cold winter

[Guest guest]

The Indians asked their Chief in autumn, if the winter was

going to be cold or not. Not really knowing an answer, the

chief replies that the winter was going to be cold and that

the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared.

 

Being a good leader, he then went to the next phone booth

and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this

winter to be cold?"

 

The man on the phone responded, "This winter was going to be

quite cold indeed."

 

So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect

even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the

National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold

winter?"

 

Yes", the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."

 

So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go

and find every scrap of wood they can find. Two weeks later

he calls the National Weather Service again: "Are you

absolutely sure, that the winter is going to be very cold?"

 

Absolutely" the man replies, "the Indians are collecting

wood like crazy!"

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

natabara wrote:

> The Indians asked their Chief in autumn, if the winter was

> going to be cold or not. Not really knowing an answer, ......

 

> Absolutely" the man replies, "the Indians are collecting

> wood like crazy!"

 

 

Dear Natabara,

 

Perhaps the most telling posting I have read! This is what happens in all

fields of life: someone says something, it gets quoted again and again ad

infinitum, till it becomes an established axiom - proved by the first statement.

This was the way of the Nazis that lead to the holocaust, the way

palaeontologists developed their theories based on the fictitious Piltdown Man -

even today most theories have NOT been revised, although the basis was wrong! -

the way that historians insist on BS..... And astrologers too, unfortunately!

 

To make astrology a science, it is not sufficient to gather evidence to support,

one has to explain why and how contrary evidence supports a thesis. The

exception MUST prove the rule!

 

 

regards

Mani