Remember, I was writing that song from the perspective of a believer. The fact that I can, somewhat, adopt that worldview as my own for the length of time it takes to write a song about how a believer can reconcile science and religion, does not mean I have any interest in adopting a religious perspective permanently myself.
You have poor skin and nails and my skin and nails are okay. You have coarse "horselike" hair and my hair is as fine as a baby's. We both have no hip problems.
And if it counts when one of us matches the characteristics, it counts just as much when one of us doesn't. The reason these patterns start to seem like there's something to them is in part because we fall on matches with glad cries of interest, and pretty much ignore mismatches, or come up with some reason why they don't count. Like "no hip problems yet."
Old people tend to get hip problems, but do old people born in December have more? Probably not. What's probably going on is that old Sagittarii ascribe their hip problems to their birth date, and old non-Sagittarii ascribe them to their age, and point out that when they were young, they didn't have hip problems. And vice versa for young ones. And of course in a large population a few young non-Sagittarii have hip problems, but they're just anomalies: the pattern generally works.
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Date: 2011-01-15 04:12 pm (UTC)You have poor skin and nails and my skin and nails are okay. You have coarse "horselike" hair and my hair is as fine as a baby's. We both have no hip problems.
And if it counts when one of us matches the characteristics, it counts just as much when one of us doesn't. The reason these patterns start to seem like there's something to them is in part because we fall on matches with glad cries of interest, and pretty much ignore mismatches, or come up with some reason why they don't count. Like "no hip problems yet."
Old people tend to get hip problems, but do old people born in December have more? Probably not. What's probably going on is that old Sagittarii ascribe their hip problems to their birth date, and old non-Sagittarii ascribe them to their age, and point out that when they were young, they didn't have hip problems. And vice versa for young ones. And of course in a large population a few young non-Sagittarii have hip problems, but they're just anomalies: the pattern generally works.