Shin wrote:
Anyone into Star Signs, Zodiac, Tarot e.t.c? I'm sure there will be a few, 'Not that shit' posts following this -_-;I actually LOVE the bloody stuff
Plus the corny chat up line, 'What sign are you?' always works with me I'm an Astronomer (for another month at least).
I
loathe astrology. It's a hideous method of degrading the achievements of humanity whilst simultaneously managing to belittle the lives of people. And thats just when it's being read for 'fun' in magazines.
When it's being used to
influnence the president of the USA or even worse when Burma's military government to this day is
controlled by astrology to the extent that they uprooted the entire army at 4am and moved it all to live in the jungle because their astrologers told them too, then it manages to promote itself from 'annoying bit of nonsense' to 'genuine threat to human life'.
If an astrologer tells someone that surrounding himself with the number nine would make him live till 90 you might say that is harmless and fine. But when thats the leader of Burma and he withdraws the nations currancy and replaces it with one where all the notes either have a 9 in them or add up to 9 (like a $45 note) it beomes a little more serious.
Especially when 1000's die of starvation because it caused the economy to completely collapse.
And yeah, sure thats not
Our astrology that would never happen here. But thats not the point. Both British and Burmese Astrology encourages and promotes a blinkered world view and wooly thinking which at best leads to people making important life changing decisions without truly thinking the decision through, and at worst
destroys fucking countries and the journey from one extreme to the other is facilitated by the people who just find it 'fun'.
Edit: Ooh Sorry, this is quite a rant! But it's nothing personal or anything
, I'm just not going to pretend that Astrology, Tarot and the like is anything other than a brain drain on the scienitific, spiritual, humane and ethical possibilities of mankind just because people I know and like, like them.
This is just what happens when I stop doing my blog for a while so don't take it as a rant at you, just one at the world in general.