lol ok so yesterday at the chinese restaurant, my MOM good a REALLY good fortune, and she ate the cookie and everything, but she was just gonna throw it away. I kept it, but it doesn't mean that fortune will be mine now right? Also, if you don't like your fortune from the 1st cookie, and you get another one, will it still count?
2007-01-06 08:54:30 · 6 answers · asked by Kitty_Rose7673 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Esse Est Percipi-- yeah "man" I'm serious... if you're not going to be helpful then go away.
2007-01-06 09:04:46 · update #1
for some real fun .......
add the words "IN BED"
to the end of each fortune
some are absolutely hilarious !
LOL
2007-01-06 09:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man, are you serious?
The fortune cookie is nothing more than superstition, it was designed to fool credulous people because people tend to believe something if it is good, especially since the "fortune" is general and vague, such as "something good will happen soon."
Software is used to "write" fortune cookies. A number of web pages now include fortune cookie-like words of wisdom or other quotes. The Unix program fortune is sometimes used to generate these messages.
In addition, the number combinations printed on fortunes are reused in thousands of cookies per day.
Consider this paragraph about luck also:
"Although the demarcations between chance and luck are subtle and shifting, chance tends to be viewed as a more neutral term describing random, unpredictable occurrences than luck, where an evaluative dimension is added. Chance opens the door to luck. When the chances are against success and it nevertheless occurs, you are lucky. Conversely, if the chances favor success and nevertheless it fails to ensue, you are unlucky" ( Rescher, 1995 , p. 42).
So please reconsider wheather you really want to believe what someone (or something) wrote.
I'm genuinely trying to be helpful, and wheather or not you agree (or want to agree) with me is up to you.
But consider this advise: don't waist your energy on even reading it.
2007-01-06 08:57:37 · answer #2 · answered by Esse Est Percipi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fortune goes to the cookie owner. Otherwise, it's just a decoration.
Which it might be anyway.
But what about those custom fortune cookies, where you get to put your own message inside? Does that mean you get whatever you want when you eat the cookie?
It's all very confusing...
2007-01-06 08:59:49 · answer #3 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Haha My mom were given a fortune saying 'a sparkling equipment of entertainment will enter your existence'. The day earlier, she got here upon out she change into pregnant. With me being the little equipment of entertainment!!! :) 21 years later, she nevertheless has the little paper!
2016-12-01 22:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was always told that you had to eat it before you got the 'fortune' to come true. But then, since it was invented by a guy in Pasadena, CA about 70 years ago, it wouldn't hold my breath waiting for fame and fortune.
2007-01-07 20:00:29 · answer #5 · answered by Mab 2feathers 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DO THE THINGS WRITTEN IN THESE COOKIERS EVER COME TRUE? I DON'T BELIEVE THEY DO. BESIDES WHAT WAS THE FORTUNE? YOU DIDN'T SAY.
2007-01-06 09:07:52 · answer #6 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋