tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18971399.post1547360383768488979..comments2023-10-31T13:02:05.452-04:00Comments on MuMin Bey AstroBlog: Don't Believe The Hype: Reconsiderations Of Barack Obama's "New" Birthtime Part One - Horary AnalysisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18971399.post-6269697243735033062008-05-23T07:09:00.000-04:002008-05-23T07:09:00.000-04:00Hi E,Yea, it was a shame man. I'm thinking Patry w...Hi E,<BR/>Yea, it was a shame man. I'm thinking Patry was trying to get a "scoop" and by all accounts it worked. But what's even worse for the community of astrologers is just how bad we suck at being able to even get the data right. Now wonder Skeptics have a field day w/us. <BR/><BR/>I've long said that we have far too many "intuitives" in the astrology word and not enough thinkers-and I don't mean those who can take the simple and make it sound complex, I mean people who use the commonsense God gave a Billy goat. When we cannot get the most basic of data right, we piss on Rodden's grave; when NOT ONE PERSON IN A CROWD OF SEVERAL HUNDRED didn't stop Patry cold in the middle of her address and demand that she account for the "new" time beyond her say so, when a panel of astrologers spanning two generations, all of them White by the way, are using their astrology as a cover for thei slobbering all over Obama, something's really, realy wrong. <BR/><BR/>And that will be the subject of Part Three of this series, Don't Believe The Hype. <BR/><BR/>Stay Tuned. <BR/><BR/>Salaam<BR/>MuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18971399.post-82691315149941033872008-05-23T07:07:00.000-04:002008-05-23T07:07:00.000-04:00Hi E,Yea, it was a shame man. I'm thinking Patry w...Hi E,<BR/>Yea, it was a shame man. I'm thinking Patry was trying to get a "scoop" and by all accounts it worked. But what's even worse for the community of astrologers is just how bad we suck at being able to even get the data right. Now wonder Skeptics have a field day w/us. <BR/><BR/>I've long said that we have far too many "intuitives" in the astrology word and not enough thinkers-and I don't mean those who can take the simple and make it sound complex, I mean people who use the commonsense God gave a Billy goat. When we cannot get the most basic of data right, we piss on Rodden's grave; when NOT ONE PERSON IN A CROWD OF SEVERAL HUNDRED didn't stop Patry cold in the middle of her address and demand that she account for the "new" time beyond her say so, when a panel of astrologers spanning two generations, all of them White by the way, are using their astrology as a cover for thei slobbering all over Obama, something's really, realy wrong. <BR/><BR/>And that will be the subject of Part Three of this series, Don't Believe The Hype. <BR/><BR/>Stay Tuned. <BR/><BR/>Salaam<BR/>MuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18971399.post-51331706056046489772008-05-22T16:37:00.000-04:002008-05-22T16:37:00.000-04:00Mumin, you raise the criticism that the "exacting ...Mumin, you raise the criticism that the "exacting standards of competence and precision to our Art" were ignored in all the hoopla and media hype at "the world's largest gathering of astrologers" in favor of "a bit of information that is procured secondhand and that cannot be verified in any way at all for a public figure."<BR/><BR/>That is well-phrased criticism, and suggests the prevalence of self-delusive tendencies within the community of astrologers.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, perhaps there are those who judged that the inevitable media hype outweighed the potential truth content of the announcement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com