Astrology in SL

I believe he was also a vegetarian. That doesn't make either astrology or vegetarianism wrong.

It can be that. In my case, it is a way of identifying areas where I need to work hard.

LOL. If Leos have a lot fewer accidents than Aquarians, does that mean that Leos drive a lot less? If so, it still validates astrology.

Logical/skeptical attitude: Astrology is crap
Scientific attitude: Hmmm. Interesting. Lets do some more research.

If it makes testable claims, it should be treated the same way as anything else that makes testable claims. You can't detect ghosts and angels and demons, so religion gets a pass. Astrology doesn't.

No it wasn't. No educated person believed the earth was flat, neither did Columbus sailors. The disagreement between Columbus and his critics was over the size of the Earth. They believed that the ocean was too wide for a boat to survive a voyage across it. Columbus believed that the orient was thousands of miles closer than they did.

They were right. Columbus was wrong.

He just lucked out because there was a continent nobody knew about in the way. If it wasn't for that he'd have died.

Don't learn the wrong lesson from Columbus.

Yes, but do they? Have fewer accidents, that is?

There is so much to know in this universe, and I will know it through the testable and provable methods of science and mathematics. I have no time for readily disprovable nonsense like astrology.

How can one have Astrology in a virtual world where the stars have no constelations, the moon is always full, and the world has no seasons?

Astrology is based on how life fits into the cycles of the world and the heavens. It is meaningless in Second Life, which has no cycles other than day and night.

The cycles of SL are things like server releases and changes in the available last names.

I was born in the 1.6 era under the sign of the stone cutter.

Not it's not hooey. /me digs in heels and stares you down. (RL rez date April, SL rez date April). Is exactly so. (strong willed, willful stubborn introvert.

If planetary alignments at the time and place of one's birth can affect personality, life events etc. then it is, to my mind, equally plausible that they can affect the fortunes of new ventures, including the creation of avatars. Here, for example, is an astrological chart for the Statue of Liberty (taking its unveiling as the natal moment):

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/astrology-articles/statue-of-liberty.php

and here is one for the birth of the Internet:

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/astrology-articles/internet-natal-charts.php

Many years ago, I once helped somebody determine the exact best time to start building a house (the moment when the spade first cut the earth), so that it would have lots of Cancerian and Virgoan influences.

Natal charts for avatars are no less (or more) plausible or useful. Perhaps you could use your own natal chart to determine the best moment to create an avatar for a specific purpose. Perhaps Aristotle could offer this as a service. Wouldn't it be terrible to discover you were astrologically incompatible with your own avatar? Perhaps it could explain why sometimes we create avatars that never really seem to "take off", even when they have really good names, while others with stupid names become our main avs.

Perhaps, though, astrology is just a side-effect of the inbuilt human need to discover patterns in seeming randomness (a trait which has served us well, historically), and we are ultimately not all that different from Skinner's superstitious pigeons.

Thank you. Interesting information. However, it doesn't really change my point.

Interesting. I hadn't thought of avatars as new ventures rather than persons, but it makes sense.

Oh, I dunno....

In RL I am a Gemini. I was always told I look like my father. (twins). HEH! I hated getting glasses because I looked even MORE like him (minus the bald spot, beer gut, etc)

My Ex-Fiancee KNEW I was a Gemini the minute she saw me watching TV while typing a paper. And yea, the paper got an A+ in College. She noticed I tend to do 2 things at once.... more if I can. Add to that all the other fun traits of an Air sign & being Gemini.
Did I mention running 2 computers at once? One for SL, Games, Internet, etc, while the other is used for IM Clients & other stuff?

Add to that, after reading about Aquarian Traits.... I can see it in her.

I'm not too sure I'm gonna trust any calendar or deadly warning by a peopel who didn't invent the wheel.