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From: mjs@eagle.UUCP (M.J.Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Re: Astronomical software
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 16:50:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 16:50:34 1985
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> >/**** faust:net.astro / sun!> /  1:01 pm  Jul 19, 1985 ****/
> >I'm also in favor of astrological software appearing in net.astro.software,
> >being a superset of that required for astronomy, and in days of old, the
> >two sciences being indistinguishable.
> 
> Astronomy is a science.  Astrology is a parlor game.  Anyone who takes
> astrology seriously is just spending most of their time swapped out.

That doesn't make the algorithms, or even the programs used by astrologers any
less useful.  I don't think much of astrology, either, but I respect the folks
who wrote the programs and did the research and math to get them right,
whatever their end.  I respect the folks who do those calculations without the
aid of computers even more.  I don't respect them for their beliefs, I respect
them for their abilities, and refuse to denigrate them for their beliefs, no
matter what my opinion of those beliefs is.  How about a little common
courtesy?
-- 
	Marty Shannon
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