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Thread #89208   Message #1683101
Posted By: GUEST
02-Mar-06 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
Subject: RE: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
*daylia* says:

"GEt off your butt, get out there and find it"

See my earler post regarding annual (failed) testing. Spend very little time on my butt. As a working scientist, spend a whole lot of time "out there finding it".

*daylia* also says:

"Don't trust what others say"

*******Exactly!********

Trust me, I have no "emotional armour". I just made a decision years ago to apply the same standards of judgement in all phases of my life. If someone says they can predict a lot about me just by knowing my exact time and place of birth, I will apply the same standard of judgement as I would if someone told me I could safely step off the roof holding this here carpet 'cause it can fly. And *I* am not going to step off the roof to prove that it *doesn't* fly.

I will revise:

For me, the burden of proof rests with the claimant.
For me, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

As a purely hypothetical, if I were to PM a volunteer my exact (to the minute) time and date of birth, as well as the latitude and longitude (to the ninth decimal place in degrees) of my birth, could this volunteer PM back any information about me that I have not already revealed in a prior posting? (Not actually posing this challenge, nor "baiting a trap", just truly curious whether anyone thinks astrology could pass this test).