How do you view astrology?

[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.

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

chez

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No, but other people do.

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I've never seen any evidence of that [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] or more precisley I never seen a believer in credulous theory X make correct use of evidence to stop believing in that theory. You do get people who believe X because of positive results who then stop believing X because of negative results, but they're just making the same mistake twice.

chez

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hmmmmmm...ok, you have a point there. This study would only shake the beliefs of those who have just a detached belief in astrology, and aren't irrationally attached to it.

However, I'd argue that there are more proportionally astrologers that belong in that category than believers of, say, Christianity, and for good reason. New age spirituality is a little less rigid than other religions, and attracts more unconventional minds. Also, astrology doesn't sentence you to hell if you don't believe in astrology, and it's much easier to disprove than religion.

But yes, even if such a study were diligently conducted and disproved astrology, you would still have fat moo-moo and patchouli oil wearing crystal waving middle age twats telling you that you have an energy imbalance in your seventh house and that they can cleanse your chakras for $300.

[chezlaw]

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But yes, even if such a study were diligently conducted and disproved astrology, you would still have fat moo-moo and patchouli oil wearing crystal waving middle age twats telling you that you have an energy imbalance in your seventh house and that they can cleanse your chakras for $300.

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[img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Its so much better when they're thin and young.

chez

[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?

[purnell]

My magic 8-Ball says astrology is bunk.