The funny thing is the dunks on astrology are ancient too and have just been ignored by astrologers back then as well as now St. Augustine was the one who asked how identical twins, who have by definition identical natal charts, can live completely different lives https://twitter.com/SoulOBrass/status/1224791598980042754 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RationalWiki
Something I find hilarious: The believers of astrology state that the stars and their constellations on the sky somehow influence our fates, but as a base to predict these influences, they use the constellations and positions of the stars like they were 2000 years ago.
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Exactly. The 2000 year old charts still being used say I'm a Scorpio, but the stars today say I'm a Virgo
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Replying to @GranularityRUs @Blocher_Perlen and
I think this led to a genuine schism. The larger group of astrologers use the "tropical" astrology that's off by one
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Replying to @Lenoxus @GranularityRUs and
Right, they're currently saying that the actual constellations don't matter and are just a convenient label for that section of the sky, and the fact that Libra is a pair of scales only coincidentally has anything to do with what being "a Libra" means Which is nonsense
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lenoxus and
It is as much nonsense as it is utter nonsense to believe that some stars, that coincidentally seem to form a constellation, if seen from Earth, have somehow an influence on our behaviour and our fate.
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Replying to @Blocher_Perlen @Lenoxus and
Yeah but what I mean is they're obviously lying when they say the constellations have nothing to do with the meaning of the signs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Blocher_Perlen and
Ironically it would be quite a bit more plausible if they agreed that celestial bodies have *nothing* to do with it. Just a simple "You were born at this time and it will affect your life path because of destiny and/or the accrued effects of birth time"
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Replying to @Lenoxus @Blocher_Perlen and
When you push them that is what they say - it's not that the physical planet Mars has any kind of gravitational physical effect on you, it's just that certain times have certain meanings and the movement of Mars in the sky marks that passage of time
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It's a different worldview, the whole concept of divination is about the idea of magic synchronicity Tea leaves and entrails aren't physically connected to your life either, it's just God's way of sending you a message
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lenoxus and
The difference between tea leaves and planets: Tea leaves just randomly arrange, planets move according to the laws of physics. So, even if one thinks, someone, like a god, will send you messages, the planets (and stars) are not really usable for this purpose.
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Replying to @Blocher_Perlen @Lenoxus and
Well, everything's deterministic in the grand scheme of things, the planets are just easier to predict (which can be a plus or a minus for a divinatory system)
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