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leon: Astrologer John didn't leave an e-mail adress. A pity, because he and his fellow astrologers might come in handy for people who don't know on which date they were born and would love to know so.
Once I had a conversation with a very nice fellow somewhere in the Northern Territories, when I asked him how old he was. 'Dunnow' he said. A bit surprised I asked him a dumb question: when he was born. 'In summer', he said, 'on a sunday'. What is he?
Question for John: according to one of those horoscopes: 'I have an inventive mind and am inclined to be progressive, although I twist the truth a great deal. Other times, I tend to be careless and impractical, causing me to make stupid mistakes, repeatedly. Most everyone thinks I am ignorant, including my own family'. Now, when was I born? On a sunday too? >>
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Astrologer John: It never fails to amaze me the blinding arrogance of the average skeptic type. Sun sign astrology is not real astrology. Any skeptic with the guts enough to take a look at real astrology would see the light. However, the average skeptic type finds it very hard to do this because the fact is, they take a dim view of things because they are so insecure that they feel they need to be in control of everything. This is why they can't stand to allow for even the possibility of something they don't fully understand. Come on Mr. Skeptic, dare to broaden your mind for once, how about taking a look at one of the real astrology books out there, one that comes to mind is Astrology Really Works by the magi society, there are others. >>
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September 02, 2003
Astrology and sex
E-skeptic subscriber Greg Myers sent this interesting article about an astrology test that he performed on members of his family to the E-Skeptic. I suggest you should try this one in simular situations.
"I wanted to share with you an experience of mine yesterday that may make you smile. It involves my girlfriend's family, who I feel are very smart people who believe weird things. She has a large immediate family, and they are all firm believers of multiple fringe concepts, including astrology, ghosts, and psychic powers (and at least half of them regularly visit an iridologist). If I express any skepticism on these matters I am quickly stifled.
Anyway, my girlfriend's mother's birthday was yesterday, and they had a huge party at her house. I had recently finished reading your book and was motivated to try a small experiment. I found an astrology website on the Internet, and printed out 30 copies of the full 12 sign horoscope. However, I changed 15 of the copies on Microsoft Word so that the readings no longer matched up with the Zodiac sign. At the party, I passed all these out and had everyone rate how accurate their own readings were on a scale of 1 to 5. Of course I did not tell them that 15 of them were reading false horoscopes. Several members figured I was up to something, but they went along anyway. In the end, the average score for the correct horoscopes was 3.7, and for the non-correct 3.9.
When it was all over, I told them the truth, and showed them that the doctored horoscopes actually got a slightly higher rating. The response was alarming.
I was called a know-it-all by at least two people, overheard someone call me an asshole, and my girlfriend later informed me that her father was upset, and that I had to apologize. I found it very ironic that they were upset with me for "tricking" them, but failed to see that the evidence from the experiment showed that it was astrology doing the tricking.
My conclusion: skepticism is very intrinsically rewarding, but it has not been good for my sex life."
Greg Myers, greg14228@yahoo.com
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Posted by Leon at September 2, 2003 04:34 PM
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Hello, you site very good!
See you
Posted by: ronevu at September 27, 2007 09:54 PM
Oh, my world. It is ok
Posted by: Stephan at June 12, 2006 05:16 AM
I can't believe it, my co-worker just bought a car for $57172. Isn't that crazy!
Posted by: Betsy Markum at May 24, 2006 01:21 AM
Astrologer John didn't leave an e-mail adress. A pity, because he and his fellow astrologers might come in handy for people who don't know on which date they were born and would love to know so.
Once I had a conversation with a very nice fellow somewhere in the Northern Territories, when I asked him how old he was. 'Dunnow' he said. A bit surprised I asked him a dumb question: when he was born. 'In summer', he said, 'on a sunday'. What is he?
Question for John: according to one of those horoscopes: 'I have an inventive mind and am inclined to be progressive, although I twist the truth a great deal. Other times, I tend to be careless and impractical, causing me to make stupid mistakes, repeatedly. Most everyone thinks I am ignorant, including my own family'. Now, when was I born? On a sunday too?
Posted by: leon at July 13, 2004 06:50 PM
It never fails to amaze me the blinding arrogance of the average skeptic type. Sun sign astrology is not real astrology. Any skeptic with the guts enough to take a look at real astrology would see the light. However, the average skeptic type finds it very hard to do this because the fact is, they take a dim view of things because they are so insecure that they feel they need to be in control of everything. This is why they can't stand to allow for even the possibility of something they don't fully understand. Come on Mr. Skeptic, dare to broaden your mind for once, how about taking a look at one of the real astrology books out there, one that comes to mind is Astrology Really Works by the magi society, there are others.
Posted by: Astrologer John at July 13, 2004 07:41 AM