--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hugheshugo wrote: > > I need to be convinced that there is anything to it by way > > of a good reading that would reveal things I'd never told and > > make accurate predictions, even if only about trends. However > > this mechanism may function, until I can tell the signal from > > the noise I will doubt that my analysis is a strawman. > The best way to test Jyotish is to learn it. Use something easy like > the System's Approach which is easy to learn and pretty much based on > Parashara anyway. Unlike other approaches it is a distillation of the > rules that Parashara laid out which I believe were a compilation of the > way astrology was a practiced at the time in India. My only doubts are > that the planets except for the Moon and Sun have little effect on our > lives and that astrology is tracking natural cycles that the planets > provided handy markers for. I have never found someone who has given me > proper birthtime to be off as far as their profession and their success > at it nor problems relating to bad planetary cycles. It is also not an > exact science though we have a lot of jyotishis who think it is (down to > the minute). Think of it more like a "weather report." But it is less > abstract than the (not so) Amazing Randi would have you think. :) >
So far, I wouldn't say it was science at all. But if you have some software and enough experience to be confident I'll send you my birth details and we can do an experiment. I'm not convinced anything has happened to me emotionally or career wise that I couldn't account for just by looking at myself and what's happened, influences from parents, school etc. So the idea that planets can act as markers would mean someone with my birth chart could have predicted all of it, otherwise things wouldn't match up; I'd be able to look back and see things that came out of nowhere. In short, it should be obvious that I've been dancing on the strings of unseen powers rather than subject to the cause and effect of a life lived among other people just making it up as they go along. I'm up for the experiment, sounds like fun. Whaddya think? I've always been a fan of Randi, he put his money where his mouth is, $1,000,000 to be precise, and never had anyone convince him there is anything supernatural going on. Could've been a money spinner for the TMO I always thought.
