What do you think about astrology?
Astrology only works for Europeans. The people who invented that never knew that the stars and planets are different on the other side of our planet. Haha. No. You could as well think that all red heads are witches.
I'm virgo, and we don't believe in that kind of stuff.
It annoys me that academic and analytical types tend to dismiss astrology out-of-hand and sometimes ridicule it. I'm not saying one should just believe it for no reason, but the only way to legitimately judge whether there's something to it or not is to get into it, really study it and subjectively assess whether it describes reality better than mere chance. People just have this reflexive view on the universe that's totally mechanistic, lifeless and composed of 100% separate but interacting parts. It's very scientistic.
People assume that astrology only seems to work because the descriptions are vague enough that they could apply to anybody or any time of year, but this is merely an assumption. The fact that vague statements can be used to fool people sometimes doesn't necessarily mean that's all astrology is, and again, the only way to really know is to look into it and approach it with an open mind.
Just like we take it as an axiom without truly understanding it that objects can affect each other remotely per gravitation or magnetism, it could be simply taken as non-understood axiom that the relative positions of celestial objects can affect the characteristic of events and emotions here on Earth.
It also annoys me when scientistics call astrology (and many other things) a pseudo-science. The prefix "pseudo" means that something purports to be something it's not. Astrology isn't purporting to be a science in the hard way that, say, physics or biology is. It's something different entirely, but that doesn't make. it invalid. It's based on thousands of years of observation and the synthesis and refinement of models that seem to correlate with those observations.
I wrote more on the matter here: https://myriachromat.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/notes-on-science-scientism-mysticism-religion-logic-physicalism-skepticism-etc/#Astrology
Good if understood properly.
I think it's bullshit but mostly harmless. The one thing I can't stand is when people seriously believe in it and use it to justify why did acted like this, or did that: "lol can u really blame me? we caprisuns are just like that 🤪"
I think people believe in it because they see themselves and other people in the very general descriptions, you can easily learn about it online, and it gives people comfort. I have a friend who's big time into it and she gets these daily horoscopes on her lock screen that give her advice about opportunities, relationships, and the future. I guess there's comfort in knowing that, even tho we're all trapped in this crappy system and the world's kinda falling apart, the stars/planets have a good future planned for you, at least according to what the horoscopes say...
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