(April 23, 2015 at 10:35 am)Alex K Wrote: Don't talk to me about the planets not influencing my life. The other day I walked along a path and looked upwards because Venus was shining brightly. So distracted, I stumbled over a rock, fell and grazed my hands and elbows. Damn planet.
I knew some smart ass would take it too literally. Yes, the planets can influence your life if you look at them, but you know that the horoscope I posted above gives, to borrow an expression from Werner Herzog, the ecstatic truth even if it does not give the accountant's truth.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
