I just opened a fortune cookie after dinner and the little strip of paper said, "Your life will be happy and peaceful".
Peaceful?
Sorry, La Choy, but you got the wrong Jersey Girl!
So anyway, I got to wondering if anyone here has ever gone to a psychic and if so, did their predictions in some way come true? What about things they said about your life? Any of it accurate?
Just curious.
(I'm going to eat a couple more and see if La Choy can get it right)
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
I understand that Chinese fortune cookies are a San Francisco (US) invention and that some people in China call them American fortune cookies.
Whatever the case, don't invest any money based on what you read from them.
I once photographed an aerospace company party where they had a palm reader as one of the amusements. She was a very sweet lady, but when she read my palm, she got nothing correct.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Quasimodo wrote:I understand that Chinese fortune cookies are a San Francisco (US) invention and that some people in China call them American fortune cookies.
Supposedly they were invented by a Japanese American in either San Francisco or Los Angeles, but there is some dispute about that.
As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan; and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called o-mikuji. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker dough; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter. They contain a fortune; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion. This kind of cookie is called tsujiura senbei (辻占煎餅?) and is still sold in some regions of Japan, especially in Kanazawa, Ishikawa.[2] It is also sold in the neighborhood of Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine in Kyoto.[3]
Also in the linked to Wikipedia article:
Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in the USA to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the 1890s or early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo.[4][5][6]
David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, has made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918.[7] San Francisco's mock Court of Historical Review attempted to settle the dispute in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a key piece of evidence with a message reading, "S.F. Judge who rules for L.A. Not Very Smart Cookie". A federal judge of the Court of Historical Review determined that the cookie originated with Hagiwara and the court ruled in favor of San Francisco. Subsequently, the city of Los Angeles condemned the decision.[7]
Seiichi Kito, the founder of Fugetsu-do of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, also claims to have invented the cookie.[8] Kito claims to have gotten the idea of putting a message in a cookie from Omikuji (fortune slip) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan. According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Thus Kito's main claim is that he is responsible for the cookie being so strongly associated with Chinese restaurants.[citation needed]
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Quasimodo wrote:I once photographed an aerospace company party where they had a palm reader as one of the amusements. She was a very sweet lady, but when she read my palm, she got nothing correct.
Apparently she was not veryenough sweet. Or You are too old to know her (in biblical sense). Sorry, You are a youngster...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
