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Re: OT: the Monkey Year (wasRe: Religion and Holidays)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 14:35
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:55PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > You might also want to see what you work out to in Indian astrology. > > It's similar to what is done in the West, but with the actual astronomical > > positions of the constellations, rather then signposts based on where the > > constellations used to be when the art was founded. > > Isn't that injecting an unhealthy amount of common sense into the discipline?
How, exactly, does it constitute *more* common sense to maintain that the positions of stars many light-years away are actually relevant to the goings-on here, rather than just a convenient reference point? :)
> Then you can do as one New Age groups I saw did, and redefine a Zodiacal Age > as 2000 years, apparently just because it's a nice round number (should be > 2160 years or so), and _still_ maintain it has some relevance to > cosmic goings- on. The Gods apparently not only have a thing > about the Earth's position in the galaxy, but also about base ten.
Of course they do! Why do you think They created us with ten each of fingers and toes?
> Hm, speaking of gods and stars, I should be nailing down the cosmology of the > Meghean-Yargish coniverse in some more detail. I know they live on a spherical > piece of stuff equipped with paraphernalia to convince the casual visitor from > Earth it's a planet orbiting a sun somewhere well inside a disc-shaped galaxy, > but I suspect their world is actually pretty much ptolemaean. I guess the > Creator was making use of His sense of humour when He made it.
:) -Mark

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