[meteorite-list] Lighten up, it's just semantics

[Michael Gilmer]

Geez, lighten up a little bit.  What has any
astrologer
ever done to you?  Did one kick your dog or something?

Life is too short to get bent out of shape over such
things.

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:40:20 -0400
From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sigh
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:48:04 -0400, you wrote:

>And besides, some of the greatest astronomers of all
time were 
>astrologers, and the entire Cristian faith justified
its begining with
 
>an astrological signal among the WISE MEN ... a.k.a.
ASTROLOGERS.  To 
>them we owe our early understanding of the heavens
and plenty more.
>

Believing in incorrect theories in the absence of
enough evidence is
 one thing--
cointinuing to believe in faulty theories even in the
face of knowledge
 is a
world of difference.  15th century astrologers I have
no problem with.
  21st
century astrologers get nothing but the deepest scorn
and contempt from
 me.  Let
me be even more blunt-- anyone in any modern,
industrial country with
 access to
a decent education who believes in astrology is a
f*****g nitwit.  (I
 could say
similar things about another of your examples, but
don't want to open
 THAT can
of worms).

>Or did the IAU in their "in-your-face" wisdom just
outlaw astrologers,
 
>too?

If they do, I'll chip in for some barbed wire to go
around the
 internment
center.





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