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Franz_Schubert wrote:Um... you realize that the planets and stars are just chunks of rock and gas hurtling through space right? There's nothing mystical about it. The people who claim to be able to forcast things based on the stars are RIPPING YOU OFF. THEY ARE SCAMMING YOU!
There are more than what we can see with the naked eye, I do believe. It might not amount to something, in the sense, supernatural, but simply of a higher functiun. Real astrologers can do some interesting things, they have long meetings with the people they read though. Its a very old process, and of course based on hokus pokus, but in any old religion/cult/alternative practice there is a little truth and pratical worth. But as I said, I wont swear to astrology, but it has its merits.
Franz_Schubert wrote: From what you've heard? Who did you hear it from? Try thinking for yourself.
Shut up you moron.
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I'm a scorpio. Hiss! Claw! Sting!! or something.

Does anybody give a shit?
suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. suddenly somebody will say like 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp', out of the blue, no explanation.
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Aquarius.

According to that site, I'm like this:
Friendly and humanitarian
Honest and loyal
Original and inventive
Independent and intellectual

Intractable and contrary
Perverse and unpredictable
Unemotional and detached

LIKES

Fighting for Causes
Dreaming and Planning for the Future
Thinking of the Past
Good Companions
Having Fun

DISLIKES

Full of Air Promises
Excessive Loneliness
The Ordinary
Imitations
Idealistic
Uh, right. This whole astrology stuff is total bullshit.
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Everybody can tell Kash is perverse :O
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Well I also have my doubts about astrology, but after reading my sign I found some similarities, such as diseases I also had, work related, what I like and dislike and in relationships.
I don’t believe in those weekly horoscopes and shit, but the background of each sign seems to make more sense at least in my case.
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Well, I know tons of people who are the same sign as I, but they're totally different. Smarter, prettier and stronger people get the same description as me, so I don't think that stuff actually works.
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I would be a Capricorn (Dec-Jan)
Kashluk wrote:Well, I know tons of people who are the same sign as I, but they're totally different. Smarter, prettier and stronger people get the same description as me, so I don't think that stuff actually works.
Well, someone who was into such things would probably point out that the Sun sign is not the only important, and some might say, not even the most important thing, with the moon and ascendant being better indicators of ones self, and the position of all the planets being important for a truly accurate description. The sun sign tends to be used because it is easy for anyone to figure out.

In any case, I don't buy into the whole Astrology thing.
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Kashluk wrote:Aquarius.

According to that site, I'm like this:
Friendly and humanitarian
Honest and loyal
Original and inventive
Independent and intellectual

Intractable and contrary
Perverse and unpredictable
Unemotional and detached

LIKES

Fighting for Causes
Dreaming and Planning for the Future
Thinking of the Past
Good Companions
Having Fun

DISLIKES

Full of Air Promises
Excessive Loneliness
The Ordinary
Imitations
Idealistic
Uh, right. This whole astrology stuff is total bullshit.

Kashluk, i've seen most of those properties in your sign displayed on this board, like it or not your a typical aquarius :)

Bull shit or not this zodiac stuff does have some meaning if it can genericly sum someone up who was born during a certain month, also if you check the traits of whatever sign with someone else who is also of that same sign, there are even with dramatic age differences similarities with personality that can be attibutted to the relative sign. Bull shit or not? has anyone actually looked into this or are most of you just saying its rubbish?

i'm not a zodiac freak but i am starting to believe in the generic charactor/personality traits, the daily/weekly etc predictions of course are bullshit imo but thats not what i'm asking you lot.
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LIKES

Fighting for Causes
Dreaming and Planning for the Future
Thinking of the Past
Good Companions
Having Fun
Let's see, that describes... EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PERSON! What a coincidence?
46+2 wrote:Real astrologers can do some interesting things
Yeah, so can Cleo. (You know, the amazing fortune teller from TV who was recently sued off her ass for fraud?)

You know what... I don't care anymore, the human race will always be populated with people who are willing to believe anything, and that's why swindlers and scam artists have been around since the beginning.
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Everyone fits into nearly any zodiac sign.
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Franzy boy wrote:Um... you realize that the planets and stars are just chunks of rock and gas hurtling through space right? There's nothing mystical about it.
Forty-six & Two wrote: There are more than what we can see with the naked eye, I do believe. It might not amount to something, in the sense, supernatural, but simply of a higher functiun.
Might I advise some of you to read a book called Astrogenetics by Maurice M. Cotterell. I' m not a firm believer of all he writes but he has some interesting points of view on certain things. His theories about geomagnetic fields are all but flawless but recently scientists have come to aknowledge some of his findings, some of which had been based on theories made earlier by Einstein before his Theory of Relativity got published.

I' ll try to explain some of it:

The sun consists of 2 separate magnetic fields; one that stretches from it' s northpole to the southpole, like on Earth; the other consisting out of 4 bubbels around the equatorial field. Like the Earth, the sun turns around it' s axis, one evolution taking 26 days at the sun-equator and 37 days at the pole areas. This is possible due to the hot gaslike plasma of which the sun consists. The difference in movement of these different areas is known as "differential rotation of the magnetic fields of the sun". Cotterell presumes that the sun' s magnetic fields would revert all 18,139 years resulting in a shift in Earth' s gravitational fields also, which comes with movement of the tectonic plates. This has been confirmed after recent research on surfacestones that showed signs of a reversed polarity all at about the same time. (see also Charles Hapgood on this)

According to the Babcock-Leighton model is the winding of these magnetic fields due to differential rotation responsible for sunsurface activity. Sunspots are areas on the sun' s surface that are being crossed by magnetic loops originating from within the sun.

Magnetic activity inside the sun results in the exhaust of charged particles from it' s surface (negative from the nagative fields and vice versa) and are hurled into space like a lawn-sprinkler. These particles are known as solarwind and once they descend into our atmosphere through the Van Allen-belts and they can be seen at the poleareas as "Northernlight" or aurora borealis (not sure about the spelling here).

So when the magnetic field of the sun changes, so will change that of Earth. The magnetosphere (the protective earthmagnetic field that surrounds us) diminishes en more harmfull ionised radiation is allowed to penetrate our atmosphere. This results in genetic mutations by newborns en leads to an increase in newborn deathrate.

The particles of which the solarwind consists reach the Earth and result in magnetic variations in the atmosphere. These variations are the cause of genetic mutations on our DNA on the moment of impregnation. Same variations accord every 260-day solarcycli. Solarradiation has through regulation influence on behaviour caused by these magnetic variations and mutations. Planetconfigurations, and thus the importance of their own magnetic field and particle emmition, can cause variations in personality at the time of impregnation and at points thereafter. Personality is thus decided by astronomic influences; this is also known as solar-astrology.

Every 28 days the Earth is showered by renewed particles from the sun. It has been proven that this has influence on the follikel-stimulating hormone called FHS, that regulates menstruation and fertility. Cotterell suggests that bioregulation of the human organism happens due to solarparticle caused magnetic modulation. Changes in melantonine influence biorythme, changes in oestrogene and progesteron influence fertility. Part of the brain, called epifyse, translates the surrounding magnetic fields and starts altering and producing melatonine, whereas hypofyse and hypothalamus influence the creation and secreding of fertilityhormones. This proces of "magnetic to chemical" is called "electromagnetic transduction". (read also: Hope Simpsonn, Robbin Murray, Janet Harker and Ross Aidey)


I' m not saying I believe all he' s written and that whatever he has written is truth, but it is always nice to start thinking of what might be right and wrong, a "what if" scenario sort to speak. If you' re interested try to get hold of one of his books but skip his god-like alien conspiracies. The man is nuts on that part. Come to think of it, you might not even consider him to be a reliable source of information due to this. Nah, whatever.
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I'm a gemini but i'm to lazy to type all that crap
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zodiac signs are blanket statements which make them no more actual than the statement "all americans are retarded fat rednecks" or "everyone in canada live in igloos and have pet moose/beavers".
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Tapy wrote:I'm a gemini but i'm to lazy to type all that crap
Yeah, I hear ya. There were special functions created for people like us. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Saved my damn life, they did.
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How about those aliens which came down to earth back during the mesopotamia days and helped people learn how do set up a civilization? And the aliens in Asia which moved those massive rocks 10,000 years ago(that we couldn't move today if we wanted.)

And the aliens the Mayans have pictures of in some of their temples?
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Franz_Schubert wrote:How about those aliens which came down to earth back during the mesopotamia days and helped people learn how do set up a civilization? And the aliens in Asia which moved those massive rocks 10,000 years ago(that we couldn't move today if we wanted.)

And the aliens the Mayans have pictures of in some of their temples?
You know, it just occurred to me that in this post-religious society, man still needs a God. It would appear as though to some people, conspiracy theories have taken the place of traditional religion. Interesting.
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But conspiracy theorists have been around forever. They're not new.
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Franz_Schubert wrote:But conspiracy theorists have been around forever. They're not new.
That may very well be. But conspiracy theories and religions do the same thing -- explain the unexplainable (or the hard to explain, in some cases) through supernatural means.

Is crediting aliens with certain feats any less ridiculous than crediting the deity of one's choice?
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The Scorpion
October 24 to November 22


Traditional
Scorpio Traits

Determined and forceful
Emotional and intuitive
Powerful and passionate
Exciting and magnetic

On the dark side....
Jealous and resentful
Compulsive and obsessive
Secretive and obstinate

That's worryingly accurate....
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