Many women I go out with genuinely believe zodiac signs have meaning and insight.

Sounds like a yuge warning sign!

Get out before it’s too late!!!

Unfortunately, they are stupid even if they are in STEM fields. I dated a woman for three months who appeared smart, but I ended it quickly after she mentioned her psychic. You can't be smart and believe in that stuff. Don't fool yourself.

I don't know, I could see it being ok. The older I get, the less I am actually wedded to science, facts, the way the world works as far as we know it. It's not only boring but largely disappointing.

So why not take some interest in something mystical? I think it can make life a little more fun and possible give meaning to things that generally have none.

Its the same with religion. Many people seem to work in fields that require some itelligence but belief there is some all powerful being without any evidence. On top of that they also may change their ideas and bahavior based on this belief. How can a person be as stupid.

pics?

This chick from my uni who got top 97 percentile in MCAT testing and NCAA woman athlete of the year unironically believe in zodiac moon signs. Says "moon signs are better than regular zodiac signs" and posts about it regularly on her insta. How can you be so educated yet so stupid

Funny, I've met a lot of guys who genuinely believe whether a girl runs or not says a lot about them and take it into account when thinking if they will pair well with someone.

That says more about the type of women that you are able to go out with than anything.

porkchop111 wrote:

This chick from my uni who got top 97 percentile in MCAT testing and NCAA woman athlete of the year unironically believe in zodiac moon signs. Says "moon signs are better than regular zodiac signs" and posts about it regularly on her insta. How can you be so educated yet so stupid

Maybe she's just good at passing exams, but doesn't really have an intuitive or logical mind. I think lots of people are like this.

For some reason liberal white women really like being spiritual, but not religious. They don't actually believe that stuff. They think it's fun to pretend.

I blame the Druids wrote:

porkchop111 wrote:

This chick from my uni who got top 97 percentile in MCAT testing and NCAA woman athlete of the year unironically believe in zodiac moon signs. Says "moon signs are better than regular zodiac signs" and posts about it regularly on her insta. How can you be so educated yet so stupid

Maybe she's just good at passing exams, but doesn't really have an intuitive or logical mind. I think lots of people are like this.

I've observed the same thing in a lot of high achieving women. They are extremely good, disciplined students, study very hard, score high on exams, sometimes have 4.0s, yet they don't truly understand the material very well, nor do they have the ability to think on their feet and problem solve. I'm definitely not saying all women are like this or that women can't be logical and deep; just that I've observed this sort of thing in a lot of high achieving women.

News flash: these women are MAKING SMALL TALK. It is a key way in which people get to know each other. The fact that they are NOT cornering you with religion, politics, what your salary is, and any other awkward topic speaks well of them -- and badly of you for raising their social dexterity as some kind of demerit.

Lighten up, bro. They're trying to get to know you in a harmless way.

Social lubricant wrote:

News flash: these women are MAKING SMALL TALK. It is a key way in which people get to know each other. The fact that they are NOT cornering you with religion, politics, what your salary is, and any other awkward topic speaks well of them -- and badly of you for raising their social dexterity as some kind of demerit.

Lighten up, bro. They're trying to get to know you in a harmless way.

No. Often times this stuff comes up and is small talk, but what I'm talking about is women truly believing in it. It is very easy most of the time to tell the difference.

Social lubricant wrote:

News flash: these women are MAKING SMALL TALK. It is a key way in which people get to know each other. The fact that they are NOT cornering you with religion, politics, what your salary is, and any other awkward topic speaks well of them -- and badly of you for raising their social dexterity as some kind of demerit.

Lighten up, bro. They're trying to get to know you in a harmless way.

This is Letsrun - you're not supposed to poke holes in arguments of people that denigrate women. You are supposed to join them.

There's a huge divide between seeming intelligent and having common sense. It may be preferable but not required to have both and still have a good life my friend. Enjoy these friends and enjoy life. Do what makes you happy and surround yourself with people who make you happy.

How do they react when you talk about who’s going to be top 3 at the ‘Thon OT?????

21st century wrote:

These are almost all college educated women in their 20s and 30s. Seems like about half of the ones I've gone out with over the last several years genuinely believe a person's zodiac sign says a lot of stuff about them and do take it into account when thinking if they will pair well with someone. One woman recently said something like, "I'm a VERY scientifically minded person, but I also do believe zodiac personalities are true."

It is hard for me to not write these women off as dimwits, honestly, but they include women in STEM graduate programs and veterinarians, so clearly they're not "stupid." What gives?

How can you be sure that zodiac personalities aren't true?

21st century wrote:

I blame the Druids wrote:

Maybe she's just good at passing exams, but doesn't really have an intuitive or logical mind. I think lots of people are like this.

I've observed the same thing in a lot of high achieving women. They are extremely good, disciplined students, study very hard, score high on exams, sometimes have 4.0s, yet they don't truly understand the material very well, nor do they have the ability to think on their feet and problem solve. I'm definitely not saying all women are like this or that women can't be logical and deep; just that I've observed this sort of thing in a lot of high achieving women.

It applies to men too.

From asking myself a lot of the questions you did, here are my conclusions:

1. People (as in our entire species) are drawn to try and find meaning in life. We have the intellectual machinery to conceive of the passage of time and the death of everyone we love including ourselves. We can typically get these ideas by age 3-4. It is an amazing ability, but there are side effects. Like grappling with reality itself. Religion and spirituality have popped up and continue to pop up again and again, in societies that had no knowledge of each other. It's kind of a universal human feature to grapple with our earthly existence in some way. Some of us resort to becoming hyperlogical (in a futile and irrational attempt to control the world and predict the future), some seek out spiritual wisdom that actually addresses the big questions of life, and some find a blend. Becoming hyperlogical to the point of dismissing the very real purpose of spirituality and religion entirely, is just as silly as believing that God exists. Both deny something fundamental. But the behaviors serve the same purpose: they make it easier to face down the big questions of life (or to try to ignore them).

2. If people's early experiences are so important to who they are as adults, why wouldn't it be feasible that the varied nature of the seasons have some effect? And, if people have been practicing astrology and drawing insights based on many people who were all born around the same time, might they actually get something right amidst all the noise? My point is, there may be something to the idea that someone born in the middle of summer would develop differently than if they were born in the dead of winter. Maybe some of the associations are true.

With all that said, I still bristle at people who seem to take astrology too seriously. Same as I understand why Christianity exists and is so popular, but have a hard time dealing with the most devoted individuals. Still, there is surely wisdom there. A lot of therapists even advocate for their clients to pull tarot cards, not to get wisdom from the cards, but from their own intuition.