Basically, I can't see any way of being a "freely accessible" oracle without founding an actual temple, without the backing of any larger organization. The problems to consider are more legal, financial, and logistical than anything else -- and probably exactly the wrong things for an oracle to be clogging her mind with.
Assuming it succeeded, then you have to think about the marketing issues and how you're going to make people 1) know you're there and 2) take you seriously. Well, you need to think about how to make non-idiots take you seriously; the kinds of people who read newspaper horoscopes would gladly go to an oracle but are probably not going to take cryptic prophecies well. They want to know the lotto numbers. :P
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Date: 2006-12-29 06:15 pm (UTC)Basically, I can't see any way of being a "freely accessible" oracle without founding an actual temple, without the backing of any larger organization. The problems to consider are more legal, financial, and logistical than anything else -- and probably exactly the wrong things for an oracle to be clogging her mind with.
Assuming it succeeded, then you have to think about the marketing issues and how you're going to make people 1) know you're there and 2) take you seriously. Well, you need to think about how to make non-idiots take you seriously; the kinds of people who read newspaper horoscopes would gladly go to an oracle but are probably not going to take cryptic prophecies well. They want to know the lotto numbers. :P