What do you make of it?

Question

Am in my early 40's now. Since i been 18 i have met 5 or so handreaders who have 'read' my hands. All readings were unsollicited and none of the readers took payment for their time.
All have said i was to have two children. I had one miscarriage at 19. Not that i was aware of it at the time. Maybe it was the stress of splitting up with my boyfriend of 1.5 years at the time.
Never wanted children apart from sometime in my mid-20's but that sort of blew over after no suitable dad was on the scene anyway.
Then at 38 i had a daughter. Unplanned she was. Not expected. And a real good dad. And i make one of the most unlikely mothers, believe me.
Makes me wonder though ... is having children a 'Divine Right' as it were? Like from an evolutionary viewpoint, if the universe is deterministic chaos as they say, then is it not determined from the beginning what DNA will be passed on through the generations? (Or at least reasonable to expect so for the philosophical nitpickers)

There is no religious angle to my thinking. I've sort of come to believe in the Tao over the years but to call me a Taoist is not something i can live up to.
ut it baffles me that 5 strangers would, for no monetairy gain, tell me all the same thing over a period of 20-odd years regarding my 'destiny'?

But ... should have been but instead of ut :-)

Oh, and it something i can NOT live up to i meant to say too. oops

Answer 1

I grew up in ireland where we regularly had Gypsy fortunetellers at our door. A lot of what they said you had to take with a pinch of salt -they covered all the bases - but once a lady told my mother some things that were very precise and they did come true, we were all kids at the time and she predicted exactly what each of us who do for a living.
She also told my mother some things about her health which upset her at the time. I never knew any of this until years later when it had all come true so it wasn't suggestion or anything like that. i wouldn't go to a fortune teller myself because i am happy with my life whatever the future holds but i have a grudging respect for Gypsies. PS I don't intend to belittle anyone by calling them gypsies but perhaps travellers would be better in todays PC climate.

Answer 2

As a Buddhist I don't believe in fortune tellers, simply because I haven't decided what my future is yet until I get there.
If you want to be a fortune teller it is a good idea to bat the averages and not predict anything too near in the future. Since the average number of kids is 2.4 (or at least it was) a prediction of two kids will be reasonably safe in terms of the average palm owner.
I am pretty confident that the five also predicted lots of stuff that didn't happen but we only remember the amazing correct bits.
As to passing on your DNA, the strongest theories around at the moment say that it is a biological imperative programmed into us all to do so and that not doing so probably signifies some sort of genetic dissorder.
Good luck with the daughter and the good dad. Much more important to enjoy them than worry about some prediction of doom.

Answer 3

Quite honestly, I don't make anything of it. It isn't even strange enough to call it a coincidence. If I was going to make something up, I would say, "You will have 2 children." Why? Because that's the "norm." If all of them said you would have 4 children, 3 boys and 1 girl, and that came true, that would be a little harder to explain and get me wondering. As it is, any ponderment (yes, I know I made up that word) is pointless.

I will say, however, based solely on how many people pass on severely messed up genes (mental and physical disorders, for example), and how many people with good family histories either choose not to have children or are unable to do so, it would certainly not be something happening from an "evolutionary viewpoint."

Answer 4

Even stranger coincidences have been experienced, but coincidence is just that... coincidence. Please read this short story about predictions.

There was a king who did not believe in human ability to predict the future. Yet he was not able to convince his people and one astrologer in particular was becoming more and more popular amongst his subjects. He called him to his court for a demonstration. He asked him some irrelevant questions and finally asked him to predict his own lifespan. The astrologer replied that he has about thirty more years to live. The king promptly took out his sword and beheaded him then and there.

Even if we believe that everything is somehow predetermined, there is no reason to believe that any of us can ever be privy to any prior knowledge of future events. However unromantic and unexciting it may sound, it does happen to be the truth so far.... can't of course predict whether this truth would change or not in the future!!

Answer 5

I had 2 children also the first one not planned. I have been told that I was not meant for motherhood. I loved playing golf, boating, fishing and camping with my husband. My mother looked after the children. Palm reading is not an exact prediction as 2 children would cover a lot of readings. Have not had any granchildren yet but am hopefull.

Answer 6

The univers is deterministic, but you cannot determine everything and you cannot determine chaos.
We and our children are not predetermined.
A wingbeat of a butterfly in Tokio might cause you not to meet your future husband. The odds of this to happen cannot be known.

Answer 7

almost certainly this is a regularity in fotune telling rather than a case of cosmic predetermination.
two is a very common size for a family, and also a size people very often wish for, so it makes sense to predict it if you are a forune teller.

Answer 8

FORTUNE TELLERS? THEY DONT EVEN KNOW THEIR OWN FUTURE.