> In <31c9409f.0@news.cybernet.dk> keldpede@cybernet.dk (Keld Hammer
> Pedersen) writes:
> >
> >Jim Rogers <jfr@fc.hp.com> wrote:
> >
>[at this point, I've lost track of whom I am quoting; the message to which I am responding was from a believer in astrology, but it quotes a lot of good stuff] The
correlations suggested by astrology have never been
> shown to
> >>> >exist.
> >>....
> >>> All of this "paranormal" stuff is quite personal. The term
> >>> "Parapsychology" itself indicates that this statement is true.
Well, if paramilitary means almost (but not quite) military then paranormal should mean
almost (but not quite) normal and parapsychology should mean almost (but not quite)
psychology.
> It's a
> >>> personal experience. The words and proceedures surrounding the
> issues
> >>> involved are as widely varied as there are personalities.
In other words, anecdotal and incapable of being reproduced under controlled conditions?
These
> people
> >>> who believe in the paranormal are in search of a higher meaning in
> >>> life. I think that is an admirable pursuit.
Then they ought to read Seneca and Epictetus; Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon; Plutarch,
Thucydides and Homer; the Gospels. They had a way of attacking the problem of higher
meaning (What is the Good Life for Man? Is there God? What is Justice?) far superior to
addle-pated star-gazing.
> >
> >>The public deserves to know what is chicanery, and how it is
> determined
> >>to be such. Just because some people missed the renaissance doesn't
> mean
> >>we need to continue to entertain medieval superstitions.
This writer I like.
What "higher
>
> >>meaning" is there in the bigotry that pigeon-holes you based on where
> the
> >>planets were when you were born?
Hear, hear!
> >
> >The *only* aspect of interest is what nature tells us.
Bravo!
> We could
> >wish that the nature were more logical than it is.
> >
> >There are things, which can be understood in the way science do
> >things. We've gained much knowledge from that, and I wouldn't
> >neglect science at all.
> >
> >There are other things, such as astrology, which is part of
> >reality, too. Scientifically speaking, we cannot explain this as
> >of TODAY.
It is not the case that the scientific method cannot discover how
astrology works. Rather, scientifically speaking, astrology cannot be shown to work.
