I think astrology is really fucking stupid and it annoys the fuck out of me when people won't shut the fuck up about it, especially when they KNOW you don't believe in it. The whole relationship I've wanted to say that but I bit my fucking tongue, but I'm single now (and high) so fuck you.
There I fucking said it. No I don't want to debate about it, I'm venting, let me have this tonight.
How brave of you to say this now that you won't have to deal with consequences for it.
Staying in a relationship where you have to bite your tongue about something important to your partner is doomed to fail, regardless of how valid their beliefs are. I think this is a great learning opportunity for you to consider what are deal breakers in a potential partner. Opposites can attract, but only if you respect each other.
The first half of this comment is really needlessly dumb and caustic when the second part is totally fine and genuinely good advice.
Astrology is bunk pseudoscience but chinese zodiac is real
Tigers are scum
Imagine believing a bunch of balls of gas millions of light years away was arranged by a bunch of people who said "these dots in the sky look like pictures" (when they definitely didn't), and thinking they have an effect on our personalities lmao
I remember when astrology was a legit struggle session on this site, lol. Looking at the responses to this post, it seems times have changed quite a bit.
I personally think astrology is destructive to the people who take part in it. I see a lot of arguments along the lines of, “people have fun with it and it gives them comfort” etc. and if that’s all it was, that would be fine, but anyone who’s met someone really into astrology can see that it primes people to apply a totally illogical and incoherent framework to problems in their lives. The problem with that is that you’re never going to grow and learn as a person if you continually grab for this totally illogical tool in your emotional toolbelt every time one of life’s challenges arises. You’ll never reflect on the emotional genesis of a lot of your feelings or responses to the world if you just think, “I did that because I’m a Leo” or whatever. You’ll never get to, “I realize now that I responded to x situation negatively because y factor happens to be a trigger for me and I need to be conscious of that in the future” if you never get past “I responded to x situation negatively because mercury is in retrograde.” Overall I think it’s a toxic trend in our society that prevents people from being able to grow in a healthy way.
I feel like it was used as a cop out for transphobia with lesbians Ive interacted with. Just say some woo shit to hide your bigotry, like sure Jan I'm certain the reason you wrinkle your nose at a whole room of trans people is because Mercury was in retrograde
I pretty much think anyone that takes it seriously is going to need to be hardcore reeducated. At least they're not cutting open animals to find where the poop is in their intestines to see if they'll be lucky today anymore.
Full throated support from me in your loathing of astrology. Apparently everyone who is a cancer sign is an abomination in the eyes of astrologists and it's the most annoying bullshit ever. Fuck astrology.
as a gothy lesbian who cannot stand astrology let me just say i feel your pain
so, so much
I remember a girl I like getting told by her best friend that she shouldn't date me because was a Sagittarius and I was a Cancer
Jokes on her, in the Chinese Zodiac, I'm a Metal Dragon, which means I possess the qualities of an Emperor
Point being, I'm high as shit too
Whenever people tell me something about astrology (implying they believe in it) I can't help but start thinking in a societally critical descriptive way. Like Disco Elysium describes social phenomena or Modernists in general.
"Astrology is the belief that someone's personality, habits, and even fate are written in the stars when they are born, and their relationships between each other depend on which of 12 calendar periods they were born in. These correspond to the star shapes present in the plane of the sun as it moves around the earth according to an influential Greek that popularized the idea. When we learned that the earth actually orbited the sun, very little changed in astrology. While astrology has historically been a very complex topic, the modern Western version is mostly about advice columns from unaccredited hacks and explaining problems in romantic relationships. The person I am talking to is trying to socialize with me through their appreciation of astrology but I'm just trying to get them to come to a meeting organized by communists."
How does astrology explain two different people with the same birthday having radically different personalities and traits?
They pull out the calipers and start measuring skulls, obviously
Theyll get into times of day or some shit. Moon signs? They just keep going until they find the difference, then point to that
