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Astrology- could there be something to it?

Started by Josquius, February 16, 2012, 11:46:34 PM

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Eddie Teach

#15
February 17, 2012, 10:48:33 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 17, 2012, 05:45:28 PM
Something similar in Missouri.  Except they had a test.  I failed because I couldn't tie my shoe and lacked the dexterity to catch a bouncing ball and couldn't tell right from left.  Could read though.  Only learned to tie my shoe at about fifth grade and only figured out right and left around seventh.

I don't remember how old I was when I had the epiphany "hey, left is the side you start reading on!!!" Didn't learn to tie my shoes 'til second grade and still don't know how to tie a tie.  :lol:
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CountDeMoney

#16
February 17, 2012, 10:55:20 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2012, 10:48:33 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 17, 2012, 05:45:28 PM
Something similar in Missouri.  Except they had a test.  I failed because I couldn't tie my shoe and lacked the dexterity to catch a bouncing ball and couldn't tell right from left.  Could read though.  Only learned to tie my shoe at about fifth grade and only figured out right and left around seventh.

I don't remember how old I was when I had the epiphany "hey, left is the side you start reading on!!!" Didn't learn to tie my shoes 'til second grade and still don't know how to tie a tie.  :lol:

And here I am, thinking special education has made so many strides the last 20 years.

Eddie Teach

#17
February 17, 2012, 11:06:15 PM
We actually used the term "gifted" rather than "special".  :showoff:
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garbon

#18
February 18, 2012, 12:11:15 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 17, 2012, 04:26:14 PM
It might also mean droping out early when, had you waited when you where more mature, you might have succeeded or at least been more successful.

I could have went to Harvard. :weep:
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#19
February 18, 2012, 12:22:05 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2012, 11:06:15 PM
We actually used the term "gifted" rather than "special".  :showoff:
"Gifted" with permanent innocence.  :)

Eddie Teach

#20
February 18, 2012, 12:27:25 AM
Shoe-tying requires a modicum of physical dexterity, unlike, say, pumping gas.  <_<
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#21
February 18, 2012, 02:34:54 AM
I was in the middle of my class agewise. Obviously I towered over my classmates when it came to academic performance.
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Siege

#22
February 19, 2012, 03:26:46 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 16, 2012, 11:46:34 PM
First things first, astrology is bollocks, we all know that so get down off your white horse before you get started. There is just no way the position of the stars impacts our lives down here.

However....I've been thinking lately....could there be something to it anyway?- not so much because of the stars or anything but merely the time of year in which we were born.
Think about it, if your birthday is in May then May will be a special month for you. You will be in a different mood at that time of year than you would be if your birthday was at another time.
Also....school year. The time of year you are born determines which year you are in of school. If you're born in June you're destined to be the youngest in your year; maybe this means you have a childhood of being smaller and weaker and struggling academically, maybe it means you're allowed to advance far faster than you would otherwise. Whatever.
Likewise if you're born in September you're then one of the oldest in your year. Different factors would be at work there.
And what about those poor people born in December with only one month of the year to look forward to? When I was a kid I often wished I'd been born more towards the middle of the year so as to space out my present getting rather than lumping it all towards the end.

What makes up our individual personalities develops during our childhood, the time when a year can seem like a decade..... Might there unintentionally actually be something to all this star sign bollocks?

Your post is very christian and western centric.
Most people around the wold don't give a fuck about December.
For many is not even the end of the year, let alone some especial holydays or something.


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Eddie Teach

#23
February 19, 2012, 03:34:12 PM
Santa left Siege 8 lumps of coal last year.
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Siege

#24
February 19, 2012, 03:39:43 PM
So, my kid is going to be born in June. What sport should he play, according to the cutoff dates and age?


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#25
February 19, 2012, 04:46:41 PM
Quote from: Siege on February 19, 2012, 03:39:43 PM
So, my kid is going to be born in June. What sport should he play, according to the cutoff dates and age?

Curling. :scots:
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#26
February 19, 2012, 05:31:58 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on February 17, 2012, 04:19:34 PM
I think I'd have been better off starting a year later.  I wasn't ready.

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Razgovory

#27
February 19, 2012, 06:12:47 PM
This thread reminded me of the time I went to a astrologer at the fair grounds.  She said I would make a good diplomat. :lol:
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jimmy olsen

#28
February 19, 2012, 07:50:15 PM
I read that a majority of athletes were among the oldest in their cohort for their sport. So depending on what sport you play, you want your birthday to be in a specific season.
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CountDeMoney

#29
February 19, 2012, 07:59:45 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 19, 2012, 07:50:15 PM
I read that a majority of athletes were among the oldest in their cohort for their sport. So depending on what sport you play, you want your birthday to be in a specific season.

Or, they can do what my brother-in-law's goofy jock step-brother's doing, and hold his kid back a year on purpose, so he can be the biggest kid in his class come high school.
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