According to a report in National Geographic this week, “Experiments suggest that metabolism could have begun spontaneously on our primordial planet—and scientists may need to rethink how we define life.”
This p*sses me off and I will tell you why.
> The reason it p*sses me off has nothing to do with metabolism
> The reason it p*sses me off has nothing to do with how we define life
> The reason it p*sses me off has everything to do with the arrogance of scientists
Here’s the thing; hundreds of years ago, if you were an astrologer (as I am) you were also an astronomer (which I am not). The two just went hand in hand.
Let’s define the difference between astrology and astronomy:
I can’t say it better than skyandtelescope.org:
Though the practices of astrology and astronomy have common roots, there is an important distinction in astrology vs astronomy today. Astronomy is the study of the universe and its contents outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Astronomers examine the positions, motions, and properties of celestial objects. Astrology attempts to study how those positions, motions, and properties affect people and events on Earth.
Note that “the practices of astrology and astronomy have common roots….”
In fact, before the so-called Age of Enlightenment (roughly 1685 – 1815) if you were an astronomer, you were almost certainly also an astrologer – and vice versa.
Galileo Galilei
At the beginning of the 17th century, great minds such as Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe and Pierre Gassendi – remembered for the part they played in the development of what we know as modern physics and astronomy – all held astrology in high esteem.
Indeed, as the skyandtelescope.org post goes on to note, “for several millennia, the desire to improve astrological predictions was one of the main motivations for astronomical observations and theories…”
So, thanks astrology, right?
So why does the fact that “scientists may need to rethink how we define life” piss me off?
Because these very modern scientists are the same scientists who pooh-pooh astrology without knowing anything about it (I can pretty much guarantee you most know nothing at all beyond what they’ve seen in newspapers and so on).
Apart from anything else, this is some kind of breach of their ethics, right?
I mean, which self-respecting scientist would EVER make any pronouncements about anything without having done serious research and published multiple peer reviewed papers about their findings?
Also science has always traditionally been utterly patriarchal, and that just p*sses me off on principle.
Men in white coats…
People believe people wearing white coats and burn at the stake anyone who says anything which challenges their world view. Ok so maybe they don’t burn us at the stake anymore, but they do 100% pooh-pooh and belittle.
I was trolled by an army of such people about a year ago because some science dude through it was fun to make fun of me in one of his YouTube videos, and all his followers attacked me. I was utterly distraught but kept fighting back (stupidly) and eventually he saw what he had done and made a second video to apologise.
*raising my eyebrows*
And yet here we are with this new report in National Geographic (coming out of the University of Cambridge, no less) about these very same self-satisfied scientists …
… who have forgotten where all the OG astronomical research came from and who act like utter know-it-alls …
… admitting they might have to “rethink how we define life“… LIFE!
Hmmm. I feel I could rest my case here but I will add.
Where science fails is it only relies on what can be proved with numbers. It makes little to no allowance for the mystical OR to put it another way, it pretends it knows EVERYTHING right up to the point it admits that it has to “rethink how we define life”.
Don’t get caught – it’s a trap! A bit like growing up is too.
The reason why astrology has taken off in recent years is because the current tech allows people to cast their charts in seconds for free. Suddenly people all over the world are seeing how crazily accurate it is.
Maybe science should admit what my beloved late unofficial mentor Jonathan Cainer once told me, quoting Shakespeare, ‘There are more things in heaven and earth… than are dreamt of in our philosophy.’
Mobile phones, the internet and Moon bases would have seemed magical and impossible only a very short time ago.
Yet methods such as acupuncture and hypnosis, which have been shown to work for centuries, have been belittled by many so-called experts who imho actually turn out to be arrogant ignoramuses.
So what to do when you come up against an arrogant ignoramus?
My favourite is to quote the alleged words of Sir Isaac Newton to the astronomer Edmond Halley (as in Halley’s comet) when Halley ridiculed astrology. Newton, who is said to have held true to the roots of OG astronomers, is said to have berated him with the remark:
“Sir Halley, I have studied the matter, you have not!”
I will finish with the very humble admission that like science, I do not know it all. I couldn’t even tell you why astrology works. But just because I don’t know, don’t mean that I don’t believe it. I have tested it for 20+ years. It works. Maybe it’s a mysterious code of the Universe that we are not yet able to understand. Who tf knows? Not science, that’s for sure!
So I say to the haters out there, learn the ancient system and test it for 20+ years (or at least for ONE year for real, ffs, including retrospective testing which is THE clincher imho) … and then let me know your findings.
Peace, out.
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