Astrology.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

Weather up North is bloody rubbish.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by STEED

Rubbish just like reading tea leafs its all rubbish.

Yeah, that sums it up for me.

People just love to be told something special about themselves, particularly when it's flattering. Astrology, tea leaves, palm reading. Being the center of attention is the thing, like a moth drawn to a lightbulb. That's the attraction that keeps this ancient rubbish going.

It also seems astrology almost never predicts anything useful, and the occasions that it does are so rare as to be easily the result of blind luck. The most famous predictive astronomer the world has ever known, Nostradamus, never seems clear enough in his writings to warn us about something in advance. It is only by post hoc reasoning that his babbling fans seem to understand what he actually meant.

[Schroeder]

I always enjoy my horoscope with a spoon full of Snake Oil....

Seriously, I think it's all nonsense for the gullible.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

My "ex" was really into it.

And that his how she bacame your 'ex'

[Stealhead]

Interesting read about the "effects" of the moon cycle. I agree when something has been myth for thousands of years it tends to stick.
http://www.universetoday.com/112861/...g-a-full-moon/

[Platapus]

My opinion is that it is like pretty much any other religion. If it gives people what they seek in life, if it makes them happy, if that is the way they choose to obtain inner peace, more power to them.

Just don't push it on other people and understand that not everyone will agree with you.

[mapuc]

Astrology-one of my aunt was very much into this, she made her own "stuff"(do not know what they call all this lines a.s.o)

She tried to make me interested. As a person with a kind of science brain-I wanted to read about it with a science view

I found out that astrology is know as far back to ancient Egypt. I have also found out that our stars have since then-about 2-3000 years ago, changed position and the astrology haven't- What was Pisces should be Aquarius the zodiac sign has so to say jumped one step ahead.

Let two person write down all the information an astrologist need to make...what it is called.

When this astrologist is finished and give you this two paper, reverse them and give them to this two person. So person 1 gets the outcome for person 2. Guess what these two person will say

MY God, it is so true.

I rest my case.

Markus

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by mapuc

When this astrologist is finished and give you this two paper, reverse them and give them to this two person. So person 1 gets the outcome for person 2. Guess what these two person will say

MY God, it is so true.

Warning, this is Penn and Teller, so NSFW

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Astrology-one of my aunt was very much into this, she made her own "stuff"(do not know what they call all this lines a.s.o)

She tried to make me interested. As a person with a kind of science brain-I wanted to read about it with a science view

I found out that astrology is know as far back to ancient Egypt. I have also found out that our stars have since then-about 2-3000 years ago, changed position and the astrology haven't- What was Pisces should be Aquarius the zodiac sign has so to say jumped one step ahead.

Let two person write down all the information an astrologist need to make...what it is called.

When this astrologist is finished and give you this two paper, reverse them and give them to this two person. So person 1 gets the outcome for person 2. Guess what these two person will say

MY God, it is so true.

I rest my case.

Markus

The zodiacal 'clock' was 'invented' in Mesopotamia, Assyrians I think. But what astrology today does not take into accouny is that, in the thousands of years since, the zodiac has clicked forward 1 hour.

This means that Leos, are actually Virgos, etc etc. So how can it be accurate forecasting when the clock is on the wrong time??????

[Eichhörnchen]

Yeah...and I always wondered how an aggressive "Leo" could suddenly turn out to be a pacific "Virgo", should he or she be born after a delayed or prolonged delivery, so just according to the clock on the wall?

[Red Devil]

.............. well, as there is no such thing as astrology, I can tell you that my birthday is 18th Aug, towards the end of the Leo annual regime. But, since I started taking the tablets, I have become a virgo. I will say no more as I am already under a warning for saying a naughty word;

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

The zodiacal 'clock' was 'invented' in Mesopotamia, Assyrians I think. But what astrology today does not take into accouny is that, in the thousands of years since, the zodiac has clicked forward 1 hour.

This means that Leos, are actually Virgos, etc etc. So how can it be accurate forecasting when the clock is on the wrong time??????

The interest for the stars and the belief, that they have some kind of influence on us, go back longer than that. I have until now always thought it was the Egyptians who put it Into systems-the 12 zodiac signs-or that is what I have remembered, which was wrong

Markus

Originally Posted by Betonov

Although, the Moon does in fact influence our behavior.

Which has to do with Astronomy, not Astrology.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Which has to do with Astronomy, not Astrology.

And that sums it up better that I would

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Which has to do with Astronomy, not Astrology.

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