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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: astrological software
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 10:32:38 EDT
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>> No, no.  Post it to net.sources.games.
>> -- 
>
>Astrology is NOT a game, bozo.  Allow me to make an analogy.
>
>Before the invention of the geiger counter or photographic film,
>I could have told you that I believed in a mystical and magical force
>known as "nuclear radiation", and that if you weren't careful, it could
>make you sick and die.  And you could have laughed in my face and made
>fun of me, because I wouldn't have been able to prove its existance to
>you in your "scientific" laboratory.  But, years later, with the help
>of a piece of electronics which you *do* believe in, I can prove to
>you that some chemicals have this mystical force.  If you didn't
>believe in electronic instruments, or understand how they worked, even
>the geiger counter would be insufficient to "make" you believe in
>nuclear radiation.

Allow me to make an analogy.

150 years ago, if you spoke of light travelling through the "ether,"
you would have been considered a scientist.  To-day, say that to
a physicist, and you will be laughed at.

I have no opinion myself on whether or not astrological software
should be posted to a net.astro.sources, but I do feel that Sunny's
analogy is poor.
-- 
James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

"You have a primary and secondary reproductive cycle.  It is an 
inefficient system; you should chnage it."
-Who said it, what episode?