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11/22 http://www.livejournal.com/community/dot_poly_snark/255306.html


Noot Raddingston (snoof) wrote in dot_poly_snark,
@ 2005-11-21 23:51:00


    
 

SKREEE.
"I am Poly through both Nature and Nurture.
Nature: My sun is in Gemini. My moon is in Gemini. My Uranus is in
Libra. What that means, interpreted here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/skye_ds_ds/72052.html"

Now call me forgetful, but I can't remember reading about the
influence of wannabe pseudo-science when I learned about the nature-
nurture debate. Or is it a cheap and easy way to rationalise
personality traits without having to know anything relevant?


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gnomatron
2005-11-22 12:14 am UTC (link) 
my god what a pile of crap. Especially when you follow the links and
see the full extent of the nonsense...
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snoof
2005-11-22 10:30 am UTC (link) 
I did not follow the second link. I saw her astrology thing and
read "Skye DreamSinger" (thanks pixel, for not making me go back to
find the exact name again), felt the bile rise, and thought it would
be best if I didn't actually read the rest.

As it was it was pretty difficult not to call her an intellectual
throwback to the Stone Age.

Come to think of it, if I had she probably would've said "That's how
old Wicca is ^_^" and pranced off. Hardly satisfying.
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gnomatron
2005-11-22 11:48 am UTC (link) 
The second link mentioned not using the "ways" or something like
that - may as well have called it "magycke", so as not to bring
the "Old Religion" into disrepute. It also had various namedrops that
sounded like a bad fantasy novel... and that was from 30 seconds of
skimming...
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gnomatron
2005-11-22 12:05 pm UTC (link) 
y'know, reading further, her "religion" seems to be largely about
dancing around naked, having sex with whoever you like, with some
vague and inconsistent references to various gods, goddesses and the
moon, and a good healthy dose of anti-christian rhetoric. I mean,
what, aren't other religions good enough for their ire?
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calieber
2005-11-22 12:56 pm UTC (link) 
Sounds good to me.
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snoof
2005-11-22 12:56 pm UTC (link) 
It would be best (not to mention most polite) if I transcribed my
reply with one word: splutter.
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mathilde
2005-11-22 12:15 am UTC (link) 
Wow. dot_poly_snark/dot_pagan_snark OTP!
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lilairen
2005-11-22 12:33 am UTC (link) 
*snork*
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 You.are.a.bad.bad.bad.person(tm)
the_ogre
2005-11-22 01:15 am UTC (link) 
I wanna know who's gonna clean that stuff off my monitor.
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 Re: You.are.a.bad.bad.bad.person(tm)
mathilde
2005-11-22 12:54 pm UTC (link) 
Euch. That sounds horrible.
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snoof
2005-11-22 10:24 am UTC (link) 
My god, it's full of Pagans... You don't know what sort of trauma
you're reminding me of here. When I lived in Amsineatera I lived with ...
evangelical swinging Wiccabunnies.

The scars, they are so fresh and weeping :'(
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Jenkitty
2005-11-22 12:27 am UTC (link) 
Well, something is in Uranus...
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mathilde
2005-11-22 01:57 am UTC (link) 
Heeheeheee.
I love Uranus jokes.
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tgeller
2005-11-22 03:38 am UTC (link) 
When I was a real estate agent, I held an open house on Uranus Street
in San Francisco. The listing agent preferred to pronounce
it "Urinous", as in full of urine. And it *is* just up the hill from
The Castro, thankyouverymuch.

Another agent told me that he knew the guy who bought 69 Uranus, and
was getting good humor mileage from the address.
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mathilde
2005-11-22 11:06 am UTC (link) 
*snicker*

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elynne
2005-11-22 02:14 am UTC (link) 
That's exactly what I thought when I read that line.
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lederhosen
2005-11-22 02:02 am UTC (link) 
Does the 'Nurture' half involve being raised by poly-friendly
Martians?
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 Oh, and...
lederhosen
2005-11-22 02:27 am UTC (link) 
Uranus is in Libra. What that means, interpreted here:

Uranus has an 84-year orbit, so it spends 7 years in each
constellation; Neptune, 165 years, so about 23 in each; and Pluto,
247, so about 35 in each.

If each of those causes personality effects strong enough to be worth
predicting, why weren't astrologers able to predict the existence of
those planets? That ought to be a whole lot easier than astronomers
sitting at telescopes looking for fuzzy little dots amongst millions
of other fuzzy little dots, surely?
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 Re: Oh, and...
woodwardiocom
2005-11-22 03:04 am UTC (link) 
If each of those causes personality effects strong enough to be worth
predicting, why weren't astrologers able to predict the existence of
those planets?

-Ooo, someday I'm gonna write a story that uses that idea . . .
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 Re: Oh, and...
lederhosen
2005-11-22 03:23 am UTC (link) 
It's not original to me - sclerotic_rings suggested it a few weeks
back, and he got some inspiration from HPL's Dreams in the Witch-
House. Which makes it fair game :-)
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 Re: Oh, and...
andrylisse
2005-11-22 03:24 am UTC (link) 
Well, you know, if you read far enough through the interpretation, it
says the poster's entire peer group is into experimenting with
relationships and stuff, so all seven years' worth of people are
poly. Some of them are just deluded and don't know it.

It's obvious that those astrologers were just behind the astronomers.
Soon they'll catch up and start discovering new invisible planets.
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 Re: Oh, and...
feyandstrange
2005-11-22 03:58 am UTC (link) 
...there are actually some atrology nutbars out there who believe
there is an invisible second "dark" moon orbiting the Earth.

Don't let them get started on discovering stuff.

After all, they might discover Uranus.
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 Re: Oh, and...
snoof
2005-11-22 10:26 am UTC (link) 
Thanks, I'm so going to use that next time someone tries to heap
astrology on me. Provided I don't go on a Godzilla-like rampage
first; I know some pretty irritating people, and my housemate appears
to seek them out.
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 Re: Oh, and...
luighseach
2005-11-22 11:05 am UTC (link) 
Constellation=relationship, then?
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digitalsidhe
2005-11-22 02:53 am UTC (link) 
Didn't you know? All Geminis are natural polyfolk. And all polyfolk
are Geminis. (Well, all True Polyfolk™ are Geminis. The rest of us
are just pretending to be poly.)

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ladytabitha
2005-11-22 03:18 am UTC (link) 
What if I'm technically a Leo, but test out as Gemini every time? 
Honorary sticker?
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lupus_argentum
2005-11-22 03:39 am UTC (link) 
Well, one of the twin's names is POLYdeuces. Which is Greek for "very
sweet."

His brother's name is Castor, which is Greek for "beaver."

Perhaps Gemini's are polyfolk with very sweet beavers?
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noir_girl
2005-11-22 04:40 am UTC (link) 
That sounds like a high risk for yeast infections to me.
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sxxk1ttn
2005-11-22 05:59 am UTC (link) 
and rabies...
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luighseach
2005-11-22 11:09 am UTC (link) 
Bummer. I'm a Scorpio, I'm obviously just a swinger.
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mathilde
2005-11-22 12:55 pm UTC (link) 
Nono, get it straight. You're far too fiercely jealous to share
ANYTHING! Which is why you are strictly monogam... er...
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luighseach
2005-11-22 01:15 pm UTC (link) 
I save that attitude for my money and my pillow. With everything else
I just change jealousy with greed. If there's enough for me, then let
everybody else have a crumb feast...
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mathilde
2005-11-22 01:18 pm UTC (link) 
I, alas, fulfill the Virgo stereotype of the uptight perfectionist
bitch very well. Not especially virginal though...
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luighseach
2005-11-22 01:24 pm UTC (link) 
You're wrong. The map is always right, the terrain can always be...
evened out. It would, if you didn't go around breaking the rules, you
know.
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luighseach
2005-11-22 01:16 pm UTC (link) 
Replace, not change. Direct translation from the original thought,
which was bilingual to begin with, doesn't always work too well...
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badseed1980
2005-11-22 03:42 am UTC (link) 
Well, I don't know where Uranus is, honey, but I think you'll find
your head up there...
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pixel
2005-11-22 03:44 am UTC (link) 
Skye DreamSinger?

"Oh gag."
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feyandstrange
2005-11-22 03:59 am UTC (link) 
I'm poly, but not with Nature. Only with, you know, people.

Most of us call it something else when you're poly with the rest of
Nature.
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luna_piena
2005-11-22 04:55 am UTC (link) 
I'm just glad that's coming out of Uranus, not mine.
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aliasgreta
2005-11-22 06:09 am UTC (link) 
Yeah, when I asked the silly generalized question, who knew I should
have spoken to my astrologer?
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the snarked post:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/polyamory/1557547.html?
thread=24887595#t24887595


Poly by Nature *And* Nurture
skye_ds_ds
2005-11-21 10:56 pm UTC (link) 
I am Poly through both Nature and Nurture.

Nature: My sun is in Gemini. My moon is in Gemini. My Uranus is in
Libra. What that means, interpreted here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/skye_ds_ds/72052.html

Nurture: The Words of Aradia Concerning Love, Sex, and Marriage.
These can be found here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/skye_ds_ds/4109.html

And I completely agree that while Poly can be a conscious choice, it
no more *has* to be a conscious choice than any other state of being,
for example, hetero/homo/bisexuality, etc.

~mi due lire, Benedizione~