so i find myself randomly tossing 3 quarters around consulting the i ching quite often. every time i have an unanswered question... and it's weird because the answers given are usually pretty accurate. so i was wondering... hmm... can there really be a source of ultimate wisdom that humans can tap into to answer all of lifes little mysteries? that'd be cool. but if there were such a source, and that source were as mystical and unfathomable as the i ching... would it be possible to then encapsulate that into the simple tossing of 3 quarters and looking at a website?
but if the accurate answers given to me from the internet based i ching are not the result of a great mystical source of wisdom, then why are the answers so creepily relevent to the questions i ask? is the i ching all in my mind? and when i read a randomly selected fortune telling paragraph does my mind then solve my problem for me? would any randomly selected fortune make perfect sense to me?
i don't know.

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then why are the answers so creepily relevent to the questions i ask?
That is a VERY good question! It's kind of what this whole class is about though, so don't expect a simple answer...
If you're interested in the philosophy behind the I Ching, take a look at the Tao Te Ching (or DaoDeChing). It's the central text of Taoism, which does in fact describe a kind of quiet underlying order to the universe.
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