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--- In jyotish_remedies (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Manjunath, T \(MED\)"
<T.Manjunath@g...> wrote:
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> Hi Rohiniji : do you have a personal id ? the sprint mail
boomeranged !
> i need to write a mail to you please.
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> rgds
> Manju
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rohiniranjan [mailto:rrgb@s...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:19 AM
> To: jyotish_remedies (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
> Subject: [JR] sunsign, moonsign, starsign astrology -- broad-sweep
> astrology!
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>
> Reposting this since the first one got posted with missing words!
> Maybe the time is not ripe yet to awaken the populace!
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> While pooh-poohing sunsign astrology, Raman's intellectual
> masterpiece, The Astrological Magaxine, started by his esteemed
> Grandfather always carried a monthly column on moonsign astrology!
> Nearly as ineffective and as non-specific as the sunsign astrology
> his magazine mocked about when it managed to find time to take a
> break from beating up on scientists and what they thought of
> astrology. Hardly any scientists who were not astrologers read his
> magazine, so really he was beating up on his own kind (scientists
> but also astrologers!). Over time, I have seen this tendency
amongst
> astrologers to beat up on their own kind, and this posting is no
> variation from that cultural norm amongst astrologers!
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> There are 6.3 billion beings, individuals in this world at this
> time. It has been shown that unless you are born in the very north
> (leo, virgo, libra ascendants rising more frequently), you are
> likely to be born in a given sunsign or moonsign in a 1/12
> frequency. So 6.3B/12 = 525000000 individuals per sun sign or per
> moon sign!
>
> Yet the mind-numbing, mindless trend to peddle sunsign reports,
> moonsign reports, starreports continues, in railway stations,
> airports (remember the flower in the ear guys selling their guru
> books) and in bus stations and HORRORS, in serious astrology
groups
> and newslists!
>
> Can any such peddlar come forward and demonstrate that any of
these
> readings were actually useful to a significant number of readers?
Or
> the basis of such a vague and broad-catchment reading being even
> useful or worth the time spent reading?
>
> RR
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