Oh lordy.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. Yes, because I don't jump to conclusions, and I really did want there to be something to it.

The evidence, however, dragged me kicking an screaming to the truth.

I'm not talking about reading newspaper horoscopes here. I'm talking about digging seriously into the math of casting and interpreting horoscope charts. There are a dozen or more different ways the boundaries of the "houses" are calculated, and what sort of corrections should be made regarding latitude and longitude. The math involved is not trivial, and cannot simply be dismissed "just because". To falsify a theory you must understand the theory and understand what constitutes falsification. I won't have it said that I dismissed something out of hand "just because". I will not hesitate to call B.S. on something that turns out to be B.S., but I will not call something B.S. just because some renowned "authority" tells me it's B.S., or because "all the cool kids" call it B.S.

As a result, crackpots often tell me I'm a hard-nosed skeptic, and hard-nose skeptics tell me I'm a crackpot. So I must be right smack in the middle of the sweet spot.