[UA] Postmodern Divination Practices

[Edward Parsons]

Mobile Phones are taking over the planet. You can't even go to the cinema
any more without some idiot doing his "Trigger Happy TV" routine in the
front row.

Even I've got a mobile, but I leave it a home as it has a gloss pink heat
sensitive cover and I have yet to work out how to remove it.



Anyway about "I Ging" (?) and mobilomancy...Good idea, but how about even
more randomness? Since nearly everyone on the planet has "Snake" on their
phone, howabout some form of divination based on that?

"Ah! Super mega bonus point mouse is in top left hand corner, pixel 46! Good
omen! And I got the high score! Woohoo!"


----- Original Message -----
From: "DL" <haroudo at terra.com.br>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: RES: [UA] Postmodern Divination Practices


> MOBILOMANCY!!!!!
>
> Ok, i will do it! :):):):
>
> Btw, here EVERYONE have a cell phone...EVERYONE. Well, except me, i guess,
> but i had one until i got really poed with it, but thats another story.
>
> How it works in other countries? What strike me as weird, is that here,
not
> just ppl that needs have one, but really, everyone, and some ppl gave up
on
> common fixed phones to stay just with their cell phones.
>
> []s,
>
>     Haroudo Xavier
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]Em
> nome de Robin Pfeifer
> Enviada em: sábado, 4 de maio de 2002 11:16
> Para: Unknown Armies Mailinglist
> Assunto: [UA] Postmodern Divination Practices
>
>
> Today I found a book in a local shop describing how to use your mobile
phone
> for divination. How's that for postmodern magic?
>
> Basically it was an adaptation of the I Ging to mobile phones. Think of a
> question, take the most important word of it, take the first six letters
of
> that (add a word if the most important one is shorter than that), type
them
> into the display, then take the numbers and make them full line / broken
> line according to wheter they are even or odd. Then look up the definition
> of the resulting hexagram in the book. Now that I've given away the
> procedure you can use any old I Ging book, too!
>
> The snag of course is that divination needs a random element. Say, you
want
> to know the following: 'How do I get heaps of money?' The operative word
> being 'money', and the next being 'heaps' you get 'moneyh' which results
in
> 666394, that's hexagram 25, 'Innocence'. The explanation in my book tells
> me, wait for it and it'll come. And that will be the same result for
> everyone. How much more fun would it be if you asked your question first,
> then waited impatiently for anyone to call you, and the last six digits of
> the caller's number make the result. Anyone for Mobilomancy?
>
> Robin
>
>
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