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A pod I found this morning

 

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Apophenia, or the tendency to make patterns out of unconnected things, originating in the fear of a random and disorderly universe.

Despite much hand waving by everyone on this side of the hippie/science divide (which I am trying to straddle), I think that when you approach divination you have to be very careful that you aren’t displaying symptoms.

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Apophenia

[(Anonymous)]

Question, seriously, is this the same as looking at clouds and seeing pictures? Or looking at trees and seeing faces in the bark?
valeris