What I don't get about astrology is this. Compare it to religion. There is no evidence that a god exists (which is one of the reasons why I'm atheist), but you can't prove either that a god does not exist. You can come up with paradoxes, and countless reasons why it's unlikely that a god exists, but there can't be definite proof. So I understand that not everyone is an atheist.
With astrology however, it's different. Astrologists claim to be able to predict certain things, so it should be easy for them to prove they're right, right? However, each and every serious study and experiment about astrology came to one conclusion: it's fake, it doesn't work.
I mean, apart from the whole thing not being logical in any way, it should be able to easily produce a 100% proof THAT it is true. But they never did. All studies and experiments, as said, came to the same conclusion: doesn't work. It's like that reward that is out for decades: proof that you got any supernatural ability (like telepathy or telekinesis, predicting events with astrology or whatever), or that ghosts exist or anything other supernatural stuff, and you can go home with a few million dollars. So far, in those decades, not a single person got the money. Why?
a) the popular people having to do with supernatural stuff don't try to claim the prize. They say they don't want the money (how ridiculous, considering they do and sell all that stuff for money).
b) it just didn't work on that day, what for a coincidence
Ain't that proof enough? Billions of people over decades, not being able to fetch a prize of millions of dollars by just giving one good proof that their claims are true?
I guess there are many reasons why people still believe it. Some have had very difficult times in their lifes, and the only thing they have still left is the belief that things ain't random or whatever, but that they are just the victim of some celestial constallation (or something). Other people claim that they believe it, because they make money this way. And others again are simply believing the stuff so much, that they ignore all logic and evidence.
If people just read a horoscope and have their chuckle or smile: why not? Who cares. But if people make money by ripping off others by giving them false hope, because some planet is currently in one place or another, then that's just an evil scam.
I don't want to insult anyone, but just share my worries that so many people believe that astrology works.
If astrology works, a 100% proof for it is possible.
No such proof has ever been produced.
Any study and experiment came to the conclusion, that it doesn't work.
Why believe it?
I mean... I just went to youtube, clicked on some random astrology related video. Some guy asked "what are those for wonderful crystals in the background", and the guy replies that they are sacred geometrical healing tools and energy devices... When I read this nonsense it just makes me groan. Of course he also replied the link where you can buy them (it's all about scamming people for money!). It reminds me on a clip from a shopping TV show I once saw, where they were selling some sort of "energetic" plates. You could put your pots with plants on them to give your plants health. You could put a glass of water on such a plate and it would be healed. You could sit on your plate and it would cure your hemorrhoids... I mean come ooooooon... Seriously?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3YRZaubSw
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