeat yourself til you're blue in the face, it doesn't matter

you can shove an entire list of people using astrology to make money on the stock market every day in public, something many people claim is a "random walk" (lmao) and they won't get it
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it doesn't matter how many times you say "it doesn't make sense to say you 'believe' in astrology, you either use it or you don't, it keeps working, it has always worked, just LOOK at it" because it's simply too high of a cognitive cost for people to even think about

at least in this format. one day I'm going to beat the entire world over the head with demonstration after demonstration of easily understandable examples of how astrology obviously works (because in many cases it's *blindingly* obvious if you know a little and just *try*)

but these one-off conversations with random people encountering a stream of wisdom they don't even realize they've been caught up in and contained by their *entire lives* don't work. it's just too big. it took me half a decade to grok and become brave enough to look at it fairly

anyway, even if I made a massive institution, published all those studies, etc., people still wouldn't listen. at this point I'm pretty sure that wisdom practices find people, not the other way around. but at least it would scale better at satisfying people's vague curiosities

tangential exhibit B: you can post the most convincing evidence we have of reincarnation and a few people go "huh that's cool". ground-breaking, reality-shattering info but so what? it's impossible for a brain to contextualize, and it's not anyone's fault

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