I thought I'd made myself clear. In my well-considered opinion, I class anyone
who believes in astrology in the same category as someone who believes that the
moon is made of green cheese. What *variety* of astrology they believe in is
therefore irrelevant. What they think of me is also irrelevant.
"Knowing shit about astrology" is the most irrelevant of all. Look, I get it.
You believe in this stuff and you've devoted time and energy to study it, and
thus you are more than a little attached to believing that you didn't waste
your time. I think you did, and I'm not willing to waste mine.
We're at an impasse. You will never convince me otherwise, except by producing
a study conducted with near-perfect protocols and study design that proves
otherwise, so strongly that *any* scientist would believe it. We (non-believers
in astrology) have said this on this forum many times, inviting the believers
in astrology here to perform a mini-verison of such a study and predict some
concrete, non-falsifiable event in the future that can be easily verified as
either having happened in the predicted (and short term) timeline, or
disproved. Not one of you has ever done so. It is my contention that you have
not done so because you can't.
So the bottom line is that I think it's just FINE for you to believe in
astrology, even though I think it's a crock of shit. You can't ever change my
mind about this *EXCEPT* by producing the kind of definitive, scientific study
I ask for. There it stands. Put up or shut up.
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?
You just made yourself a laughing stock to anyone who knows astrology with
that statement. Show you know shit about astrology and proves my point.
Another beer? :-D
On 02/27/2015 09:06 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Exactly. It's the fact that he believes in astrology that puts him in the
same camp as someone who believes that the moon is made of green cheese. What
*type* of astrology he believes in is irrelevant.
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?
Ahem, the person in question is the British politician who advocates
astrology. BTW, I started reading about this several days ago. It sounds like
he practices western astrology though not vedic. That's why I kidded Sal to go
ask him. :-D
On 02/27/2015 08:54 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Asking what kind of astrology a person practices is like asking someone
who believes that the moon is made of green cheese what kind of knife
astronauts should use to slice themselves off a chunk of moon to serve for
dinner. :-)
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
He's right about one thing: most of the astrology critics know shit
about astrology. What kind of astrology does he follow: vedic (sidereal) or
western? Why don't you go ask him.
On 02/27/2015 12:21 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
It seems that Britain's ruling class have a secret penchant for asking the
stars for advice and some even believe it's the missing link in healthcare.
Those stupid scientists just don't understand it apparently. My favourite
quote here is that astrology may not stand up to scrutiny but is based on
thousands of years of observations. But majority of those were observing the
wrong number of planets....
Also interesting is the claim that criticism of astrology is racism! Sounds
like a desperate gambit to me.
This is the march of the idiocracy. We'll be back in the stone age before
we know it.
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