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If something is good at making predictions, then science can and will confirm it.
No one can stop you from holding superstitions, but that doesn't make them useful in any way.
Is there anything in your life that has a use, that is not useful for making predictions?
Lots of things. My toaster for instance. I eat a lot of toasted bread.
But it isn't useful beyond roasting bread.
I don't. Astrology is designed to predict (at some base level) the future based on star patterns that are no longer alecen at the same location or timing that they were originally. It is a pseudo-spiratual belief.
When I put in some toast it toasts it, assuming everything is working. If something isn't working I have to figure it out.
Why? Because it is a handful of wires that get hot when there is current. Not even cool wires like in a computer that do something meaningful.
I have no expectation that it is going to do anything but make my sandwich--and no reasonable person would carry such an expectation.
No, you are the person who is being unreasonable by your own admission. You re asserting it is a way to make scientific predictions, it is not a way to do that. That is exactly my point. You are the one saying the toaster is for making predictions, when it clearly isnt for people who actually use toasters. Do you get it? You are asserting astrology is a way to make scientific predictions. It isnt that, it doesnt serve that function. So it is ridiculous to assert it does something that it doesnt.
If people want to believe something and you dont care for it or understand it, then why make it your business? You are just closing yourself off from a whole bunch of people for no reason. You're not above it, I guarantee you have a ton of beliefs that can be disproven scientifically. If people want to take that and use it to tell themselves a narrative, we all do that in different ways. We believe stuff all the time that isn't based on science!
Most of the time i see virulent anti astrology its not coming from very good people. A lot of white dudes with very objective views. Low key authoritarians, using a kind og hegemony of academia to puff themselves up, maybe tell some ladies they are stupid. So that's what I see when I read your comments
Has anyone ever told you that you are a high-key crazy person?
No but I tell other people that all the time
Look, man, I don't know what to tell you. You're welcome to whatever religious beliefs you want. No one can rob you of them. But I'm not going to entertain dumbass discussions of spiritualality vs. utility.
Honestly who gives a f***. You do you.