24th May 2009, 1:14 PM
Fuck, I was typing up a response earlier and my keyboard cut out. Once I determined that the letters were not just delayed from coming up on screen because of poor performance (the virus scanner was running which always kills it, man this piece of shit is old), I started grumbling about needing to run out to Best Buy on my "2nd saturday" of the three-day weekend, and then I found out it got unplugged somehow. That happens to me all the time at work because I need to stretch out my long sexy legs, but my set-up is pretty accomodating at home.
Anyway:
Don't forget that there's a difference between astrology and horoscopes. ;) Horoscopes are for the type of people who would buy lottery tickets or call psychic hotlines. I think there could possibly be some legitimacy in astrology, namely in the seasonal context. I think we had this conversation before over MSN, but there are three factors that I think give credence to astrology:
1) Evidence shows that seasons/times spent in daylight and night have an affect on people's moods.
2) A huge amount of human psychological development occurs in the first 6 or so years of a person's life, which dictates a lot how that person will be through adolescence and adulthood. Of course, other internal (physiological)/external influences take place and are much heavier, but still, couldn't some influence from an seasonal perspective occur?
3) Since people are born all throughout the year, a person's natural life cycles occur during different seasons (such as birthdays occuring at different times).
If there's documented scientific evidence of an alteration of people's moods based on minute changes in gravity and radioactive energy, I'm on board with that, too. Do you have any links to pages talking about the Chinese study that you mentioned?
Anyway:
Don't forget that there's a difference between astrology and horoscopes. ;) Horoscopes are for the type of people who would buy lottery tickets or call psychic hotlines. I think there could possibly be some legitimacy in astrology, namely in the seasonal context. I think we had this conversation before over MSN, but there are three factors that I think give credence to astrology:
1) Evidence shows that seasons/times spent in daylight and night have an affect on people's moods.
2) A huge amount of human psychological development occurs in the first 6 or so years of a person's life, which dictates a lot how that person will be through adolescence and adulthood. Of course, other internal (physiological)/external influences take place and are much heavier, but still, couldn't some influence from an seasonal perspective occur?
3) Since people are born all throughout the year, a person's natural life cycles occur during different seasons (such as birthdays occuring at different times).
If there's documented scientific evidence of an alteration of people's moods based on minute changes in gravity and radioactive energy, I'm on board with that, too. Do you have any links to pages talking about the Chinese study that you mentioned?