Well, I congratulate you, JA. My email inbox showed several additional posts (which I read in that form) that have since been deleted.
I don't think you have nearly addressed my points. Never mind. Kassandra was right, notwithstanding the curse that nobody believed her.
1. I know the "book burning" metaphor. I am hardly a "harsh and repressive regime;" merely one woman standing up for ethical principles that mostly have to do with protecting vulnerable people. Is this what bothers you?
2. Since "book burning" is a metaphor, perhaps you're OK with other metaphors, like the metaphor of "death-clock" for predicting the timing of death. We use the word "clock" in metaphors all the time that refer to a broader time-frame than seconds, minutes, and hours. For example, "the clock is ticking" as a metaphor for time constraints. At some point that can be measured in literal clock time, a person will expire, moreover.
3. On the matter of on-line death prediction, JA, please refer to my responses to Eternal Autumn. A dying person isn't going to come back and post whether you were right or wrong, so any education value is lost. ("Hey, there, JA: this is my ghost speaking..... ) If you were wrong and she comes back and says so, you might have given her a terrible fright for no reason. Or her loved ones, if she tells her family.
I have used the word "post-diction." Take a chart of a deceased person and her family, as Alice did with Princess Di, and run the diagnostic on it. You could learn a lot from them.
3. The Houck case is fascinating. Surely you are by now also aware of the "Jeane Dixon effect," whereby correct astrological predictions are touted, and incorrect ones are discretely ignored. So let me ask you again, what percentage of error in predicting death is acceptable to you? Two out of five? Three out of four?
Your slippery slope argument about banning all prediction is misplaced, and I have addressed this type of debate fallacy in previous posts.
4. I've got the Valens translation, thanks. Fortunately we don't live in his era. When Valens wrote, chattel slavery was perfectly legal, Christians could be dismembered as a form of public amusement, there was no democracy except in a limited way for elite males, women had hardly any rights, and the average life expectancy at infancy was around 30 years old. Question: have you used Valens's techniques yourself to predict length-of-life?
5. I have previously shown on demographic grounds why death prediction from a natal chart simply cannot work. If you re-read my arguments on this point, perhaps you could respond to them.
Question, JA: how much time have you spent recently around dying people or recent survivors of a loved one's death? Have you ever been within a nick of dying yourself? What did that feel like, if so? [deleted possibly trolling comments - Moderator]
