--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > <snip> > > > And now you're putting words in my mouth, even though > > > I've made it clear on any number of occasions--including > > > to you--that I'm highly dubious of astrology in general. > > > > So why keep defending it? > > As I've already pointed out, you can't productively > critique something if you don't understand how it's > said to work. I haven't been "defending" it, I've > been trying to explain it to you. > > But it's clear you don't want to do the mental work > necessary to get clear on it; you'd rather just toss > off your own harebrained straw-man criticisms.
Oh right, I don't agree with you that it works in *any* noticeable way so *I* must have created a straw-man to argue against. This line of debate sounds familiar, you can't prove it so it's *me* that's wrong, I'm just too stupid to understand you. Duh. And there's me who actually learned how to draw up horoscopes MANUALLY, thus realising the amazing truth behind the maths. It's bollocks. You wont find a jyotishee to admit that because they probably all use computers and who knows, maybe they still think the sun goes round the earth. Just a straw-man of course, the fact it makes no physical sense is irrelevant to how well it works........* > Basta. Same to you I'm sure. * Just in case you don't get that sarcasm, I am waiting really patiently for some evidence, you'd think it'd be forthcoming and unarguable after all these years but I've not seen it. I've looked too, and seen jyotishees myself and met countless believers, all to no avail. Nothing beyond wishful thinking, projection and selective editing. Funny eh? And also rather suspicious, still maybe the the practise that seems not to work actually does but untraceably, maybe that's what I don't understand eh? Call me fussy but I like things to be demonstrable in a way that discounts any alternative explanations, especially woo-woo or self-delusion. That's just me, moon in sagittarius.
