Astrology

I backed down on something today because it was 1am, I was tired and I'm not close enough with the person to argue every point.

But I regret it, because I feel like it led to the invalidation of one of the fields of study I care about.
I'm sorry, the Myer-Briggs test is just way more legit than astrology.
People make too big a deal of it, but it is still not just stars and vague assignments.
some people prefer to control their environment and have frameworks, others prefer to make decisions only when they have to and having their choices open.
This varies person to person, not month to month, and is based on self report.


earth and water are not real characteristics. 490,000 babies are born every day. I doubt that all the ones born in June have the same personality.

I said that (I'm a Torus on the cusp) the whole "it being sense-driven" is not at all who I think I am, or what the Myer-Briggs test said. She said "well you are on the cusp" and I laughed, because to me it sounded like a joke! But it wasn't, and she was offended.
I sooo don't give a shit about astrology, I understand why some people think it's fun. I also know that it's set up to be convincing (and vague) and I also think that maybe for some people it give a framework to compare against, helping to think about people, possibly, though that's as far as I'm willing to stretch on it's validity, and I was feeling creative.

Never before coming to Bard did I feel like a super-sciency person. But this is just bullshit! time and time again I bump into people that question science because they feel like it has too much authority. And I'm sorry, you can't rebel against authority just 'cause. It's important to question, but there is a reason I'm sure that Whooping Cough vaccine I got as a baby works, and that when I stare at a red screen my retina compensates and in turn makes a white wall look green when I look at it afterwords, and that caraway and spearmint chemicals are reflections of each other, that neurons are negatively charged cells, and that proteins are made out of amino acids coded for by rna, which in turn is coded for by dna and that the silver ions on photo paper light-sensitive and that the Earth is very very tiny in comparison to the Sun, the solar system it's in, and the Universe(s) that we all reside in.

 most of this, especially when put together, is hard to wrap my mind around. I guess doubting any of it is right is easier than learning it and understanding it and believing any of it.

Bard gets to me sometimes.