Do you believe?

Question

I am one of those people who check their horoscope on a daily basis and just recently signed up for a numerology report. I get weekly updates on how things are going to go and today I got an email saying that there is something very important that is going to happen tomorrow and that they would email me tomorrow morning. I don't know whether to believe this or not. What do you think? Is it a crock or do some of things really work?

Answer 1

I believe in astrology and have casted charts for many years. The stuff in the newspapers is bull. If you truly want to learn about astrology, learn how to cast charts for yourself (it really isn't difficult). Start with a simple natal chart and interpret it, then move on to other things. This site has a free program that will chart your natal chart. If you give them your correct addy, they will spam you though.
http://www.astro.com/cgi/genchart.cgi
This site has excellent definitions of various symbols and terms:
http://www.astrology-numerology.com/astrology.html

Answer 2

Now, it's not true, as someone claimed, that the future doesn't exist. The future exists just as much as the past does. In a sense, the movement and direction of time are an illusion based on the fact that we perceive the universe in only three dimensions. From a four-dimensional viewpoint, our lives would be more like a tapestry (well, kind of), with past, present and future all existing at once, as part of the same fabric. To put it another way: if time ran backwards, we wouldn't notice the difference, as our memories would move backwards along with everything else. In other words, there's no difference between time running backwards and time running forwards. Time doesn't really move at all -- the arrow of time, as it's called, has to do with such things as entropy.

What this means is that from a certain perspective, the past is as uncertain as the future, and the future is as predetermined as the past is. The difference is that, because entropy is directional, our knowledge of the past is inevitably greater than our knowledge of the future.

So we still can't predict what's going to happen (except in terms of coarse-grained probabilities). Read about quantum physics if you want to know more about why this is technically impossible.

And yes, astrology and numerology are a crock. Sorry. The best that can be said for them is that the time of year you're born (or perhaps conceived) may have some weak influence on some physical or psychological traits. Possibly. But this, if it's even correct, has much more to do with temperature and things like that than the light from distant suns.

Answer 3

Crock. You could always find SOMETHING to interpret as an "very important" happening on any given day.

Now, if they told you something specific and it happened, I'd start believing. But come on, it's over the internet and those things are generic.

Answer 4

why should the day you are born have any bearing on your day to day life. if you believe in that crap, you will force yourself to find things that go along with what your horrorscope says, thereby creating a form of almost dependence as to how you should live your life.
read the fine print........this is intended for entertainment purposes only, there is no basis in fact that horroscopes can predict your future.
things that work and are true do not need disclaimers.

Answer 5

They give you some words of inspiration and some advice to follow. For the advice to be accurate for anyone born on a certain time period is just as unlikely for it to work for people born on any other days.

Answer 6

I might consider such things if they made specific predictions like "You will get a promotion tomorrow", instead of vague statements like "Something important will happen tomorrow". That could apply to anything, so there's no way for such a prediction to be proven wrong.

Answer 7

It's a crock, because everyone has good days and bad days, and in the history of astrology, there has never been a "Don't even get out of bed today" horoscope listing printed in the local paper.

Answer 8

I hope you didn't pay for that. Because there's no evidence that it works at all. And why believe in something that has been shown not to work?

Astrology and numerology are both eligible to win someone a million bucks if they can prove it works. http://www.randi.org

Answer 9

I don't believe in divination as some kind of future predictions kind of thing, but rather as a guide to wisdom. You make your reality and the best way to do it is to practice altruism, wisdom and compassion... the rest is gravy.

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Answer 10

The very concept that your life could be determined by the pattern of the stars is idiotic and for the most part, non-logical. Don't trust it. it's a bunch of imaginary crap.