http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/13...hasnt-changed/
i logged on facebook to see my friends flipping out. Statuses such as, "MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE. I AM GONNA COMMIT SUICIDE" was interesting.
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/13...hasnt-changed/
i logged on facebook to see my friends flipping out. Statuses such as, "MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE. I AM GONNA COMMIT SUICIDE" was interesting.
It's weird because I never really cared about horoscopes before. But the idea that my horoscope designation has been inaccurate for this whole time somehow makes me care more and start looking into this stuff to determine if I am in fact an Aries.
Though apparently this "discovery" is more about sussing out what dates the more eastern variant of the Zodiac symbols correlate to.
Perhaps you should consider recommending that your friends spend quality time with the school guidance counselor.
edit: Also, I'm reasonably certain that, while I don't believe in that crap, 9.9 out of 10 people would guess mine correctly. That's kind of disturbing, now that I think about it.
...you have children, i'm sure you've heard them use hyperbole...Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Those believing in that junk should turn to religion instead, or Humpty Dumpty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
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It's true, at least for Magnetic North. Airports using that to light and paint navigation tools for pilots have had to shut down, because Magnetic North has moved.Quote:
The hubbub was started by the article in Sunday's Star Tribune, which said the following: "The ancient Babylonians based zodiac signs on the constellation the sun was 'in' on the day a person was born. During the ensuing millenniums, the moon’s gravitational pull has made the Earth 'wobble' around its axis, creating about a one-month bump in the stars' alignment."
If people used tropical zodiac, nothing has changed. As a Scorpio, however, it's not nice to lose one's planet.
This is not news, move along, move along.
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If they adhered to the tropical zodiac - which, if they're a Westerner, they probably did – absolutely nothing has changed for them.
That's worth rephrasing: If you considered yourself a Cancer under the tropical zodiac last week, you're still a Cancer under the same zodiac this week.
That's because the tropical zodiac – which is fixed to seasons, and which Western astrology adheres to – differs from the sidereal zodiac – which is fixed to constellations and is followed more in the East, and is the type of zodiac to which the Star Tribune article ultimately refers.
Two zodiacs. That's nothing new.
"This story is born periodically as if someone has discovered some truth. It's not news," said Jeff Jawer, astrologer with Tarot.com.
Zodiax anything lol :rolleyes:
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Fuck this, I'll always be a cancer. :mad:
Virgo?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Oooh, no.
Good thing you're not a person. :o
Cancer?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
EDIT: BTW, horoscope is utterly stupid as is anyone that puts anything like serious thought into it. Might as well watch Star Wars and figure out if you've got medichlrines in your blood. :down:
Clearly my phrasing there should have included people who actually know me. Not figments of my imagination. Who either see me in really odd ways or are just pulling signs out of their ass. I'd much prefer the pulling signs out of your asses, since I have just spent longer reading about zodiac signs (looking up both Virgo and Cancer) than I ever have before today.
*sigh*
The only reason I said what I did is because for most of my life people have accused me of being what I actually am, even after I quit celebrating birthdays many years ago.
I've always read them just for fun. Just like fortune cookies.
That said I haven't really looked at mine in ages. When I do I read both Libra and Scorpio to see how big a difference the prediction is. (I'm Scorpio but only a few days off of Libra, hubby is the exact opposite)
It's like discovering your imaginary friend isn't really a natural blonde. :)
Too funny, thank good i wasn ' t drinking coffee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crowheart
That doesn't define you to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Well, then your sign is clearly a duckbilled platypus.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
You got it! Hooray!Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Overheard a couple of cashiers at the local hardware store discussing this. How retarded.
They are cashiers for a reason. :noob:Quote:
Originally Posted by EmperorNorton
Morons have to be cashiers?
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Originally Posted by Omega
No, but apparently they can be a board member...Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
No, they are just more inclined to work unfulfilling and low-wage paying jobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
So because a rectangle can be a square it makes logical sense to assume that all rectangles are squares? I'm just trying to grasp the particular type of logic you are using...Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega
Spoiler:
Come on, who can resist reading fortune cookies with Chinese take-out? :p
I didn't need the spoilers, it's not that hard to fathom your analogy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
My logic can be broken down into the following: half an once of liquid elitism, two cups of condescension, a sprinkle of douchebaggyness, and top it all of with a hint of placidity.
Ok ok fallacy by association or was it composition? I always mix them up. However, over the course of the years, I met individuals who couldn't add two digit numbers. I ignored those who clearly had some form of mental retardation because their genetic composition impedes upon their ability to perform [insert task] as efficiently as the rest of us. Heck, if the person was a foreigner, i wouldn't make any jaded commentary because they have exponentially increased their living condition by moving to America and working a low-end job. What I don't respect is when a citizen, who attends or previous attended high school in America, is unable to add or subtract numbers, use the cash register, bag my purchased products , or simply being competent individuals, especially if they've been working there for over six months. It saddens me that half those morons I see working the local Giant's cash register are my fellow classmates.
I came off a little bit more callous than I intended to, but it if walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, something something something then why not call it a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae.
Astrologers and other similar snake oil sales-men prey on the gullible stupids of this world, and as such should be shot in the face as the current US rhetoric goes.
Also, a local physicist once calculated that the city's tram system's trams exerted a greater force on a new-born than the stars, which would suggest that horoscopes ought be drawn up using the time tables of the tram system rather than the month of one's birth. As to "who can resist" the allure of the stupidity that are horoscopes, how about any thinking persons who realize it's a bunch of stupid shit?
It's a form of free entertainment for most people. Horoscopes and Chinese fortune cookies are fun! Some gullible folks do pay for that stuff....and some take it quite seriously. Even Nancy Reagan.
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Didn't expect you to be so opposed to exploitation of idiots. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
It's Sarah's world, we're just living in it