Much of the corporate material that I’m receiving from Japan at the moment is filled with comments about the New Year. It’s going to be the Year of the Dog in the 12-year Chinese zodiac, and an Earth Year according to the Five Elements system. Apparently that will boost any good things that are happening but will also bring continuing change.
I was born in the Year of the Water Dragon, which means I should share a lot of traits with Vladimir Putin. Vlad and I are confident and intelligent, but hotheaded, ambitious and domineering.
I’m also a Pisces, so I’m compassionate, gentle and wise, but also fearful and naïve with a tendency toward martyrdom. As a Piscean, I share many characteristics with Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Justin Bieber, and Osama Bin Laden.
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The Sun signs have changed. The sun no longer rises in the constellation Cancer on July 1st. Everyone who thinks they are a Pisces, Scorpio, Taurus is wrong. The earths orientation to these constellations has changed since the Babylonians wrote those charts. Bullshit is right!
When someone asked me my "sign" I tell them "Dr. Ramsey" as he had the most gravitational influence on me at the time of my birth!
Hi, everybody! My name is Tin-man, and I am a Cancer, born under the Chinese Year of the Monkey. (Monkeys are just sooooo adorable, don't you think?.*giggle*) I am very fluid, but have a metallic yang about me. *tee-hee* I enjoy poetry, long walks on the beach, and swinging from tree to tree while yelling, "Hiiiiiiii-deee-hoooooo," at the top of my lungs. Turn-ons include rivets, motor oil, sand blasters, and little furry animals. Turn-offs include dead parrots, European swallows, and handkerchiefs soaked in chloroform. If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain, then I'm the metal man you've been waiting for. Meet me at O'Malley's so we can cut through all the red tape.
a lot of my friends discuss this when we go for coffee or lunch,
it makes me cringe inside I must confess lol
I have not read a horoscope in 20 years.... but when I did I usually read not mine.. and found it equally vague
Reminds me of the story when the Editor of a national newspaper fired the Horoscope writer by letter, which began:"As you will already know ......
Priceless !!
I was born in July so my sign is supposedly Cancer. When someone asks what sign I am I say "Tumor".
I like your sense of tumor!
Out in one of the areas I use to work there was a Psychic/Palm Reader shop that had been around for many years and was well-known to the surrounding areas. As my team and I were entering a restaurant across from the psychic place one day, one of my teammates mentioned he had heard that the psychic lady who owned/operated the place had recently been killed in a car wreck. Without missing a beat I replied, "Hmmm.... She must not have been very good at fortune telling. You would think she should have seen that coming." Can you believe my teammates actually booed and hissed at me for that? LOL
There's a famous social experiment to prove how vague and applicable to anyone horoscopes are, in which every participant is given their description of their horoscope. Then the experimenter asks for the accuracy with their own personality and it usually is pretty high. At the end, participants find out they all have the exact same paper.
When someone asks "What's your sign?" I respond "STOP!"
I used to subscribe to a sms horoscope service. I worked with a few people who swore they didn't believe in horoscopes, but they did believe they had their star sign characteristics, so it was a bit of friendly team bonding fun. One day, the horoscopes came through, I read mine and it was really horrible. It didn’t quite tell me my best friend in the world was going to die today and everything would go downhill fast from there, but it was pretty close. I read the other horoscopes out to my colleagues and they were all really nasty, too. Next day, an sms came through with the new horoscopes apologising for the "computer errors" of the day before. Like hell they were errors! Someone was either having a laugh or a dummy spit. I kept hoping the sms horoscopes employee would do it again, but they didn't.
I saw that sceptic test, Flamen. I'd forgotten they were all given the same paper. For some reason I thought they'd mixed the characteristics up. I've never forgotten how they all marveled at astrology's accuracy, though.
Hahaha, @Sushisnake it reminds of another story: In Spain, a few years ago, a famous free daily newspaper published for Tauruses: "All the motherf***ers who were born under this sign will die by stabbing".
http://www.lavanguardia.com/internet/20030613/51262776146/el-diario-20-m...
P.S. They acccused some random hackers.
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Lol! Love it.
Hehe, @Sushi. About: I'd forgotten they were all given the same paper. For some reason, I thought they'd mixed the characteristics up
I looked it up, just to be sure. These experiments try to prove what is called the psychological phenomenon called "The Forer effect"(or "Barnum effect", as well), to prove astrology, fortune telling, etc. are crap. The text is like a blended horoscope, but the most important thing is to be given the same paper, so to prove how false they are (on the contrary, some could say the ascendants of the ascendants change their features or some other crap they come up with). On Forer's experiment, accuracy perceived was 4.26 on a scale of 0 to 5!
hi, I'm just new here, i was born in the year of the earth dragon and i was born in July so, I'm a cancer. looks like 2018 is my lucky year, Hell yeah!!..hahahah..
Horoscopes are just as ludicrous as the Bible. Period.
Anyone heard of Bertram Forer? He debunked astrology thoroughly with his research, it's called the Forer effect, or the Barnum effect.
"The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them but that are, in fact, vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some paranormal beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, graphology, aura reading, and some types of personality tests.
The Barnum effect occurs when characterisations made about an interlocutor that the individual finds true, even though the statements are generalisations that could apply to anyone. These characterisations are used by practitioners to convince customers that they are endowed with a paranormal gift. The effect is found when assessment statements are vague and people are able to interpret their own meaning into the statements they receive, thus the statement becomes "personal" to them. Also, individuals are more likely to accept negative assessments of themselves if they perceive the person presenting the assessment as a high-status professional."
Do astrologists ever wonder how twins have totally different lives?