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Barbara Blatchley on Why We Believe in Luck

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is There a Link Between Divination and Randomness?

I think human beings are bad at creating randomness. If you ask people to create a random display most of the time, we can't do it em this is actually a question that philosophers and mathematicians argue about. Am i don't see anything particularly wrong with it? I like my lucky shoes. Is it contradictory? Probably. But i'm aqe with them. Now, another question that came to mind, do you see a link between divination practices and the need to create randomness? You've seen this discussed before in terms of ancient bone casting rictuals or the or the eaching,. A means of stepping outside of humanity's inherent inability to grasp or produce

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