JUPITERASC
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for example
Reality is flat.
Some are camping out on the edge of Reality, and
some have gone over the edge.
Quite
apparentlyThe humorous intent escaped you!
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I appreciate your willingness to do cold reading, which I wouldn't do. But no help is required!! It's a question to YOU since you are avidly defending a theory in the abstract, which didn't square with observable physical reality when applied to my own case
Maybe I missed some predomination in my quick cold reading. I didn't ask for nationality, which is also important in this matter. Finally, the Ascendant seemed a bit off, and I told you I am going to use the 15 minute earlier birth time. Any of these factors could have affected the infallibility of physical prognostication, which isn't something I strove for necessarily.
Not much, but nations near the arctic circles have 20% larger eyes than those from near the equator. That would be warm reading, not cold.
conspiracy theorist
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But then it would seem that more testosterone concentration in human males increases status seeking behaviour.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068300/
Kind of contradicts your contention, ynnest.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068300/
Kind of contradicts your contention, ynnest.
I always imagined a simple relationship between testosterone and aggression, but this is another instance that correlation does not imply causation.
conspiracy theorist
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Yep, the simplistic link between aggression and testosterone might work for rats, but not us.
It puts into perspective an astrological axiom that when Mars predominates for profession that it gears toward leadership and social climbing. According to one astrologer's testing, many of the popes have a prominent Mars.
It puts into perspective an astrological axiom that when Mars predominates for profession that it gears toward leadership and social climbing. According to one astrologer's testing, many of the popes have a prominent Mars.
conspiracy theorist
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What specifically are you directing that comment toward, passiflora?
conspiracy theorist
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Who would I be if I didn't fall off the face of the map every once in awhile?
conspiracy theorist
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I wouldn't say I am out of the cave yet, but I think it's fine to occasionally look out from the cracks.
david starling
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How's it looking out there?
Not my theory:
''The science of astrology was developed in, most probably, the late 2nd or early 1st century B.C., as a mean to predict, from horoscopic themata draw up for the moment of an individual's birth (or conception), the fate of that native. This form of astrology, called genethlialogy, is rooted in Aristotelean physics and Hellenistic astronomy, but also borrowed much from Mesopotamia and some elements from Egypt as well as developing many theories of its own... All of these types of astrology depend on the notion that the planets, in their eternal rotations about the earth, transmit motion (change) to the four elements and to the assemblages of elements, animate or inanimate, in the sublunar world. This theory is completely different from that of celestial omens, in which the gods, whose physical manifestations are the constellations and planets send messages concerning their intentions regarding kings and countries by means of celestial phenomena.'' - Pingree, D. E. (1997). From astral omens to astrology: from Babylon to Bīkāner
david starling
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This isn't off thread in the original discussion.
Whatever .
david starling
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Okay, what about the timing? Why did astrology as we know it develop in the time-frame it did?
Science was developing rapidly in the Hellenized world. Astronomy/astrology was found to be the method of meteorological prognostication, and the elemental qualities that were observed there were then used for other purposes of state and individual destiny. That is where the fundamentals of astrology were developed, such as the powers of the planets, signs, aspects and angles. The best example from this time period is the work of Claudius Ptolemy - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/home.html It remains the best book on astrology ever written, despite being ridden with errors of the times.
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I can't see how this study is contradicting my contention, you will have to evolve that one if you want to make yourself understood here from my perspective.
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It was developed by rational people, not by space cadets, is my point.
