I’m a skeptic. Most of the time, I have to see or hear something firsthand just to believe it’s true. Sometimes my friends and I experiment with psychics on the boardwalk in the summer just to find out how ridiculous our futures sound when predicted by a stranger. After hearing everything from “You’ll have five sons” to “Beware the second Tuesday of the month,” we really just visit them for the fun of it… and waste our money, in my opinion, in the process.
As for horoscopes, my take on them is if you read one in the morning, you’ll associate the day’s happenings with the predictions and somehow make them fit. If you go through your day blindly without consulting your horoscope and, instead, read it at the end of the day, you’ll do the same thing and begin to think about how your day fit into the proposed predictions.
I think horoscopes are a hoax, and just because you’re born on a certain day and month, there’s no way to predict the future. But I’m also really curious as to whether or not they’ve been ironically spot-on for some people.
Ridiculous or reality? How do you feel about horoscopes?
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Most of the time I think horoscopes are BS, but every once in a while they match up to what I’m going through. I just look at them for entertainment.
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Why would the arrangement of the constellations, which are just a human construct, have anything to do with what goes on in your life? It’s another scam for gullible people.
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Fun to read. Incredibly stupid to base any aspect of your life around.
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I think it’s a load of crap. From daily ones to romantic compatibility. If you like what it says, you want to believe it. If you dislike it, you disagree and hate it. So it’s all about convenience in believing I think.
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Fun to read, stupid to believe.
daffodil / 1607 posts
there are people who study actual astrology, more than what the newspaper horoscopes tell you, and claim that there are energies within the stars and alginment that predict or can describe a person.
I personally think this is great that someone came up with such an extensive empirical set of data and came up with this. well, not someONE but some people, great minds, as some would say. But, I have a very hard time believing that these energies have much dominance over us, unless they mean the butterfly effect, where one cosmic change can affect something on earth such as the weather, causing some effect in the person.
And the predictions that they make, like certain people were meant to meet, you were meant to live here, you are this way in temperament, i figure that some tend to believe those becuase it’s jsut that-something to believe in, something to confirm reality and something to help us be sure of what we’re doing. If the stars, or “heavens’ say it shoudl be, then more power to us/person believing in the constellations/horoscopes.
Though the real study of it takes in to account more than jsut constellations, much more, I still don’t think it’s credible- at least no to me. But then again, I don’t really believe in energy healing (when someone manifests his inner qi and is able to heal someone through the heat/touch…yea te warmth feels good but its hard for me to believe that one person’s touch/heat can heal something so deeply rooted within another’s body), or churches/christnas who claim that they can ‘speak” in tongues
plus if you read some of those extensive, more reserached horoscopes, you can be like oh! that sounds like me! But we’re all so complex that I could draw only certain things from the page for cancer (my sign) and certain thinsg from gemini, some things from taurus.
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I think that horoscopes are phony and nobody should rely on them. However, they always do seem to match what im going through on any given day.
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The ONLY reason that a horoscope’s prediction might seem to fit into what’s happening in your life is because they are so ridiculously vague that thousands of situations can fit into the description. I think they can be fun to read though =]
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horoscopes, sometimes. I can definitely see the “fitting it into your day” aspect, and I don’t like that horoscopes from different sites say different things. Once in a while there is a ‘THIS.’ moment, though. I think natal charts are more accurate and interesting, personally.
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horoscopes are usually universal advice, so it makes sense that people feel they’re accurate. the average horoscope contains advice as ridiculously common sense as
“today would be a bad day to get hit by a 16 wheel truck”, after all.
sometimes a suggestion out of the blue helps people think about their lives/predicaments from a new perspective, so i don’t see much harm in them.
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Check on Long Island Medium. I don’t pay attention to horoscopes. Maybe I should. But I think some people have gifts of communication with spirits.