...to follow your heart"
Why do people believe in horoscopes? What make them read this sort of "magic" things that will probably tell them the future?
Is it only their couriosity?Or maybe they replace religion with them?
To any Catholics: do you take seriously magic, horoscopes, tarot, etc.?
What is your opinion? Should we believe 'them'?Or should it be abandoned?
2006-10-30 02:35:18 · 14 answers · asked by alexandra 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's all just childish magical thinking. Umpteen years ago I studied Astrology and I was a 'professional tarot card reader'
(she stiffles a chuckle as she types this)
It was interesting but after a while I realized it was all smoke and mirrors. Nonsense and more.
Most of the people who came for 'readings' were not well balanced people and some were actually kinda scarry.
Nearly all added more to the reading than I did... I even had a lady come back to me and tell me everything I predicted had come true and when I asked her what I had said and she told me, I knew I had never said any of it. She heard what she wanted to hear.
Me thinks some people just want a hand out, or perhaps they are so undernurtured that they grasp at straws to find comfort.
It really is easy to make some generalized claims and have the person think it is specially for them.
I thought astrology would be like algebra to learn but after a few years of study I realized it was more wishful thinking too.
You can read anything into a chart you want to or find something to blame....ie: it's Plutos placement in my chart that is causing all my failures...that sort of thing.
The people I met were colorful, interesting, but unreliable and too self absorbed to be anyones real friend.
I don't see them much anymore.
The bookstore I did readings at is now out-of-business
I think many who study it for a while get dissalusioned but others remain hypnotized (self induced) and refuse to hear any rebutals to their 'faith'
I will probably get a bunch of thumbs down for this answer but it is my honest oppinion based on my first hand experience.
2006-10-30 02:43:46 · answer #1 · answered by ??IMAGINE ?? 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Because the general population are pagan nutters (ie Catholics), they are the kind of people that see anything they do not understand as a sign from GOD or an Angel, for example a comet, or a cow that is standing up in the rain, etc.
A comet grazed the Sky around 300AD and the Holy Roman Empire Rose through Constantine and several influential manipulating Christian fundamentalists. This same fundamentalism created such brilliant Empires as the One in 1939 Germany and USA/UK today. Jesus for-told the future when he said that the evil would come in his name and say that he was the Christ - It Happened, as **** so often does...
2006-10-30 12:14:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-30 14:02:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes them believe this rubbish? selective memory
every so often the horoscope says something like 'Librans are going to have a good day'........and - because they are 1/12 of the earths population - some Librans ARE going to have a good day.
the believer says "Wow, my horoscope was spot-on" - and conveniently forgets the other 999 times when the horoscope said they would have a good day and it was complete cr@p.
People want to know what things are in store for them....so they go to fortune tellers, palmists, astrologers and suchlike in the hope of putting a bit of certainty in an uncertain world.
all astrologers are frauds who are - morally - no different from a nigerian e-mail scammer
2006-10-30 10:47:53 · answer #4 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the television has only been around about maybe 60 years (not sure), but, you have to understand people need to be entertained..and, at night when all the stars come out the people used that as entertainment...and, made up stories about the heavens...(this is my thought on this)...
so, all this horoscope stuff started out this way...but, what it does do, however - turn itself into the occult when we follow it..
because we are not trusting God, when we follow something else...
2006-10-30 10:43:09 · answer #5 · answered by Winters child 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The three wise men were astrologers, hey. The bible says the stars were made "for signs" and the OT supports the idea that astrology worked, the problem being when believers put more faith in star readings than in Jehovah.
2006-10-30 10:47:21 · answer #6 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Religion, horoscopes, superstitions, mediums... Just different forms of magic thinking.
2006-10-30 10:37:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Horrorscopes are a load of bunkum. But they are harmless and keep some people happy, so where's the harm in that?
2006-10-30 10:38:14 · answer #8 · answered by mark 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why in the world would you ask this of Catholics? Catholics, like all Christians, abhor the use of divination, spiritualism, and spellcraft.
2006-10-30 10:38:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
My God! Why didn't you warn me sooner.
What will all this "mega-Planetary stuff do to me". I haven't even got a bunker
2006-10-30 10:47:16 · answer #10 · answered by waterborn69 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋