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What is your opinion on them?
I think they make them so generic that the person reading them is autumatically going to think 'Hey thats me!!'
For example 'I trust too easily'...
I think they make them so generic that the person reading them is autumatically going to think 'Hey thats me!!'
For example 'I trust too easily'...
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Vague language and the obvious mostly.
Come summer and "you might be taking a trip". No shit. Come xmas and "you might be entertaining family members...tensions may be high but Neptune is highlighted meaning there may be an unexpected surprise"..really? Amazing! come Febuary and "love is in the air but watch for a tendency to overindulge in chocolates if you find yourself alone"...Clare Petulengro, Justin Toper and Mystic Meg - how do you do it!!??.
Vague, accurate, useless bollocks.
What's to debate? There is no evidence to prove that they work. However, if some people choose to beleive in them and it makes them happy, that's fine ... but, as Alladin has said, I think its all bollocks ...
They don't believe in a God, they're too intelligent for that, but someone like Derek Akora has them wrapped round his finger with a few vague and banal inanities.
Astrology has replaced Christianity for these people. Their choice, but at least Christianity makes sense.
Thats debatable
That's the obvious explanation...but isn't always so. Some horoscopes seem to represent specific personality types. I know I suit mine over all others...although i don't take them seriously.
After if some people are stupid eough to believe in them to sit on their ass and wait for that princecharming or something, then it is sad.
My grand-dad does numerology and sometimes his stuff matches.
I even had the tarot done once and some stuff matches.
But everytime what matches is vague infrmation where you can see point that related to your story.
Also if I am not wrong astrology is based on the position of the stars in the sky and as an universe keeps on expanding stars position keep on changing so witout high-tech equipment I don't see how it is possible to give proper result.
I think people agree that their horoscope matches them because the descriptions of the star signs traits are almost always vaguely complimentary stuff that people can look at and think "Hey - that's me! I'm reliable and make a good friend - but I've got a wild and crazy side, too!"
If the descriptions were like "Taureans tend to be daft twats who wear stupid shoes and talk too loudly on public transport", a lot less people would believe in astrology...
I reckon that it's clearly nonsense though, to live your life by what a horoscope says. Although I have been complaining bitterly over the last while about mercury being in retrograde currently, which is OBVIOUSLY why all the computers at work keep breaking...
I would like to believe that they are bullshit, but the Sagittarius profile matches me perfectly. Wierd...
The concept that the character of all of us (i.e. the human race as a whole, regardless of when they were born) is influenced by celestial bodies would very unlikely to start with. But the claims that people's characeters would be forever influenced depending on which day they were born is stupid beyond words.
However that is not the worst part of astrology. There is nothing wrong with believing in such claptrap so long as you don't use it for guidance (I've actually known one or two people over the years who have been prejudiced against going on a date with certain people ''because their star sign is not really compatible'' with the person in question). But there is a lot more wrong with the part of astrology that claims to predict the future by looking at the movement of the stars.
One thing is claiming that you are of certain disposition because you were born on August 23rd (silly as it is) and quite another to say those born on August 23rd should buy a lottery ticket next week or avoid travelling in October.
Those astrologists who write their "predictions" in newspapers and magazines should be put against a wall and shot.
not true...many people who believ in a god believe in horoscopes as well...and some christians don't think that Christianity makes sense - to each his own i guess.
but some people beleive in horoscops and stuff because they're born into a culture where birth charts and the like are made as soon as you're born. i was born into such a culture, but i was always told that how accurate it may seem to be (and most of it was quite accurate), i am my own master and the power to change is at hand anytime i want it.
thats what people have to understand...horoscopes arent prophesies, they're possibilities....