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Interesting how you believe planets cannot have ANY affect on beings on Earth when the moon controls the tides and we can use gravity can create efficient paths in space by paying attention to how planets warp space-time But sure, tell us more about what you *know*

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Dec 23, 2021

I don't get this! How could you not be curious about other theories, when you *know* other people in the world deeply believe stuff that is clearly wrong? It *must* feel convincing to them, so "feeling convincing" to you shouldn't be sufficient criteria. 3/

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It's hard to believe in astrology when everything varies so much and all the descriptions are base things that every human experiences relative to the situations they find themselves in. It falls in the barnum statements for me.

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Look, I consider astrology a faith, or at best, a morality system (sort of) not a science. Most current attributions to astrological symbolism ARE Barnum statements. But if enough people believe in something (forms of astrology span 1000s of years of human history)…

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If you consider it a faith, then why make claims about how the moon gravity impacts us? Practical claims we can investigate and test - if your theory is "specific gravitational pull has impact on brain and thus personality", that's in the realm of science, not faith!

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If you're like 'this is a narrative system used for making sense of the world, i don't literally believe that actually the orientation of the stars at your birth changes your brain chemistry or can predict the future" then i dont have an issue with this

7:21 PM · Dec 24, 2021

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Tegan said this might be bait but I'll bite, you're arguing about the tenets of this. Every faith has some belief system that explains why people are the way they are and you can't really prove or disprove it. All faith is is a narrative system of our world.