Inside a self-sealing belief system, every card you pull is already scripted—unless you deliberately build an escape hatch into the spread.
Inside a self-sealing belief system, every card you pull is already scripted—unless you deliberately build an escape hatch into the spread. That is not a metaphysical claim about the cards. It is a claim about what happens when ambiguous symbols meet a group that has outlawed surprise. The behaviour that changes is not the oracle’s … Read more