THE SOLAR ECLIPSE COULD MEAN DISASTER FOR TRUMP, ACCORDING TO ASTROLOGERS

[Binkie The Clown]

49. We Virgos are too logical to believe in astrology!

Seriously, back about 50 years ago, when I was a teenager, I took astrology very seriously. Seriously enough to study it in depth and learn all the deep and arcane mathematics of reading the ephemerides and casting charts, computing houses by various and assorted different systems of house division. In other words, I went WAY beyond glancing at the horoscopes in the newspaper, and delved deeply into all the convoluted details.

After testing it rigorously for 3 or 4 years, I came to the unshakable conclusion that it is pure B.S. dressed up in a false cloak of "deeply arcane ancient knowledge". I don't believe in just dismissing something out of hand without putting it to the test, so I put it to the test, and it failed miserably. (And I soooo badly wanted it to be true. Oh well, can't win them all.)

The same for UFOs, which I dug pretty deeply into as a teen and also concluded, sadly, that it's almost certainly nonsense.

The jury is still out on Bigfoot. I suppose it's possible, but I consider it unlikely enough that I won't waste any of my own time trying to find out. And frankly, even if Bigfoot is real, so what? I'm sure some primatologists would get excited about it, but me, personally, I just don't care one way or the other.

ESP? Well, I'm on the fence due to some personal experiences that I'd be hard pressed to explain. That doesn't mean I'm a "believer", but it also makes it hard for me to be a hard-and-fast "non-believer". I'll just mark that one as improbable, but not entirely close my mind to the possibility. As for self-proclaimed "psychics", my personal investigations have led me to be convinced that they are ALL frauds, without exception.