Fortune-telling courses will improve quality of predictions

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Great story from the Phnom Penh Post:
Introducing a guy who thinks that Cambodians fortune tellers need "quality control." I kid you not.
The former monk said his mission was to bring some level of quality control to a profession with little to no regulation. “Fortune tellers in the market never learn the rules of horoscopes – they just guess,” Bora said disapprovingly.
Thank goodness he's going to step up and show them how to do it properly with his Horoscope school. Just what was lacking in Cambodia. Good to see this fortune telling business being taken seriously at last.Things are looking up. :Bravo:
Also known as "Grandfather Floating Stone" – a name he acquired after coming into possession of an apparently gravity-defying rock – Long Bora is the man behind the only fortune-telling course in Cambodia.

His six-month program, the second season of which starts today, represents a significant shift away from the norm of informal, unstructured education in divination. Bora’s classes follow a strict timetable and cost $300 to attend.

... he became aware of how underdeveloped his home country was when it came to teaching fortune telling.

In other countries, the discipline was taught in special schools and even on university syllabuses, but in Cambodia, there was only informal knowledge being passed down from older generations.

“I thought, if we had a teacher, we could do it the right way,” Bora explained.

Past students attest that, at least for them, his methods are working.

“After I learned how to read horoscopes, I was able to help lots of people and make prophecies for them,” said Soun Seoun, a monk who participated in last year’s horoscope classes. “Now I have more people coming to me to ask for my help.”

Seoun has inherited his old teacher’s distaste for Cambodia’s more ad-hoc practices of divination. “It is important to have more people learning the facts,” he asserted. “If people pretend they can read horoscopes but are unreliable, it will cause people to lose trust.”

Teaching is not the only area to which Bora has applied his talents since leaving the monkhood. He is a regular guest on MYTV’s horoscope chat show Kae Vesna and Lek Reasey (“Change destiny and bring luck”) and reads horoscopes for major businesses including the mobile network provider Cellcard.
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About time too!
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But, but, but, I thought our Prime minister ,,,,,, nah forget it ,,,,,,,,
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Duncan wrote:But, but, but, I thought our Prime minister ,,,,,, nah forget it ,,,,,,,,
What? Don't tell me that fortune telling is banned too. :facepalm:
Seriously, hard to tell what is legal and what is not: all gambling is illegal right ? Except, certain people are allowed to place bets, some go to casinos. Wait, I thought casinos were illegal ? And cock-fighting is that legal or illegal - if you don't bet of course, because betting is definitely illegal...hang on, I'll start another thread.
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So how come monks never saw the Khmer Rouge coming? Oh, wait, none of them were genuine...
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vladimir wrote:So how come monks never saw the Khmer Rouge coming? Oh, wait, none of them were genuine...
Exactly why they need to go to a real fortune-teller school !
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Maybe I'll start teaching a new fortune-telling course.

I'll make it between pre-intermediate and upper-intermediate level, and call it Intercourse.
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vladimir wrote:Maybe I'll start teaching a new fortune-telling course.

I'll make it between pre-intermediate and upper-intermediate level, and call it Intercourse.
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Hansum already, it's just hidden behind some famine-retardant tissue.
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