How do you view astrology?

[andyfox]

Hmm, thanks. I got the information from Miss Leavitt's Stars by George Johnson. I guess you can't believe everything you read.

[BluffTHIS!]

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I guess you can't believe everything you read.

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Your posts in the politics forum are proof of that! [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[andyfox]

Touche.

But why limit the point to the politics forum? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Good Friar]

The stars don't have to be colinear to appear to merge, if you're far enough away

[Atropos]

I think astrology is nonsense. If there was some higher power controlling everything, why would they want to show us anything by arranging stars in a certain manner?

I think astrology is pure hogwash.

Having said that, it seems more rational than religion, if not to the extent that its supporters would imply.

Look at it this way... The season you are born in, a function of your birthday, would mean that your earliest experiences would be different. Born in winter, you'd be rugged under blanket, in summer you'd be half naked in your crib. So, imo, people born around the same date, in the same place, would have similar early experience and, if those are deterministic in any way, would make for later developing similar traits.

As I said, it is hogwash, imo, just slightly less unreasonable than religion. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] At the very least, you can give it a pretense of reasonableness.

To quote Dr. Frinkx
"The one true science"

[valenzuela]

the arguments like:
-"virgo are the older ones in the class so they are slightly more paasive, while Leo more agressive."
Are absolutely nonsense. I was born in Chile and actually Aries(picsis in some schools)are the oldest one in the class because school starts in March. Please note that since Im a chilean cancer I was born in Winter instead of summer.
Btw I do know about ascendant and stuff, hmpoker...ok I might do an experiment, I will post it on OOTF. But I need to gather a lot of info first.

[hmkpoker]

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Btw I do know about ascendant and stuff, hmpoker...ok I might do an experiment, I will post it on OOTF. But I need to gather a lot of info first.

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Don't waste your time. It would be pretty expensive to do it correctly, and I doubt you will.

[chezlaw]

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Btw I do know about ascendant and stuff, hmpoker...ok I might do an experiment, I will post it on OOTF. But I need to gather a lot of info first.

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Don't waste your time. It would be pretty expensive to do it correctly, and I doubt you will.

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and you dont need any evidence to realise that astrology is bogus.

chez