Da Moon

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Da Moon

What is nice about Dreamwidth is that when you take off away from the beaten track is that folks here all have their off-center pursuits and no one seems to judge too harshly.  

I am spending time lately learning about mundane astrology.  A lot of this is just me pushing back against the oft-voiced and pervasive sneering within the scientific community that astrology is right up there with snake-oil symptoms and ponzi schemes.  But the truth of the matter is that they hold this firm belief without a single foray into understanding the system, let alone work through the process and compare predictions with results within a valid sampling system and defined experimental criteria.  

So, I'm off.  I am straight out guessing that mundane astrology is most amenable to the criteria stated.  It is my belief that the actions of groups of people are much more predicable and amenable to categorization that individuals.  This hypothesis might be completely wrong, but that is the nature of hypotheses, isn't it?

It will be quite a while before I get anything even remotely useful out of this.  Hell, not counting the 12 years in school at the public trough, it took and addition eight years at the university level to get competent in a completely unrelated mindset, I have a hunch that time-frame isn't going to be beaten here