waybread
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Backy, let it go!
I mean seriously. The life and health insurance industries would love to have accurate "death clocks." So would bookies and betting agencies.
It can't be done with accuracy. For every astrological "success" story, if we call it that, there are plenty of mistakes.
Another challenge might be to give a group of astrologers the birth charts of, say, 3 anonymous people born around the same time, and ask them to identify the chart of the one person who had died.
One thing you are right about: the "guy on the Internet" who gave you these scare stories does not know much astrology. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
But to me the big clincher against death prediction are the natural and cultural disasters in which hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of people are killed almost simultaneously. A big airplane crash. The earthquake in Haiti. The tsunami in southeast Asia. An atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WW II.
Well, obviously all of these victims--of all different ages and birth times-- could not have had birth charts close enough to one another so that they all would have aligned on the same death moment: even if we spread out deaths over a day to allow for people who did not die immediately upon impact. This just isn't astrological common sense.
People are born all the time with really crummy aspects. They don't die from them, but live to ask astrologers to read their charts. I think astrology can suggest when to be alert for a tough time in your life, but that is different than predicting death. Death is like pregnancy: you either are or you are not.
Consequently, I prefer to view the moment of death as similar to the moment of birth--into another dimension.
I mean seriously. The life and health insurance industries would love to have accurate "death clocks." So would bookies and betting agencies.
It can't be done with accuracy. For every astrological "success" story, if we call it that, there are plenty of mistakes.
Another challenge might be to give a group of astrologers the birth charts of, say, 3 anonymous people born around the same time, and ask them to identify the chart of the one person who had died.
One thing you are right about: the "guy on the Internet" who gave you these scare stories does not know much astrology. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
But to me the big clincher against death prediction are the natural and cultural disasters in which hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of people are killed almost simultaneously. A big airplane crash. The earthquake in Haiti. The tsunami in southeast Asia. An atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WW II.
Well, obviously all of these victims--of all different ages and birth times-- could not have had birth charts close enough to one another so that they all would have aligned on the same death moment: even if we spread out deaths over a day to allow for people who did not die immediately upon impact. This just isn't astrological common sense.
People are born all the time with really crummy aspects. They don't die from them, but live to ask astrologers to read their charts. I think astrology can suggest when to be alert for a tough time in your life, but that is different than predicting death. Death is like pregnancy: you either are or you are not.
Consequently, I prefer to view the moment of death as similar to the moment of birth--into another dimension.
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