Are fortune cookies immoral?

[coolcatholicguy]

Are they as long as you don’t actually take them seriously?

 

[MarianD]

They were never meant to be taken seriously. It’s culture and it’s fun.

But if someone does take them seriously, then not only is it a sin, but that person also need to gets his/her head checked.

 

[slywakka250]

They were never meant to be taken seriously. It’s culture and it’s fun.

But if someone does take them seriously, then not only is it a sin, but that person also need to gets his/her head checked.

I take them very seriously. I see them as a message from the universe specifically for me, telling me something important about my life. This doesn’t mean I won’t recognize it if someone tries to play a trick on me or something like that. It just means that I am listening for messages, when they are valid ones, which I think they often are.

I know they are not necessarily “accurate”, but I think if you are open to receiving a message when you open the cookie, and do a quick meditation prior to reading it, you will be spiritually open to receive a useful message.

I’m being serious here.

I guess I am kind of crazy… i’m ok with that…

 

[Newbie2]

I take them very seriously. I see them as a message from the universe specifically for me, telling me something important about my life. This doesn’t mean I won’t recognize it if someone tries to play a trick on me or something like that. It just means that I am listening for messages, when they are valid ones, which I think they often are.

I know they are not necessarily “accurate”, but I think if you are open to receiving a message when you open the cookie, and do a quick meditation prior to reading it, you will be spiritually open to receive a useful message.

I’m being serious here.

I guess I am kind of crazy… i’m ok with that…

Dangerous practice, methinks. Being open to such suggestions leaves oneself open to suggestions of evil.

On the lighter side, I find adding the phrase “…in bed” or “…in the Twilight Zone” (using my best Rod Serling voice) to the end of each message really livens them up.

But to address the OP, nope, not immoral, unless one takes them seriously and lives their life guided by a message in a cookie.

 

[davidv]

Are they as long as you don’t actually take them seriously?

A fortune cookie is a material object. It can be neither moral nor immoral.

Morality is an attribute of thoughts, words and deeds.

Searching for answers to life’s question in the sayings of fortune cookies could be considered divination. According to the CCC this would be a sin against the first commandment.

**2116 **All forms of *divination *are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to “unveil” the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

 

[PatriceA]

A fortune cookie is a material object. It can be neither moral nor immoral.

Morality is an attribute of thoughts, words and deeds.

Searching for answers to life’s question in the sayings of fortune cookies could be considered divination. According to the CCC this would be a sin against the first commandment.

Yep, for some it definitely can be immoral. When you put more faith in a fortune in a cookie than in discerning God’s will through prayer, you’re on a dangerous path.

For me, its entertainment, nothing more.

 

[thistle]

Are they as long as you don’t actually take them seriously?

Your question doesn’t even make any sense.
You ask if fortune cookies are immoral as long as you don’t take take them seriously.
That implies they are moral if you do take them seriously!!!

I no longer believe you are actually ultra scrupulous. I believe you simply take some weird pleasure in starting stupid threads (having had another look at all the threads you have opened). You behave like a young kid!

 

[Hlafdige]

This is a valid question. Reminds me of a long-ago college course in media science, where we discussed whether or not using a coin-operated scale that gives you your weight and fortune was communication.

Reading horoscopes, even on the pretext of entertainment, and discussing personality traits based on astrological signs would be at least unbecoming of a Catholic and likely to gove scandal to others who perceive the Catholic as giving credence to astrology.

But fortune cookies, containing sentences so general that they hardly deserve to be called messages? The obvious response of a reasoning person would be, what could possibly be wrong with that? But in the context of a surrounding culture where apparently some people do see them as messages from the universe and set about interpreting their meaning for their lives, who knows what innocent things might one day have to be worried about as possibly causing scandal?

 

[vz71]

So how are we to take the message that reads:
“That wasn’t chicken.”

 

[Della]

So how are we to take the message that reads:
“That wasn’t chicken.”

By gagging? :bigyikes:

Seriously, though most “fortune” cookies are simply words of wisdom, such as “One must be a friend to have friends” and that sort of thing, which is perfectly harmless. Those that claim to predict the future, though ought to be tossed and forgotten as irrelevant–because they are irrelevant to any sane method for making moral decisions.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Unless the fortune cookie says “go to Guyana and drink poison Kool-Aid and join a cult” I would tend to just have fun eating them and not take them seriously.

 

[rwoehmke]

Only if you gobble enough of them to get a belly ache. I find them quite tasty.