Them’s fightin’ words.

This opinion is going to make lot of practitioners and admirers of this pseudo-science pretty mad, maybe even loose a few sleepless nights to the interwebs. Humans dream up all kinds of things about the unknown to feel safer about the big mysteries of life. We’re just little cosmic dustballs trying to feel safe in a universe full of unknowns.

Agnostic, yes.
But am I wrong about palm reading? No, no, I am not.

You see, the truth is, just like palm reading, marriage is a human construct. That’s right. We made up the whole institution. A bit of paper and a pleasant exchange of “I do” and two people are forever together in the eyes of the law. That brings us to the concept of laws. Laws are also a human construct. Without people to agree on a law, there would be no law. For example, you are stopped at a red light. Red means stop. But what if the men who decided red meant stop had a last-minute change of heart and green now means stop. It’s safe to say we would be stopping at green lights instead of red.

Side note: I did say, “Men” decided the color of the stop light. It’s true. In 1918, when the first flashing red light was used to tell motor cars to stop, a man decided that. Women wouldn’t get the right to even to vote for another seven years; it’s safe to say women, or any other gender, wouldn’t be consulted about the color used for stop lights.

Now, back to the subject at hand (inadvertent pun intended).

Palm reading is bullshit.

If marriage is a human construct, then reading someone’s “marriage line” is also made up. One pseudo-science practitioner even told me there were over 50 different combinations that could only be interpreted by a professional. You may also be shocked to know that most weatherpeople have degrees in journalism or communications rather than meteorology. What does the degree of a weatherperson have to do with the professionalism of a palm reader?! Nothing, it’s just interesting to know that we tune into our local news to hear about the weather from a meteorologist only to find out that they may be an aspiring anchorperson instead. This is just like trusting a professional palm reader; the difference is that some weatherpeople actually are meteorologists.

Does this mean some palm readers are real? Nope.
Palm reading is still bullshit.