What is Peter Answers Virtual Tarot or Peter Please Answer?

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What is Peter Answers Virtual Tarot (also referred to as Peter Please Answer)?

The website "Peter Answers Virtual Tarot" is a simple entertainment site which is free to use.

It is an automated online program that offers to "answer any question" through what is called a "petition". An "answer" is then given! People who know "the trick" the site uses will get a "correct" answer, making it seem like Peters Answers is an all-seeing, all-knowing, supernatural entity with fortune-telling abilities.

Peteranswers website is a trick website. It is to trick your family or friends into believing that Peter the Online Tarot who knows everything about anything.

Do I have to register, sign in, or pay to use Peter Answers website?

No. After visiting the site and ones similar to Peter Answers website, I see no area to register or sign in.

Peter Answers is a free online computer website that works using a Javascript.

However, the website does have advertising that entices users to click and these links may go to sites that offer services for a fee.

Do you pay money (how do you pay money) for Peter Answers?

You don't. It is a free entertainment website that uses a Javascript program. The site does not ask for money except through on-site advertising.

Is there a real person answering the questions on Peter Answers website?

No. It is a Javascript program.

Does Peter Answers have special knowledge or supernatural powers?

No, Peter Answers is a complete fake. The thing is it convinces people that it really is a virtual tarot. However, it is a program that uses a trick that few people know. People who do know the "trick" can then trick their friends. It is what used to be called a "parlor trick".

What do you do on the website?

The first two things you see when you enter this website are two boxes. One box is for "The Petition" which is where the trick is used, and the other box is where you enter the question you want "answered". In the instructions on the screen, it says the petition is either, "Peter, please answer" or "Peter, please answer the following question." It doesn't matter which one you choose unless the answer to your question is very long (Then pick "Peter, please answer the following question." ) Simple right? Well, that's not all...

Instructions (Note: The precise "trick" may vary from one site to another site.)

If you type in a period in the petition line first you will see it turns up to be a P. Then, immediately after the P, you continue writing the answer to your question. (Make sure the question has an answer you already know.) When you have finished writing the answer type in a : colon and it will show up as a normal colon by the way. Hit the Enter Key. Then, type in the question (that goes with the answer you gave) and click answer and what you typed on the petiton line will show up on the bottom!

However! When typing your "answer" on the petition line after the period, what you are typing will not show. Instead "Peter, please answer the following question." will show. Make sure you don't mess up your typing because they may find out if you are backspacing the petition; you want any friends to believe you've typed the petition and question correctly.

Explain the "trick" involved in Peter Answers?

All you have to do when you type in the petition, you put a period (a full stop) and then start typing the answer to your question. After that you type in your question and press enter and -- as if by magic, the "real" answer appears (i.e. the same answer you just typed after the period in the petition box). When you type the answer it just types in a petition while your doing the answer so what you're really typing doesn't show up as it should. It just shows a petition.

The website instructs that the Question should start with:

Peter, please answer the following question or Peter, please answer

So you would type Peter, please answer . your answer

But the program continues to type this: Peter, please answer the following question (as though you had never typed .your answer) No matter what you write it in the first box after the period, the program will always type Peter please answer the following question

You then press Enter on your keyboard. This triggers the program, based on a simple HTML form, to put the cursor automatically in the "Question" box. You then type your question and click the OK button.

Many people are fooled by it until they notice flaws in typing. Not understanding how it works has caused many people much frustration for a long time. Then, when they find out that all it is is just a trick and a waste of time, it can be a let down and disappointed. Some feel angry about being fooled! Others react with a laugh, realizing that much like an April Fool's joke they believed even partly, Peter Answers was able to fool them into believing the website really knew all the answers!

Note: It is tricky to put the period in, especially if you are looking at the monitor screen; you will see typos and you'll think you've made a typo. You aren't. The program takes over after you type the period.

Is Peter Answers a Ghost or a Spirit?

No. Absolutely not. Spirits or spitiualism had absolutely nothing to do with this website.

Peter Answers is an automated online program. The website gives this information about the software used: "Peter Answers 3.6 - Virtual Tarot Argentinean Software, Based on Liza for DOS".

Must I "believe in" or "believe deeply in" Peter Answers for it to work, so I get my answer?

No! The only thing you must believe is that Peter Answers and similar websites and programs are designed for entertainment. The author of Peter Answers also states he hopes to help teach people to question their beliefs and superstitions.

Is Peter Answers a dangerous website? Is it a Satanic website?

No. It is a computer program designed to do two things:

1. to entertain
2. to teach people to question superstitious beliefs

It also should help people see that:

1. there are no easy answers
2. no one "knows" all answers
3. "answers" are based on knowledge a person has
4. trust nothing ; question everything.

Are there other sites like PeterAnswers?

There are other similar websites or downloadable computer programs. One other website is called MrAlmighty (a dot com website).

The website my-answers (another dot com site) is also based on "Peter Answer" software, except on this one you enter your first name and the software will then say (paraphrased here): Your name knows all things and can answer all your questions.

Another is the downloadable program "Wizard 666". This one is also known as "Wizard archibuscado 666 or Liza". (Note, the "666" is to make this "mind-reading ability" seem based on Satanic powers.)

All are based on parlor tricks; all try to make users believe that the program is or contains an "all knowing Spirit" who is answering the questions you ask. But instead, all of these use a character (a period or question mark) with the questioner entering the "answer" before the program responds with "the answer".

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Can Peter Answers help me with homework, give me answers to test questions, or give me 'cheats'?

The ONLY way Peter Answers website (or similar programs on similar websites) could ever give you answers to homework, test questions, etc. is if YOU, the person asking the question, already knows the answers. Or, if certain algorithms exist from previously asked questions, it might be able to spit out an answer that is close to correct. BUT the questions would have to be very, very simple! Overall, NO, this computer program cannot help you with school work!

So, if I use this program, I'm giving my own answer to my own question?

Yes. The user/web visitor supplies the answer which the program then makes appear as "the answer" under the guise of "Peter says..."

Is the Peter Answers website the same as WikiAnswers or Answers dot com?

No, WikiAnswers and Answers dot com have no connection to "Peter Answers".

The WikAnswers and Answers website (which you are on now) is a dual site where people can ask all kinds of questions and have other people give thoughtful, knowledgeable, and specific answers to specific questions. Some questions are about opinions, but most are about facts. There are also categories for jokes, puzzles, brain teasers, etc.

People who ask questions or answer questions on the WikAnswers and Answers website are called Contributors and they are living people (not programs) who are "on" the site in real time. Both questions and answers are time-stamped, and the Contributor's UserID is shown as well on each question and answer(s).

The "Peter Answers" website has no real persons "on" the site, live at the time a question is asked or answer shown. The automated program does not need a real person on the site.

How does the Peter Answers automated program really work?

Automated computer programs are run with a Javascript (i.e. script).

This particular Javascript looks for the period a user types after the formula statement: Peter please answer . your answer here

But, Peter Answers works on two levels. The one is using the "trick" (the period) in the "petition" (the top box).

The other level is that the program uses an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module that focuses on keywords, and it randomly generates different statements based on those keywords. But, like using search terms (keywords) to search Google, these are not individualized-- they have no specific person in mind when it gives the random answer/reply.

Will Peter Answers automated program work if you do not put in the period (use the trick)?

If you do not enter the period, the automated program (will seem to) mess up, give a wrong 'answer', or give no 'answer'. But more precisely, it will give a random answer based on keywords found in the typing you entered.

The program relies on reading the period you've typed in order for the program to work properly. Even the website's FAQ tells that "the right answer" will not be shown if the trick is not used.

So, what's the point of the Peter Answers website or others like it?

Although it is often thought of as a scam website, it is simply for entertainment only. You can have fun tricking people who do not (yet) know how the program works. Again, it is NOT a true Tarot, mind-reader, or fortuneteller. In fact, none of those are "real" anyway!

The website says it's objective or purposeis to allow people to temporarily believe or hold onto a belief (in something untrue) in order to show them it is, in fact, untrue!

I don't understand that purpose--why is it important?

In most myths and beliefs there is a rational explanation, a true reason that explains our irrational or wrongful beliefs.

For example, many people have come to believe the admonition: "Do not walk under open ladders (or you'll have bad luck)." The "bad luck" (as most "luck") has come to be viewed as some unseen, often sinister or evil, entity, power, or spirit that causes something of "bad luck" to happen to you! But, there is a rational explanation behind this admonition! In decades past, ladders were always made of wood. They were not too steady. And all ladders (even today) present some clear risks, such as falling. Also, people walking along do not normally look up while walking...so they are even more at risk if something falls from above. A hammer or tool, or a paint bucket, or roofing slate that falls would likely hit a pedestrian on the top of the head, causing a bump, concussion, brain injury, or even death. (Note: old roofs mainly used hard slate, not shingles. A single roofing slate was hard, had sharp edges, and could cause great injuries if someone was hit in the face or head from a fall of 10-feet or more.

Therefore, the admoniton "Don't walk under ladders" started as a clear warning: Things carried to the top of a ladder can fall; tools can fall; debris from replacing a roof can fall; etc. But through time, people reduced all these bad possible risks to the simple statement: "Or you'll have bad luck!" Yet, people believe the "bad luck" part so much, it has become so ingrained, that even after hearing the rational explanation of why walking under an open ladder can be dangerous, people still can believe that some supernatural force will cause "bad luck" -- then, later, or in the future! Quite silly, given the rational explanation, but still people believe in superstitions!

Even the Peter Answers website challenges readers/visitors to think twice before believing in supernatural superstitions! And that, my dear, is the point of the peter Answers website!

Lessons you can learn from the Peter Answers website:

1. Don't believe everything anyone tells you.
2. Realize that no one knows everything; no one has all the answers.
3. Challenge what you "believe" to be "true"!
4. Challenge your superstitious beliefs. Think about what small bit of truth might be in the superstition (as in the dangers of ladders).
5. Don't be afraid to discard superstitious beliefs when facts or new knowledge tells you the superstition is wrong.
6. Be willing to laugh when something or someone shows you that your old, useless beliefs are wrong.
7. Enjoy being "fooled" once in a while and enjoy fooling others occasionally. But, learn from times you've felt "fooled"; become a little wiser and more willing to use critical thinking. Evaluate everything before accepting it as "truth".