Top 10 Things About the World with Seemingly No Practicality or Usefulness

In my cultural tradition (if you could call it that), which has checked out for me multiple times, it's said that everything that's useless in every other possible way, and which is ambiguous in why the natural order decided to maintain its existence, and which is not a negative thing in any way, is usable as an omen. You will know something has omen-related importance only by its uselessness in every other regard.

For example, the hair of certain body parts that don't need it, although useless in every other way, would be identified by this cultural tradition as an indicator of some characteristic about the individual or the world around them to be realized later, even though this means you could say nothing is technically useless.

What these omens mean is best determined through experience, observing them, and noticing what typically goes along with them. An omen being discovered to have any functional use outside of its usage as an omen would rule it out as actually being an omen.

The Top Ten

  1. Birthmarks

  2. The iris color of human eyes

  3. The shape of a grass stem

  4. The number of spots on a ladybug

  5. The specific shapes of clouds

  6. The number of freckles on a person

  7. Dreams

  8. The timing and sequence of autumn leaf colors

  9. The shape of a potato chip

  10. The shape of the human nose

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