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> Astrology seems to be an alright stand in. It is fraud and is a predatory practice preying on people's ignorance and gullibility. This is like saying that o

> Astrology seems to be an alright stand in. It is fraud and is a predatory practice preying on people's ignorance and gullibility. This is like saying that other flim flam artists are an 'alright stand in'. Other forms of fraud are generally outlawed. Why should this one be allowed.

skapadia 5y ago
Exactly. In this day and age, it's unbelievable that humans still believe in religion and astrology.
- umvi 5y ago
  Well, until science can provide a better answer to the meaning of life than: > "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built." (Bertrand Russell) I doubt people will stop having hope that there is an an answer more fulfilling/meaningful/better than that out there somewhere.
  - autosharp 5y ago
    hope =/= stars show my destiny One can have plenty of hope for better explanations without a Jesus or astrologers.
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't take HN threads further into generic flamewar, especially not religious flamewar. That way leads to hell. Ironically enough I suppose. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
  - hyperpallium2 5y ago
    It's a shame this submission disappeared off the front page, but was OK last time it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472149 443 points 2 years ago 407 comments I found it intellectually interesting.
autosharp 5y ago
> It is fraud and is a predatory practice preying on people's ignorance and gullibility. Not just that, but these kinds of practices (e.g. homeopathy etc too) they specifically prey on the sick and weakest members of society.

skapadia 5y ago

Exactly. In this day and age, it's unbelievable that humans still believe in religion and astrology.

umvi 5y ago
Well, until science can provide a better answer to the meaning of life than: > "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built." (Bertrand Russell) I doubt people will stop having hope that there is an an answer more fulfilling/meaningful/better than that out there somewhere.
- autosharp 5y ago
  hope =/= stars show my destiny One can have plenty of hope for better explanations without a Jesus or astrologers.
dang 5y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into generic flamewar, especially not religious flamewar. That way leads to hell. Ironically enough I suppose. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- hyperpallium2 5y ago
  It's a shame this submission disappeared off the front page, but was OK last time it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472149 443 points 2 years ago 407 comments I found it intellectually interesting.

autosharp 5y ago

> It is fraud and is a predatory practice preying on people's ignorance and gullibility. Not just that, but these kinds of practices (e.g. homeopathy etc too) they specifically prey on the sick and weakest members of society.