What's your sign

 June 15, 2025

In yesterday's entry I told you how I say to my kids "You can have any opinion you want but you have to back it up." I am ashamed to admit that I don't follow this great wisdom myself, well sometimes, but I do have great swaths of "belief" that do not rely on actual evidence of any kind. When others do this I consider it stupidity, but of course when I do it I am a great more charitable, although I probably ought not. So here is my area of great shining gold plated stupidity. Astrology. I can give you every single reason in the world using my keen analytic powers (?) to tell you why this is the dumbest shit in the world. I can also tell you, although I cringe just admitting it I believe in some forms of divination and ghosts. All of which is entire and complete bullshit. I know this. I know it as sure as I know that the Sun is a star burning 1 AU, that's astronomical unit btw, or about 8.6 light minutes from Earth. These are facts people and Astrology is not fact, astrology is crap.  

Despite the fact that it is crap, I absolutely cannot seem to help myself. I've often wondered why despite the cognitive dissonance I hold onto these beliefs. Despite the lack of any empirical evidence I hold these things as truths. I think why are you such an unbelievably ridiculous dumb-ass Christine, but after 50+ years I have come to the conclusion, and found the answer. It's because I want to. I want to believe that there is an order to the universe, and there is a collective unconscious as Jung believed that we can attempt to delve to find spiritual truths. I want to believe that when people die their energy carries on in some form. I want to believe these things. I guess life feels better to me in some way when it's ordered; I feels better to believe that we are not just animals bumping aimlessly around the universe for no purpose. So, entirely illogically I will cling to this stupidity with the same kind of ridiculousness that wealthy moms take all their food items out of perfectly serviceable boxes and put them into matching containers in their pantries. I like order, even if it is stupid.