Well alot of educated people people found that there was something to astrology and believe in it. There are many who study on their own just to help themselves.
When you have "real" scientists working w/astrology, does that make them foolish? Isn't working w/science and experimenting alot of guesswork? Many scientific discoveries were developed through alot of trial and error and guesswork.
So sayeth you. According to history, our "teflon" president did quite well in office even for taking advice of an astrologer as to what day and time for debates and meetings, etc. Yes, even in time of crisis.
Michael Shermer said:You sound so benign. Yet your day job is debunking pseudo sciences like rain dances and astrology. There's no harm, then, in me thinking that because I'm a Libra I just might get what I wish for today?
[Laughs] No, for most people astrology is just light entertainment. But the problem with taking it seriously is it can lead to other irrational beliefs. And presumably in an educated democracy we want to have a certain level of education, as Jefferson says, so we can have a serious national discussion about problems. I mean, people who believe in astrology tend to believe all kinds of goofy things. All the pseudo sciences -- astrology, Tarot cards, psychics, mystic healing -- use the exact same principle. They work because we have a selective memory and a confirmation bias. We look forward to finding evidence for what we already believe and forget the rest. In an hour reading, a psychic will make 200 or 300 statements. If a person walks away with half a dozen things the psychic got right, he's ecstatic. It's like Skinner with the rats. You don't have to reinforce them every time. In fact, they'll press the bar even faster if you give them intermittent reinforcement. It's the same with slot machines. You just have to pay off every once in a while and it will keep us pulling the levers.
The response so far has been typical...mere insults, name calling, childish behaviour.
When you study astrology and realize that many people have similar characteristics that share the same "sun sign", that is somewhat co-incidental.
When you can take the person out of the picture and then see the aspects and what they mean in relation to psychology in a chart, including yourself, you will understand that astrology has a scientific basis using established cycles.
Astrology to me is a science
In olden days astrology was used only for the royal families, mundane things such as war.
I, myself, on a personal level learned to understand family and friends through astrology. That neither makes me gullible nor foolish for using the astrology as a tool for understanding.
So why come on here claiming its provable to science?It doesn't matter if you believe that it is a science or not,
if it works for people and they are helped then that is what counts.
And just for the record, there is a scientific approach to astrology and it is done in a controlled way. That is research w/control charts and non-control charts.
Sorry to disappoint you, but there are many people that say that I have helped them astrologically and are appreciative.
Bottomline is that if you haven't studied it then you have no proof that it isn't helpful.
It doesn't matter if you believe that it is a science or not, if it works for people and they are helped then that is what counts.
And why do you think that is a ridulous statement? There are real societies that do use a scientific approach in a controlled setting. Did you not know that?