Star signs/Astrology

Dravokivich · 10-01-2011 12:03PM

some days i like to stay in and do nothing just to proove to the stars i control what hqppens through out my day...

... especially when i'm meant to discover someone thats tall, dark and handsome...

Duggy747 · 10-01-2011 12:08PM

Boulder-dash, bull-hickey!! Absurd stuff that many wimmen love to believe in.

At least make them more fun:

Libra: You will die a horrible, horrible death today unless you change one thing.......Call 1850 1258342 for more drivel (€4.99 per 10 seconds)

c_man · 10-01-2011 12:16PM

Taurus: You will read your Star Sign today.

:eek: It's true!

Dunjohn · 10-01-2011 12:18PM

Things I Do When I'm Really, Really Bored #382: Get yesterday's paper, cover the astrology titles so I don't know which is which, read a random one, and marvel at how accurate it was.

stovelid · 10-01-2011 12:21PM

I would never hold anything against somebody that believes that myself and themself (and a twelfth of the population) share our personality traits with a goat because of the time of the year in which we were born.

The logic is quite clear.

sensibleken · 10-01-2011 12:27PM

Pisces: Tonight your mother will sleep with an astrologer. nice.

jester77 · 10-01-2011 12:29PM

it's just a mentaler form of organised religion

Saruman · 10-01-2011 12:34PM

sensibleken wrote: »

To believe in astrology you have to believe 3 idiotic things

1. Newton was wrong.

2. That burning balls of gas thousands of light years away can effect you life here on earth.

3. The best person to interprit that effect is fergus gibson.

Its the third one that makes least sense

It's not just burning balls of gas, It is burning balls of gas that share no relationship to each other, are many light years away from each other (in all directions) but look to us like they are near each other in the sky.
Primitive people as a means to either navigate at night or just apply some meaning to something that is meaningless drew imaginary lines connecting certain stars and then gave them names.

This was useful for navigation and still is without instrumentation but can not affect you in any way what so ever.

Since astrology is based on whatever so called constellation is in a certain point in the sky, or some crap like that I find it completely impossible to put any stock in it.

Although.... I am a Leo, Leo contains one of the closest stars to Earth called Wolf 359.... I love Star Trek.... coincidence? (only trek nerds might get it)

curlzy · 10-01-2011 12:45PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Boulder-dash, bull-hickey!! Absurd stuff that many wimmen love to believe in.

Stop talking out your hole, more guys than girls said they believe it on this thread. Don't be just making **** up about what "wimmen love", you obviously don't have a clue.

Dudess · 10-01-2011 12:46PM

Like others here, I worked in a newspaper and there were generic horoscope templates that would just get shuffled around from sign to sign.

In my opinion though, believing in star-signs is not as annoying as believing in karma.

Duggy747 · 10-01-2011 12:50PM

curlzy wrote: »

Stop talking out your hole, more guys than girls said they believe it on this thread. Don't be just making **** up about what "wimmen love", you obviously don't have a clue.

Heheh...........I know what a woman should love..........

*Undoes zip*

*Proceeds to take off jacket, put around woman and give her a nice hug to keep her warm* :pac:

Aseth · 10-01-2011 01:06PM

Like to read it but don't believe it. Usually forget what it was about 2 minutes after I read it ^^

MagicMarker · 10-01-2011 01:09PM

It's all bollocks, and if you believe it then you're an idiot.

Pace2008 · 10-01-2011 01:27PM

Dudess wrote: »

In my opinion though, believing in star-signs is not as annoying as believing in karma.

Why, exactly? People who act like dicks will often find themselves ostracised as a result of their actions. Obviously, this is just natural human behaviour but I can at least somewhat understand how people might view this phenomenon as a basis for the existence some quasi-sentient external balancing force.

The idea that that the alignment of celestial objects millions of miles away might affect the minutiae of your day-to-day living is just ****ing nonsense.

kincsem · 10-01-2011 01:53PM

Same with the horseracing tipsters in the papers. One newspaper reporter said he was both the " ******** Correspondent" and "Captain ****** " . That way he got to pick two horses in every race.

Not much effort involved. He certainly he wasn't stuck in a bush near some racecourse gallops at 7 a.m. in the morning with his binoculars watching horses, or all day on the phone getting information from his stable contacts.

we'llallhavetea_old · 10-01-2011 01:55PM

Pace2008 wrote: »

Why, exactly? People who act like dicks will often find themselves ostracised as a result of their actions. Obviously, this is just natural human behaviour but I can at least somewhat understand how people might view this phenomenon as a basis for the existence some quasi-sentient external balancing force.

The idea that that the alignment of celestial objects millions of miles away might affect the minutiae of your day-to-day living is just ****ing nonsense.

i thought karma is if you're bad in this life, you'll be reborn into a sh!tty life?

it's all a load of crap to me anyway.

Scarydoll · 10-01-2011 02:00PM

Aries Your romantic life will hit a rough patch this week when your lover, having grown bored of the relationship, trades you to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Wow that is so true. Scary stuff.

Pace2008 · 10-01-2011 02:46PM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i thought karma is if you're bad in this life, you'll be reborn into a sh!tty life?

it's all a load of crap to me anyway.

I'm referring to the Western notion of karma ie. what goes around comes around.

I'm not really familiar with the original eastern religious concept of karma and dharma, or if what you're referring to fits into these.

Calibos · 10-01-2011 03:10PM

Saruman wrote: »

It's not just burning balls of gas, It is burning balls of gas that share no relationship to each other, are many light years away from each other (in all directions) but look to us like they are near each other in the sky.
Primitive people as a means to either navigate at night or just apply some meaning to something that is meaningless drew imaginary lines connecting certain stars and then gave them names.

This was useful for navigation and still is without instrumentation but can not affect you in any way what so ever.

Since astrology is based on whatever so called constellation is in a certain point in the sky, or some crap like that I find it completely impossible to put any stock in it.

Although.... I am a Leo, Leo contains one of the closest stars to Earth called Wolf 359.... I love Star Trek.... coincidence? (only trek nerds might get it)

Ramming Speed!!! Actually thats more related to Aries isn't it?

Gives me goosbumps every time the Enterprise swoops in all guns blazing. All that said. I don't consider myself a trek nerd at all

Heres mine

Aquarius Jan 20 - Feb 18
You'll be bitten by a vampire and become one of the Immortal Sanguinary Children of the Night just when the whole fad is about to blow over.

10-01-2011 03:19PM

What are you guys talking about? Are you MENTAL? Star signs are for realz, they totally, like, got my day right. It wasn't generic or anything like that. Just like, REALLY vague, but that doesn't matter! It was right, which means you are all wrong!

First you say you think star signs are made up, next you'll be saying my beloved Kabbalah is a load of nonsense, COME ON!

Archeron · 10-01-2011 03:24PM

This thread reminded me of a comedian a good few years ago who had a character called Septic Peg, was really funny. Cant remember yer mans name who had the show though.

"This weeks lottery winner will be a man........

...or a womaaaan....."

fontanalis · 10-01-2011 03:33PM

Anyone who reads their sign every day and thinks there's somethgin to it, try a little experiment. Read a different sign for a month and see how accurate it is.

Kimono-Girl · 10-01-2011 03:41PM

Archeron wrote: »

This thread reminded me of a comedian a good few years ago who had a character called Septic Peg, was really funny. Cant remember yer mans name who had the show though.

"This weeks lottery winner will be a man........

...or a womaaaan....."

let me guess no one won it that week!

i fall on the the 'cusp'.....if the stupid star sign thing cannot tell me which one i am, im supposed to read two? feck that... its only doubling the chance it will get it right for once!

and doubling its revenue on star sign related products!

fontanalis · 10-01-2011 03:42PM

Archeron wrote: »

This thread reminded me of a comedian a good few years ago who had a character called Septic Peg, was really funny. Cant remember yer mans name who had the show though.

"This weeks lottery winner will be a man........

...or a womaaaan....."

Brian Connolly.

Pace2008 · 10-01-2011 03:44PM

fontanalis wrote: »

Anyone who reads their sign every day and thinks there's somethgin to it, try a little experiment. Read a different sign for a month and see how accurate it is.

There's a vital logical component missing in people who believe in these things to begin with.

Anyone with such a predisposition is going to be biased and could as easily disregard vague nonsense as take it to heart.

jackiebaron · 10-01-2011 04:06PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Newspapers should have less Astrology and more Astronomy

I'd settle for more Pornography.

Dudess · 10-01-2011 06:39PM

Pace2008 wrote: »

Why, exactly? People who act like dicks will often find themselves ostracised as a result of their actions. Obviously, this is just natural human behaviour but I can at least somewhat understand how people might view this phenomenon as a basis for the existence some quasi-sentient external balancing force.

I'd just see that as a logical conclusion - be a dick and people won't like you. But this notion that some sort of mystical force will get people who have done awful stuff in the end... no guarantee whatsoever it will.

RichieC · 10-01-2011 06:44PM

The Japanese have a decidedly more scientific, yet equally laughable prediction method!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture

Johro · 10-01-2011 06:46PM

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

Does anyone here place much store by this stuff?

A friend of mine believes quite strongly in it. To the extent she wouldn't go out with someone who wasn't compatible with her sign.

Personally, I think she's mentally defective.

Is she a Gemini? Coz if that's the case, she is.

sensibleken · 10-01-2011 09:45PM

I dont believe in astrology, us pisces are very sceptical

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