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doorways spiritual retreat
so i go an email about this being restarted. not that i have ever been but it looks like it might be interesting. my problem is that too many of this sort of people are grade a flakes. not all of them but a very unbalanced amount of them. with that one being a retreat i doubt i will attend but maybe some of you might know for good or bad about some of the people involved with that or these o.p.e.r.a. & oklahoma city spirit fair. or maybe not.
one of the things that interests me about this is card reading. every once in a while i will get a card reading just for laughs. most of the time its pure crap and you can tell that the person is badly self trained and not connected to the deck. they are reading each card by direction rather then reading the layout as a whole. then they throw cold reading on top of it. con jobs of the lowest level. they get away with it because people want to believe. and are generally stupid. however. however the one really good reading i ever got was at a point that doesnt look so good on paper. at a missed club amidst heavy drinking. considering the close nature of regulars it would seem that this would lead to inside information. problem with that is that i am an outsider in situations like that and thus an unkown factor. it was vague and specific at the same time. because she did it right. didnt ask questions and read the layout and the client.
i am not what you call a believer in any of this type of thing but its open for possibilities. i dont believe in a lot of things but that doesnt mean it cant be true. most of the time i refer to it as complete crap because of the number of people who claim it but obviosly have no idea what they are talking about. they just want to be weird or cool or whatever. its funny the number of times i have had people look at me or my work and say 'this person is going somewhere.' yeah hell. but then i would have to believe in that for that to happen. but. and that is the part that amuses me every time someone says that there is always a big but when talking about me. the thing is that a lot of it is just reading people in ways that most people ignore. small words and facts and illusions of facts in small words. how and why a person carries themselves. do they lead follow wander wonder rock the boat or try to sink it. or just sit there laughing about things without attemps to change anything. or try to come up with answers that dont really have a question.
most people cant see it in other people because they cant even see it in their own selves. because confronting things like that means confronting a lot of things. too many unknowns on a journey without a map of even a path. this is the sound of one hand clapping you on the back of the head. feh. what the hell do i know? ok i know that this is why i stopped going to church or listening to most people that go on a regular basis. the problem is they dont even ask the wrong questions because they dont question.
for the record...no i dont think i am going anywhere because that takes a plan. and someone once accused me of never doing anything with more than 10 seconds notice. she probably right but at least i do sometimes do some things. ok ok so yes it usually turns to crap is a matter of minutes. one bad idea after another.
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this star wars thing that is on really makes me wonder what a good conversation between c3-p0 and marvin the martian would be like. and if the were drinking?
so i go an email about this being restarted. not that i have ever been but it looks like it might be interesting. my problem is that too many of this sort of people are grade a flakes. not all of them but a very unbalanced amount of them. with that one being a retreat i doubt i will attend but maybe some of you might know for good or bad about some of the people involved with that or these o.p.e.r.a. & oklahoma city spirit fair. or maybe not.
one of the things that interests me about this is card reading. every once in a while i will get a card reading just for laughs. most of the time its pure crap and you can tell that the person is badly self trained and not connected to the deck. they are reading each card by direction rather then reading the layout as a whole. then they throw cold reading on top of it. con jobs of the lowest level. they get away with it because people want to believe. and are generally stupid. however. however the one really good reading i ever got was at a point that doesnt look so good on paper. at a missed club amidst heavy drinking. considering the close nature of regulars it would seem that this would lead to inside information. problem with that is that i am an outsider in situations like that and thus an unkown factor. it was vague and specific at the same time. because she did it right. didnt ask questions and read the layout and the client.
i am not what you call a believer in any of this type of thing but its open for possibilities. i dont believe in a lot of things but that doesnt mean it cant be true. most of the time i refer to it as complete crap because of the number of people who claim it but obviosly have no idea what they are talking about. they just want to be weird or cool or whatever. its funny the number of times i have had people look at me or my work and say 'this person is going somewhere.' yeah hell. but then i would have to believe in that for that to happen. but. and that is the part that amuses me every time someone says that there is always a big but when talking about me. the thing is that a lot of it is just reading people in ways that most people ignore. small words and facts and illusions of facts in small words. how and why a person carries themselves. do they lead follow wander wonder rock the boat or try to sink it. or just sit there laughing about things without attemps to change anything. or try to come up with answers that dont really have a question.
most people cant see it in other people because they cant even see it in their own selves. because confronting things like that means confronting a lot of things. too many unknowns on a journey without a map of even a path. this is the sound of one hand clapping you on the back of the head. feh. what the hell do i know? ok i know that this is why i stopped going to church or listening to most people that go on a regular basis. the problem is they dont even ask the wrong questions because they dont question.
for the record...no i dont think i am going anywhere because that takes a plan. and someone once accused me of never doing anything with more than 10 seconds notice. she probably right but at least i do sometimes do some things. ok ok so yes it usually turns to crap is a matter of minutes. one bad idea after another.
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this star wars thing that is on really makes me wonder what a good conversation between c3-p0 and marvin the martian would be like. and if the were drinking?
