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- From: pausch@electra.saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,talk.religion.newage,sci.skeptic,alt.astrology,alt.pagan.magick,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.religion,wicca,alt.out.of.body
- Subject: Re: Astrology: Heads full of stars
- Date: 22 Jun 1996 01:55:12 +0200
- Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening
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- In article <31C9785E.12F5@fc.hp.com>, Jim Rogers <jfr@fc.hp.com> wrote:
-
- > Bart Scott wrote:
- >>>
- >>>Do this little test: in your program, try changing just one of those
- >>>cycles by .1 day; for instance, make the long one 33.1 days long, and
- >>>see how far your results differ for you, this year.
- >>
- >> No, I won't do that. I'm not very interested in biorhythms either. I
- >> don't HAVE a program and I've gotten just about all I need out of this
- >> thread, but it seems I must clarify a statement I made earlier. I used
- >> the term "Moderately accurate predictions" not "Completely accurate
- >> predictions" The menstrual cycle is a biorhythm. It doesn't fall
- >> EXACTLY on the same day, I agree, but you can be "Moderately" certain
- >> it WILL occur within an approximate period of about a week - and you
- >> better damn well pay attention to it. I was with my wife for ten years
- >> and I knew when I should begin to prepare myself for something that was
- >> often quite devastating.
-
- If your wife had a menstrual period of approximately one week, she was
- indeed unusual. Menstrual periods of between three and six weeks are
- otherwise the norm....
-
- >> Be it in the stars or in the rhythm of life. A pattern can be seen
- >> and, to a degree, charted.
- >
- > I'm sure you get the point, then, and I agree with what you say here, as
- > far as it goes. We *do* have lots of little patterns in our lives that
- > are more or less cyclic, but that "more or less" part is *crucial*. The
- > inputs that affect those cycles make it chaotic in the long term,
- > except where there's some sort of external or artificial synchronizing
- > influence-- such as the moon and thus tides synching up human activity
- > in fishing villages, social constructs like calendars and clocks
- > deliminating the seven-day week, rush-hour, holidays, etc.
-
- The menstrual period is otherwise a very good example of how
- inaccurate an actual biorhythm can be: it varies a lot between
- individual women, and in the same woman at different times. Any
- woman (or any man being with that woman) can easily check this by
- assuming a menstrual period of X days (where X is different for each
- individual), and then checking how long this assumption will remain
- even approximately valid.
-
- --
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- Paul Schlyter, Swedish Amateur Astronomer's Society (SAAF)
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