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Astrology is based on ancient attempts to make sense of a world that makes no sense.

SnowyOwl 8 Oct 23
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Exactly

bobwjr Level 10 Oct 24, 2021
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But..But.. It's so entertaining... Sometimes they come up with predictions that are pretty close. It's like, why not just tell me my moon is in heat?

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It is easy to understand how it began, because of course, some things, like the seasons the tides and the breeding cycles of many animals, are in fact, predictable by observing the movements in the sky. And in ancient times, when most people lived by primitive agriculture and/or hunter gathering, those sorts of things and predicting them, would have been really important, in a way that we can hardly understand now. While the movements of the planets and stars, were one of the few entertainments available while you sat round the campfire at night.

So that it was only a small jump of false logic to start thinking. If the big really important things follow the movements of the stars, perhaps the little things do too.

My mother mentioned that one of her JW friends was going to plant their garlic today because it was the full moon, something that I found quite interesting because this would be a pagan practice and the JW's despise anything pagan. I explained it had more to do with that historically, farmers didn't have printed calendars and had to rely upon the cycles of the moon for timing the planting and harvesting of crops but it seemed to fall on deaf ears.

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astrology is the root of christianity

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