On Dec 4, 3:44 pm, "Ray Murphy" <ray...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I sometimes wonder what the researchers would have done if
> astrology hadn't been invented. It seems incomprehensible that
> they wouldn't have considered the possibility that humans were
> somehow tied to the cycles of nature in more ways than were
> already obvious, and that time was a factor. After all, everything
> is supposedly related to time, and time is marked clearly in the
> sky and seen in nature on the earth.
How could they NOT be tied to the cycles of nature when it was the
planet that spawned them??
> They could have chosen the timing of everything for their research
> projects via events on earth but it would soon been discovered
> that the timing in the sky was much more precise and predictable.
> It would also have made sense to look first at the two most
> obvious timing methods - the mean period of the earth on its
> axis (the day) and the mean period of earth in it's orbit (the year).
>
> If they had chosen to do that, and build some sort of "astrology"
> from it, it may not have been far removed from what we know
> as tropical astrology. Perhaps earlier researchers in ancient times
> HAD done that and found that it wasn't precise enough. Perhaps
> they were forced to use the zodiac instead of the more convenient
> mean time of the earth in its yearly cycle because the zodiac
> 'worked' better.
>
> Perhaps the ancients were also compelled to use Local Sidereal
> Time for horoscopes instead of the more convenient "real local
> time" (the earth on it's axis - it's daily cycle).
>
> Who knows if any of that happened, but I'm quite convinced
> that if modern researchers HAD elected to pursue the less
> complex timing system - using the earth on it's axis and in it's
> orbit - they would have become motivated to look a lot further
> because of the frequent precise "timing connections" that would
> have been noticed between family members and life partners
> - things that cannot be seen when using the more complex
> Local Sidereal Time and the more complex Sun's actual
> position (or more precisely, the earth's actual position).
>
> Ray
If astrology was never discovered or invented we would not have:
Science
Astronomy
Calendars
Days of the week
The bible
Math
Telescopes
Biology.... and on and on and on.
Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A.
(c) 2007 Altair Publications, SAN 299-5603
The Sun http://www.edmondwollmann.com/
Consulting http://www.astroconsulting.com/
Gallery http://www.e-wollmann.com/
|
