"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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
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>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:01:32 -0700, in alt.usenet.kooks,
>>> <yyyiiinnnggg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> 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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>>>>>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:08:41 -0700, in alt.astrology,
>>>>>>> <yyyiiinnnggg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>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.
Is that how you prove anything mathematically?
>
>>> 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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