- Fortune-telling statements are often written in such a way that they apply to everyone.
- Conduct the following experiment on divination, which divides humans into several types and describes what kind of personality a person of that type has
- Example: Animal Fortune Telling (I did it this way)
- You don’t identify your type as per the divination procedure and then read the description of it.
- Read the description of all types as if it were a description of you.
- During the process, I’ll note down statements that I think “this doesn’t apply to me”.
- The result is a “list of personality descriptions that you think don’t apply to you”.
- This list of “I don’t think I am this way” is more useful than the fortune-telling itself
digression
- I did this to predict which type I would be and then did the divination process, but it didn’t come true.
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