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Tarot for beginners

In my quest for chicken (protein craving what can I say!).. I stumbled across a brochure for local adult education courses and found out that our illustrious Government seems to think its OK to fund a course in Tarot card reading! A bit of me is highly amused at the thought of tarot for beginners (comes with a warning not to act on anything in case they just can't shuffle) and Intermediate Tarot (will predict illness but not death!!)

However I'm also a bit miffed that its OK to have courses in the occult funded by local government (and therefore central government). I suspect that if I were to go to them witha proposal to teach beginners prayer, they would tell me that I can't do that because of it being "religious"....

Hmmm...

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Michael said…
Interesting. Why don't you try asking for funding for a prayer course?
6:17 pm
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