soooo how accurate is astrology? (Page 3)

((fwiw, i would say that the conversation between notso and i is evidence enough to disprove thelibran's theory.))

Where is notso— or is scorpsuperior notso's new id?? In any case, air and fire will understand most of what water and earth try to explain. Not the other way around. And try to talk a bit more deeper and see where it goes.

((because they were never free enough to experience themselves.))

I think we were always free enough to experience it but never had right set of informations to support logical reasoning.

no, really, libran...

you keep saying that air signs are more logical and abstract, while you have demonstrated neither, much less so than myself. that is not meant to be offensive.

((you keep saying that air signs are more logical and abstract, while you have demonstrated neither, much less so than myself.))

I also did mentioned that water and earth will have a hard time comprehending an air or fire sign.

Ok, apologies, couldn't read the whole thread. But I would have to say that humans are limited in their perception of the world so, I'm quite sure that regardless of the amount of time that passes, humans will never have an absolute understanding of anything. Furthermore, we can only experience reality through our five senses so our perception as well as our understanding of things can only be a bunch of mental processes. So really, we can't discount anything. But astrology is particularly hard for people to accept because generalizations are arrived at as a result of inductive reasoning.

But, I think it is plausible that we are affected by our time of birth. Personally though, I think it's more a result of the environment than the stars. I've often wondered if the fact that specific traits seem to be correlated with our birth date could be a result of the concentration of different chemicals being more prevalent in the atmosphere during a particular time of year/season (for ex., there is higher atmospheric hydrogen chloride present during summer months and peaks in sulfate during spring/summer and sodium chloride during winter/spring). I can imagine chemical concentrations like these having a huge impact on the development of life, esp. during the earliest stages of development when everything is first forming, esp. the physiology of the brain.

((Personally though, I think it's more a result of the environment than the stars. ))

Its never stars. Nurture has a lot of significance because the stored informations inside brain is completely achieved during nurture.

((So that goes back to "nothing is black and white--everything is gray." ))
neurons process 1 bit signals. So in the base level, there is a high possibility that brain works on a binary fashion.