source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:37:26 -0800 Subject: Re: Unsent replies From: rtomes@kcbbs.gen.nz (Ray Tomes) John Chalmers wrote: >Frankly, just because something is old doesn't make it right. >Astrology developed during Hellenistic times largely on the basis >of earlier Babylonian astronomy and only makes sense if one believed >that the planets are gods. Since we now know that they are material >bodies, this justification is removed. OTOH, just because something is old doesn't mean that it is wrong. Actually Babylonian astrology and astronomy was very good. The Greeks bastardised it (astrology) for roughly the equivalent of trash horoscopes in women's magazines today. It does not require the planets to be gods, only to influence life on earth. It may even be that the idea that they are gods came from the scientific observation that they do influence life. If you doubt this, I recommend that you read Michel Gaquelin's books. In his second book (or maybe later) he addresses the issue of Babylonian astrology. He does this because his truly scientific study showed that some ancient astrology was right and some wrong. On tracing the errors back he found that they were introduced in Greek times but he did require new and careful translations of some ancient texts. It is all based on good scholarship. Gauquelin's work has been confirmed in multiple studies with samples of about 30,000 each in several countries. The same significant results were found each time. -- Ray Tomes -- rtomes@kcbbs.gen.nz -- Harmonics Theory -- http://www.kcbbs.gen.nz/users/rtomes/rt-home.htm Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:55 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18012; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:55:10 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA18020 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id EAA25747; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 04:52:04 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 04:52:04 -0800 Message-Id: <009B1D74E1CFDEFB.8C4E@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu