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I call it luck, even if it’s superstitious. if i ever have a really strong desire to not do something, the situation unfolds to where i dont have to do it anyway. if theres something i desire, it works out to me not needing it anyway/getting something better. whenever something awful happens i somehow come out with zero consequences. having the universe watch out for you is nice since i never have to worry about anything, but its also kinda sedated me since i have no drive. why bother when its gonna work out regardless?

there are some spiritualities (Indigenous matriarchal ones for example) that believe women possess intuition like a 6th sense that men aren't able to tap into. And that it can be honed with practice.

I have pretty powerful intuition, always have since I was a kid. I started doing tarot readings when I was little for fun, and they ended up really scarily accurate. It's all intuition based, the way I read them. I freaked out several family members- aunts uncles, mom, grandma with my readings to the point where they were made uncomfortable. I've predicted severe illness, infidelity, and minor issues too with my card readings. I get told a lot that my tarot readings aren't any fun because I don't sugarcoat bad things. In fact I think I have more of an ability to predict bad things than good.

I am also really good at reading people, which I usually pass off as being a perk of being a wallflower, but I can even guess people's first names when I've never seen them before sometimes. Sometimes I even get such a powerful feeling that a person or animal's name is 'wrong' somehow to the point where I have a hard time using the name they give me. Like, one time I was riding a trail horse with a name like Red or something, but I could not stop calling her Daisy- in my mind, when I was petting her or riding her. It was really weird. Probably sounds retarded but I wonder if it's some kind of weird intuition or something.

At this point I always listen to my intuition. If I get a bad feeling about something. My husband believes I have very strong intuition as well, and always listens to me if I decide to cancel a plan or leave something early because it's never steered us wrong. I think it's the closest thing to a religious belief I practice- if I get a gut feeling about something I don't do it, or if someone gives me bad vibes I gtfo.

typing this out makes me feel like a knob tooting my own horn

>>44548
>how do you develop better intuition? I can usually tell that something horrible is going to happen on days when horrible things do happen but that's not really useful
you could try to be more observant. Pay attention to your surroundings, notice patterns, signs etc. also you can learn from past situations and their patterns too.
>>44548
>whenever something awful happens i somehow come out with zero consequences.
like how?

Intuition is absolutely real and it can be cultivated by using and exercising it. I also read tarot and such things, but please remember that it must go hand in hand with logic!

Superstitious bullshit for retards.

>>44548
>luck
THIS. This shit happens to me also but it makes zero fucking
sense in my case. Like, I think about or read something and then I hear it somewhere else like a TV or electronics or shit like that. Like, it doesn't even make any sense. What am I supposed to infer from it? It doesn't really confirm any cosmology, I can't control it and it happens very rarely and completely at random. If Tzeentch gave me the power to see a two seconds into the future without even knowing then it's the stupidest power ever (it fits Tzeentch tho). I luv u Tzeentch but this power sucks ass.

If magick is real then clearly it's this stupid useless crap like this. Therefore the occult is a waste of my precious time: zero explanation, zero results, zero bitches. My life sucks.

>>44546
i dabbled in divination before to overcome indecision. still i don't feel like having a particular intuition of that kind, more in a MBTI sense. i always feel the need to be able to read formulas, diagrams or relationships as a symbolic language, grokk them so to speak, or else i feel very insecure. people have said to me i'm an analytical person before, yet when i'm supposed to analyze something i don't have intuitive knowledge of, i panic.

how do other people reason about these sort of things, how does intuition as a type of knowledge work and how can i develop it for analytical purposes?

>>44550
few examples off the top of my head:
- when i was 16 I crashed my car going 80 into a telephone pole and the tree line in a ditch, with my mom in the passenger seat. she only came out with cuts from the glass, I didn’t have a scratch.
- some dumb friend of mine was getting catfished and subsequently extorted, and basically made a deal to “sell me” to them since he knew i was well off in exchange for being left alone. instantly knew something was up with the girl that hmu. few days later he attempts suicide and she’s arrested for something completely unrelated.
- i was in a bad place in high school and used to keep a longer than legal switchblade on me, just waiting for someone to give me a reason. it fell out of my pocket once in the middle of the hallway during class change, and another time in class as i was standing up from my desk. both times it miraculously and quietly fell into someone else’s backpack, a million times better than clattering on the floor.
>>44554
not related but case in point: i literally just woke up sick and didnt wanna go anywhere. check my email and class is cancelled lmao.

The narrowing of education into specific fields causes thinking like OP imo. Education is deliberately structured so that people can't connect critical thinking with broader scientific concepts. It prevents people from connecting political and historical concepts also. A close friend from school studied basic science with me and went to study finance and accounting in college. He never had any curiosity, just studying shit because he had to. He's highly numerically and mathematically literate but was insisting that (cooled) microwaved water (H20) would kill plants if used to water them. Like, microwaving water somehow made it something other than H20. Pure woo.

>>44579
>He's highly numerically and mathematically literate but was insisting that (cooled) microwaved water (H20) would kill plants if used to water them. Like, microwaving water somehow made it something other than H20. Pure woo.
It's not a pseudoscience thread, I don't think most of us here take bs like this even remotely seriously. And not like the knowledge of physics or historical materialism somehow "cures" this kind of thinking, scientific realism should be your fundamental belief system.