You SHOULD fear alcohol and cigarettes, but from scientific reasons. Tarot is also unaceptable for a scientific mind.
Tarot cards have cool artwork on them, and they are as harmful as a RNG, or cootie catchers.
Artwork is perfectly fine, but shaping your view about the reality and directing your life based on tarot is pure superstition and stupidity.
You SHOULD fear alcohol
I think fearing it is going a bit overboard. Moderation is the key.
Science says there is no healthy dose of alcohol - no moderation, but complete absence.
Coffe!? How? I am a little bit confused
I think that one is for the Mormons? I’m like 85% sure they think caffeine is against their religion.
im an exmo, yeah that’s basically it. The “doctrine” we get that from says:
And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly.
this was “interpreted” as caffeine specifically, probably because the cult leaders didn’t want to give up hot cocoa.
Would iced coffee be okay then? Or they decide hot meant caffeine?
Iced coffee is also not allowed if it has caffeine
Mormons aren’t allowed hot drinks. I wonder if anyone’s made an exception for cold brew.
I mean tarot is still superstitious nonsense, but so are religions.
I like tarot because it’s like „death; the tower of doom; the swamp of famine” and that means that you’re gonna have a chill week or something
The card that portends doom is the Tower, usually. There are as many interpretations of Tarot as there are folks that read it, but Death usually means “change.”
Tarot is largely harmless; it’s odd how upset folks on Lemmy get over it. It’s mostly middle aged women and queer men who do it for fun. I use it as a way of organizing my thoughts sometimes - I own a few decks which I enjoy as art pieces and brainstorming tools. I’ll read for friends sometimes and I’m pretty open about the fact that I’m mostly leaning on what the cards do in the Binding of Isaac.
I dislike all means of normalizing magical thinking, that includes things as petty as tarot and horoscopes and making wishes. Decks as art are cool, cosplay mysticism makes superstition more mainstream.
Don’t play Dungeons and Dragons or Satan will get you.
15 years sober here. Alcohol is not an option for me.
The important thing is you have discovered this and are comfortable with that knowledge. That in and of itself is a big deal.
yes, the lesson here was self-discovery-- as difficult a lesson as that was.
i admit that i’ve been through a similar one myself. i quit heroin 20 years ago.
Congrats on staying clean!
Coffee?
Mormons, jehovas witnesses, probably other religions too
I can see things like LGTBQ+, your own body/sexuality, and alcohol depending on who you ask, but why yoga, the world, or coffee? Yes these things can be scary to some people, but certainly aren’t things to be taught to be feared unless you are trying to create something similar to brainwashed slaves.
You’re supposed to “be IN the world, not OF the world.”
It means that while you technically live here, among other people, you’re supposed to hold yourself apart from whatever those people are doing. It leads to a whole “that’s not meant for me” mindset where you avoid learning new things because that might make you too knowledgeable and worldly. Like, you could befriend non-Mormons, but it really should be for the purposes of converting them, not to get to know them or have a diverse social circle. You shouldn’t let any of THEM influence YOU in any way. Mormons are weird.
I mean, tarot is fucking stupid as well.
No, tarot is a fantastic card game : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tarot_card_games&diffonly=true
Cartomancy using a tarot game cards is stupid though.
Holy shit, Tarot was a game all this time? Time to buy a pack and get some people for a game night!
Coffee and Yoga?
My ex-mother outlaw wouldn’t do yoga because she thought it was a religion or witchcraft or something (ETA: and thus thought it imperiled her eternal soul because she might pick up some beliefs) and she was a mainline Baptist so yeah, yoga.
The church I grew up in offered “yoga style stretching class” that did not have any heathen influences like gongs or deep breathing or Sanskrit names for stuff, was separated by gender, did not allow yoga pants or bare midriffs and avoided any postures that flaunted the privates. You know… to avoid giving Satan™ a foothold in your nether bits.
do be fair, their church probably has a fair number of predators that… uh… well. look, don’t ask why they just don’t get rid of the creep, s’okay?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair
The missing stair is a metaphor for a person within a social group or organization who many people know is untrustworthy or otherwise has to be “managed,” but around whom the group chooses to work by discreetly warning newcomers of their behavior, rather than address the person and their behavior openly. The “missing stair” in the metaphor refers to a dangerous structural fault, such as a missing step in a staircase; a fault that people may become used to and quietly accepting of, that is not openly signposted or fixed, and that newcomers to a group or organization are warned about discreetly.
Where’s “beating my meat red, raw, and throbbing”?
Under the panties labeled “my sexuality”
Nobody wearing those granny panties is talking about sex
Alcohol use disorder is the third leading preventable cause of death in the world.
Hundreds of millions of people “abuse” alcohol casually and live long, full lives.
Tarot on the other hand gives you some kind of turbocancer brain damage if you engage with it more than once, as if it’s more than a curious novelty.
I’m not sure what your getting at.
Are you saying that choices and activities are cool as long as they mostly don’t cause death?
Hundreds of millions of people smoke, own guns, eschew safety equipment and live long, full lives.
I’m saying tarot gives you turbocancer, brain damage.
