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Astrology is more than 4000 years old, what concrete results did it provide?
by falcor84 10mo ago
Astrology is more than 4000 years old, what concrete results did it provide?
- savolai 10mo agoOne could claim it is a self reflection tool where the point is not the claims at face value, but the value lies in the activity itself of focusing, of directing your mind to look at and feel your existence from a different/wide perspective. Which is true about many pedagogical tools. The concrete results would thus be highly specific to the subject and their learning process on what they themselves deem relevant.
- yownie 10mo agoThis has been my answer too, to more analytical minded friends who asked (sardonically). I-ching / tarot can be looked at strictly as systems for structured introspection.
- cyberpunk 10mo agoIt gives people some comfort and motivation, same as religions do. I’m not saying everything that lasted so long has scientifically verifiable benefits, but they clear have some societal or mental benefits otherwise people wouldn’t do em
- muwtyhg 10mo agoThis sounds like saying "Everything that human beings do is good, because if it wasn't, they wouldn't continue to do it!"
- Aeglaecia 10mo agoit may sound like that to you , to me it sounds like survival of the fittest has nothing to do with what we humans choose to define as fit
- edmundsauto 10mo agoSurvival of the fittest is "that which reproduces more successfully, continues". In biology, this is genetics. In ideas, it's memetics. I suppose this means that our most powerful ideas from the internet generation are Rickroll, Doge, and Grumpy Cat.
- mxmilkiib 10mo agoone reflection on that would be the nvc phrase "violence is the tragic expression of unmet needs"
- BobaFloutist 10mo agoOk, then let's put it all together and say that people are interested in whether or not yoga has concrete benefits above and beyond comfort and motivation, which, while obviously valuable, are not the stated benefits.