Superstitious fortune teller _ Superstitious fortune teller
Some friends may say, do you still need to ask? Fortune-telling is superstitious, and of course it is explained in some dictionaries.
Do you know what fortune telling is? If your understanding of fortune telling is limited to superstition, your attitude is a superstition in itself, and it is a blind superstition to the saying of fortune telling superstition.
Perhaps, some friends think that my above statement is somewhat evasive. Then, let's start with the concepts of fortune telling and superstition to see if fortune telling is superstitious.
First, what is superstition?
Superstition refers to people's blind trust and worship of things. In other words, this kind of trust and worship may have no basis; I may not know and understand this kind of thing myself, but I blindly believe it with an obsessive trust and convincing attitude.
For example, because I always hear that "fortune telling is feudal superstition", I take it for granted that fortune telling is a superstitious attitude and a superstition.
Second, what is fortune telling?
Fortune-telling is a common name for eight-character prediction. It refers to the forecasting method that professionals analyze a person's life fortune according to the date of birth and infer his good luck.
Birth refers to the year, month, day and hour of a person's birth, which is expressed in heavenly stems and earthly branches and arranged in eight characters in turn. Fortune telling can analyze a person's personality, appearance, physical health, kinship, studies, feelings, marriage, career, wealth and other information according to his date of birth.
Third, how did superstition come into being?
Compared with the vast unknown time and space, human cognition is limited. When faced with problems that can't be explained by existing knowledge and experience, the ancients attributed them to immortals; Nowadays, people think it needs scientific progress and development.
In fact, this mentality is also a superstition. The ancients were superstitious about immortals, but today people are superstitious about science.
It can also be said that human beings may have the concept of "superstition" about everything. Even the science respected by modern people may have "scientific superstition".
Fourth, why is there a saying that "fortune telling is superstition"?
Fortune-telling is mysterious to ordinary people. Many people think this is not credible. How can a person's life fate be calculated from these simple eight words?
Especially for modern people, the technical terms in the eight-character prediction, such as finance, official and seal, are self-evident, which are ominous; Talking about birthdays is confusing enough. After all, ugly Yin Mao, A, B, C and D are too far away from Weibo and WeChat.
Moreover, in the eyes of many people, fortune telling cannot be verified by scientific methods, and it is unscientific and superstitious.
Of course, it is undeniable that some charlatans are mystifying in order to cheat money, and even provide some evidence for the statement that "fortune telling is superstition".
5. "Fortune telling is a feudal superstition" is also a superstition.
However, can we judge whether superstition is correct by whether the existing scientific means can be verified?
This cutie teacher won't go into details. People who believe in respecting science understand the evolution of human cognition of the center of the universe: at first, people thought that the earth was the center of the universe, that is, geocentric theory; Later, it evolved into thinking that the sun is the center of the universe, namely Heliocentrism; But now, who can say that this is the final answer to the question where the center of the universe is?