Astrology

[Winston]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
However, I have noticed about a 50% correlation between a person's sun sign and their personalities.

And I've noticed about a 50% correlation between people's personalities and other star signs.

Btw, I'm a Scorpio. Do you think I'd get more of the goodies if I wear a badge testifying to this?

[Dis]

Originally posted by nostromo


I couldn't be in a relation with a woman who believes in that crap. C'est un signe de bêtise, mon ami.

I have been lowering my standards.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
DroseDars

You have a good intuition, you must be a scorpio!!

No, I'm a Taurus; April 27th. Honestly, I really fit my sign. I don't buy into the whole astrology thing, it's mostly just nonsense. And as someone already pointed out, it's based on a system that assumes that the stars are eternal and unchanging. Flawed to its core.

[Dis]

so where's a website describing all this ****?

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Winston
And I've noticed about a 50% correlation between people's personalities and other star signs.

WILL... RESIST...

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Whaleboy

Are you sure you aren't a Leo?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
No, I'm a Taurus; April 27th. Honestly, I really fit my sign. I don't buy into the whole astrology thing, it's mostly just nonsense. And as someone already pointed out, it's based on a system that assumes that the stars are eternal and unchanging. Flawed to its core.

It has a great deal to do with when you were born during the year. The fact that it is based on "the stars" and the entire terminology / method of description are steeped in terms relating to where stars were several hundred years ago does not necessarily invalidate the whole thing.

From my own observations, people do tend to fit their starsign personalities. That one in twelve people are going to have good business dealings next Tuesday based on when they were born is quite unbelievable. That one in twelve people will tend towards a certain reaction in some situations is more believable.

[Lancer]

If the stars, being huge balls of hydrogen and other gasses many tens of thousands of times the size of the earth actually do describe something about our lives here, what would that mean about the nature of the universe?

[Skanky Burns]

It controls us all.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lancer
....but I know where you can lay low for a while...

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Re: Astrology

Originally posted by Zkribbler
However, I have noticed about a 50% correlation between a person's sun sign and their personalities.

There's a fun experiment on astrology I read somewhere.

A group of volunteers were given individual horoscope readings. When asked, over 90% of them said the readings were accurate. However, they were all given the same horoscope reading. What's more, it belonged to a mass murderer.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
It has a great deal to do with when you were born during the year. The fact that it is based on "the stars" and the entire terminology / method of description are steeped in terms relating to where stars were several hundred years ago does not necessarily invalidate the whole thing.

But it does.

Taurus, for example, now does not ascend in the summer. Intead, it does so in the winter. Thousands of years ago, when astrology was first invented, it ascended in the winter. This change is caused by precession.

You can see the contradiction this caused in astrology, can't you?

Some constellation that supposedly had influence over a group of people born in a certain period of time in a year had since moved to the otherside of the ecliptic. Surely it could not influence the group of people born in the same period of time anymore, yes?

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
It controls us all.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153268

[MrFun]

My zodiac: Virgo

My Chinese zodiac: serpent

[Winston]

Your rating as a comedian: Dodo

Aw come on, Fun. Ok, I'm sorry.