[[At least the Golden Compass (or, to give it the original title from the novel, Northern Lights) acknowledges itself to be fiction.]]

Albeit fiction with a heavy-handed message in it repeated over and over and over and over and over again until your head explodes.

However, BA, surely Pigasus was saved rather than doomed?? Saved by the BA in his tarot reading. I.e. this is all a load of mumbo-jumbo, so do not consider it to have any real predictive power.

In that sense, that didn’t seem like such a bad idea. It’s like a mechanical random devils advocate in conjunction with personal feel, throwing out endless variations of “Suppose perhaps this it’s like this instead?” on emotions. Then, I realized if you have a deck and use it for anything, people will think you think there is more to this then picking random pieces of paper and combining their meanings into something (sort of like how Family Guy is written according to Southpark) but rather some whackjob idea that a random state is clearly the right one rather then a so-so thinking point without having to involve more humans. Worse yet, it appears to validate this belief among those that hold it, perhaps making the odd belief more acceptable. Doh! I guess it’s back to just ranting on message boards..