Use of oracles is tricky business

[RindaR]

Yeah serp- we don't give a fig for your fruit of the woom.... ...or do we?

oh my... I should go to bed now.

Rinda

(run very fast!)

 

[RindaR]

If someone in the act of watching/measuring quarks can change the nature of their manifestation, can asking a question influence the way the coins fall? Are we (as Martin's cool article suggested, and as I very loosely/crudely paraphrase) individual gatherings of energy from a unified field of consciousness/being/whateverthingornothingtheycalledit? Does how hard we pull on the sheets of time and space when we make the bed of our existence influence the end result of the coins we toss thereon? Is our current level of consciousness/being significant to the reading? Do we really exist separately? what is real? what is separate? what is existence? All we can do is live in our own skin, as it were, and know that we may indeed be one body...

 

[jeanystar]

Dear Adam and Eve,
I so agree....

"one" is not the same as "equal", Candid!!!!!!!! The grand ISness is full of the very details which make the world go round. Viva la dance.

I will refer you to another post (which also annoyed you)....."I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"
You, my dear man, ARE the walrus whether you realize it or not. And so IS we all.

 

[candid]

Grounded to earth, yet established in heaven. I never said all is not one. In fact I called it the ultimate truism. Just not much I can do with it. Can you?

 

[candid]

Can Yi?

 

[martin]

Why ask? Bite in your tail and see for yourself!

Adam & Eve

 

[martin]

You know, dear snake, it's like the mother of all things.
You cannot do anything with her. But she does a hell

of a lot for you.

 

[candid]

Why ask? That's a good question. The same one you, Adam, asked only after you bit into the apple. To know yourself. That is why.

Serp

 

[pakua]

""walk down a busy street and catch snatches of conversation"
Or watch TV. "

Here's an oracle I saw on TV.

Ask a question, put your radio on seek, and stop at the first song you hear. Listen to the words.

It seemed to work for her (but at the end of the show, she split up with her boyfriend in spite of the good "readings")

 

[jerryd]

Perhaps it all boils down to " how sincere is the questioner? Not judgeing anyone here but it is my belief that we ask most questions not to find answers but to confirm or deny a belief already drafted about a person or event!

 

[calumet]

Pakua wrote:

" ... walk down a busy street and catch snatches of conversation. Or watch TV ... Ask a question, put your radio on seek, and stop at the first song you hear. Listen to the words."

Hex casts are random; the Yi is not. It is a finely-honed and well-thought-out collection of ideas on how to approach common problems. I'd have to be pretty hard-pressed to use random bits of verbiage as an oracle, and almost certainly wouldn't resort to such if the Yi were at hand.