Writer's Block: Do you check your stars?
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No. I'm a Taurus, the description of which fits me about as well as a doggie sweater would fit Harry Truman. Certainly I have some Taurean features (but don't we all?) in that I can be stubborn, I'm quite sensual and enjoy good food and pleasant tactile sensations, am a faithful and steady lover, and if I had to align myself with an element it'd probably be earth. However, I'm not very materialistic-- I'm actually a huge cheapskate and if I get attached to material objects it's because of their sentimentality, not their worth-- I'm not particularly practical; and, like or dislike me, I don't thing anyone has ever called me boring. The Taurus prototype only fits me 50% of the time at best.
Still, I'll read my Taurus horoscope in magazines out of curiosity and for hilarity's sake. (Funny memory from my family's Greece trip this summer involves the captain-in-training Dietr reading Cosmo horoscopes aloud in a mock-serious voice with his thick German accent). Sometimes they'll eerily match up (like when the horoscopes all three of the magazines I brought on the plane to Japan mentioned travel and long-distance relationships in my future), and sometimes they are so off-base it's amazing-- which means, overall, they're useless as real predictions. So I don't use them for anything but entertainment.
I don't really know anyone who seriously believes in astrology, so I haven't had the opportunity to get angry for anyone making assumptions on it. I suppose it would be annoying to have someone assume I'm high-maintenance and jealous because I was born in the first half of May, but it seems crazy that someone would actually do this. Does this actually happen? (I mean, I know people use 'What's your sign?' as a pick-up line, but 1) since when is a pick-up serious? and 2) . . . really?).
On a side note, some people think it's weird that I can set so much store by personality types and yet not believe in astrology, claiming they're both equally arbitrary. I disagree, because personality tests (at least the official ones) are actually standardized, and therefore they do measure something-- though, like intelligence tests, that may only be What Personality Tests Measure. Basically, the results reflect back the sum of their questions; if you score Introvert, it means you probably answered *yes* to questions like 'I don't like parties with a lot of people I don't know' and 'Being around other people is exhausting,' meaning you can assume that someone who scores Introvert will possess these traits.
The Zodiac can only accurate determine one thing: your birthday.
No. I'm a Taurus, the description of which fits me about as well as a doggie sweater would fit Harry Truman. Certainly I have some Taurean features (but don't we all?) in that I can be stubborn, I'm quite sensual and enjoy good food and pleasant tactile sensations, am a faithful and steady lover, and if I had to align myself with an element it'd probably be earth. However, I'm not very materialistic-- I'm actually a huge cheapskate and if I get attached to material objects it's because of their sentimentality, not their worth-- I'm not particularly practical; and, like or dislike me, I don't thing anyone has ever called me boring. The Taurus prototype only fits me 50% of the time at best.
Still, I'll read my Taurus horoscope in magazines out of curiosity and for hilarity's sake. (Funny memory from my family's Greece trip this summer involves the captain-in-training Dietr reading Cosmo horoscopes aloud in a mock-serious voice with his thick German accent). Sometimes they'll eerily match up (like when the horoscopes all three of the magazines I brought on the plane to Japan mentioned travel and long-distance relationships in my future), and sometimes they are so off-base it's amazing-- which means, overall, they're useless as real predictions. So I don't use them for anything but entertainment.
I don't really know anyone who seriously believes in astrology, so I haven't had the opportunity to get angry for anyone making assumptions on it. I suppose it would be annoying to have someone assume I'm high-maintenance and jealous because I was born in the first half of May, but it seems crazy that someone would actually do this. Does this actually happen? (I mean, I know people use 'What's your sign?' as a pick-up line, but 1) since when is a pick-up serious? and 2) . . . really?).
On a side note, some people think it's weird that I can set so much store by personality types and yet not believe in astrology, claiming they're both equally arbitrary. I disagree, because personality tests (at least the official ones) are actually standardized, and therefore they do measure something-- though, like intelligence tests, that may only be What Personality Tests Measure. Basically, the results reflect back the sum of their questions; if you score Introvert, it means you probably answered *yes* to questions like 'I don't like parties with a lot of people I don't know' and 'Being around other people is exhausting,' meaning you can assume that someone who scores Introvert will possess these traits.
The Zodiac can only accurate determine one thing: your birthday.
