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27th December 2004, 06:21 AM
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What Sign ?
What is your sun sign ?
Please also say whether you are sceptical, believing or unsure regarding paranormal areas and what sign you voted for. |
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27th December 2004, 06:41 AM
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New York Skeptic
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On Planet X, we don't got no steenkin' signs.
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27th December 2004, 07:53 AM
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Muse
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Is "sun sign" just the standard horoscope zodiac sign thing?
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27th December 2004, 08:00 AM
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Yes
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27th December 2004, 08:02 AM
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Militant Elvisian Tacoist
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So, why is aquarius an air sign?
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...it rings a bell in my head that just don't chime...--pillory There is no God but the Great Taco In The Sky and Elvis is his prophet. |
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27th December 2004, 08:20 AM
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27th December 2004, 08:52 AM
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27th December 2004, 08:53 AM
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Do you mean the sign the sun was in when I was born, or the sign from the standard astrological charts, based on my birthday?
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27th December 2004, 09:08 AM
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Oh my...
Will Jambo use this as a statistical survey to show that skeptics are preferentially of a given sign (or group of)? Thus proving that astrology is not the sheer ammount of BS we all know (or are supposed to know) it is? Aries, BTW. |
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27th December 2004, 09:12 AM
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My sign is Neon.
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27th December 2004, 09:44 AM
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Mine wasn't listed, Ophiuchus, the sepent holder. My birthday is Nov. 2. I feel sooooo disappointed.
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27th December 2004, 11:25 AM
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I'm not referring to personally detailed birthcharts designed specifically for the person concerned.
I'm just talking about the generalised thing running from the 22nd of the month to the 23rd of the next or whatever. |
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27th December 2004, 11:37 AM
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I'm a "Darrian Tom" but I don't see that on your zodiacal list.
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...it rings a bell in my head that just don't chime...--pillory There is no God but the Great Taco In The Sky and Elvis is his prophet. |
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27th December 2004, 02:12 PM
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27th December 2004, 02:20 PM
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Ayay ashay ayay
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Scorpio and skeptical of the paranormal.
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27th December 2004, 02:30 PM
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Re: What Sign ?
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27th December 2004, 02:36 PM
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No sceptics of my sign I see.
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27th December 2004, 02:40 PM
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27th December 2004, 02:48 PM
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Stop, sometimes Yield... though lately I've been more about Slow Children Playing
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27th December 2004, 02:58 PM
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Fish? Crabs? Guys hugging?
What sort of crap is this? Everyone with a lick of sense knows that the birth signs are Dragon, Dog, Pig, Monkey, Tiger, Rooster, Snake, and so forth.
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27th December 2004, 03:05 PM
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Only in China.
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27th December 2004, 03:06 PM
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Why only in China?
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27th December 2004, 03:09 PM
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I'm a video - didn't see that listed.
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27th December 2004, 03:12 PM
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Because he mentioned the chinese zodiac system.
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27th December 2004, 03:14 PM
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THE Lisa Simpson
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But why are dragon, pig, rooster, etc. only valid in China? They aren't valid in the rest of the world?
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27th December 2004, 03:16 PM
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They are valid anyplace which has Chinese restaurants.
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27th December 2004, 03:18 PM
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Buddha invited animals to a party before leaving the world.
Only these 12 arrived. To award them he named years after them in the order they arrived in. |
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27th December 2004, 03:58 PM
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My Aztec sign is the Rabbit.
*Hop hop hop* |
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27th December 2004, 04:14 PM
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Can I be a Potto?
I like Pottos. Or it may be volvos. My mind is going. Jambo- I imagine you'll be Cancer? |
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27th December 2004, 04:52 PM
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27th December 2004, 05:10 PM
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Hmmm! Astrology? Astrologers?
I have a perfect sign for them: The Bird. The answer I like to give when asked, but it's not in the poll. Shame..... |
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27th December 2004, 06:12 PM
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27th December 2004, 06:35 PM
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Scholar
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Taurus here.
Earth? What does that mean? I don't know much about this stuff, always thought it was silly. Is there a point to this or some one just being curious? |
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27th December 2004, 07:00 PM
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It's just jambo. He's broken his new Xbox , there's repeats on the telly and there was too much brandy on the Christmas pudding. He goes kinda weird for a week either side of the Solstice.
And profoundly strange thereafter. |
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27th December 2004, 07:31 PM
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Like right now with 18 votes in, there are peaks at Pisces and Scorpio. Both are water signs. This proves that the water washes out belief in astrology, while fire, um, burns it in, yeah (Sagittarius and Leo have 0 votes). But wait, Cancer is also a water sign and it's not a peak. Yeah, but it has 2 votes and if everything was perfectly random, then every sign would have 18/12 = 1.5 votes. So obviously it's a *small* peak. Oh, but Aries is a fire sign and it's got 2 votes. Um, see, that's just what you'd expect because Aries, being a crab is also associated with water and that partially cancels out the... what?... Aries isn't the crab? The twins then, because... eh? Oh. Yes, this is just what you'd expect, because Aries, being a ram, is associated with... BTW, Scorpio and sceptic. Skeptic, even. |
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28th December 2004, 05:44 AM
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Racism, sexism, ignorance, homophobia, intolerance, extremism, authoritarianism, environmental disasters, politically correct crap, violence at sport stadiums, slavery, poverty, wars, people who disagree with me: Together we can find the cure Oh, and together we can find a cure to religion too… |
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28th December 2004, 08:41 PM
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Trick question:
What dates is the sun actually in Scorpio? |
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28th December 2004, 10:22 PM
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According to the back of today's newspaper, I'm Sagittarius. Otherwise, Calathumpius.
However the Bad Astronomer can probably inform us of the precession of the stars over the last few thousand years, such that the current star signs are completely different from the ancient star signs. Also, there used to be a 13th star sign at one time, but I guess it predicted itself out of existence...and won! 
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28th December 2004, 10:29 PM
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I don't understand any of this.
I was brought up to believe these things were called "star signs" and yet that term does not seem to have been used by anyone in this thread until now. |
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28th December 2004, 10:32 PM
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