Teen People and Astrology

[Quasi]

If anyone else saw this- "Teen People" magazine this month is dedicated to astrology. I read my sign stuff and it was dreadfully wrong. Anyway, the only skeptical comment was shoved off to one side, on one page, and was one or two sentences. It read something like "So and so, professor of so and so at X university says astrology doesn't work," and this was rebuffed with "Hey, the professor himself admits to reading his horoscope!" Well duh, if he is an expert he would read it from time to time, that is like saying if you read the Bible you must be a believer. Anyhow, I thought this was an unbelievabel load of crap, and was wondering if anyone here has kids who subscribe, and whether or not you do, what you think of this.

[Lord Kenneth]

Teen magazines are jokes... "take this quiz to find out if your boyfriend is cheating on you!"

:rolleyes:

[komencanto]

Its bulls**t like this that keeps nonsence like astrology popualar with kids.
It makes me sick every time i see something like it.

[Nyarlathotep]

Originally posted by Lord Kenneth
Teen magazines are jokes... "take this quiz to find out if your boyfriend is cheating on you!"

:rolleyes:

What's worse is that the same people (girls" who read that trip end up reading cr@p like Cosmo with the exact same "take this quiz to find out if your boyfriend is cheating on you!" tripe.

Unfortunately, I think peoples reading habits are mostly set by the time that they are teenagers and junk like "Teen People" doesn't help.

[Quasi]

One of the girls I used to work for brought "Cosmo" or another magazine to work. I read the sex quiz. It stated that men who bite their nails are great in bed. I also recently read a Wiccan magazine in Faces in Northampton MA. There was a long story about a wiccan girl who is taunted in high school. At the end of the article she defended herself by saying "People ask me if my spells work, I say do your prayers work?" Yep, keep workin on it sister. Does that mean that both christian prayer and spells work? Why bother with spells if christianity works? Hmmm, so many questions.

[dmarker]

Originally posted by Quasi
One of the girls I used to work for brought "Cosmo" or another magazine to work. I read the sex quiz. It stated that men who bite their nails are great in bed. I also recently read a Wiccan magazine in Faces in Northampton MA. There was a long story about a wiccan girl who is taunted in high school. At the end of the article she defended herself by saying "People ask me if my spells work, I say do your prayers work?" Yep, keep workin on it sister. Does that mean that both christian prayer and spells work? Why bother with spells if christianity works? Hmmm, so many questions.


Aren't prayers also spells? Spells are requests to a divine being for help with worldly matters. If this doesn't define prayers, I don't know what does.