This soldier is dedicated to defending his wife and her mutant boyfriend

I'm down. Want to get out of a "stand on concrete floors" retail job.

the late great Hannibal Lecter

Uhh... Hannibal didn't die. And Anthony Hopkins is still alive.

The only way to survive, is to not die

system of knowledge

But the knowledge is wrong tho.

enjoy the chaos

NO I WANT ORDER!

being sassy about stuff people like is not the dialectic way to do it.

Like I said I don't get into fights about this shit in public I was venting online, that just evolved into me making a more serious argument against astrology apologia.

I'll close with this: I feel like a lot of these defenses of astrology based around its associations with the feminine kinda feed into sexist stereotypes. Like the whole idea that women are chaotic and emotional and fey while men are ordered and logical, that's some Jordan Peterson shit. Maybe the reason so many women are into astrology is the the same reason less women are in STEM? The patriarchy directs them in those directions.

We should try and dissuade people from that type of thinking in general, not just astrology specifically. But this constant dismissal of the bad effects of astrology doesn't help with that.

Also one of those times of people is inherently impulse, has an "everyone for themselves" mentality and selfish tendencies which are totally neutral harmless assumptions to make about someone based on their birthday.

It isn't disrespectful.

It feels disrespectful to me, especially when people are really pushy about it, and they often are.

I don't respond this way in public, I just roll my eyes and tell people my sign and let them explain my own personality to me and sit in silent frustration. But this is an anonymous Internet forum so I wanted to vent about it.

It is ultimately harmless however.

People say this but I've encountered numerous people irl who make fairly important life decisions based on zodiac signs, like what candidate to vote for and who to date. And I've heard stories about countries where they take astrology way more seriously, like India, where people can get denied jobs or housing based on birth sign. Makes me wonder if there are astrology nerd landlords in the west quietly doing the same shit.

It certainly can evolve into something harmful. With institutions eroding in the world more people seem to be falling into mystical conspiracies, like anti-vax and alternative medicine. That's why I think there should be some pushback to this stuff, it's fun and games until a bunch of hippy moms cause an infant measles outbreak.

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Makes me wonder if there are astrology nerd landlords in the west quietly doing the same shit.

Okay not hosing but apparently there are rumors Jennifer Lopez fired backup dancers based on zodiac signs so no this is not always harmless.

I just find it really disrespectful to make a bunch of assumptions about someone's personality based on when they're born. Okay I'm a fucking Cancer, maybe the actual particulars of my life have caused me to be way different than my star chart says I should be? Maybe you should get to know me first before wiping out calipers to measure my fucking skull. If you like magical shit why not just play a ton of D&D or write a fantasy novel rather then try in inject this shit into your real life?

Call me a stick in the mud but I just find it very insulting to my individuality and agency that so many people insist that my personality was formed by a fucking sky crab. Yeah sure have your fun with it but if I say I'm not into it, accept that, and don't try and blame my distaste for it on the fact it's slightly more popular with women than men (there are astrology dudes fyi and if anything they're more obnoxious).

If girls wanna have a little mysticism as a treat couldn't they just do goofy witchcraft shit? Not the shit dead eugenics wizards came up with that argued everyone's personality is determined by their birthday?

If nothing else it seems kind of depressing to argue that everyone's fate is sealed by when their parents boned, there's some dark implications to that.

Nah it's still woo woo crap that's often a gateway to other more unhinged pseudo-mysticism shit like the crystal healing. Plus modern astrology has got more to do with early 19th century occultism than it does any ancient tradition from Babylon. It was originally crap for bored rich white dudes who wanted to pretend to be special wizards.

Eh, I'll give my sign, but then people keep asking more intrusive questions like the exact hour I was born so they can tell me my rising and setting sign or whatever. It just kind of seems obnoxious to do when you know the person you're talking to doesn't believe in this.

To me it's the same as someone who keeps brining religion into a conversation when the know the person they're talking to is a non-believer. You know I don't believe in this, you could respect that fact and leave the topic be.

They're up there with "astrology people who insist on know everyone's sign and don't desist when you tell them you don't believe in astrology."

Disliking anarchists= / =Nazbol

99% of MLs outside of this site would be NazBols then.

finance imperialist PMC demons

Next username

today I will read about chips and dip...a yakub psyop to manufacture desires in a libidinal economy

I guess we'll add "dipping things in sauce" to the list of thing HexBear users think only white people do. Put it there with "have holidays based around feasting" and "make noise".

What does meth smell like?

SPRINT means "Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telephony"

At least microbreweries make some decent beers sometimes, a lot of these communes can't even grow fucking zucchini right.