My dad recently had been going around to get mine and my sister's Kundli/FictionalFateDecider done by some local fiction writer. By now you must've already gotten an idea about my standpoint about the concept of Astrology and its subsidiaries. It is absolute bullshit.
When I was younger I had asked my parents about how these things worked and being unsure themselves they tried to simplify it for a 7 year old to understand. My dad said,
To end the questionnaire my mom said,
Since science had failed to help me disprove this mythical belief system, I turned to my next weapon - Logic.
As far as I know, a vast majority of Hindu marriages are based on Horoscopes (and it works exactly like online matrimonial websites). Each girl's kundli (profile) is matched with the suitor's one based on the stars(caste match) and a (membership)fee is paid to the Jyothish(website). In case of matrimonial websites you can atleast see the guy's face and reject him beforehand.
(I wonder why matrimonial sites exist in the first place. Facebook tells more about you than matrimonial sites anyways.)
My logic questioned the very basis of existence of failed marriages despite horoscopes supposedly bringing the best matches possible. Think of it. Are your horoscopes telling you that your failed marriage was the best for you and you are not gonna do better than that ever? If so, then why marry in the first place! And if my horoscope is such a negative Nancy, why should I continue following it!
I do accept if you were to say that failed marriages are exceptions and it wouldn't be a rule if there weren't any exceptions.
My next logical conundrum was this. What we see in the night sky is the light emitted by stars millions of light years away and hence do not represent our present, They are a representation of the past of the universe. How can that influence us in any way? Won't it take millions of years to produce any noticeable change in this world? And obviously our generation would have been completely replaced with a multitude of newer generations or maybe a complete wipeout of existence of humans might've taken place already by then. How would my marriage be successful if I'm already dead.
As per Zodiac signs, if all Leos were alike and all Cancers were alike then wouldn't there have been just 12 types of people? How would that explain the horde of different characteristics that define each Individual? And what about those people who take their own lives on a day that's predicted as a productive day by their Zodiac sign?? (To answer that we will probably have to discuss afterlife, on a different post. I dunno about afterlife, but I would be productive in this life if certain people offed themselves. I guess Aries would have a happy day then)
I couldn't dwell more into the logical discrepancies of Kundli system and Astrology because that's pretty much the limit for a 7year old. And my brain is still at that age.
All I can say is if my parents were to choose someone for me, she better not believe in horoscopes. 'Cause if the marriage fails we can both blame it on the horoscopes rather than each other.
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PS: Yes I'm Aries. I guess Ek Khoon Maaf for me. Stay out of my way.
When I was younger I had asked my parents about how these things worked and being unsure themselves they tried to simplify it for a 7 year old to understand. My dad said,
" In Basic Physics we have learnt Newton's laws.
I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
II. An object with a certain velocity maintains that velocity unless a force acts on it to cause an acceleration.
III. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Considering these, it could be possibly postulated that all the celestial bodies could have some interaction with the activities undertaken by us on Earth"This obviously puzzled me. All my little 7 year old brain could come up with was, a simple question. "Masses of the people on Earth are basically null in relation to the mass of the Earth itself. How can celestial bodies have distinctive interactions with each individual causing unique outcomes in life?"
To end the questionnaire my mom said,
"There are things in life that nobody understands fully. To answer your question, we will have to step into Quantum physics. Each atom can be 'measured' in terms of 4 parameters and each being is a summation of these parametric measurements of all the atoms that constitute him or her. So each individual could perhaps have unique interactions with each celestial body or with one another."I had nothing more to say. Fuck physics.
Since science had failed to help me disprove this mythical belief system, I turned to my next weapon - Logic.
As far as I know, a vast majority of Hindu marriages are based on Horoscopes (and it works exactly like online matrimonial websites). Each girl's kundli (profile) is matched with the suitor's one based on the stars(caste match) and a (membership)fee is paid to the Jyothish(website). In case of matrimonial websites you can atleast see the guy's face and reject him beforehand.
(I wonder why matrimonial sites exist in the first place. Facebook tells more about you than matrimonial sites anyways.)
My logic questioned the very basis of existence of failed marriages despite horoscopes supposedly bringing the best matches possible. Think of it. Are your horoscopes telling you that your failed marriage was the best for you and you are not gonna do better than that ever? If so, then why marry in the first place! And if my horoscope is such a negative Nancy, why should I continue following it!
I do accept if you were to say that failed marriages are exceptions and it wouldn't be a rule if there weren't any exceptions.
My next logical conundrum was this. What we see in the night sky is the light emitted by stars millions of light years away and hence do not represent our present, They are a representation of the past of the universe. How can that influence us in any way? Won't it take millions of years to produce any noticeable change in this world? And obviously our generation would have been completely replaced with a multitude of newer generations or maybe a complete wipeout of existence of humans might've taken place already by then. How would my marriage be successful if I'm already dead.
As per Zodiac signs, if all Leos were alike and all Cancers were alike then wouldn't there have been just 12 types of people? How would that explain the horde of different characteristics that define each Individual? And what about those people who take their own lives on a day that's predicted as a productive day by their Zodiac sign?? (To answer that we will probably have to discuss afterlife, on a different post. I dunno about afterlife, but I would be productive in this life if certain people offed themselves. I guess Aries would have a happy day then)
I couldn't dwell more into the logical discrepancies of Kundli system and Astrology because that's pretty much the limit for a 7year old. And my brain is still at that age.
All I can say is if my parents were to choose someone for me, she better not believe in horoscopes. 'Cause if the marriage fails we can both blame it on the horoscopes rather than each other.
__________
PS: Yes I'm Aries. I guess Ek Khoon Maaf for me. Stay out of my way.
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