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Jun 26, 2023 5:47 PM
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They do use sometimes the term space racist to mock astrologists and it kinda makes sense, they do believe that people born under a certain sign act a certain way. Also you can hear often stuff such as never trust a Gemini or a Scorpio.

Jun 26, 2023 7:46 PM
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I think the right term would be prejudice instead of racism. For it to be racism, there would have to be some kind of tangible power imbalance.

Someone who experiences racism due to their skin color may have trouble finding well-paying jobs, have trouble finding places to live, be more likely to face police brutality, etc. Someone who's a Gemini may just struggle with getting their feelings hurt.
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Jun 26, 2023 8:00 PM
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That's a first time I've heard, and like the message above, prejudice is a more accurate term than racism.

Going on about what you said with the "Never trust a Scorpio", people assume and say that because a key weakness seen in them is that they are often manipulative and distrusting.



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Jun 26, 2023 8:39 PM
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I still don't understand how Western astrology from ancient Greece became from a peasant-level timekeeping method for seasons into some kind of a fortune-telling gimmick.
Jun 26, 2023 9:07 PM
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You're confusing the views of some people into entertainment zodiac horoscopes for actual astrologers doing astrology which it is not. Actual astrology you have what's called a natal chart and you have a sign for every planet and aspects between these planets and you have house positions and it's only considered tendencies by most astrologers not absolutes. The sun sign in astrology means very little by itself. 
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Jun 27, 2023 2:06 AM
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I know one Gemini and she is a proven liar.

However:

'People Lie' - Gregory House MD

So it is not strange when people lie, it is strange when they do not lie.

That is why trusting any human is stupid, you should just double check everything.

You should tailor your approach to based on circumstances.



That said each sign has their own problems, there are no clear winners in the Zodiac.

You just have to go for people who are compatible with you and you will find that you are on the same page and can get along.

If you go for incompatible type you will end up arguing something like A is good, B is bad. Then contradict and say A is bad, B is good. Like that on every single issue.
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Jun 27, 2023 4:22 AM
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I think you could make the case that there would exist some kind of racism in a setting like pic related

because signs there determine physical attributes.
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Jun 27, 2023 7:11 AM
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I'm pretty sure everything in existence is racist. 
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Jun 27, 2023 7:35 AM
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I'm more surprised that fortune telling is still popular.
Jun 27, 2023 7:42 AM

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Zodiacs do follow a certain philosophy of essentialism, which in the end isnt far off from generalizations of people that "justify" racism/sexism and whatever else. Treating someone differently based on their zodiac is as irrational as treating someone differently for their skin, at least thats how I think you could compare it.
Jun 28, 2023 6:53 AM

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Astrology sucks and its predictions suck and the stars and constellations suck.

Don't associate me with a star, associate me with rocks and plants.

I am of the Zinc element as well as the heroin element and weed element.
Jun 28, 2023 11:09 AM

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no, it's not, i repeat, it's not. i repeat again, no
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Jun 28, 2023 4:27 PM

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MalchikRepaid said:
I still don't understand how Western astrology from ancient Greece became from a peasant-level timekeeping method for seasons into some kind of a fortune-telling gimmick.
lmao im about to make sense of ur post (didnt read the rest of the thread it looked bad) in terms of society of the spectacle and the collapse of cyclical time into pseudicyclical time.

then it makes sense, how do we understand the past signifiers of the cyclical nature once we no longer experience time as such??
Jun 28, 2023 6:19 PM

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MalchikRepaid said:
I still don't understand how Western astrology from ancient Greece became from a peasant-level timekeeping method for seasons into some kind of a fortune-telling gimmick.

No, astrology was used for divination and descended from the Babylonians. Then Hellenistic astrology developed from that and to less degree the astrology the Egyptians did. The Greeks used astrology for horoscopes too so predicting future events is not new.
https://mymodernmet.com/history-of-astrology/

The modern use in cases where it's really gimmicky that was more from grifters trying to make a quick buck.
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Jun 28, 2023 6:23 PM
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rian9999 said:
then it makes sense, how do we understand the past signifiers of the cyclical nature once we no longer experience time as such??
I don't think we have the primary literature to understand this.

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The modern use in cases where it's really gimmicky that was more from grifters trying to make a quick buck.
That makes me feel extremely uncomfortable after you explained something truthful.
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I think it's hard to find many people who take astrology seriously enough to be bigoted about it. But I suppose they exist. Just stay away from such idiots.
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MalchikRepaid said:
That makes me feel extremely uncomfortable after you explained something truthful.

To be clear I'm not saying all astrologers in every case, I am more directing that at the kind of people who write zodiac descriptions and horoscopes as cold readings. Proper astrologers whether you believe in astrology or not actually put a good amount of work into what they do because astrology is pretty complex so it just depends if they are asking for a fair price for the use of their time if any at all and aren't giving empty promises if they ask for a price. I tried learning astrology myself out of curiosity so I know how entailed it can get. But yes some people will just use anything with any popularity to take advantage of people.
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To be clear I'm not saying all astrologers in every case, I am more directing that at the kind of people who write zodiac descriptions and horoscopes as cold readings. Proper astrologers whether you believe in astrology or not actually put a good amount of work into what they do because astrology is pretty complex so it just depends if they are asking for a fair price for the use of their time if any at all and aren't giving empty promises if they ask for a price. I tried learning astrology myself out of curiosity so I know how entailed it can get.
At least I can see the effort of an individual understanding what astrology is. Apologies in advance if I offended anyone here, but my approach to astrology is summarized into two words. Useless garbage.
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I still don't understand how Western astrology from ancient Greece became from a peasant-level timekeeping method for seasons into some kind of a fortune-telling gimmick.
You are confusing Astronomy with Astrology. 
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Jun 28, 2023 7:17 PM
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vasipi4946 said:
You are confusing Astronomy with Astrology.
Correction: also mythology and astrology.
Jun 29, 2023 2:55 AM

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MalchikRepaid said:
rian9999 said:
then it makes sense, how do we understand the past signifiers of the cyclical nature once we no longer experience time as such??
I don't think we have the primary literature to understand this.

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Jun 29, 2023 10:17 AM

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It's a bit reductive to compare it directly to racism but astrology's still fucking stupid either way.
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If it is then I guess I am one, considering I love astrology. ;_;
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I still don't understand how Western astrology from ancient Greece became from a peasant-level timekeeping method for seasons into some kind of a fortune-telling gimmick.
You are confusing Astronomy with Astrology. 
@vasipi4946 As a physicist by training, astrology is one of my favorite sciences (and geocentrism one of my favorite theories, after QFT). Its basis is the principle that what happens in the sky, with the stars, planets, and whatnot, affects what happens on the earth—and as David Lindberg says in his The Beginnings of Western Science (the book to read to learn the early history of science), this is eminently sensible and scientific due to one overwhelming example: the sun. Life on earth is practically governed by the sun, as well as things like clouds and rain; the tides are caused by the sun and the moon. if you don't know what's going on with any of these, why shouldn't you come up with a philosophy in which human personalities, traits, and behaviors are affected by the sky? Sure, you can't do experiments on stars, because you can't get up there, but that doesn't mean someone trying to do science can't or shouldn't think about them. (Note that we can't get to the stars either.) Thus there was no difference in the ultimate sense between astronomy and astrology in ancient times. But all the same, even back then there were debates as to the usefulness of things like astrological signs in determining human behavior—because philosophers could tell that people weren't strictly determined by what planets were in which constellation when they were born. This didn't at all destroy the more foundational astrological principle of the sky affecting the earth.

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lmao im about to make sense of ur post (didnt read the rest of the thread it looked bad) in terms of society of the spectacle and the collapse of cyclical time into pseudicyclical time.

then it makes sense, how do we understand the past signifiers of the cyclical nature once we no longer experience time as such??


@rian2 I don't think Debord's pseudo-cyclical time is all that relevant, other than that capitalism both rewrote our sense of temporality in life and repurposed things like astrology. Remember that the pseudo-cyclicality is how the worker experiences time, having been divorced from participation in history—so that the average consumer of present horoscope-centric astrology does experience time as cyclic. It seems like you're just saying the relationship between how we treated ideas about time in the past and how we treat them now reminded you of Society of the Spectacle. Which, sure.

Anyway, using horoscopes to predict your day, or your life, is indeed dumb. Note, however, that there is nothing wrong intrinsically with being amused by such and taking it as any other information that impinges on your life; it's just that it's not particularly worth pursuing such things in astrology. Many of us use the news for this purpose, though I don't think it's much better. I like to interpret the day via whatever anime I'm watching.
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No, because personality traits aren't races.
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astrology isn’t institutional or systemic. It doesn’t enforce laws, deny rights, or create social hierarchies based on zodiac signs. Racism, by contrast, is rooted in history, politics, and society
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I’ll have to go with “no.” Racism is discrimination based on race, while astrology isn’t about race.

Can astrology still be discriminatory though? Yeah, I think it can be in some sort of sense, but only to those who believe in it. People like yours truly who don’t believe in astrology won’t care enough to feel offended by astrology-related criticisms/insults.
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Are you pulling everyone's chain or something?

Speaking of Scorpios, P. Diddy sure fits bill for bullshitting like one in the traditional sense. Exactly like your average Scorpio, a liar and a con artist.

If you're a Scorpio and a mold breaker, congratulations!

Also, what do abstract signs or concepts have to do with race?

Race is something you or a crippled man (physically or mentally) can see. Can you actually see some bystander having been born a Cancer, rat, ox, etc? Where?

Prove that they're interchangeable, good luck!
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racism? no. discrimination? usually.

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They do use sometimes the term space racist to mock astrologists and it kinda makes sense, they do believe that people born under a certain sign act a certain way. Also you can hear often stuff such as never trust a Gemini or a Scorpio

Yeah...
Are white cats racist?
Maybe White dogs are rasist?
White pigs?
Milk is also white...
and drinking milk is also rasist?
Astrology is a science, and you know what
most of ancestors of theese science were BLACK...
but nowday days Black say that thay are white...
so fuck yeah astrology is rasist...
The most rasist shit in the world...
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Astrology isn't a form of racism. It is just an obvious scam.
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