(February 20, 2014 at 9:33 pm)leodeo Wrote: ... i guess nowadays im more skeptical of christin logic, and dont really believe in psychic/astronomy stuff as much, but when i see like a fortune cookie or horoscope that matches up perfectly, it still does make me wonder....No, it doesn't mean you are stupid, but it's not easy to see through this. Evolution has hard-wired us for confirmation bias, so that we notice the hits and ignore the misses.
I never believed in astrology, but one time almost 50 years ago, I was really shaken for a day or two. I read my horoscope for amusement only, and it told me that I would get an important letter. Damned if I didn't. I had been waiting months to hear from my thesis supervisor and he finally wrote back to tell me that he really liked my outline.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
