Palm Readers, and the scripts they see.

[Zerobanshee]

the way I see it...

As Winterborn said, the future isn't exact. If someone does "see" into the future, what they are looking into could be the possible future. Everything comes down to choice, though.

For instance, if, being told that someone will die by a train accident, do you think that the person will board a train afterwards? I doubt it. He/She'd avoid trains like the plague. So, the future is as unstable as the present, and is constantly affected by our choices today.

[Clint]

the way I see it...

As Winterborn said, the future isn't exact. If someone does "see" into the future, what they are looking into could be the possible future. Everything comes down to choice, though.

For instance, if, being told that someone will die by a train accident, do you think that the person will board a train afterwards? I doubt it. He/She'd avoid trains like the plague. So, the future is as unstable as the present, and is constantly affected by our choices today.

Dying via a train accident doesn't necessarily mean being on a train that derails. You could get hit by a derailed train. Or you could be stuck on the tracks as a train goes by you (or in that case, through you.)

That's interesting, the "one possible future" theory. Essentially, having somebody tell your future should be a time paradox, unless, of course, if you were supposed to have your future told, which would therefore increase your chances of the predicted event from happening, because you would be more determined to reach that event.

Usually, when somebody is told their future, they're told about good things about their future, such as having kids, finding love, and other things along those lines, and very little bad things. It gives people hope to know that they aren't going to die tomorrow, or even five years from now, because the mere thought of death scares the piss out of people. The person, now with a new sense of hope, pushes his or her self to reach that ultimate goal that the fortune teller had told him or her. Fortune telling might be as simple as giving people some hope. Despite whether they're telling people the exact future doesn't necessarily matter, because all people need to do is believe that their future will be a good one, and that will make them happy.

[Walter Sobchak]

I suggest that everyone go to a palm reader at some point in their lives. We all know how ridiculous it is going into the event, but you buy into it while it is happening. These people are much better actors and actresses than anything you will see in a movie or on television.