There Are Only 12 People In All The World

In All The World

Sooooo...


Your forecast wasn't any good Huh...

 

Horoscopes are just fortune cookies with out the cookie. Entertainment only.

 

That horoscope was not meant for all those 6.8 billion people. It was meant only for the people who read that particular newspaper on that particular day and actually bothered to read the astrology column as well. The astrologer knew who they would be, through astrology. There were 15 people who read the column that day, including you. Three pairs of two shared a concern that day.

But you missed the real problem: Due to the precession of the equinoxes, and the fact that our calendar is continually adjusted to keep the equinoxes on the same calendar dates, the astrological signs have shifted by 30 degrees since the signs were named, or one complete sign. What this means is that astrological forecasts based on dates of birth are off by one complete sign! People are going around thinking that today they should "be on the lookout for a great financial opportunity" when in fact they ought to "seriously reconsider their relationship with a distant loved one."

 

P.S. When people ask me what my sign is, I tell them that my sine is zero because I have no degrees. It works better spoken than written.

 

When someone asks me what sign I was born under, I say: "Obstetrics".

Your point about the signs shifting is valid - however, those who divine our future from the stars know that and have adjusted our future accordingly to prevent, say, a Taurus from blindly following guidance for a Gemini.

 

No wonder you guys never get laid...
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Actually, I think they are blissfully unaware of the fact that their bogus predictions are shifted by one sign, adding an element of randomness to the original bogosity.

 

P.S. I cannot believe my spell checker did not complain about the word "bogosity."

 

and who in the hell are you?














my mother?

 

I'm Daniel. First PriusChat member ever to post a cat avatar.

 

My favorite and most entertaining fortune cookies are the ones that contain a condom and the message "You will get lucky."

Tom

 

Ummmm... for more than one reason Bra... I will say I wouldn't even open a fortune cookie that could have a jimmiehat and some wish for luck...


I'm just saying...

 

If you see a Ford Taurus blindly following an Isuzu Gemini, I would move over and get out of that lane, pronto !

 

Are they putting condoms in fortune cookies nowadays? I didn't realize it had been so long since I ate at a Chinese restaurant.

 

And what's the deal that airplane food; pretty bland! AmIright?

 

I don't know. They never have anything I can eat. But airport food has gotten better, if you pick the right places.

 

If Astrologers and Psychics were anything more than entertainment wouldn't you think they'd be more well off than they are? Just like "other" more well known writings, they only appear to work for those that want to believe in them.

I'm STILL waiting for my call from publisher's clearing house though...

 

Astrologers claim to predict only general influences, not specific events, and in the case of personality, they claim the stars exert only general influences, not deterministic constraints. In this they are smart. Since astrology is pure and utter bullshit, and the commercially successful astrologers understand this, they hedge their bets, and then rely on well-known techniques of cold reading to bamboozle the gullible. They can make a modest living this way.

But psychics claim to foresee actual events before they happen, and thus leave themselves open to the challenge: If you can actually foresee the future, why have you not made a fabulous fortune on the stock market, the race track, or the roulette table?