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**asSexate** · 02-15-2006, 08:00 AM

I just read this amusing letter in the Bangkok Post. Are Thai horoscopes drawn up in a significantly different way to western ones?

The Outlook section of Dec 31, sporting a huge "Horoscope 2008" report, prompted me to ask myself, "What era are we living in?" Surely it can't be the 21st century, where scientific and rational arguments are the norm, and evidence is required to support any claim. It must be the Sukhothai era, where science wasn't invented yet and superstition ruled the day.

The horoscope (or made-up predictions, in other words) is an ancient superstition with no rational basis whatsoever. To call the horoscope nonsense would be an affront to the word "nonsense". Why can't those who presume to know the future predict something useful, like anti-global warming measures or medical advances, instead of dreary, same old pedestrian lives?

At best, horoscopes are a waste of space and at worst, they promote a viewpoint based on wishful thinking. To put faith in them is to delude ourselves about the nature of reality. Our lives are much too precious to waste on such delusions.

02-15-2006, 08:00 AM	#6
asSexate Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	Thai horoscopes I just read this amusing letter in the Bangkok Post. Are Thai horoscopes drawn up in a significantly different way to western ones? The Outlook section of Dec 31, sporting a huge "Horoscope 2008" report, prompted me to ask myself, "What era are we living in?" Surely it can't be the 21st century, where scientific and rational arguments are the norm, and evidence is required to support any claim. It must be the Sukhothai era, where science wasn't invented yet and superstition ruled the day. The horoscope (or made-up predictions, in other words) is an ancient superstition with no rational basis whatsoever. To call the horoscope nonsense would be an affront to the word "nonsense". Why can't those who presume to know the future predict something useful, like anti-global warming measures or medical advances, instead of dreary, same old pedestrian lives? At best, horoscopes are a waste of space and at worst, they promote a viewpoint based on wishful thinking. To put faith in them is to delude ourselves about the nature of reality. Our lives are much too precious to waste on such delusions.
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