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porphyryI belong elsewhere to a discussion list devoted to certain aspects of Late Antique religion.
One of the other members--beisdes constatnly going out his way to mock me--constatly espouses a weird combination of half-understood facts with his grandiose and nearly psychotic syncretic, mystifiying interpretations.
The other day he admited that he is a professional atrologer (or at least that is his pretension, I have no idea what he makes from it--though, oddly enough one of my best 'freinds' on the list some years ago was another astrologer).
Once he revealed this, I had, of course, powerful weapons to use agianst him , since the debunking of astrology is a well-known procedure.
I limited myself to asking him two questions.
The first was an updating of Augustine's ship-wreck test: Everyone that died in the WTC on 9/11 perished from two single instanaeous events. How could this be when their natal charts must have contained a tremendous amount of variation.
His answer: How do you know their natal charts were all different? have you seen them? Look them up and then send them to me, and I'll explain it to you.
The second question was: of The inverse square law is not a principal of astrology (by which, for insance, light from more distant obects is dimmer than from nearer ones of the same absolute brightness). The moon and saturn have the same level of influece, and the stars count equally. So what about the problem of newly discovered classes of astronomical objecsts, such as galaxies and Kyper objects (Kyper objects, by the way, are large masses of rock and ice that circle the sun out beyond the planets--Pluto and Chairon are the nearest, and as far as we know the largest which is why they were originally msitaken for a planet; there are millions of these objects; colelctively they probably have more mass than the planets). Surely these must have a huge influence on the astrological radiation of fate, but they are never taken into account in astrological charts.
His answer: Kyper? Do you mean Kepler? What are you gibbering about?
One of the other members--beisdes constatnly going out his way to mock me--constatly espouses a weird combination of half-understood facts with his grandiose and nearly psychotic syncretic, mystifiying interpretations.
The other day he admited that he is a professional atrologer (or at least that is his pretension, I have no idea what he makes from it--though, oddly enough one of my best 'freinds' on the list some years ago was another astrologer).
Once he revealed this, I had, of course, powerful weapons to use agianst him , since the debunking of astrology is a well-known procedure.
I limited myself to asking him two questions.
The first was an updating of Augustine's ship-wreck test: Everyone that died in the WTC on 9/11 perished from two single instanaeous events. How could this be when their natal charts must have contained a tremendous amount of variation.
His answer: How do you know their natal charts were all different? have you seen them? Look them up and then send them to me, and I'll explain it to you.
The second question was: of The inverse square law is not a principal of astrology (by which, for insance, light from more distant obects is dimmer than from nearer ones of the same absolute brightness). The moon and saturn have the same level of influece, and the stars count equally. So what about the problem of newly discovered classes of astronomical objecsts, such as galaxies and Kyper objects (Kyper objects, by the way, are large masses of rock and ice that circle the sun out beyond the planets--Pluto and Chairon are the nearest, and as far as we know the largest which is why they were originally msitaken for a planet; there are millions of these objects; colelctively they probably have more mass than the planets). Surely these must have a huge influence on the astrological radiation of fate, but they are never taken into account in astrological charts.
His answer: Kyper? Do you mean Kepler? What are you gibbering about?
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Date: 2007-06-10 01:48 pm (UTC)