| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 5/1/2006 1:27:16 PM | So any astrology buffs out there?
When you meet someone do you ask them their sign, run home and check the compatibility of your signs? | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 5/1/2006 2:22:54 PM | I think that there is some sort of connection through astrology but I don't think it is the end all be all of a relationship. We connect with various people on various different levels, and are more compatible with some than others. Astrological information is helpful sometimes. I do like to know a persons sign to me it is interesting. | |
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meldh
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Joined: 1/14/2006
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 5/2/2006 12:49:59 AM | | no, it's nonsense, and it's forbidden. and i've got the really cool sign, too, the Ram, Mars, the God of War, Red planet, but it's nonsense, it doesn't mean anything, and that's why it's forbidden, because people that put their faith in it are gonna screw up their lives. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 5/2/2006 5:29:24 AM | I read my horoscope every day.
When it says something I like, I'm a believer.
When it says something I don't, I say "meh. stupid astrology.", and get on with my day.
Having said that, I'm sure there's something to it... but maybe I just want to believe... | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 5/2/2006 8:00:03 AM | Ok my logical side says there is a minute chance all this astrology stuff is more than just coincidence but I do not believe in things like horoscopes in the paper. I really think people often read into them what they want to because when I think of what it says, I'm sure anyone else could apply it to what's going on in their own lies and they might be a Gemini rather than a virgo. So for entertainment purposes, sure...they can be fun.
That being said, who am I to dismiss, without any proof, what impact planetary alignment can have on an individual. We know the moon's gravitational force does have an impact on living creatures, migration etc. so maybe the alignment of stars/planets at the time of birth can have an impact on an individual.
That makes horoscopes by month pretty useless in my mind. However, a star chart specifically designed for you and your time of birth might have a bit more merit if alignment does have an impact. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/14/2007 12:54:49 PM | | YES...I believe in it 99% of the time. I have had a whirwind of dating and let me tell you......that each sign has very distinct similarities.....for instance saggies like to cheat.....cancer men think with their heart...aries men are career driven....Gemini are into themselves....but sometimes Nuture takes over nature and only then I have found that people are not like their sign! | |
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kanye
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Joined: 10/12/2006
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LBP
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Joined: 12/27/2006
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/14/2007 1:33:42 PM | I've never taken astrology into consideration when dating someone. Its probably because of how off my own descriptions seem to be sometimes. I fit the virgo profile in some ways and in others I don't.
I'll admit that perhaps the star alignment, gravitational forces etc. 'might' have an impact on personality development but I've seen no conclusive proof. I do know lots of people that could probably apply any attribute from any sign to themselves if that's what you told them they were like in a more cosmic sense.
I look at this stuff as more entertainment than anything else. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/14/2007 2:06:09 PM | I do and I don't. I have studied astrology a bit and think it's interesting and I think there's accuracy in astrology, but not in the Horoscopes you read in the paper.
Depending on rising signs and so on, sometimes people might be a Virgo on paper but with the rest of their chart are largely affected by another sign. So it isn't as simple as sign x + sign y is or is not compatible.
I also think other factors come into play, personality type, where someone is in their life in terms of life plans, maturity... sanity....
I am a pretty typical Gemini, but my personality type (ENTP) is also very 'gemini' in a lot of ways. I've met other Geminis who were not as 'typical' but whose rising signs, moons, or whatever, showed a strong influence of say Virgo. Their personality types were also different and between the full astrological chart and the personality type and so much more... we were very different and would have been compatible with different people....
So for me, astrology is interesting and can be relevant but alone is not a definitive or only predictor of compatibility. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/14/2007 2:44:45 PM | I have to lean towards yes, there at times when it's dead on ...not most of the time but those rare times it's kind of weird..also a few years back my horoscope was dead on as well for about 2 months..ever day..that was quite odd. But with that said I don't follow it/believe it blindly either.
Tim
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/14/2007 3:37:38 PM | For those few times it seems accurate, you're a believer. Nobody seems to take the majority of times it is not seriously. People just want to hear what they want to hear. Say it right once and they hear you. Say it wrong a hundred times and they just ignore it and wait for that right one again.  Man, it's like a religion. Reality doesn't seem to kick in!!! | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/15/2007 8:54:14 AM | So any astrology buffs out there?
When you meet someone do you ask them their sign, run home and check the compatibility of your signs?
Hey baby, what's your sign? ugh... this is so seventies. Everytime I hear it I automatically think platform shoes, polyester slacks, butterfly collars and Travolta dancing under a disco ball.
I don't play the astrology game, You can meet 12 women under the same zodiac sign and be guaranteed they're all completely different in personality traits. ..... as well as certain signs being more compatible with each other than other signs....again, whateva. They also say opposites attract, true at first, but I can tell you right now that doesn't work in the long run. Fridge magnets stay that way better than people do.
Forget the Zodiac signs, just go with your gut feeling, not by some retardly, eons old written "notion" of what's compatible and what isn't.
oh boy I can feel the comebacks to this one already before even sending it.... I better put on the foil.  | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/15/2007 10:50:25 AM | | Well....i think you right in some aspects...nothing in life is a sure thing....but for me what sign someone is a major factor of how I few them. Its kinda like a science experiment for me...I was single for a whole year and did soo much dating it was crazy and in that year noticed alot. Thats why I will never date a Gemini...anyways...its more going thru life meeting different people and noticing the similarites between them and yes go with your gut feeling...but that should have already been a given. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/15/2007 11:56:40 AM | Is this a serious question?
A: no
Its a fun little past time but it has little bearing on reality. Think about it for a second. The whole premise predicts 12 kinds of people. How plausible is that? Someone above here already posted that everyone matches their sign except when nurture exceeds nature. So, everyone matches except when they don't. What an astoundingly logical premise to base a belief on.
I'll give you a simple example of a related phenomenon, phrenology. I have, from time to time, claimed to be a phrenologist when I'm out and about at parties and such (it actually sort of goes with my profession). So, people ask me to "read" them and I just make something up and about 9 times out of 10 they are just so surprised at how amazingly accurate it is. I don't try "astrologer" much because too many people know too much about it and will catch you if you say the wrong thing about a sign. But, when I've assured myself the room is full of newbies I've launched into astrologer BS to the same amazement.
One of the best pieces of evidence against any of this was an old TV show called "Beyond Reason" with a clairvoyant, astrologer, palm reader, and graphologist all using their amazing powers to guess the identities of mystery guests. They all sucked at it. If I remember correctly I always thought the astrologer was the worst and the clairvoyant the best.
Look up "The Amazing Randi" sometime (www.randi.org for his current site). He was the best with this stuff... just hilarious. Kreskin was as well. Another interesting story in the history of the proof of the paranormal is the Zenith radio experiments of the 30's. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/15/2007 11:58:32 AM | I dunno about anyone else...but I don't immediately ask someone's sign...I've been very deep in "like" with someone before that subject came out...so I can't see how at that point I would be swayed.
However, I think it can be fun..any kind of personality readings are....possibly because deep down we are all struggling with "who we are" and anything that can help us out can be comforting right? | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/15/2007 12:48:02 PM | Can be cool sometimes, some people take it way to seriously & some people don't understand.
It is no more or less valid than any other esoteric pursuit.....
Perception is reality........believing makes it so.......
Think about it for a second........There are 12 houses with 12 signs based on planets positioning at the time and place at birth.......so that only describes..........
8,916,100,448,256 types of people (probably more) …imagine assigning one of these types to all the people on the planet. How plausible is that?
Yay!!! Knowing more than nothing!!!! 
Like most things there are the rationalists and the empiricists choose your inadequate philosophical bent and ramble on.....
BTW: This post is redundant as it has been done to death under religion | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/15/2007 4:22:12 PM |
BTW: This post is redundant as it has been done to death under religion
Not redundant unless it has been done to death in the Nova Scotia forum. Bit of a difference.  | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/15/2007 5:56:03 PM | | Given that neither rationalism nor empiricism would support astrology then you're absolutely right, it doesn't matter which you pick. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/17/2007 9:28:09 AM | Astrology is like ideas of fate or destiny, it's basically religion lite, and professed by people who consider themselves to enlightened for formal religion. There isn't really any difference between saying that you are destined by the stars or by god's will.
I personally don't belive in either but that being said, as with all things, the truth of a belief is completly shaped by the individuals perception of the reaity of that belief.
happy St Paddy's day, and please don't defile your beer with green food colouring.
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libbyv
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Joined: 8/17/2005
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/17/2007 9:51:33 AM | I 'm a believer in astrology and I have good intuition about some things and people. Some people of astrological signs are more compatible than others I have found.
I don't like close minded people that are negative about astrology, horoscopes and psychic abilities. There is more going on in this world than people realize or could ever fathom outside of their own world's. | |
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| Astrology - Do you believe in it?
Posted: 3/17/2007 7:53:16 PM | If you mean me, I'm not actually being close minded about astrology. true I said I don't believe in it but I also said that a persons perception of belief makes something real. To me, good astrologers are very talented people. I just think that their talent isn't what their clients think it is. Because I don't believe, I see an astrologers talent as having good intuition and the ability to read a persons body signs, which is a very difficult thing to do off the cuff. However to a believer the talent is the ability to read the stars and the tarot. The results are the same and both sides are equally true, it is just the perception of how the astrologer arrived at the end that is different.
Believing that all people are capable of defining their own place in the world and not being bound by some unseen force of the universe is not being close minded.
and indeed Horatio there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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