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The science of horoscopes?

Really?

>>3477923
>science of horoscopes
That's what /lit/ really think

the explanation behind horoscopes

stop being caddy assholes

>>3477923
>the science behind horoscopes

>>3477923
>>>/sci/

>>3477941
>sending this to /sci/

You're even dumber than OP.

/x/ may help you, since it has nothing to do with science.
Also, you should stop believing this things imo.
We reached a point in which you don't need to believe in any non-real thing such as planets being your guides, please make a little effort and remember we are on the XXI Century.

You'd be better off asking /x/ I think, OP.

http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articleastrology.pdf

OP here.

Horoscopes are real and if you don't believe that you are dumb and illterate

We have 12 life cycles (each horoscope representing one)

how else would you explain the different personalities

>>3477958

0/10

>>3477958
0/10

You would have better luck trolling /x/ or /sci/ with this.

>>3477960
0/10 comment

please dont respond to my thread again

>science of horoscopes

oh mai saides

>>3477976
how else do you explain them

>>3477958
See, OP, the mistake you've made here is being a complete fucking moron and then assuming everybody else is too. Now off you fuck back to /x/ or /mlp/ or wherever the fuck you came from.

>>3477969
Rule 6 comment.

>>3477979
You can't really be this dumb can you?

>>3477984
i am being informative by telling u your post was shit

now stop commenting

>>3477987
justify your claim

>>3477958
Ok, OP is not dumb, he's just a troll

I recommend 'Cosmos and Psyche', very interesting book about how there are some interesting coincidences with the signs and events in history. Every fucktard who screams that it's all just bullshit, how about you read that book, maybe you'll get some insights.

>>3477993
Seriously? You are honestly under the impression that horoscopes are anything more than (at their best) cold-read gibberish peddled to gullible fools?

OP here. I really do want to read a book about horoscopes that explains the "science" behind them.

I'm not saying I want to devote my life to this shit but I want to at least read it. Stop being so close minded.

>>3478004
Of course there are people stupid enough to believe this mumbo jumbo. I'd offer up some rational arguments demonstrating how fucking retarded these beliefs are, but you're obviously not on even nodding terms with rationality so I won't waste your time.

>Stop being so close minded.
This is a very overused argument by pseudo-scientist and religious people

>>3478022
go back to readit

>>3478003
You gotta watch open minds - brains can fall out of 'em.

>>3478025
Fine argument there Cicero.

>>3478027
facist pig you dont control me

>>3478009

>i am so rational u guise i am teh master of rationality, logic and truth xD

Go fuck yourself, go edit some articles on rationalwiki you moron.

>>3478034
You really would be more at home on /b/. They like your sort there.

>>3478027

"An open mind is like to an open wound, ... Vulnerable to poison."

great thread. it goes in all fields

>>3478003
I repeat, read this article. It has a brief introduction to the "science" of astrology, as well as its history. You'll probably learn something about philosophy of science, too.
>http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articl/astrology.pdf

T. Barton, Ancient Astrology. Routledge, 1994. ISBN 0-415-11029-7.
B. Bobrick, The Fated Sky: Astrology in History. Simon & Schuster, 2006. ISBN 0-7432-6895-4.
Nicholas Campion, A History of Western Astrology Vol. 2, The Medieval and Modern Worlds, Continuum 2009. ISBN 978-1-84725-224-1.
Nicholas Campion, The Great Year: Astrology, Millenarianism, and History in the Western Tradition. Penguin, 1995. ISBN 0-14-019296-4.
A. Geneva, Astrology and The Seventeenth Century Mind: William Lilly and the Language of the Stars. Manchester Univ. Press, 1995. ISBN 0-7190-4154-6.
James Herschel Holden, A History of Horoscopic Astrology. (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc., 2006. 2nd ed.) ISBN 0-86690-463-8.
M. Hoskin, The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-57600-8.
L. MacNeice, Astrology. Doubleday, 1964. ISBN 0-385-05245-6
W. R. Newman, et al., Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0-262-64062-7.
G. Oestmann, et al., Horoscopes and Public Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology. Walter de Gruyter Pub., 2005. ISBN 3-11-018545-8.
F. Rochberg, The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-83010-9.
J. Tester, A History of Western Astrology. Ballantine Books, 1989. ISBN 0-345-35870-8.
T. O. Wedel, Astrology in the Middle Ages.
>>3478092
After that, I'd suggest you try to read about astrology's history. There's no definite guide to the "science of astrology", as there is no such thing, and only gullible fools practice it nowadays.

Copied Wikipedia's Further reading -list for you:
Dover Pub., 2005. ISBN 0-486-43642-X.
P. Whitfield, Astrology: A History. British Library, 2004. ISBN 0-7123-4839-5.

>>3478095
fuck copypaste

You're the type of person that believes in fucking Spirit Science. Get fucked.

OP HERE BUMP THRAD

Best intro currently available:
http://www.bendykes.com/tafortodayhp

i like aquarius and libra

like everything, you should dive into history first OP

here is a nice summary:

http://saintseiya.wikia.com/wiki/Snt_Seiya

>>3477923
>the science behind horoscopes

>>3477923
look,constellations are optical illusions,any amateur astronomist can tell you so.
the only reason why horoscope morons don't know this is just that they're not interested in knowing it,
i guess they just like the idea of stars ruling they're lives...

>>3478088
>he doesn't know what sage does!