Astrology

[Fred_Nguyen]

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves"

I tend to agree with good Will on this one, but there is an element of superstition within my core I can't ignore. Maybe it's just my primitive human nature, but I can't blow it off.

It is such a creepy feeling to know you can't "shake the yoke of inauspicious stars..."

[Monkey]

I love to star gaze sometimes, especially when there is a good meteor shower.

The next shower is the Lyrids which won't be until April 21/22.

I never knew you were into these things Fred, did you see the metor shower last week?

[Naang Faa]

Not really been into that sort of thing really....stars,planets,comets
i think cloud cover is there for a reason..we don't want to see an asteroid
coming towards us..
Naang Faa
x

[Fred_Nguyen]

(Naang Faa @ Jan. 13 2008,02:03) i think cloud cover is there for a reason..we don't want to see an asteroid
coming towards us..
Naang Faa
x

Whether you want to see it coming or not, do you believe in fate?

[Naang Faa]

Fate? course i do,there was one in our village last year...but whats that got to
do with astronomy?
Naang Faa
x

[Monkey]

Fate Fred?

What superstitious, non-scientific rubbish have you been reading now?

What has that to do with the stars?

If you mean we might get hit by one of the 917 potentially hazardous asteroids, then it might be fate or it might be destiny, but it is probably God's will.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/

[Fred_Nguyen]

(Naang Faa @ Jan. 13 2008,02:19)

Fate? course i do,there was one in our village last year...but whats that got to
do with astronomy?
Naang Faa
x

Fate, a play on words...! Clever. I have to leave the astronomy questions to Monkey. I had titled this astrology, as in whether one's fate is written in the stars...

[Fred_Nguyen]

(Monkey @ Jan. 13 2008,02:22) Fate Fred?

What superstitious, non-scientific rubbish have you been reading now?

What has that to do with the stars?

If you mean we might get hit by one of the 917 potentially hazardous asteroids, then it might be fate or it might be destiny, but it is probably God's will.

"God's will"?

What makes your idea of God more probable than Thor or Baal or the stars or the faeries that dance in Mirimark's dreams?

You are not superstitious at all? I find that hard to believe. Especially if you reference God.

[Naang Faa]

Oh excuse me Fred,i got confused ,
do you mean card readers and all that jazz..
Nah it's for silly folk
Naang Faa
x

[Monkey]

ooops my bad, sorry Fred.

Astrology eh?

Well, I've never been a big fan of Russell Grant but I hear some people rate him quite highly:

http://russellgrant.com/horoscopes_a...hp?ec=homepage


Be careful Fred, you're begining to come across as human and slightly open to non-scientific ways of the believers in a 'higher power'

[Fred_Nguyen]

(Monkey @ Jan. 13 2008,02:32) Well, I've never been a big fan of Russell Grant but I hear some people rate him quite highly:

http://russellgrant.com/horoscopes_a...hp?ec=homepage

Good one!

I do believe in a higher power though, and I call her Beatrice. She is the idealized woman who I love.

[Monkey]

Have you ever seen Carl Sagan's take on it?




not about astrology but about Earth:

Pale Blue Dot

[Fred_Nguyen]

(Monkey @ Jan. 13 2008,03:03) Have you ever seen Carl Sagan's take on it?

"The gravitational influence of the obstetrician was much larger than the gravitational influence of mars..."



Sagan does sound a little patronizing though.

[Naang Faa]

Fred did i cheat destiny or fate by changing sex?
Naang Faa
x

[Fred_Nguyen]

(Naang Faa @ Jan. 13 2008,03:34) Fred did i cheat destiny or fate by changing sex?
Naang Faa
x

That's a fun question. If you do something that takes exception to the natural order of things, have you defied fate?

Some have believed as much. Poor Romeo... he saw Juliet "dead" and impulsively cried out "Well then I defy you Stars."

He proceeds to take his remedy, saying, "O here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh."

But the reader knows that he wasn't defying the stars; he succombed to what was his fate all along.

So did you defy fate, or was it your fate all along to be a woman???