the legitimacy of Tarot cards

You're drawing your own connections.

Tarot card readings, like psychic hotline readings and horoscopes, are specifically designed to be generic enough to apply to just about every single person on the planet. Tarot readings rely on a recieving a lot of cues from the person being read, are done in a sufficiently vague manner that the person - who wants to believe - fills in the blanks themselves. Note just how many different headings apply to each card, so that it can cover every possible angle.

Everybody on the planet experiences grief and loss, finds their desires fulfilled in some way, and is dissapointed. Hell, that right there describes the Buddhist view of the entire materialistic world. You could draw those three cards at any single point in your life, and you could find something to apply to each meaning, because all they do is describe basic human life.

Tarot cards are total bunk, used primarily to swindle money out of gullible tourists.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Posted by FallDragon
Do you think there have been times when supernatural activity from satanic origins have influence people through things similar to tarot cards? (interested in your beliefs here )

No.

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Perhaps this method of fortune telling lost it's potency when humans tried to classify cards into specific categories with words instead of letting the pictures represent the impact of the card.

This assumes that tarot cards were ever capable of accurate predictions in the first place. It's not like magic and fortunetelling and whatnot just stopped working at some point in history. Those ideas have been left behind because people recognized them for exactly what they are: baseless superstitions.

At one time perhaps even the fortunetellers themselves really believed this stuff worked, but belief does not constitute reality. It's just a feel-good activity, telling a little story that stars you. As a method of divination it's quite useless anyway, as the generic nature of each reading makes it impossible to learn any specific details about the future. Much like a trashy romance novel, it monkeys around with your feelings and entertains you, but ultimately you don't walk away with anything meaningful.

You seem pretty determined to believe that tarot card readings have deep, mystical impart despite the total absense of any rational evidence to this effect, so whatever floats your boat. But if you're going to ask my opinion, it's a lot of ego stroking and nothing more.

There's nowhere I can't reach.