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When the oracles went silent: what Christians said had happened at Delphi. The oracle of the dead at the Acheron and the rite of calling up the dead. Was Delphi a neutral shrine or a tool Athens and Sparta both used? The Pythia's trance: the ethylene theory and what it would do to the idea of a god speaking. The Urim and Thummim: asking yes or no of heaven and getting a lot instead of a sentence. Why ambiguous answers were good business for an oracle. Questions written on lead tablets at Dodona: what people actually asked an oracle. Croesus asked Delphi whether to attack Persia and got an answer that fit both outcomes. The oracle told Socrates that no one was wiser: what he did with a compliment from a god. Drawing a fortune stick at a Chinese temple and finding it says what you needed to hear. Why a vague answer feels profound: the fortune-teller effect applied to gods. Treating a chatbot's answer as an oracle: what changes when the voice has no temple.

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