The Problem With Astrology | Deep Dive

[glaucus]

[lumina]

hmm, nothing really new. A detailed summary of the criticism that has been brought up for many years.

Oh and yes, I think when it comes to astrology, the scientists often forget their scientific (objective) approaches. Maybe not every one of them, but most of them (that I have heard speaking or read) are pretty passionate when it comes to wanting to debunk astrology. I suppose it must be a bit threatening for them that people will still believe in it or entertain the thought it could be true, even though it seemingly contradicts scientific reasoning/ methods and the likes.

Of course that is an assumption on my part, and I apologize to the scientists, who are really dispassionately investigating astrology.

But anyway, I sort of mentally quit if people start using rhetoric questions like she did. It is just too transparently manipulative. My personal beef with politicians and other people trying to convince others. It is a minor thing of course, and I should not get hung up on that, but doesn`t it irk you, too, at least if you are a sane person?


SEe, I just did it myself, I personally find that extremely annoying. (though I am doing it myself now and then, trying to work on that. )

[Ava]

She said in the beginning that she was a Capricorn, and I sort of squinted and tilted my head, thinking, "Have I ever seen a Capricorn like that?" and later without any apology or explanation revealed she's a Cancer.

No offense to Cancer but a typical Capricorn is not going to say, "I don't know what a quality reading is, and I don't feel like buying a high quality reading anyway, so I'll buy junk readings from dubious non-professionals and critique them using pie graphs broken down to decimal numbers, because that makes sense."

Cap likes money, quality, professionalism. Here, it's like she was showcasing her disdain for astrology up front, and courting her audience's approval, by failing to differentiate between high and low quality. She presumes it's all the same and conducts her "science" with that bias.