I'm going to talk to you about a Turkish tradition, "kahve falı". Turkish coffee fortune telling, known as 'kahve falı', is an integral part of Turkish culture and dates back centuries.
Personally, I don't believe in it, but I've learned that some people really do. I'm Muslim, so for me it's haram to believe in it. But I'm not just going to say "I don't believe in it because it's haram". I want to show why, logically, it's a false practice.
It might be an "expert" aunt who claims to see the future. But based on what? How could a human person, without any special power, determine someone's future only through fal? With some energy, some mysterious gift? Then why would this supposed gift only work with Turkish coffee? If the coffee is no longer there, does their gift disappear? That makes no sense: a real gift doesn't depend on an object. So this "gift" doesn't exist, since it's tied to something external.
Next, let's imagine I shake my cup, turn it over, and an "expert" person observes the traces to read my future. If I show the same cup to two different people, who guarantees they'll say the same thing? Probably, they'll give two different and opposite interpretations. And to explain this, they'll say it wasn't "the same moment" or "the same energy". So their gift would be very limited, incapable of being consistent or verifiable. We're just observing a stain and attributing an arbitrary meaning to it.
Besides, who decided that a stain represents death, love, or a future event? Is there a real fal book (no)? And if so, have all these so-called experts read it? I seriously doubt it.
Finally, if I shake the cup more forcefully or more gently, the shape of the stains changes. So, according to this logic, my future would change depending on how I shake the cup? The fal would be able to influence my destiny according to my shaking strength? That clearly proves all of this is fictional. I could shake the cup a hundred times until I get a result that pleases me. It's completely absurd.
I know it's for fun, but mothers believe in it and pass it on to their children, or on social media there's propaganda like a religion, and it becomes dangerous.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read, thank you infinitely. I hope I made you think, thank you.