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Thirteen years later, in 1995, Ken Feingold offered a different explanation for why people seek out fortune-tellers: “ We desire to know other people ’ s actions and to resolve our own conflicts regarding decisions to be made and our participation in social groups and economies.

… Divination seems to have emerged from our knowing the inevitability of death.

The idea is clear — we know that our time is limited and that we want things in our lives to happen in accord with our wishes.

Realizing that our wishes have little power, we have sought technologies for gaining knowledge of the future ... gain power over our own .”