Elephant News reporter Flower Gardenia
Nowadays, many young people are popular to use tarot cards to calculate good fortune and use astrolabe to see fate. In order to pursue the miracle, some ask for charms, some offer lamps, and some practice things, often spend hundreds of thousands of yuan for this. But no matter how the form of divination changes, some soothsayers are just doing the business of "cutting leeks" with different signs.
"Low threshold" online divination is popular, is it really accurate?
A few days ago, Nanning, Guangxi investigated and dealt with a "Destiny Tarot" shop that used tarot cards for divination, palmistry, and astrolabe, and the store sold Buddhist cards, candles and other ritual supplies through rituals, and sold 130,000 yuan within a month and a half.
On a number of short video platforms, reporters also found similar online stores, they interpret the tarot card array, "draw three cards you like to give you an interpretation of life", to attract people into the store. There is no shortage of thousands of reviews for these online stores. Many netizens do not hesitate to spend a lot of money in order to get an answer to a question.
Netizen "Crackling Xiaolongbao" asked the soothsayer a question and spent 288 yuan. And netizen "Zhishuo" did not hesitate to call the "master" 1,500 yuan in order to get back together with his girlfriend, but the result was still "she doesn't love you".
After spending a low "entry fee" of 5 yuan and 9 yuan 9, more netizens found that what was waiting behind was a "serial routine" that kept throwing money.
Netizen 7Z-Bear is a college student, and during the summer vacation, a friend strongly recommended to test the tarot, saying that it was very accurate. Unable to resist her friend's repeated persuasion, she found an online tarot soothsayer recommended by her friend. At first, she thought it was quite accurate, because "after a week, I quarreled with my boyfriend and then broke up." But the more she went to the back, the more she felt that something was wrong, because the soothsayer kept selling her transfer bracelets and ritual supplies, a crystal bracelet cost 599 yuan, and a transfer Buddha card cost 29,999 yuan, she felt that it was too expensive, so she didn't buy it, and as a result, the soothsayer stopped divining for her.
There are also netizens who spent money to get a "life interpretation" from the soothsayer, but found that it was exactly the same as the "interpretation" of the soothsayer posted by another netizen, and many netizens said that the same "interpretation" was the same as their own......
Nominal "divination" or a trick for money
In the comment area of a short video platform, the reporter contacted a soothsayer, who quoted 9.9 yuan when receiving orders online, and after learning that the first two soothsayers contacted by the reporter quoted 35 yuan, the soothsayer immediately raised his price to 30 yuan.
After having a brief conversation with the reporter, some soothsayers began to sell spiritual talismans to the reporters, saying that they could drive away villains, and that they could offer lamps and do things. "The spirit rune is 300 yuan a piece, free shipping, 488 yuan a month for a lamp, if you want to add scriptures, this lamp will rise to 688 yuan a month. ”
When asked by a reporter what other means of divination are available, the soothsayer said that the power of doing things is stronger and can turn disadvantages into advantages. He also sent a photo of the ceremony to prove that he had received other people's orders. The reporter found that the so-called "ritual" content is to draw symbols with rice, and then put a lantern array to chant sutras.
In order to show that his "mana" is strong, the soothsayer also said that he could write an expression with Chinese characters, and then make a promotion text, and after that, he also sent a photo of the expression. The reporter found that these expressions were printed on yellow A4 paper with auspicious words such as "Wealth and Shun, Four Seasons Anfeng". When the soothsayer ascended the text, he also burned the sword with the sword.
Seeing this, when the reporter questioned whether the other party was a tarot soothsayer or a Taoist priest, the soothsayer said that he was a tarot soothsayer, but he also believed in Taoism, and "the two do not conflict." Seeing that the reporter was slow to make a decision, the soothsayer began to ask the reporter directly "how much is the budget", and said that the lamp was more cost-effective.
After flipping through the videos of many soothsayers, the reporter found that in order to attract business for themselves, some soothsayers directly said in their videos that "there are most bastards in this industry". There are also diviners who explain unreasonable divination methods to show that their divination is more orthodox. For example, the video mentions that the soothsayer asks for his name and birthdate, and these are incompetent soothsayers. Through the comments and feedback of netizens, the reporter learned that these are the common ways used by many soothsayers to promote themselves.
There are even soothsayers who communicate in the video comment area, saying that divination comes quickly, so he quickly entered this industry. In addition to tarot cards, using the astrolabe to read numerology is also a major branch of foreign divination, but some fortune tellers revealed that the astrolabe is set through the app, but the functions of the setting cannot be too much, otherwise he will not be able to understand it.
Psychological counselor: Divination satisfies psychological comfort, but you should believe in yourself
The reporter has contacted a number of soothsayers on the Internet, and each soothsayer has sent several pages of customer feedback to the reporter, including a large number of emotional comments such as "He ignored me and was very sticky to me afterwards", "He really turned back and got back together with me" and so on. But the veracity of these customer conversations is difficult to verify, and the effects of the claims are highly subjective and the reasons are ambiguous.
In the comments of many netizens, the reporter found that many people said that there was no effect after divination or practice, and they took thousands of dollars in vain, and some netizens posted photos and transferred 6,100 yuan to the fortune teller's WeChat, and the fortune teller blocked him.
In fact, whether it is tarot fortune reading or astrolabe fortune telling, these "foreign things divination" is based on "Western metaphysics" and "occultism", and in the final analysis, it is still feudal superstition. Internet divination is also strictly prohibited by many national regulations. Article 5 of the "Measures for the Security Protection and Management of the International Networking of Computer Information Networks" stipulates: "No unit or individual may use the international network to produce, reproduce, consult, and disseminate feudal superstitions."
In this regard, the WeChat management party has recently stated that for illegal accounts such as online divination, WeChat has been cracking down on it every day, and through a combination of machine identification and manual review, one will be banned if one is found.
Zhao Yueling, a national second-level psychological counselor and a registered psychological counselor of the Chinese Psychological Society, said that divination meets people's needs for exploration of mystery, and also meets the needs of some people's psychological sustenance and comfort. People like to pursue the unknown, and the unknown triggers anxiety and insecurity in people, so a sense of stability is pursued through fortune telling. When people are frustrated and need comfort, they may use a comforting way to help themselves cope with things that are out of control and gain a sense of control.
Zhao Yueling reminded everyone that people should believe in their own abilities and decisions, and at the same time fully understand themselves, discover their own strengths and weaknesses, and make the best choice based on this.