sami0201 said:
I read that. I've always been "superstitious" okay maybe that's not the right word, but you know what I mean. Now I'm like hardcore! I don't understand how it's always right, like every single time I've checked it lately it's been right!!
What happened? Did you print out that post the other day that you said you'd look at?
SG! How are you?
I'm not superstitious, but I still engage in some behaviours that could be considered superstitious, I guess. Rationally, I know that superstitious behaviour is not going to impact outcomes one way or the other, but I think some things are so ingrained, they become habits, and people sort of do them without thought. I did a paper about it once, and have done a lot of reading, and the only way that things like that can have an impact on outcomes is by people believing that it will, and as such, behaving in ways that affect the outcome. I don't believe in the paranormal either, and there are no peer-reviewed, legitimate studies that have showed that paranormal claims are legitimate. People with so-called psychic abilities...well, they've never been able to replicate it in a controlled lab at a rate any greater than chance.
But astrology - wow. I've noticed many things in myself and others that make it really hard for me to discount it entirely. Is it possible that the positioning of the planets at the time of your birth can have an impact on your life? I think it's more plausable than many other claims are. I don't really believe in general horoscopes put out for everyone (there's no way that those will fit 1/12 of the population, they're way too general), but I think there *could* be something to individualized charts that take into account time and place of birth.
Then again, I could just be crazy.
And yeah, about rereading that post.
Dis!