Now all those unprovable thigns are surely worth considering even for a moment......????
Actually astrology is merely the interpretation of astronomy data, the interpretational range has c.3000 years of history. What you get in papers is pretty hugie, but it is usually based on the same mthematical measurment of the starts. It's not actually reelevant to most of the readers. Real astroogy is based on individual charts, which you should be able to get a similar reading from 3 seperate people, albeit with a range of margin of variance. The subject also had the ability to add in unconventional behaviour - basically it works on the same principal as applied statistics, - a persons forcast is based on the theory that they will behave true to type, in exactly the same way as sampling theory is used in predictive statistics. If 60% of the same say yet then the majority of the population will go for it.
As for people being overly dependant on others to make their deicsions I totally agree, but that could be almost anything from an over dominant partner, to reading sand, to weather a black cat crosses their path.....
The reality is the obsession fo measurment actually clouds their ability to be open minded - In my humble opinion.... liberate your grey matter.... think differently
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Oh, I can consider them if I like, but generally speaking, the only scenerio I can come up with that would make their existence plausible is if they never show themselves, never affect anything and never really take an interest in what we people do, so entertaining the thought of their existence on a day-to-day basis seems like a waste of time considering that criteria. If it doesn't affect me, why should I care?
I generally do spend more than a moment dreaming up ways that some things could exist, though after I reach a conclusion I tend not to revisit it unless I'm presented with a good reason for why I should. I'd rather spend my time on the zillion other unimagineable-yet-interesting things that I haven't managed to rule out yet. I mean, if it happens to be that leprachauns are essential to a physics theory I'm working on, then I'll reconsider the possibility of their existence, but since so far that hasn't been the case, they're going to return to the little corner of my mind that only gets brought up if I need a story idea or two.
As for astrological charts, as I mentionned before, even if there was hard proof that they were accurate, I probably wouldn't care. If you know everything that will be coming before it comes, or how you'll react to things before they happen, then what's the point of living to find all this out? I'd rather have the freedom to screw my life up than the luxury of knowing which path is the 'correct' one.
Oh, and I refuse to change my thinking to match yours until you change your thinking to match mine. Open-minded-ness doesn't mean agreeing with you, it means that I consider your point of view before taking a position, which I have already done. And it works both ways, meaning that just because my opinion is different than yours, it doesn't mean that your way of thinking is better than mine.
Look up Sagittarius in the star charts. I'm not talking astrology, I'm talking astronomy; some people liken the image to a tea pot in the sky. To view it correctly in real life you can't be in a city, you need to be south of 55N and north of 65S, between the months of June and September. Actual lenth of time you get to see it varies with latitude.
So you're saying that, considering I don't live on the North or South Pole or live in a city, I should be able to walk outside right now and see it? Or would I need to get out my telescope first?
Actually, for the teapot thing I was referring more to
Russell's teapot, which more or less explained why I don't entertain the thought of absolutely everything that gets presented to me.