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ASTROLOGY
(Investigator 13, 1990 July)
Astrology is a study of the alleged influences of the sun, moon,
planets and stars in different relative positions, on people and human
destiny.
Astrology began in ancient Babylonia where the priests taught that gods
lived on the moon, stars, and planets.
Astrology faded after 1700 when the science of astronomy refuted it. By
1900 astrology was something for gullible old ladies. After World War
One came resurgence and now 25% of all people take it seriously.
Virtually every astrology prediction for 1984 in the news clipping
below failed. The two things from the stars and planets that might
hypothetically influence us – gravity and radiation – measure less than
the radiation and gravity of household objects in our homes.
Relative positions of planets and stars therefore have no influence on
human destiny and astrology has to be bunk.
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Military
oblivion a threat in 1984, say astrologers
(The Advertiser,
1983, December 31)
The world
is threatened with military ,oblivion in 1984, the Red Army will seize
power in Moscow, President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, face
assassination and the Princess of Wales will have another baby…
Astrologer
Jeane Dixon takes a possibly more realistic view of the political
future for 1984.
She says a
lunatic will try to launch a suicide attack on the White House and
warns Administration officials to toughen security measures…
The
sensation-seeking Star Weekly magazine announced that a total closure
of Eastern Bloc borders would make it impossible for Pope John Paul to
return to his Polish homeland.
But the
Pope's problems do not end there. A gullible young assassin, guided by
terrorists, will try to kill him at the end of the next summer, the
Star says.
A glance
down the Star’s list of lesser happenings for 1984 shows that the Red
Army will take power in the Soviet Union while Cuban leader Fidel
Castro will occupy two Caribbean islands as a base from which to grab
Venezuela’s oil wealth…
Smirkers
look to last year's flurry of predictions for 1983, which had Mrs
Ghandi on her death-bed, a rapprochement between Moscow and Washington,
the death of Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini and a romance
between screen actress Elizabeth Taylor and Prince Rainier of Monaco. |
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