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Friday, March 9, 2012

Fortune Puzzles at Dollar Tree

Stopped at Dollar Tree today and discovered these cute little gems, looks like a Chinese take out box, but has a 4x6 postcard sized puzzle inside that once put together reveals your fortune.  Fortune cookie style puzzles might not seem pagan, but telling the future generally is seem that way.  Sure, there are prophets and prophecies but only the very gifted with a direct link to God have these abilities...the general layperson who can "read futures" is a "heathen" by some standards.

Also, the fortune cookie is a sort of modern day form of Aleuromancy; which is "a divination method that was popular with the ancient Greeks. Sentences were composed that were written on very small pieces of paper and rolled up into balls of flour. The balls were then mixed up nine times and given to those seeking information on their future. This form of divination was presided over by Apollo."  http://www.paralumun.com/divination.htm


So, I do consider this a tiny bit of Paganism yet again found at the Dollar Tree. 


My fortune: "Happiness depends on ourselves" (Aristotle)

The box it comes in.

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