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I unapologetically view people who literally believe the stars/planets can predict unrelated things on earth as uniquely bad at thinking (moreso than many other strange beliefs) But if you don't literally believe this, then astrology seems like it could be really cool. 1/

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Michel -astrologizer-

@astrospeccion

Dec 27, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

, care to try to explain this? How do you rationalize these predictions of the 2020 pandemic, independently published years on advance? Mere lucky guesswork? Maybe, just maybe, you're plainly wrong on this. theastrologypodcast.com/2020/05/11/mis

Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@astrospeccion

when I was a child, I watched a documentary about the Bible code, where if you arrange all the letters in a Bible on a grid, you can find word clusters that predicted terrible events. they had several uncanny, convincing examples

6:52 PM · Dec 27, 2021

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turns out if you have a massive random generation of words, you can easily go through and pick out the ones that are significant. this even happens in science all the time, with p-hacking. get a ton of astrologers making a ton of predictions, totally unsurprised some are right

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wouldn't be surprised if an astrologer or two predicted other upcoming events too. the question here isn't if they got big events right, (if you throw enough darts some will be right), but how many else you get wrong. What's your accuracy ratio?

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