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Thread #89208   Message #1713722
Posted By: Alice
09-Apr-06 - 10:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
Subject: RE: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
The way humans create myths in search of a sense of self understanding is very interesting to me. For me, the most interesting thing about this thread is how strong that adherance to belief can be. No amount of logic can sway a determined faith. I've seen people marry and divorce spouses based on astrology, move to another part of the world, give up careers, education, family and home. I've seen an entire church based on astrology that separated children from parents, elderly from their retirement funds, caused mass hysteria (the planets portending the end of the world), and years of mental distress that took a long time for people to recover from, having to leave behind what the astrologer told them they were and learning instead how unique and complex and undefined by charts they really were. Belief is very powerful.