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I recently tried to book a numerology session and it felt like a total scam :/ (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I had met this lady a few weeks ago who did numerology sessions on the side of her regular job. She had offered me a session at the time and I had refused. I ended up finding her number a few weeks later and had arranged to book a session.

I had been seeing all these numbers repeating, and thought, why not have some fun, right? I don't really believe in that kinda stuff, but it would be interesting to see what values people ascribe to things as random as numbers, and see what I think about it. An hour session was gonna come out to upwards of 200+ dollars 💀 .

I apologised saying I should've asked for a quote beforehand, but she tries to call me (I didn't pick up) and she then texts me that "people usually call me when they're in need and I recommend the session", but it's like...of course you would, you're making 200+ dollars off of me lol.

No disrespect to her, but I hate that everyday interactions are warped by profit 😓. I get everyone has to eat, but damn, wtf?

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[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does lemmygradians think of traditional Chinese medicine?

I'm sure some of it actually works, and some of it might not really work, but have a positive benefit due to the placebo effect or whatever.

Stuff doesn't have to be really true to be helpful - addiction isn't a disease, but "addiction as a disease" is a model that's helped a lot of people.

I don't really have a dog in the fight as long as unproved medicine/treatment isn't used in place of real, proven medicine. If it's just a supplemental thing I don't see any harm in it.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

*As long as the supplemental medicine isn’t actively working against the person’s health like leeching or non-sterilized acupuncture

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Fair enough, that's a good qualification.