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Is fortune telling accurate or not?

Don't believe it all, after all, there are very few accurate ones.

Many people firmly believe that fortune telling is a lie. Apart from still not getting rid of the influence of education, they think that fortune telling is feudal superstition and pseudoscience. In addition, people may have calculated their life span, but the results show that this is not accurate. In fact, it is completely normal that fortune-telling is not allowed. In the streets and alleys, you can often see some fortune tellers. There is a piece of paper in front of them, which is painted with Tai Chi pictures and accompanied by the words "Zhouyi Prediction" and "Four-pillar Prediction", which is very mysterious. But nine times out of ten, these people only know some very simple algorithms, as well as some uncomplicated knowledge of faces and palms, plus literacy and eloquence. How accurate can they be if they are allowed to calculate? Of course, there are some who really understand the four pillars or Zhouyi, but how many real masters can you meet by chance? However, it is not surprising that even true masters are sometimes inaccurate. Western medicine is the product of modern science, but none of it can be 100% effective. Generally speaking, it's not bad that the efficiency can reach 78. Some people take the same cold medicine immediately, and some people may have no effect, but we can't say that this medicine is fake. Medicine belongs to natural science, and Yijing belongs to social science. Natural science is far more accurate than social science, and it is much simpler to use. Generally, the effective rate of drugs can reach 70% to 80%. So, why should we have higher expectations for the accuracy of measuring fate? As for the accuracy of fortune telling, first-class fortune tellers can only calculate the accuracy of 70% to 80% from ancient times to the present. Some people may say: the most accurate can only be counted as 80% accurate, so what is the accuracy! That depends on what it is. For example, it is not worth mentioning whether it is a man or a woman, because the random test will have a 50% accuracy rate! Surprisingly, however, a person's child is adopted, a person has a mole in a precise part of his body, a person moves home, a person dies, a person gets promoted, a person becomes rich, and so on. However, some people may ask: Why can't fortune-telling be 100% accurate? To measure the fate of a person's life, the more practical and relatively accurate fortune-telling methods, such as Sizhu and Wei Zi, are all based on the date of birth (Sizhu is the date of birth expressed by branches, which are called Nianzhu, Zhu Yue, Rizhu and Shizhu respectively, and each column is heavenly stems and earthly branches, with a total of eight words, so it is also called eight characters). If fortune-telling can be 100% accurate, it means that people with the same birth time will have exactly the same fate. But it's impossible. I don't know how many people were born in the same month at all times, but how many people have exactly the same achievements, talents and experiences? "oranges are born in Huainan and oranges are born in Huaibei." The same seed, the same life gene, may grow into completely different life forms in different environments. Similarly, different family environment, social environment and natural environment may bring different influences and changes to a person's innate destiny. According to the ancients, the secret of a person's fate lies in his date of birth. However, due to the influence of different environments, there are the same people on the date of birth, but the actual fate may be different in many ways. For example, there are three people whose birthdays are exactly the same. One lives in Beijing now and the other lives in Beijing. According to the fortune-telling results, the owner of this constellation should have three children, but in fact, only Hong Kong people have three children, Beijing people only have one child because of family planning in the mainland, and Stone Age people did not have their own children because of the group marriage system at that time. In addition, a person's date of birth is determined at the moment of his birth, while the genes inherited from his parents should be determined at the moment of his mother's pregnancy. Therefore, birthdates cannot include the influence of parents' inheritance, but what is certain is that the genes that people inherit from their parents will inevitably have a great impact on people's fate, so people with the same eight characters will inevitably have different fates.