I think it is important to believe true things instead of false things, and if I sincerely believed something that was clearly false, I'd hope that the people who care about me would respect me enough to say something, and not be condescending to me.
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At least my MBTI result has some causal relation to my own behaviour. I can understand the appeal of MBTI in the same way I can understand the appeal of "Which Disney Princess are you?" quizzes. Astrology doesn't have that: you're born a Capricorn, you're stuck being a Capricorn forever, and it has no meaningful causal relationship with anything in your life.
Every so often, when someone criticizes astrology online, I see responses implying that that person is just ruining people's fun, sometimes implying that they're sexist (in the sense that astrology is feminine-coded and perhaps the person doesn't show as much contempt for similarly-nonsensical masculine-coded hobbies.)
I do think astrology is silly, if I'm being honest, but at the same time, I want to understand what the appeal is. My experience of it tends to boil down to horoscopes and trying to understand people's personalities/destinies in terms of their star signs. Which, to me, seems inherently silly, and don't think there's any good reason to believe that the stars have such a direct effect on people's personal lives.
There are some supernatural/"woo woo" beliefs I can at least understand the appeal of in an aesthetic way or even find amusing from a non-supernatural way. For example, tarot cards can have neat designs, and even if you don't literally believe that tarot readings tell you about the future, it seems plausible that a tarot reading could give a person some random input that helps them reflect on their life in a useful way. So I can understand why people like tarot cards.
But I'm not seeing this with astrology. What do you even DO in astrology, other than attach arbitrary labels to people and then get attached to those labels? Like, I'm apparently a Capricorn, but what does that do for me? I can't change my birthdate, so I'm stuck being a Capricorn forever -- it's a very static system. What benefit do I even get from identifying myself as a Capricorn? The usual claim seems to be that it determines my personality or destiny, which (1) seems pretty obviously untrue, and (b) again, just makes this sound very static and not particularly useful.
I'm not just ranting for the sake of being edgy, and I really do want to understand what the appeal is, because I literally do not understand it. Does anyone have a better idea of why astrology is popular?
Fair enough. I guess if there's one specific situation that's come up more than once, it's that a lot of donations are done through "Trusts" or "Foundations". If anyone knows whether there exist directories for finding information about specific trusts or foundations other than just Googling the names, that would be very useful. (For context, I'm in Canada.)
His death was certainly good timing.
"Women" is fine as a noun, but what should be used as an adjective if not "female"?
I don't know if I'd describe my attitude towards astrology as "violent" (more "dismissive"). When I find out that someone sincerely believes that (say) the Earth is flat, that makes me think that they have serious deficits in their ability to examine their beliefs about the universe in any serious way, and it makes me less inclined to take other things they say seriously. I don't necessarily hate them, but I do pity them and I'm not inclined to form a deep friendship with someone like that. That's basically how I feel about astrology, from what I currently understand about it.
Whereas, there's nothing about being a furry that requires believing things that are false.