Well, argued I love your scientific methods I need no further proof, thank you
Yeah that’s not how science works.
You are the one making the claim (“astrology is real”) and therefore the honus is on you to provide evidence. And the saying holds true. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
And you cannot provide that because it does not exist.
Edit: I just had another thought about your initial claim… You said that it works “when done correctly.”
I’m wondering, how does one know if the astrology was done correctly aside from the prediction ending up being correct? So wouldn’t that be a tautology?
It would be like saying that, “if you flip a coin correctly, it will always end up on tails,” with the only measure of success being “it landed on tails, therefore you flipped it correctly.” Therefore, by definition, flipping a coin “correctly” has a 100% success rate.
Do you see how meaningless all of that is?
It’s fairly futile to continue this as you clearly already made up your mind (hopefully after a thorough open minded exploration in the topic as science would like you to)
However
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
You touch upon a key issue here: the extraordinary evidence is often extraordinarily personal, deeply vulnerable so not the stuff you can easily share. It works for me, and it helps me to see life clearer.
I like your coin toss analogy and I do understand there is plenty of astrology and horoscopes that have that vibe. And because of that I see that any prediction could be much more successful on Lemmy or Reddit by just omitting the astrology from the prediction. Or at least not lead with a screenshot of it.
The core of my prediction remains. A neo nazi, happening to sit on mountains of cash, freshly purchased the US presidency and with an affinity for the previous title holder of world’s most terrible human being.
The pieces are moving in place with the 19/4 protests which will probably be the biggest the USA has seen in a long while. They may turn violent. They may invoke a Marshall Law declaration.
The astrology is not the prediction. It simply shows that around that time is a cosmic fertile ground for these types of forces to clash and for a tension that has been building to be released one way or another. The astrology is not any astrology either. It’s from a Swiss company who has one of the highest reputations among astrologers, precisely because they are not predicting there will be Marshall Law, but outline the kind of energies which will exist around that time to enable an unexpected evolution such as the one outlined in the actual prediction.
Anyway, I’m sure none of that convinced you, but I’ll watching next weekend. This ride is not going to calm down, and hasn’t even gotten wild yet. Thanks for the civil discourse, despite our differences.
You should really go ahead and claim your Nobel Prize for being the first person to ever provide evidence for the effectiveness of astrology.
I’m not kidding. where is your Nobel Prize?
. It simply shows that around that time is a cosmic fertile ground for these types of forces to clash and for a tension that has been building to be released one way or another.
Please explain what “cosmic fertile ground” actually means.
Please explain to me how balls of gas billions of miles away (that, fyi aren’t even in the shapes you think that they are, they only appear that way because of the angle you’re viewing them at) have any affect whatsoever on the events of this planet.
Show your work. And then send it to the Nobel Prize Committee and claim your $1 million prize.
Once again, you need to provide evidence and you cannot. But I guess “it feels right” is enough for you.
