From: "Bassos" Root on

>"Tom" <dantomel(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:f4d99cd8-26a0-4079-b543-08700411bd5c(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
>On Apr 2, 5:24 pm, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
> >"Tom" <danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
>> >news:f4c170d7-6252-403a-a7c9-65a358e60fe3(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
>> >On Apr 1, 10:40 am, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
>
>> >> Well, i do not suggest accepting astrology as some sort of canape.
>
>> >> I suggest astrology is useful.
>
>> >That would make astrology meaningful, but not necessarily true.
>
>> Yup.
>
>> Did i accidentally claim something is true, certain and without error
>> about
>> astrology ?

> Probably.

Reduced to guesswork now ?

Bad Doggie!


From: Don Stockbauer on
On Apr 3, 3:06 am, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
> >"Tom" <danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
> >news:f4d99cd8-26a0-4079-b543-08700411bd5c(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com....
> >On Apr 2, 5:24 pm, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
> > >"Tom" <danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
> >> >news:f4c170d7-6252-403a-a7c9-65a358e60fe3(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
> >> >On Apr 1, 10:40 am, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
>
> >> >> Well, i do not suggest accepting astrology as some sort of canape.
>
> >> >> I suggest astrology is useful.
>
> >> >That would make astrology meaningful, but not necessarily true.
>
> >> Yup.
>
> >> Did i accidentally claim something is true, certain and without error
> >> about
> >> astrology ?
> > Probably.
>
> Reduced to guesswork now ?
>
> Bad Doggie!

Astrology's no worse than any other false belief.
From: Meltdarok on
On 4/3/2010 8:17 AM, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Apr 3, 3:06 am, "Bassos"<Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
>>> "Tom"<danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
>>> news:f4d99cd8-26a0-4079-b543-08700411bd5c(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Apr 2, 5:24 pm, "Bassos"<Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
>>>> "Tom"<danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>>> news:f4c170d7-6252-403a-a7c9-65a358e60fe3(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> On Apr 1, 10:40 am, "Bassos"<Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Well, i do not suggest accepting astrology as some sort of canape.
>>
>>>>>> I suggest astrology is useful.
>>
>>>>> That would make astrology meaningful, but not necessarily true.
>>
>>>> Yup.
>>
>>>> Did i accidentally claim something is true, certain and without error
>>>> about
>>>> astrology ?
>>> Probably.
>>
>> Reduced to guesswork now ?
>>
>> Bad Doggie!
>
> Astrology's no worse than any other false belief.

Most people approach astrology in the incorrect manner.
It's not what the "influence of the stars" are, rather
it's reading what the *random* (based on your time of birth)
arrangement of the stars say.

--


Rev. Dr. Meltdarok
From: slider on

Don Stockbauer wrote:
> >"Tom" <danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
> >news:f4d99cd8-26a0-4079-b543-08700411bd5c(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
> >On Apr 2, 5:24 pm, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
> > >"Tom" <danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
> >> >news:f4c170d7-6252-403a-a7c9-65a358e60fe3(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
> >> >On Apr 1, 10:40 am, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
>
> >> >> Well, i do not suggest accepting astrology as some sort of canape.
>
> >> >> I suggest astrology is useful.
>
> >> >That would make astrology meaningful, but not necessarily true.
>
> >> Yup.
>
> >> Did i accidentally claim something is true, certain and without error
> >> about
> >> astrology ?
> > Probably.
>
> Reduced to guesswork now ?
>
> Bad Doggie!

Astrology's no worse than any other false belief.

### - and considerably better in more than one instance ;)

(that's hilarious btw don lol :)




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From: Tom on
On Apr 3, 1:04 am, "Bassos" <Root(a)wan (ask me)> wrote:
> >"Tom" <danto...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
> >news:aa1e8484-006b-4415-81d4-927d4922e6bb(a)g30g2000yqc.googlegroups.com....
> >
> > Astrology is art in the same way Rorschach inkblots are art.
>
> That is just mean.

Reality isn't mean, but it also isn't kind.

> (or an indication you feel upset for not being able to see the beauty in a
> perfect system)

Perfect systems are imaginary systems.

> Besides that, it is simply incorrect,

What is your best evidence in support of that claim?