Two confronted videos where every one offers his perspective about astrology.
I'm a great admirer of Derren Brown. Unfortunately he seems to have fallen into the same intellectual trap that Randi did: if you are a magician, what you do is trickery. A scam. Therefore: anything else beyond the strictly clinically observed level is a scam too.
A shame neither of them have read the March 13-19, 2004 issue of New Scientist, with it's cover story about "why the paranormal won't surrende to reason."
And why won't it? Because when one goes over all the most tightly controlled studies of the paranormal... it ain't bull.
New Scientist rightly points out that although it is the job of science to overthrow false worldviews, scientists are as prone to false worldviews as the next human.
Believe it or not, I was just thinking about this guy, The Amazing Randi. I had heard of him through some people at work who dismiss anything outside of what they call "hard evidence". Anyways, I was looking to see what James Randi's astrology chart looks like. Couldn't find it. But what I found instead was a YouTube video where he tries to debunk astrology. He gave all the students their horoscopes given their birth data. Students voted on a scale of 1 to 5 how accurate it was, 5 being the most accurate. The majority of students gave it a "1". He asked the students to exchange the horoscopes with each other. At that point, they laughed. Randi said they'd all been given the same horoscope.
What makes me laugh is not that Randi gave the students the same horoscopes, trying to debunk astrology, but that he tricked himself without even realizing it. If you give inaccurate horoscopes to people to begin with (since they'd be inaccurate because not everyone was born at the same place, date, and time), wouldn't you expect everyone to rate those same horoscopes a "1"?
Point being, if you're looking that hard for a scam, chances are, you'll be the first to find it. The universe is kinder than you think... it'll give you exactly what you're looking for.
Irrespective of whether 'piscesascendant' got it wrong,Its been very apparent to me that Randi has made a career out of debunking astrology and other similar arts from a very dodgey standpoint.
Saturn conjunct the south node in the 5th suggests to me that he wants to make a very public display from a poorly informed basis.
Ps: 'sonicyouth' you appear to be coming from a very dubious direction by being incapable of polite argument.
Youll never arrive at any understanding thats worth anything swearing like that.
That's two sentences. You should have used a period, not a comma.SonicYouth said:Fúck this cosmic búllshit, you're all idiots.
That's two sentences. You should have used a period, not a comma.
Hi guys. How does it feel knowing your whole life is being determined by big balls of gas?
Everyone makes there own destiny....The BIG BALLS OF GAS as you put it are influences in our life, and learning astrology could make a difference in your life, by learning what they do to us we could improve on our SOCIAL SKILLS!! and also learn about ourselves and improve where we think our flaws are....
Hi guys. How does it feel knowing your whole life is being determined by big balls of gas?
The gas itself does nothing. You've forgotten the relationships between all the gases, which gas is exalted (good smelling gas?) which gas is in detriment not to mention why many not-too-well-versed-in-astrology people look to it to begin with.... which gas is compatible with other gas. Will the relationship work? (Combustible gas?) or not work? (flat gas). Some people come here to help others (full-serve gas). Others come here for "other reasons" (self-serve gas).
The cost of gas is going up, too!
What's in your wallet?
Fúck this cosmic búllshit, you're all idiots.
You're all deluding yourselves though and peddling this nonsense is an intellectual embarrassment. Science ftw, bitches.