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The gravitational pull of nearby, mundane objects is just as strong, if not stronger, than the pull of the stars and planets. If the gravitational pull of the s
by cowboysauce 9y ago
The gravitational pull of nearby, mundane objects is just as strong, if not stronger, than the pull of the stars and planets. If the gravitational pull of the stars and planets impacts human behavior, as astrology posists, then so should a cow several miles away.
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- mikeash 9y agoDoes astrology actually posit a mechanism? I thought that part was left unspecified.
- baddox 9y agoAccording to the first sentence of the article, gravity is one suggested mechanism.
- mikeash 9y agoSure, but there’s potentially a large gulf between “some people attempt to rationalize astrology by saying” and “astrology says.”
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- jpmoyn 9y agoHe is just addressing the people who rationalize it by gravity, then.
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- godzilla82 9y agoExactly. Side question: If you really believe something, do you feel the need to rationalize it?
- nonbel 9y agoI think astrology only posits that human behavior is somehow correlated with the positions of the various heavenly bodies. This could be via an intermediate correlation with the weather, etc.
- abledon 9y agoIsn’t there a quantum theory of entanglement that says something like once two electrons meet then separate they are still ‘bound’ and influencing each other ? I wonder since, as carbon based life forms , we are all just made up of stardust , how and on what string theoretical levels we are quantum entangled with all the atoms known as planets moving around ?