Thursday, January 19, 2012


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Hello and welcome to my rhetoric and civic life blog this is my first post and I am very excited to get things started. For my first post I decided to explore the rhetoric used to predict fortunes in astrology. In these statements a person’s good or bad fortune is predicted by the month in which they were born. The fortunes in my opinion are very generalized and not specific to certain type of person or gender which makes them easier to pin to different amounts of people. The typical fortune is something like    ”an encounter with someone from your past will bring you new experiences” now because it is so simple and generalized it can apply to just about anyone whether it be a person from a distant past or someone you met yesterday at a bus stop. Although sometimes just as these can match what happens to someone during the day foretold it can also miss the mark entirely and then the concept of astrology and the belief in it becomes someone’s opinion.  As astrology is labeled as a pseudo-science it is mostly met with the phrase” I just did it for fun” by most people who use it and are skeptical about it.
source:http://community.eflclassroom.com/resources/topics/9-birthday-horoscope-activity
Ok well that’s all I really wanted to say leave a comment if you have questions or wish to discuss anything.


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  1. Michael ValaniaJanuary 20, 2012 at 12:15 PM

    Astrology didn't even cross my mind when we were talking about rhetoric so I think that it's pretty cool that that's what you wrote about. I've always had the same opinion (like many other people), that the statements are too general and hard to take seriously. But then again, there are those who "do it just for fun" so I guess that they at least get something worthwhile out of it.

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  2. AdamJanuary 20, 2012 at 12:15 PM

    I never actually understood how astrology works... doesw it have to do with like the stars or constellations. I figured because "astro" usually signify's these things that would be most logical progression. Would you be able too explain more about how they come up with the predictions if its just looking at stars?

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  3. Rachel JenkinsJanuary 20, 2012 at 12:17 PM

    I think this was a really interesting topic to write about; infact, I never would have thought of it before! Astrology and horoscopes really interest me. I agree with what you have said here, because I have felt that same frustration and vagueness before as well. It is so rare to find a quality fortune because often times they all end up repeating one another. If people who are passionate about astrology really took their time then these kinds of posts wouldn't have to be written. I think it's kind of funny how despite the vagueness of the fortunes, people try so hard to apply them to their lives in the most random ways.

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