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James Randi on Astrology

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Uploaded: June 16, 2006 at 11:46 am
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zzytrewq (August 29, 2008 at 11:09 am)
It's no wonder I find it all irrational.

"Astrological readings rely on using precise but seemingly pointless measurements to source information supposedly caused by unconfirmed relationships between heavenly bodies and life on earth, as a result of some unconfirmed forces acting in unconfirmed ways to produce results that are only able to be measured by astrologers using unscientific methods that have never been verified." Adam Peenum.
IOPhaser (August 23, 2008 at 5:56 pm)
when i was younger i used to watch tv series Hercules a lot. The only thing he wanted was not to believe in Gods, not to subordinate to them and to their superstitious because else they would become true. And i dont want to dissapoint him. :)
p101James (August 25, 2008 at 6:05 pm)
Then they scammed you just for naming an old cartoon show. Those old "blank" cartoons were pretty good too.
IOPhaser (August 23, 2008 at 5:43 pm)
when i wear t-shirt with scorpio on it, i see people are looking on me differently. even more girls :) maybe giving me more respect i think many people believe in it firmly and i also dont like that types of meetings where when people meet each other, their start hi, whats your sign? my is aquarius ;) or in profiles, only write me when you re taurus
p101James (August 22, 2008 at 12:27 pm)
If your character is based soley on how you're reared, than a bastard would definitely be like all other bastards.
Funny thing though, so many of them really are.
p101James (August 22, 2008 at 11:36 am)
Kittylord-
I think Randi's test is nearly mathematically impossible, and only mathematically possible by chance, or by some other means other than astrology.
We are not "Sun signs". We have Sun signs, and other signs and aspects and qualities and elements and shapes and orders and grades and variations, and details and combinations of so many things- it's too articulate too narrow down to sun signs successfully to any formal consistant degree of regularity.
IOPhaser (August 23, 2008 at 5:36 pm)
if its so messy, that everybody has many qualities than actually all people are the same. because even if they have different combinations of signs in char. 2 different combination will be almost same. just imagine
person libra with all other quantities in aries and aries with all other aspects in libra.
p101James (August 24, 2008 at 7:25 am)
IOPhaser-
There are 144 different Sun-Moon combinations.
And 60 different Sun-Moon combinations involving the same two signs, which are also reversable between the Sun-Moon combinations.
zzytrewq (August 22, 2008 at 6:29 am)
Stop talking common sense. There is no place for that sort of reasoning here!!!

Unless you can talk mumbo-jumbo about astrology or tell astrologers they are disillusioned fools then stop that talk right now!


...and have a nice day.
p101James (August 22, 2008 at 11:38 am)
You wish astrology made no common sense.