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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Astrology: weaning a loved one
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:23:35 GMT
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- You won't get any joy asking for a mechanism. Any astrologer with half
- a wit will reply "I don't know. It just seems to work so well that
- there must be some sort of mechanism." That's if they don't spout
- Rupert Sheldrake or some sort of Cosmic Harmony crap.
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- And you won't get any joy talking about precession. My girlfriend uses
- an ephemeris that includes corrections for fifty-six second differences
- between GMT and the actual rotation of the earth. Astrologers claim
- that the signs are just names for twelve divisions of the ecliptic
- starting at the First Point of Aries (which is, I think, in Pisces these
- days).
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