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fortune telling?? feng shui??

Post by laurenkai » Wed, 25 Jul 2007 4:42 pm

any good and reliable ones to recommend???

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Post by La grande boucle » Wed, 25 Jul 2007 5:22 pm

How reliable can a fortune teller be?

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Wed, 25 Jul 2007 7:22 pm

La grande boucle wrote:How reliable can a fortune teller be?
Don't know,

We had one come in at least 4 times for our brand new office. Guess what! Water blessing! Had the entire office under 4 inches of water on our grand opening when we arrived at 7 am in the morning with the opening due to start at 11 am! Worse part about it was the fact that we are on the 4th floor! So much for Feng Shui! :roll:
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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Post by Wind In My Hair » Wed, 25 Jul 2007 8:13 pm

The irony with feng shui and fortune-telling is that by the time you have enough wisdom and discernment to tell the genuine from the quacks, you won't need their help anyway!

Grab one of Lillian Too's feng shui books in any bookstore. Some of the advice makes a lot of sense logically. Not sure about the pa kua and positioning etc though. The feng shui master industry is unregulated and there are many quacks out there, so be careful.

Fortune telling is even worse, and it's all psychological and a self-fulfilling prophecy anyway. A genuine fortune teller can only say what your future MAY be, recognising that you can still change it. Anyone who says your fate is pre-determined and you can't change it is a quack. My version of fortune-telling: Decide what future you want and then go out there and work your butt off creating it, and it will happen.

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Post by La grande boucle » Thu, 26 Jul 2007 9:59 am

How much do you charge for this one?

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Post by hei guess what » Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:35 am

Wind In My Hair wrote:Decide what future you want and then go out there and work your butt off creating it, and it will happen.
Yeah, what we need is . . . The Secret
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17314883/site/newsweek/

Could this be an example of the Law of Attraction in action ? ? ?

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Post by Wind In My Hair » Thu, 26 Jul 2007 4:24 pm

La grande boucle wrote:How much do you charge for this one?
Send me a cheque for whatever it's worth to you. :wink:

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Post by CAT777 » Thu, 26 Jul 2007 5:41 pm

All these fortune-tellers are just good psychologists...first they listen to yr life story...then they make thir logical conclusions...cheating :^o just my opinion..
btr keep silent and listen what they say...dunt feed them with info!!!
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Post by pclum » Fri, 17 Aug 2007 4:31 pm

CAT777 wrote:All these fortune-tellers are just good psychologists...first they listen to yr life story...then they make thir logical conclusions...cheating :^o just my opinion..
btr keep silent and listen what they say...dunt feed them with info!!!
I don't really agree with u, my friend had gone to china to learn feng shui and what he told me that he can even eliminate the termite as this also belongs to feng shui, but he also told me that there is not much he can do in singapore hdb block unless the private house that u can really alter the door or gate. That is why he always go indonesia to see the feng shui. Once he went to malaysia, after he look at the house, he can even tell that there is one person will be born deaf ( actully the grandson of the owner ) and it is show in the feng shui that he learn.

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Post by Superglide » Fri, 17 Aug 2007 5:53 pm

Amazing it is, pclum....

Interesting guy, this Feng Shui.

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Mon, 06 Oct 2014 2:53 pm

I've got a bridge in the middle of a desert I like to sell you. :-|
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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Post by JR8 » Mon, 06 Oct 2014 4:51 pm

sundaymorningstaple wrote:I've got a bridge in the middle of a desert I like to sell you. :-|
Hang on, didn't the Brits sell the previous London Bridge to Arizona... or similar?

Yipper!!
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Post by the lynx » Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:12 am

Just had a chat with a friend who lives in a landed property on hilly part of Singapore. At the advice of a feng shui 'master' she decided to build her double storey bungalow with her first floor lower than her gate, with a downward incline for her car to drive in and out of the verandah. This is so that her "luck and prosperity would flow in".

Each time it rains, it does flow in. Her first floor gets flooded! Not a huge flood, but sufficient to play with Ugg boots (probably few centimetres of water).

Feng shui :roll:

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Post by JR8 » Tue, 07 Oct 2014 1:32 pm

pclum wrote:I don't really agree with u, my friend had gone to china to learn feng shui and what he told me that he can even eliminate the termite as this also belongs to feng shui,
What's wrong with a $5 can of Ridsect? :)

pclum wrote:but he also told me that there is not much he can do in singapore hdb block unless the private house that u can really alter the door or gate.
Yah HDB people too smart eh, landed people all bimbotic and rich wid too much times on their hand.

pclum wrote: Once he went to malaysia, after he look at the house, he can even tell that there is one person will be born deaf ( actully the grandson of the owner ) and it is show in the feng shui that he learn.
Yeah noticing hearing aids and batteries lying around is the give-away I suppose.

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Post by Strong Eagle » Tue, 07 Oct 2014 1:39 pm

sundaymorningstaple wrote:I've got a bridge in the middle of a desert I like to sell you. :-|
Interesting... SMS responds to a 7 year old post and everyone else chimes right in.

Must be Feng Shui.

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