Thursday, July 12, 2007

Astrology , Numerology or jus Zoology?

Its here , its there, Its everywhere. "Fortune of the Day", "Sunshine signs" and it goes by a dozen other names.In weekday supplements, weekend specials,Page 4 columns also the Home page for social networking sites. Made me wonder if people take it so seriously that someway or the other it finds its way into almost every walk of life. Especially in a country like ours where "auspicious" is one word thats associated with everything from a new anything to burning an old something. Can you believe it? We have rules even when we are getting rid of stuff. I still haven't figured out why I am not allowed to cut nails past day light.This goes to everything thats related directly or remotely to superstition.

I don't take astrology seriously. But that never stopped me from reading it and feeling good(never bad).There was this one time when my "Fortune of the Day" in Orkut read "you are next in line for promotion in your firm". Ironically this was the very same day I quit my job. Now, I know this may be exaggerating it a bit, still some how that got to me so badly that I never]cared for ever since. I refuse to accept that the month someone was born has something to do with how that person lives. I am a Leo, and every time I read anything on the Leo sign it always says PROUD PROUD PROUD. Like the rest of the human race is shameless or something. Also don't tell me that only people under the Gemini sign suffer from split-personalities.

I'm reading a book called Genome by Matt Ridley which despite kv's reviews took me 2 years to get my hands on. The tag line goes this way "The Autobiography of a species in 23 chapters". He attributes any and every aspect of a person to the 23 pairs of chromosomes that each of us own. A few facts from it put together with a lot of day dreaming at work brought up more questions than answers. Why is sex linked to harmonal activity while love isn't?. Apart from being the symbol of love the human heart doesn't have one bit of association with the feeling, does it? If I'm understanding it right then everything is harmonal. Take for example a beautiful picture file of a baby or a porn movie or for that matter this very Doc file. Each of this boils down to just a series of 1's and 0's when it gets stored. Itshow its interpreted thats makes the difference. The same can be said about what people do day-in and day-out.And this mostly depends on the culture of the location of the exhibiting species. Now which sounds better, A person's characteristics depending on the location of the stars, the sun, other planets and asteroids at the time of his/her birth or depending on where he/she is at the time of exhibiting it.If you're throughly confused, I have made my point :P.


[Excerpt: Matt says the human species is 97% the chimpanzee
and vice versa. hmmmmmm that explains a lot of stuff]

9 Comments:

Blogger B.V.K. said...

he he...Orkut fortune is very interesting indeed..we'll mine says."In God we trust; all others must pay cash"..what da hell does tat suppose to mean.. either way it's gud only for the 'bed' game ;). and wat in the world are u day dreaming of at office.. dude u r too desperate! go get a life!

7:54 AM  
Blogger Karen Xavier said...

This was nice cassius... you and anju have both written about similar stuff!!! wow!!! The cosmos must be really working its magic after all... ;)
anyway, I haven't got a clue how some people seem to know stuff by knowing your birth date and all... at the same time you can't buy everythin they say... oh well, just pick the nice ones, ignore the rest.

10:54 AM  
Blogger germinal dreamer said...

nice.. and for ppl who dont know who that kv who suggested that book genome to this aurthor.. its me.. i'm single.. i'm a piscean... i'm very friendly .. all pisceans r.. yeah i'm not kiddin!

6:18 PM  
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3:06 PM  
Blogger That Squirrel said...

hey..did we happen to write about kind of similar stuff by chance? interesting. I never thought Scorpios and Leos could think alike! :D
As for the 97% chimpanzee bit, like I mentioned in a past post, I really doubt there's any percentage of chimp in me. Those who want to be monkeylike, can do so. Not me. haha

9:15 PM  
Blogger Divia said...

@ anju
yes he is rite, we are 97% chimp! get it straight, whether you like it or not.

4:36 AM  
Blogger Divia said...

now for cassius, see i dont agree with it all these nonsense but they come in handy for your advantage... like yday my hubby asked me to sweep the house after i came from office bcoz my maid was on holiday... i was tired and it conviently passed off that you shud nt sweep the house after 6' O clock! always think positively.... or am i sounding treacherous/malicious...?

4:49 AM  
Blogger the inward odyssey said...

good for you trinity..its one thing to excuse yourself with lame astrological reasons..its a whole other thing changing your lifestyle for it....may be i should try it too

6:47 PM  
Blogger Macadamia The Nut said...

It's not Astrology, Numerology or even Zoology... just plain Psychology ;) with emphasis on the psycho. Lol! It's just how each one percieves things for their mental well being I guess. Well, what ever makes one happy!

My gran used to tell me that if I cut my nails after 6pm Misfortune (personified) would walk into our home. But you know the stupidest thing she's ever told me? That if I straddle a pillow (while is my usual MO) my maternal uncle will fall sick. LOL! I remember that even as a kid I wasn't very convinced.

P.S. Read a post of your on Vijay's blog. Pretty good one!

6:52 AM  

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