Horoscopes

[Stitchlips -X--X-]

I was reading this article on horoscopes the other day and was wondering if you could tell me what you think of the subject. do you think it's real or do you think its a bucket of fuzzle poop. plz answer

[Nate]

Fuzzle poop.

*closes*

[Dixanadu]

It's still open... ¬_¬

[Daxter King]

Im a Libra.

[abe619]

I'm an Aries....

[Strike Witch]

Sometimes when I read the paper, my grandmother asks me for her horoscope, telling me which sign she is. I then read her the horoscope for a different sign.

According to her, it's been very accurate.

[abe619]

well i said my zodiac but that doesn't mean that i believe in horoscope, i partially believe in it.....

[Leto]

I think they are open enough to be interpreted in a million different ways, which in turn makes them sort of a cultural 'truth', in that the truth behind them is the personal interpretation you read into them.

Thusly, the negative ones always seem to be 'right' for me because I can go "OMFG, I CAN TOTALLY RELATE" or whatever.

[Bullet Magnet]

This month, Leto can totally relate:

Cancer Jun 21 - Jul 22
After what happens to you tomorrow, you'll be left asking one simple question. "Was there anything I could have done to save them?"

Leo Jul 23 - Aug 22
Somebody's been working out. Unfortunately, it's not you, it's the fitness instructor who's sleeping with your girlfriend.

Virgo Aug 23 - Sep 22
Happy birthday! Sadly, everyone's got something important on that night.

Libra Sep 23 - Oct 22
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red sky in morning? You're being made redundant.

Scorpio Oct 23 - Nov 21
Remember, they start yellow-stickering the big trifles in Tesco about half six.

Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21
Uh-oh.

Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 19
Remember how you wanted to be an astronaut when you grew up? Well this month you find out that the guy you hated at school is one.

Aquarius Jan 20 - Feb 18
You like Tigers, right? You don't? Oh... Sorry, what? No, no reason.

Pisces Feb 19 - March 20
Events will transpire to put you in a coma, but the nurses will agree that, were it not for the muscle atrophy, you'd be "quite fit".

Aries March 21 - April 19
You'll make a fantastic sarnie, but nobody will believe you.

Taurus April 20 - May 20
Nothing much to report.

Gemini May 21 - Jun 20
Your relentless optimism becomes contagious! As does the deadly pathogen that's been incubating in your lungs.

[Phantasos]

Virgo Aug 23 - Sep 22
Happy birthday! Sadly, everyone's got something important on that night.

Good god, it WAS my birthday! How did they know!?

[Ridg3]

Feb 19 - March 20
Events will transpire to put you in a coma, but the nurses will agree that, were it not for the muscle atrophy, you'd be "quite fit".

Might I add the events that will transpire will make me want to put myself into a coma, just to avoid it.

[abe619]

put yourself to cryogenic sleep instead...

[Mac Sirloin]

Pisces Feb 19 - March 20
Events will transpire to put you in a coma, but the nurses will agree that, were it not for the muscle atrophy, you'd be "quite fit".

Frankly, I wouldn't have it any other way.

[MeechMunchie]

Bullshit. Next question.

[Bullet Magnet]

The funniest part about astrology is that because of the Precession Cycle, in which the Earth's orbit drifts relative to the stars (it takes approximately 26,000 years for the equinox to return to its original position, though the exact time cannot be given because the rate of precession is changing over time). Essentially, the classical dates given for the time the sun is in each star sign are almost a month behind by now.

[Leto]

Those are almost open enough to personal interpretation, good jorb at illustrating point. It's all about everything being constructs etc spoken like a true sociology student etc

[T-nex]

I think horoscopes are stupid >: (

My sister believes in them... What is there even to believe anyway? It's just a piece of text that someone made, and then the reader forcefully tries to make it fit somehow. Meh.

Tomorrow.... You will live another day. Maybe.

[moxco]

While I'm not saying I believe in them, horoscopes are not just random pieces of text. They have to do with the star constilation you were born under and when that constilation becomes aligned with other stars and planets which each uniquely symbolize something so crazy wiccan hippies think your future can be predicted.

[Nate]

While I'm not saying I believe in them, horoscopes are not just random pieces of text. They have to do with the star constilation you were born under and when that constilation becomes aligned with other stars and planets which each uniquely symbolize something so crazy wiccan hippies think your future can be predicted.

Do you really believe that the 'astrologer' at the newspaper spends his/her nights looking through a telescope and days scribbling numbers on a piece of paper to come up with the next edition's perfect (to them) prediction? Or do you think that they're lazy and just make shit up?


What bothers me about people who believe in horoscopes is that they think a full 1/12 of the population is going to have good luck on a given day and fall in love the next day and find something lost the day after that. Simply keeping their eyes open would prove to them how crazy the idea is.

[enchilado]

Yeah, and stop them walking into things.

[MeechMunchie]

My feelings in song. Apart from the bit about religion.

[STM]

For a student about to receive A level results:

you will gain a revelation today...if you are a sixth form student

[Stitchlips -X--X-]

i hate them i read one about capricorns (which i am) and it was the complete opposite of what really happened

[moxco]

Do you really believe that the 'astrologer' at the newspaper spends his/her nights looking through a telescope and days scribbling numbers on a piece of paper to come up with the next edition's perfect (to them) prediction? Or do you think that they're lazy and just make shit up?

No, they probably have a common source that tells what star signs have what planet in their sights and the astrologer knows what each planet means and therefore will give their interpretations of it.

[Leto]

What is there even to believe anyway? It's just a piece of text that someone made, and then the reader forcefully tries to make it fit somehow. Meh.

Kind of like everything anyone has ever believed in amirite

[Nate]

No, they probably have a common source that tells what star signs have what planet in their sights and the astrologer knows what each planet means and therefore will give their interpretations of it.

Then why don't they all have the same (or similar) predictions?

[moxco]

You check?