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By *hirley OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

To the astrological zodiac signs? Do you believe your personality can really be linked to the time of year you were born, and your subsequent destiny shaped by it with each movement of the earth in relation to sol?

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

Personally I think it’s a load of bollocks, but I have no belief in anything like that, horoscopes, Crystal healing, auras, spirituality of any kind.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Absolute horse shit but if it brings somebody else comfort then it can’t be a bad thing.

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

"To the astrological zodiac signs? Do you believe your personality can really be linked to the time of year you were born, and your subsequent destiny shaped by it with each movement of the earth in relation to sol?"

So everyone is split into one of 12 specific destiny's. And all of those hundreds of millions of people will have identical traits?

Yep. I'm a total believer.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I don't believe in it but I've attended quite a few weddings where the time and date of the ceremony has been decided by astrology

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

So everyone is split into one of 12 specific destiny's. And all of those hundreds of millions of people will have identical traits?

Yep. I'm a total believer."

Not just 12 destinies. The other stars affect your specific destiny, based on their relative positions at the moment of your birth.

Or so I'm lead to understand.

Personally, I don't believe a word of it.

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By *hirley OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

So do you think existence is just mechanical and everyone has been designed by chance over anything deeper than that?

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By *hirley OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"I don't believe in it but I've attended quite a few weddings where the time and date of the ceremony has been decided by astrology"

I've not come across this? Time and date setting

Will look into it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I believe in some of it as it brings me comfort after the traumatic death of my hamster earlier this year…I love tarot cards, dream meanings, astrology etc as it brings me immeasurable comfort.

Ironically, I also work in STEM, so I believe science too. I guess I just like to have a mix of both

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By *hirley OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"Personally I think it’s a load of bollocks, but I have no belief in anything like that, horoscopes, Crystal healing, auras, spirituality of any kind."

Is there any specific reason/experience you don't believe, or is it just the lack of hard evidence?

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

If there is any thing in this lets hope nobody was born same time as putin!

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By *hirley OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"I believe in some of it as it brings me comfort after the traumatic death of my hamster earlier this year…I love tarot cards, dream meanings, astrology etc as it brings me immeasurable comfort.

Ironically, I also work in STEM, so I believe science too. I guess I just like to have a mix of both

Scientific explanation can only go so far, I don't see the answers to everything ever being close to realisation, not for human kind...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am interested in it all. I believe loads of it, why not? I’ve never seen anything that’s negative about it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I very believe in mine, wait...oh actually no I don't. But maybe I do, no no, I definitely don't.

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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago

Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds

Most people subscribe to horoscopes as such you find in places like Take a Break, which will only have a tiny glimmer of anything resembling astrology. If you have a full star chart drawn up by an actual astrologer you'll find a lot more relevant information because its a personal reading.

I'll be honest I lean into believing it from that angle but I try to keep a level of skepticism about it anyway.

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

So everyone is split into one of 12 specific destiny's. And all of those hundreds of millions of people will have identical traits?

Yep. I'm a total believer."

Yep.

I don't understand how anyone falls for that shit. But then millions believe we're all descended from two people who according to someone's diary, had two sons........

I put more faith in extra terrestrials existing than I do in astrology, religion, magic or any other mystical fuckery.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I very believe in mine, wait...oh actually no I don't. But maybe I do, no no, I definitely don't. "

You’re a sign that’s normally indecided aren’t you?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the is something in it unfortunately like a lot of these things there are plenty of frauds around. There is so much we don’t understand as that knowledge has been lost. The pyramids are a great example of this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I very believe in mine, wait...oh actually no I don't. But maybe I do, no no, I definitely don't.

You’re a sign that’s normally indecided aren’t you? "

Am I??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I very believe in mine, wait...oh actually no I don't. But maybe I do, no no, I definitely don't.

You’re a sign that’s normally indecided aren’t you?

Am I??"

And always questions things….I can tell.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I very believe in mine, wait...oh actually no I don't. But maybe I do, no no, I definitely don't.

You’re a sign that’s normally indecided aren’t you?

Am I??

And always questions things….I can tell. "

Do you think?

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

So everyone is split into one of 12 specific destiny's. And all of those hundreds of millions of people will have identical traits?

Yep. I'm a total believer.

Yep.

I don't understand how anyone falls for that shit. But then millions believe we're all descended from two people who according to someone's diary, had two sons........

I put more faith in extra terrestrials existing than I do in astrology, religion, magic or any other mystical fuckery.

You don't need any faith to believe in extra terrestrial life, just logic

Billions of planets, billions. To think that the only planet with any form of life is this one is absurd. We've been through multiple separate incarnations of life over millions of years. Numerous other planets out there will have done the same.

Mystic Meg being able to chart what is and isn't going to happen in my life because of the where and when I was born? Nope.

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By *reat me rightWoman
over a year ago

Rotherham

I'm cusp Aquarius Pisces and a dear dear (now sadly departed) used to regularly say I was typical aquarian. I have no idea if there's anything in it (other than my Small is very definitely a Scorpio in all ways) but I hold my friend dear for her views

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

"Personally I think it’s a load of bollocks, but I have no belief in anything like that, horoscopes, Crystal healing, auras, spirituality of any kind.

Is there any specific reason/experience you don't believe, or is it just the lack of hard evidence?"

Simply the fact that it needs to be referred to as a belief is enough, all belief is merely opinion given gravity unnecessarily to try to endow it with some non existent importance. The world is wonderful, astounding, breathtaking and majestic exactly as it is, it doesn’t need any pretend layer of mystery to make it any more so.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"I very believe in mine, wait...oh actually no I don't. But maybe I do, no no, I definitely don't.

You’re a sign that’s normally indecided aren’t you?

Am I??

And always questions things….I can tell.

Do you think?"

Libra

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mine does match my personality so I agree with it in that sense. Does it determine my destiny though, I don't think so.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't fully believe it but as a topic I find it really interesting. I think there are parts of you personality that matches all the zodiacs but you need to be rational in how you actually behave according to them. But that's just my typical Scorpio thinking

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do believe in them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who knows

Let people believe what they want to

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By *hirley OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"Personally I think it’s a load of bollocks, but I have no belief in anything like that, horoscopes, Crystal healing, auras, spirituality of any kind.

Is there any specific reason/experience you don't believe, or is it just the lack of hard evidence?

Yes, I understand. If there's no scientific evidence to back something it is easy to have scepticism.

I'm not really arguing against your standing but all knowledge has started as an idea (least that's how I view what philosophy as, its importance) and either been proven or disproved in some way, then in some cases brought light to unexpected discovery.

Personally, however the likelihood of a belief may be to reality, I think it still serves purpose if nothing but just to drive other counter explanations.

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

"Who knows

Let people believe what they want to"

Hmm, kinda, as long as it doesn’t impact on how others want to live their lives, opinions/beliefs all too easily become truth in that persons mind which can make them feel they have a right to impose their opinions on others, especially in the indoctrination of the young and vulnerable.

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

"Personally I think it’s a load of bollocks, but I have no belief in anything like that, horoscopes, Crystal healing, auras, spirituality of any kind.

Is there any specific reason/experience you don't believe, or is it just the lack of hard evidence?

Yes, I understand. If there's no scientific evidence to back something it is easy to have scepticism.

Personally, however the likelihood of a belief may be to reality, I think it still serves purpose if nothing but just to drive other counter explanations. "

The concept of scepticism here seems to suggest that the item under discussion has validity but lacks proof. If I said there were families of pixies living under my sofa, you would be more than sceptical because the idea is clearly absurd, I’m not sceptical of astrology as it too is clearly absurd.

If you’re saying that the purpose served in my belief in pixies under my sofa is that it has a counter explanation that I have some mental health issues that need to be addressed then I accept your point, if it’s that maybe they aren’t pixies but are actually leprechauns, then it is disappearing up its own behind.

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall

It was the ancient Babylonians who created the original astrological zodiac based on the 12 constellations they observed passing the sun during the course of a year.

Unfortunately, they missed one - there are actually 13. Even when the 13th was discovered (Ophiuchus) it was deliberately left out of western astrology as 13 was difficult to reconcile with the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar.

Anyway, it's bollocks.

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By *oeofsussexMan
over a year ago

Eastbourne

Absolutely! They have been perfected over millennia! A good astrologer, and there are very few of them, can literally tell what you have for breakfast, what sex your great-grand-kids will be and who will win the FA Cup in 2867.

They can tell both the past and future of the world.

Oh, did I say very few of them? There was actually just one good amateur called Nostradamus… the best ones haven’t been born yet. The first good one will be born in 2431 and his name will be Hexam Dagleish Al-Waridi and he’ll be born in Venice after being conceived in a Brazilian rain-forest.

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
over a year ago

Basingstoke

I'm a huge supporter of needing science to prove stuff either exists/works or doesn't. But there's just something about spiritualism, and all this so-called 'mystic' stuff, that totally resonates with me, and have some experiences that makes me believe that there just has to be something in this non-scientific stuff impacting our lives.

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Delightful Bliss

My destiny Is forged by my choices

And yes if you look up my starsign I match with many of its traits

I also believe in spiritual buddhism and its practices.

Oh and Tarot....

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"Personally I think it’s a load of bollocks, but I have no belief in anything like that, horoscopes, Crystal healing, auras, spirituality of any kind."

This for me too

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

I've never believed in horoscopes. I was born on the day one sign changes to the next, so which sign I fall into varies. How can that possibly be right if the signs are so different?

It's normally just Barnum statements coupled with confirmation bias (but them I would say that, being a gemini. Or a taurus, depending).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I very believe in mine, wait...oh actually no I don't. But maybe I do, no no, I definitely don't.

You’re a sign that’s normally indecided aren’t you?

Am I??

And always questions things….I can tell.

Do you think?"

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