Palmistry

[Khandro]

Is it all bunkum?

[Peter Pedant]

yes
it was on the Paris medical curriculum - in 1620 to be exact

I dont know how I know that but- but - other than the transverse crease in genetics diseases - it has very little to tell us

[nailit]

//but it has been studied for thousands of years & taken seriously in the East often by intelligent, educated people//
Ans so has reincarnation, heaven, hell, God(s), UFO's, the Yeti, witchcraft, devil worship, conspiracy theories of all sorts ad infinitum...
Doesnt make it true.

[nailit]

Thanks Sqad, I'll keep it to myself, promise!

[jourdain2]

Not saying that I believe in it, but the hand can tell you a lot. I'm remembering once, about 40 years ago, there was an early evening programme on Yorkshire T.V. which featured an astrologer, a handwriting expert and a palm reader. It was teatime entertainment, so I was in and out of the kitchen, - they were given birthdate and time (as near as poss.), a standardised piece of handwriting and a palm-print respectively - and invited to name the 'mystery guest and spend some time describing how they reached their decision.

One week the palmist, when appealed to, said flatly, "This man was born in a barn. It has to be James Herriot." No arguments or hedging. It was Herriot. Gave me food for thought. Hands do change over the years and indicate all sorts of things.

[Sqad]

Lol

[AuntPollyGrey]

Palmistry, Tarot, Tea leaf reading, all early forms of counselling. People went to 'the old woman' to have a chat and learn their fortunes. A good reader does not tell them 'their fortune', that they will meet a handsome stranger -that is impossible of course. They give them 'possibilities', possible courses of action. Palmistry is Tarot without the cards. Its crazy to think your life will end early because of a line on your hand, or you will marry or have good fortune because your middle finger is longer.

[nailit]

If it was a TV show Jordain, I wouldnt 'read' to much into it...

[nailit]

//"This man was born in a barn. It has to be James Herriot."//
Or Jesus?

[nailit]

Honestly? Who believes this carp?
Ive seen literally scores of 'readers' of palms, cards, leaves, runes, auras and everything else you could think off.
Bunk...

[AuntPollyGrey]

Jourdain james Herriot was not born in a barn. TV 'readers' have an army of researchers, its laughable watching them. The whole point of these readings originally was to get advice, not your fortune. My nana taught me how to read a face - very useful - and now so-called scientists use the same techniques to look for signs of deceit in interrogations, but it has a fancy scientific name -an 'ology'. People who did readings were very empathic and often just told people what they really needed to hear.

[TrevorThePug]

40 years ago? Must have been an earlier take on the 'Mary loves Dick' guess who format.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Nailit do you want me to do a remote reading for you? I did one for someone totally anonymous on a forum years ago and they were amazed at the accuracy. :-)
I told them something only they knew -no one else -a plan they were hatching for a new enterprise. Maybe they just fitted in what I said with their situation, but it gave them the push to go ahead with their plans. There are of course charlatans, no one can predict the future.

[nailit]

I once did a Tarot reading for someone and freaked her out by asking
''So, who had the affair then?'' In an authoritave voice.
Turns out it was her.
She freaked out and terminated the 'reading'
For my own part I was just messing around during my days of looking into the psychology of all this ***.
If she had said that she didnt know what I was talking about then I could have made it look as though one of her previous lovers had cheated on her. As it was, I had a 'hit' which unnerved her.
And all I did was ask a question, not accuse anyone.

[retrocop]

//"This man was born in a barn.//

Whilst she was deliberating on her identification she probably meant,'Will the last man through the studio door shut it please. It's bloody freezing in here."

[nailit]

LOL,
I was typing my reply b4 reading yours APG...

[nailit]

We all suffer from confirmation bias.
We all look to/for things which confirm our own beliefs,

[TrevorThePug]

Well whichever form of septic meg-a-like you choose its always going to have the Barnum effect.

[nailit]

Barnum affect

http://psych.fullerton.http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/barnum_demo.htmedu/mbirnbaum/psych101/barnum_demo.htm

Throw in a few wild claims while your at it (which will be forgotten if not true) and you too can be a palm, aura, card, leaf reader...

[Peter Pedant]

naomi: I don't really know,
I can see that the line of the sun in your palm Khandy means that this thread will run and run
with interpretations getting steadily crazier....

the line of venus - I think there may be a trump win in the offing!

[nailit]

LOL, Just reread the thread (Im a bit OCD like that)

//early evening programme on Yorkshire T.V. which featured an astrologer, a handwriting expert and a palm reader//

And not one scientist??
Astrologist, graphologist and a palm reader?
All charlatens then?