On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:42:54 -0700, in alt.usenet.kooks,
<yyyiiinnnggg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:5kp8m1tkan1dj8ap7c5ote935ojtloiaic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:01:32 -0700, in alt.usenet.kooks,
>> <yyyiiinnnggg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>news:a888m1dl9ljnqdldgj7dhn4r7nd4f2ot9q@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:19:31 -0700, in alt.usenet.kooks,
>>>> <yyyiiinnnggg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>news:55q7m1p4ctm4vrc86kgqigcl7s83tc9t75@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:08:41 -0700, in alt.astrology,
>>>>>> <yyyiiinnnggg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>>>>news:77b7m11d7rauhqa9ncgfkbcgjkh46pv5j3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:45:17 -0400, in alt.usenet.kooks,
>>>>>>>> "KOTY=DNC_TN@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <KOTY=DNC_TN@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:21:27 -0400, "Lambdascorpii"
>>>>>>>>><lambdascorpii@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I don't give a ****...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Uh....Then why did you post a reply to a message subject that you
>>>>>>>>>don't care about.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Seems kinda silly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He believes in astrology...
>>>>>>>> that sort of fits the mold
>>>>>>>> Which He has built for himself
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Do you think astrology doesn't work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know it doesn't work. just like magic doesn't work, the bread
>>>>>> doesn't
>>>>>> really turn into meat, and the wine doesn't really turn into blood
in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> rite of ritual canabilism/vampirism practiced in most christian
>>>>>> churches.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Magic doesn't exist, their are no fairies, aliens in UFOs, LGMs,
gods
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> goddesses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Astrology, the superstition is based on Apophenia... It is an
artifact
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the way the human brain works. The human brain tries to make
patterned
>>>>>> where
>>>>>> they are no pattern. Also if you are into ready, study what a type
one
>>>>>> statistical error is. The best pro astrology arguments to come up
in
>>>>>> years
>>>>>> was based upon the so called mars effect, which was accomplished by
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> cherry picking of data. When the so called mars effect is looked at
in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> general population, the tendency disappears. Just as every over so
>>>>>> called
>>>>>> astrological trait, disappears or appears uniformally in every
sign,
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> an
>>>>>> equal or nearly equal distribution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In others words, astrology is a superstition, based on the ancient
art
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> calendar keeping by a small religious body, based in the middle
east
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> or before 3400 BC., a modern belief not based in facts or science,
but
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> disproved facts and a belief in idle speculation.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why do people exhibit patterns that are consistent with their
>>>>>astrological
>>>>>signs. For example, virgo are mostly liar/inflaters, and all aires
are
>>>>>managerial and calculating?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know...
>>>> I find there are liar/inflaters in all groups , just as there are
>>>> excellent
>>>> managers in all groups, they are not concentrated in any one sign...
>>>
>>>Each sign has a set of predictable behavior patterns.
>>>
>>
>> No they don't... the is a myth.
>> Science and Math shows us those traits are equally distributed in all
the
>> signs.
>
>Do you have proof?
Yes, I do...
It get posted about once or twice a year to alt.astrology.
see the links I have provided below.
>> The false pattern is called apophenia. It is an artifact of way the
human
>> mind works. There is no traits which are unique to any astrological
sign
>> or
>> combination of planetary aspects.
>
>If you change the names of the signs, the relation between the signs
>remains. There is nature in the patterns.
No, there isn't.
That is entirely false.
There is no pattern
Start here:
http://skepdic.com/astrolgy.html
http://skepdic.com/coldread.html
and follow the links
http://www.pac-c.org/astrology2.htm
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html
http://aries.phys.yorku.ca/~mmdr/1800/astrology-faq-synopsis.html
http://skepdic.com/essays/jones.html
http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/Dean.pdf
http://www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/home/ertel/ertel-dir/downloads/geffectsbroughtdown.pdf
http://www.gwup.org/themen/lesetipps/michaelshermersencyclopedia.html
That should get you started...
>> Even Edmond Wollmann, a professional astrologer, says "a chart is no
more
>> than a prop." Now I hate to use that s*** as an authority but hell you
>> take your proof where ever you can find it.
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