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- From: ch981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Alicea)
- Newsgroups: alt.astrology
- Subject: Re: Astrology real, yeah right!
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 02:08:07 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1emq27INNqp6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Nov11.151602.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Reply-To: ch981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Alicea)
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- In a previous article, phys224@csc.canterbury.ac.nz () says:
-
- >In response to stancad.Why does any superstitious person believe in their
- >own personal world view?because it gives them comfort;they no longer need
- >to make their own decisions,mystical forces are at least partly responsible
- >for their actions and thoughts,they don't even need to come up with their own
- >morality.
-
- I don't know what your'e talking about... You don't even know what
- "mystical" means!
-
- >Its the same with the myraid of organised religions,they all
- >believe in their own diety,all basically disagree,many would gladly kill
- >each other (and the rest of us!) to enforce their beliefs.
-
- How many astroloers have killed non-believers? Versus: How many
- scientists were killed by the so-called "christian" church for
- disseminating the *truth*?
-
- > Science instead tried to be objective,and has proven incredibly successful thus far in
- >explaining much about our universe,allowing us to build amazing new
- >technology,etc.
-
- Yeah, and?...
-
- >Lighten up on them!most are happy to debate stuff,unfortuantly some don't
- >want to,maybe they don't want their faith shaken up,etc.
-
- Empirical evidence categorized as "faith". Gee! Tell me: How long did
- you study astrology for before concluding that ist is false? WHAT?! you
- depend on others to tell you that it is false?! Gee! I'm smarter than
- you are!
-
- >So long as they don't try to teach young children their philospohy,whats
- >wrong with them?the people who pay money to go see them,thats their concern,
- >if they haven't got any sense by the time they're grown up,they deserve to get
- >suckered in.
- >l.l.a.p.
-
- I agree with you there, partially at least. Buyer be ware! :-)
-
- Tony
-