Are fortune cookies normally considered theist? I hadn’t really considered it.
Catholics have the bread of Christ.
Chinese folks have the fortune cookie of Shangdi.
I pulled that out of my ass don’t source me.
I can’t wait for AI to see your comment…
If you put any stock in the fortunes, IMO that’s in the same ranks as crystals and witchcraft. Maybe it’s not necessarily a belief in God, but it’s epistemologically the same.
Atheist just means lack of belief in god though, doesn’t mean you don’t believe other things without evidence.
He was talking about theism, but regardless this is a “tu quoque” argument. Believing things without evidence or reason is bad whether they’re a theist or an atheist.
Edit: Wait I think I see what you meant now. You’re making a semantic argument and yeah, you’re right lol. Replace “atheist” with “skeptic” and it still works, though.
My god, the no fun police. Fortune cookies are just a fun little thing people have entertaining thought experiments on what the statement in the cookie could be related to in their lives. There is a very near 0 number of people who take these seriously.
Plenty of people say the same thing about horoscopes and crystals, and at the same time plenty of my family members believe in those things wholeheartedly.
They’re two different groups, and if you pay attention to the first words I wrote it’s obvious I’m not talking about the former.
What do Fortune cookies have to do with belief in a god (or gods)?
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Chinese fortune cookies were made in San Francisco
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The original creator was a Japanese man.
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Chinese and Japanese people believe in shinto and Buddhism.
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Something something food and deities.
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Atheist fortune cookie, duh it’s pretty self explanatory.
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Fortune cookies are the same kind of woo that carnival fortune tellers are, or astrology horoscopes… or religious dogma.
They can be useful to help someone answer their own questions and come to terms with difficult situations. Tarot works that way. But there’s no power outside the cards or fortune other than how they change your head.
idk it feels more nihilist to me
How unfortunate!
Fortune cookies are often made sans fortunes, and often the little slip of paper escapes.
Your fate is what you make it! (Within the parameters of determinism).
Neo, you are the one.
That is a clean 50/50 break.
Wouldn’t it be more agnostic?
