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Been getting a lot of "how can you criticize astrology if you haven't studied it?" Well, I similarly think flat earth theory is ridiculous without knowing all their complicated arguments. If a theory violates extremely basic scientific knowledge, the details don't matter.

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Aella

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There's a few, claims like "The orientation of stars can predict the future" "The orientation of the stars will have corresponded with major events in your life" "The orientation of the stars will have some correlation to your personality"

7:36 PM · Dec 24, 2021

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Doesn’t "The orientation of the stars will have some correlation to your personality" become a self fulfilling prophecy?

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And therein lies the harm.

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"The orientation of the stars will have some correlation to your personality" Notably this is an incredibly weak claim. It wouldn't take much for it to be true. It is certainly no where near as strong as "the earth is flat" and yet you speak as though the two were equally absurd

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I think you would benefit from the “Archetypal Astrology” approach. Richard Tarnas wrote, “the planets themselves are not “causing” anything to be happening in our lives, any more than the hands on a clock are now causing it to be 7:30 PM.” cosmosandpsyche.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/introd

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