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myomancy - foretelling the future using the movement of mice
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I knew that people came up with some weird stuff in the past, but dang!
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myomancy - foretelling the future using the movement of miceSome think mice have more sense than men, Logwood. "Who Moved My Cheese?"http://snipurl.com/gp5k
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still, with all the choices and methods, one has to think that astrology was one of the more popular methods.
--today almost every big city newspaper has an astrology column, (in the US, the NYTimes and WSJ are notable exceptions)--and every 'knows' their 'sign'.
and we do have disastor as a word..
The desire to know the future seems to be a human failing. but there old (Deirde) and new (Dune) stories about the paradox of knowing the future.
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You know, for a thin book the price for that is outrageous. Besides, people on Amazon claimed it's more like "a guide for the businessman".
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Just as there are many internet sites which attempt to list our countless phobias, there are a good several which list methods of divination. Here's one of the more enlightened ones: http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/DivinationHere you'll find everything from capnomancy to catoptromancy [smoke and mirrors, respectively]; I personally like cybermancy [computer oracles]. The site has expanded definitions for each. the Contrarian
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like Deirdre--i think to know the future it to be trapped.. to be robbed of free will.
Deirde is a classic irish tale of a young girl who future is told at her birth.. she is cursed--it is said over her, the will be enough tears shed to fill the lakes of ireland..
every moment of her life is foretold.. in the end, she commits suicide, when she realize, no where in all the omens and predictions is her death mentioned.. She realizes her life is a pretold story that she is trapped in, but her death is her decision.
to know the future is curse. (the trilogy Dune recognizes the same truth)
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to know the future is curse
You never cease to amaze, Of Troy, with the range of your knowledge.
"To know the future is a curse."
How true.
But to glimpse the future.
What power!
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I encountered the name "Deirdre" many times, it's nice to know it has history.
By the way, there was also "foretelling the future by the lungs..." or something like that. I forgot the word though.
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By the way, there was also "foretelling the future by the lungs..."Yes, it's called aeolomancy, Logwood. After: Ae·o·lus (ç'ə-ləs) n. Greek Mythology. The god of the winds.http://snipurl.com/gp7y
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Deirde is one of several 'classic tales' of irish literature. in the early 1950's a modern retelling of the tale was done by James Stephens. (the book is out of print)
Stephens enjoyed some small notarity in US in the 1950's and toured as a visiting professer. His popularity in ireland lasted well into the 1990's (and might still linger) Stephen's was a friend of James Joyce, and Joyce often said, "If i die before i finish Finigan's Wake, James (Stephens) is the man to finish it."
though his lecture tours were before my time, the popularity of his books and works lingered on in irish neighborhood near the universities he lectured at--and i grew up next to one.. (Fordham) Stephens poetry can be found in several anthologies.
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