• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    One of my wife’s former coworkers said she needed to stop looking into astrology, so I think some people definitely can get into it too much and worry too much about predictions, but on the whole I don’t think astrology (specifically) is problematic as a whole.

    But it is interesting that it does cause some people to discriminate against others based on their birthdays lol.

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      1 month ago

      Even at its most harmless, astrology normalizes magical thinking and leaves the door open for more predatory things. Not that big a leap to alternative healing and psychics and other conmen persuading the naive away from legitimate help.