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My guru (I'm Indian) was an astrologer. Every time Mars goes retrograde I tell people "astrology is nonsense, but this Mars retrograde thing gets me every time..." and surely enough, every time...

I was raised on Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. There can't be anything to it. It has to be nonsense.

December 06 2024 is the next Mars retrograde. See if things don't go completely to hell right around then.

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Well now you’ve jinxed it for sure!

Apparently nobody got my election humour!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

> humour

Not when you spell it like that :-)

your penance now is to go to boston harbor and drop some tea-bags there.

Perfect example of narrative perspective influencing interpretation of events.

The day humanity understands the power of symbol is the day we turn reality into anything we desire, for the representation of information is everything. That is what I think of as true magic. Narrative control is the most important state actor military agenda, no wonder if it frames how reality is interpreted and rendered.

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