Chapter 177 Divination
Saturday morning.
Dorothy woke up unusually early today. She had just brushed her teeth and washed her face and walked out of the bathroom. Then she sat down on the floor and yawned while watching the morning divination program on TV.
Although Dorothy is a god, she, like other high school girls, is very interested in divination.
"Believer, what's your zodiac sign?" Dorothy shouted towards the kitchen.
"Libra." Shang Zegong was cooking in the kitchen. He replied to Dorothy smoothly and joked,
"I didn't expect you, Dorothy, to care so much about something as baseless as divination. It's just giving some ambiguous phrases and using your psychological hints to explain it. It has no scientific basis."
"Who said there is no scientific basis?" Dorothy explained seriously from the perspective of God, "Reality is not a rubbish game of causality. Everything has a reason for its existence everywhere, but you cannot stand in the world.
It’s just a matter of watching, how do you know these divination are not hints given to you by the game developers or administrators?”
"So sure, Dorothy, have you also sent similar hints?" Shang Zegong raised his eyebrows and said in surprise.
Dorothy did not answer directly but asked first: "Believer, do you know why gods are omniscient and omnipotent? It's because they can see the connection between everything, just like the [Butterfly Effect] proposed by people in your world.
Likewise, a butterfly flapping its wings gently in South America can cause a huge storm thousands of miles away.
And the gods can clearly see which butterfly caused the storm and which breeze caused it."
"You are so good, can you help me predict today's lottery?" Uesawa Palace joked.
"If I knew, I would still have to tell you!" Dorothy snorted helplessly and continued to explain to Shang Zegong,
"Divination may seem unreasonable, but in fact when you see this divination, you will always be thinking about it and whether the divination is effective or not. To a certain extent, these divination also affected your actions today.
This means that divination is effective.
This is the same as an oracle. You have received a dream suggestion from the god. Even if you don't believe it and think it is just an ordinary dream, you will still care about it.
So there is no difference between divination and oracles."
Shang Zegong still agrees with Dorothy's statement. For example, the divination says that marriage and burial are forbidden today. In order to relieve the uneasiness in their hearts, most people will not decide to get married today.
If the divination says that you should not go out today, and you originally wanted to go to an amusement park, but after reading the divination, you change your mind and stay at home for a day. In the evening, you see a knife attack at the amusement park you wanted to go to.
In a vicious case of differential homicide, you would also think that the divination was very accurate, and you were lucky that you didn't go out.
But in fact, even if you go to the amusement park, you may not encounter criminals or be killed. However, there will always be a feeling of luck in people's hearts. Fortunately, they saw the divination and did not go to the amusement park.
, otherwise it will be you who dies.
However, who can say for sure about this kind of thing? After all, the dead cannot speak. Who knows if his divination today said it was advisable to travel or go to an amusement park, but he would be stabbed to death.
This is a kind of survivor bias, which is especially common in divination. Uesawa Palace doesn't believe much in this superstition. In the end, divination and the like are all based on one's own subjective initiative, and he just attributes it to divination.
Kamizawa thought of something and suddenly said: "Speaking of which, Dorothy, since you are omniscient and omnipotent, there is no need to read these, right?"
Dorothy shook her head and said helplessly: "That kind of omniscient and omnipotent ability has been abandoned when we played the game in the lower world. From a game perspective, we abandoned the identity of the administrator who knows all the data in the world, but
Become a gamer and enjoy the fun of the unknown.
Moreover, don’t get it wrong, the omniscience and omnipotence of gods refers to the omniscience and omnipotence of the group of gods. A single god can only achieve limited omniscience and omnipotence in this field.”
Seeing that Uesawa Miya didn't understand, Dorothy scratched her head and thought for a long time to come up with an explanation, "Let's put it this way, for example, you like to play gal games and you have cleared all the games of this type on the market.
several times.
Know every character of every person, how to choose every option, the characteristics of game manufacturers, whether they will deliberately dig holes for players... On the Internet, this kind of gal is familiar with every aspect of the game.
The person with the heart can be called the god of strategy just like Katsuragi Keima.
And if there is a gal god among our gods, it is equivalent to being born with the knowledge that Keima Katsuragi has studied for countless years, and it is as natural as breathing."
If reality is a game, each god represents the administrator of a different system. Some are responsible for money management, some are responsible for combat, and some are responsible for romantic relationships. These gods are in their own fields.
All players' data is available online.
"In this way, you gods are all latecomers, born with the wealth accumulated by others." Shang Zegong clicked his tongue, staring at Dorothy with a resentful face, and chanted "The Bible" in his mouth.
"Those who keep saying that "one generation is inferior to another" should look at you gods, just like me. I look at you with envy.
Humanity has accumulated wealth for thousands of years, and all the knowledge, insights, wisdom and art are like gifts specially prepared for you. Technology is prosperous, culture is prosperous, cities are prosperous, and the fruits of modern civilization are opened layer by layer for you to enjoy.
.....”
Dorothy didn't know the connotation of "Bible chanting" in Shangze Palace, and nodded in agreement: "You are right to say that, but Houlang only applies to us gods born from faith. Those who are truly like Zeus
, the original gods like Athena, they all stand at the forefront of the front wave and are the founders of civilization..."
"Ah, the result is out!" Dorothy originally wanted to say something, but when she saw the result of Libra's divination, she said no more and read word by word against the screen, "Libra has great luck in love today.
Good, the lucky color is black, the lucky pet is a cat, suitable for traveling, dating, worship, temple visits..."
Dorothy looked at Shang Zegong and showed an ambiguous smile: "Who knows, this divination is quite accurate."
Uesawa Miya is going to visit the temple with Miko today. The fate between the two of them was magically created by Tiqi, the black cat. This is no longer a hint, but a direct hit, indicating that this time Uezawa Miya
Wamiko's travel date will go very smoothly.
Shang Zegong even doubted whether this was Dorothy deliberately messing with him, and it was hard to say that it was feudal superstition. He suggested it to himself. Shang Zegong coughed and said seriously: "Sometimes, these divination still have reference value.
It’s not that I can’t believe it.”
Human beings are like this. They are very easy to accept divination and predictions that are beneficial to them. But if the result of this divination is disastrous, people will definitely sneer at it: "Bah, what kind of feudal superstition is this? I don't believe it."
!”
Just then, the doorbell rang.
Dorothy urged: "Believer, you must have seen your son coming, hurry up and open the door!"
"I know, you want me to take off my apron."
Kamizawa had just finished breakfast. He took off his apron and went to the porch to open the door. When he was about to welcome Miko, he saw an angry face.
Chapter completed!