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[Forgotten Warrior]

Also, I've wondered this for some time,and I thought this would be a good place to ask it.
I know this post is supposed to be only text,but as far as I remember,links are allowed,right?
I created that post about 2 weeks ago mostly out of curiosity.
https://www.astrologyweekly.com/foru...772#post997772
Thank you again so much for all of your help!And sorry if I asked too much!

[conspiracy theorist]

The Real Ockham's Razor

[Forgotten Warrior]

Originally Posted by Forgotten Warrior

Also, I've wondered this for some time,and I thought this would be a good place to ask it.
I know this post is supposed to be only text,but as far as I remember,links are allowed,right?
I created that post about 2 weeks ago mostly out of curiosity.
https://www.astrologyweekly.com/foru...772#post997772
Thank you again so much for all of your help!And sorry if I asked too much!

I shouldn't have posted this...

[conspiracy theorist]

Originally Posted by Forgotten Warrior

I shouldn't have posted this...

Chin up. Have a read of this https://www.astrologyweekly.com/foru...d.php?t=108350

[Ukpoohbear]

Rudiii what’s the poverty situation like where you live? I know the country is poor but do the vulnerable suffer? I just watched a video about poverty in my country and it was upsetting. Even though we are a ‘rich’ country, there have been political decisions that have caused the vulnerable to suffer a lot.

[Whoam1]

If life was a car... many people would say how to handle the situation. Me personally if life were a car I'd just get out of it.

[david starling]

Originally Posted by Whoam1

If life was a car... many people would say how to handle the situation. Me personally if life were a car I'd just get out of it.

If you think of your Chart as vehicle for living your life, what sort of vehicle would it be? Mine is like a sailboat with an auxiliary engine for emergency situations.

[Whoam1]

Originally Posted by david starling

If you think of your Chart as vehicle for living your life, what sort of vehicle would it be? Mine is like a sailboat with an auxiliary engine for emergency situations.

Mine would be a bucket with a wooden spoon as a paddle. But the bucket would be made by Cadillac and the spoon by Calvin Klein (when a Pluto moon is the bucket, Jupiter being in there is the branding, and capricorn is the enigma that makes those brands the one I chose).

[david starling]

Originally Posted by Whoam1

Mine would be a bucket with a wooden spoon as a paddle. But the bucket would be made by Cadillac and the spoon by Calvin Klein (when a Pluto moon is the bucket, Jupiter being in there is the branding, and capricorn is the enigma that makes those brands the one I chose).

Not a submarine, then? Maybe you could upgrade to a Cadillac canoe with a Calvin Klein canoe paddle.

[david starling]

Originally Posted by passiflora

I love this site. This particular essay isn’t my favorite essay but I can understand why you like it, conspiracy theorist, as you have experienced a much wider internet world than me. The writer reminds of Taleb - not Kweli the rapper but Lebanese Greek Orthodox economist Nicholas Nassim. I hope it’s not. People call Taleb insufferably superior, pugilistic, demeaning. I don’t think so. Sounds to me like a diamond mind filled with a pure love. Are the two traits unrecognizable together in a worldly person?

I thought a little shave with an Occam's razor could have resulted in a better article. Moderation in all things, including both simplicity and complexity.

[Forgotten Warrior]

Originally Posted by conspiracy theorist

Chin up. Have a read of this https://www.astrologyweekly.com/foru...d.php?t=108350

Ok,thank you so much for the link.

[Whoam1]

Want to hear something crazy.
I made my name on this sight when I was oiss drunk tired, that name lead to many conversations, which lead me to where I am in astrology but also shaped my remaining years of highschool, the name lead to discussions of what career I'll choose, that literally blows my mind.

If I never chose my name here at midnight **** drunk tired I wouldn't be going to the best culinary institution in the world like I am today.

[Forgotten Warrior]

Originally Posted by Ukpoohbear

Rudiii what’s the poverty situation like where you live? I know the country is poor but do the vulnerable suffer? I just watched a video about poverty in my country and it was upsetting. Even though we are a ‘rich’ country, there have been political decisions that have caused the vulnerable to suffer a lot.

Well,it's pretty complicated....Some poor people don't even receive financial help(or very little),and others who are faking it(they're inventing various excuses to not work),and these guys mainly receive more than poor people.Of course,the poor ones with many children generally gain more money from the government(that's one of the criteria)
But poverty is caused by the corruption,the political situation in my country.That's why many are leaving,especially young people.We sadly have one of the biggest diasporas in the world,even though we are only 19 million(we used to be 21/22)
I personally don't want to leave,my country has good parts too,but everyone my age is bragging about it,so...

[Forgotten Warrior]

Originally Posted by Whoam1

If life was a car... many people would say how to handle the situation. Me personally if life were a car I'd just get out of it.

We all feel like it.

[david starling]

Has anyone read "How to Solve It" by George Polya? My father insisted I read it when I was about 14. Gave me some good grounding in practical thinking.

[Forgotten Warrior]

Originally Posted by david starling

If you think of your Chart as vehicle for living your life, what sort of vehicle would it be? Mine is like a sailboat with an auxiliary engine for emergency situations.

Mine would be a submarine,going deep,deep in the ocean.

[david starling]

Originally Posted by passiflora

I love this site. This particular essay isn’t my favorite essay but I can understand why you like it, conspiracy theorist, as you have experienced a much wider internet world than me. The writer reminds of Taleb - not Kweli the rapper but Lebanese Greek Orthodox economist Nicholas Nassim. I hope it’s not. People call Taleb insufferably superior, pugilistic, demeaning. I don’t think so. Sounds to me like a diamond mind filled with a pure love. Are the two traits unrecognizable together in a worldly person?

Can you recommend any essays you really admired on this site?

[passiflora]

Once you get used to the savage deconstructive tenor of philosophy of science applied rigorously to popular media and threateningly present-tense institutional corruption, most are pretty fun.

Try the foundational idea, https://theethicalskeptic.com/2012/0...al-skepticism/

And this exemplar that so refreshingly disposes of most of what is passed off as journalism: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2018/1...gency-at-play/

He takes risk seriously which has to be coated in profanity or something like it to skirt the psychopaths at the gate.

[conspiracy theorist]

Originally Posted by passiflora

I love this site. This particular essay isn’t my favorite essay but I can understand why you like it, conspiracy theorist, as you have experienced a much wider internet world than me. The writer reminds of Taleb - not Kweli the rapper but Lebanese Greek Orthodox economist Nicholas Nassim. I hope it’s not. People call Taleb insufferably superior, pugilistic, demeaning. I don’t think so. Sounds to me like a diamond mind filled with a pure love. Are the two traits unrecognizable together in a worldly person?

I looked up Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Interesting and powerful sounding man, I like what I see summarized regarding his life's work. I'm going to go search around for his writings to get a more in-depth understanding of the kinds of ideas he's put forward.

One thing that I can give the Theosophists credit for is that they understand that a person can be working class in the most "mundane" professional field and still be guided by the "white brotherhood". There isn't any unnecessary divorcing of the two spheres at all. There's also schools of thought that raise being "nice" and inoffensive to the highest virtue, and anybody showing an edge simply isn't evolved or spiritually advanced enough. I wonder how such people would fair underneath the auspices of some of the legendary Zen masters and other "crazy wisdom" teachers.

[david starling]

Here's a conspiracy theory: A secret league of Virgoan astronomers got together and managed to demote Pluto to dwarf-planet status for not cleaning its orbit!

[passiflora]

He’s famous for Black Swan but I like the concepts of Antifragile. He certainly could have used a tougher editor, as David suggested, but it’s the ideas that matter, and they do work in you in a crazy wisdom kind of way when he’s polished them. That is, the lashes seem justifiable. His work is probably all on libgen.

[conspiracy theorist]

Another lasher I enjoyed reading was Schopenhauer. I remember having a belly laugh after what I saw him write about I think it was Hegel. You're a talented writer if your hatred still zings after 200 years. His Mars conj. asc really shines through.

[Whoam1]

Just found out I had an angular Uranus with .08 degrees of the vertex. Unconsciously Uranus should have been my name I guess. Also for all those who guessed an Aquarian nature, my bad you were very correct.

[SunConjunctUranus]

Are there any temple of Jesuit monk in Jamaica?

[david starling]

Originally Posted by conspiracy theorist

Another lasher I enjoyed reading was Schopenhauer. I remember having a belly laugh after what I saw him write about I think it was Hegel. You're a talented writer if your hatred still zings after 200 years. His Mars conj. asc really shines through.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) had a wicked sense of humor. He spoke truth to power, even though it hurt his career. Sun, Mars, and Venus in Sagittarius; Moon conj Pluto in Aries; Asc and Mercury in Scorpio; Leo M.C.; and, Urania() Domicled in Aquarius.
Wonder what he'd have to say about today's world.