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Title: Fortune Cookie Interpretations


Severian - January 22, 2006 07:08 AM (GMT)
Give any fortune cookie messages you've recieved, and what you can figure out about them. Any method of interpretation is fine.

Here's what I got today. It might not be word for word, though.

Be careful when you walk the path in shadows alone.

Supposedly...
-Everything, whatever happens, has three meanings.
-The first is its practical meaning, what the book calls 'the thing the plowman sees.'The cow has taken a mouthful of grass, and it is real grass, and a real cow--that meaning is as important and true as either of the others.
-The second is the reflection of the world about it. Every object is in contact with all others, and thus the wise can learn of the others by observing the first.
-That might be called the soothsayer's meaning, because it is the one such people use when they prophesy a fortunate meeting from the tracks of serpents or confirm the outcome of a love affair by putting the elector of one suit atop the patroness of another.
-The third is the transubstantial meaning. Since all objects have their ultimate origin in the Pancreator, and all were set in motion by him, so must all express his will--which is the higher reality.

Ok, so.
-The first is that I should be careful outside, at night. Surely, some hidden danger now lurks for me, and I have been warned so I may not be caught unawares. Thank you, fortune cookie factory!
-The second is often the easiest to find in any message. While there are a few ways I could take it, I'll say that the intended meaning is in relation to how I should live my own life. "Hark," the scrap seems to say, "young one. Do not let yourself turn away and your soul fall into darkness, for you will walk that path alone and your life will be empty of joy or good cheer. The shadow has begun to fall, and you must choose where you will walk." Sounds like bull to me.
-The third is also pretty clear too.
QUOTE
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.
Could it be mere coincidence that such a message is directed to me? This christian psalm's message (which has at least to meanings of it's own, though I can't interpret it in the context of the second meaning) is that if you walk with god in your heart, you'll be safe from all evil. Well, I am one who believes god may exist, and yet chooses to walk my life without divine teachings, instead trusting my own feelings on right and wrong. Am I being warned to turn from this, for my own innate fear of those who do wrong will vanish if I feel a supernatural assurance, so that I will do right only, without fear of those who would oppose right?

Anotherwards, too much time on my hands. How sad.




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