Yet another breed of fundie, that I've met a few of in my time. They are utterly convinced that horoscopes and the stars affect their lives, to the point where they wouldn't even consider making a major decision without first consulting their star charts.
Anyone else had experience with this particular species of fundie?
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Not as such, but I'm well acquainted with a wide assortment of "flaky" pagans who are just as irrational as the average fundie Christian. At least they tend to be relatively harmless.
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"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776
"This is not bad; this is a conspiracy to remove happiness from existence. It seeks to wrap its hedgehog hand around the still beating heart of the personification of good and squeeze until it is stilled."
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Re: Zodiac-fundie morons
Eeeeh, I strongly dislike fruitcakes like that. Though what amuses me to no end is that the star charts those astrologers use are actually something on the order of 2000 years out of date. (The stars have moved slightly relative to each other, which is why people who have a serious interest in the stars go out and buy epoch 2000 star charts.)AWACS wrote:Yet another breed of fundie, that I've met a few of in my time. They are utterly convinced that horoscopes and the stars affect their lives, to the point where they wouldn't even consider making a major decision without first consulting their star charts.
Anyone else had experience with this particular species of fundie?
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What's fun is that it's easy as hell to pick apart astrological forecasts.
I did it for someone named Seth over on SB (I'm pretty sure it was SB). He posted his 'Sun Birth Chart' or whatever the hell it was, and it was just a collection of banalities and outright contradictions (blatant ones, too. Early in the chart, it said "You tend towards emotion and subjectivity", while later it said, quite specifically, "You don't let emotion cloud you and you take an objective view of things").
It's fun to confuse them, too.
"Are you using the classic Zodiac, or the Revised? Why?"
"If your chart is so personalized, why could I hand it to 100 people who would all say "Yea, this describes me pretty well," regardless of what their signs were?"
"What is the mechanism for the influence the stars & planets exert on us and our lives?"
I did it for someone named Seth over on SB (I'm pretty sure it was SB). He posted his 'Sun Birth Chart' or whatever the hell it was, and it was just a collection of banalities and outright contradictions (blatant ones, too. Early in the chart, it said "You tend towards emotion and subjectivity", while later it said, quite specifically, "You don't let emotion cloud you and you take an objective view of things").
It's fun to confuse them, too.
"Are you using the classic Zodiac, or the Revised? Why?"
"If your chart is so personalized, why could I hand it to 100 people who would all say "Yea, this describes me pretty well," regardless of what their signs were?"
"What is the mechanism for the influence the stars & planets exert on us and our lives?"
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ex-girlfriend. she was completely denpendent on those things to make her decisions. thank goodness it was a short term relationship or i would have gone insane.