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Let’s begin with all the questions! “Mercury is in retrograde,” what does that even mean?! And what is a Christian woman doing poking around astrology? Does your husband know? How about your pastor?
(LOL, this being the internet those threats to notify my husband or my pastor are often followed up by rather intimate photos on the down low, aka pornographic attachments. Welcome to total depravity and the whole reason people need a Savior in the first place.)
“Mercury is in retrograde” is the astrological excuse for why people are suddenly acting like fools, war like, aggressive, communication problems, just basically people being “off.” Bad vibes man, bad vibes. Ah well, this all makes sense now, Mercury is in retrograde……
Chuckling here, but what’s the baseline?? Like, when are people not off? How am I supposed to tell Mercury is going backwards as opposed to forwards??
What if people ourselves are the “retrograde” in the equation??? In other words, maybe we can’t blame all our relationship fractures and poor behavior on a distant planet?
Which brings me to, “evolutionary entropy.” There is actually some sound science that suggests humans really are in retrograde, evolving backwards. The evidence seems to suggest that at one point our DNA was pure, untainted, but some cataclysmic event went all wrong. With each passing generation there are now several hundred new mutations being written right onto our DNA. Some call this “natural selection,” one problem being those genetic mutations aren’t necessarily “good” or even “natural” or even “selective.” Also, if you do that math, count the number of mutations per generation, humans have now gone completely extinct. I’m J/K. The problem being, the numbers insist we’ve only been on the planet for about six thousand years. Existing much longer than that and according to the rhyme and rhythm of “evolutionary entropy,” we would have devolved ourselves right out of existence already.
Kind of sounds a bit like what we might read in Genesis….and perhaps the book of Revelation…
I just thought I’d rock the boat a little bit since Mercury is in retrograde and under the sign of Leo, no less. I believe that actually gives me full carte blanche six ways past Sunday to cause all kinds of trouble this month. Blame it on the stars….
Mercury is the messenger of the gods and, “astrologically speaking, Mercury represents the principles of communication, mentality, thinking patterns, rationality and reasoning, and adaptability and variability.” I suppose that is why when Mercury goes into retrograde, we can blame it for all our communication problems and irrational human weirdnesses.
As silly as this post really is, I have actually been pondering a couple of questions about absurdity, a la Lewis Carroll style. In order to have an upside down world you must have a right side up world in which to contrast. In order to write satire, one must have a “truth” to run mockery along side of. In order to lament the tragedy of irrational human weirdnesses, one must have a vision for humanity, a standard that we all seem to fall short of.
The very fact that we would even feel the need to declare, “Mercury is in retrograde” as if that suddenly lends logic and credence to the irrationality of human behavior, means some part of us is aware that there really is a baseline for human behavior!!
This is somewhat reassuring to me because lately I’ve really been having my doubts.
Anyway, I really enjoyed reading, “Looking Up: Prophetic signs in the constellations and how the heavens declare the glory of God,” by Troy Brewer. Many Christians don’t realize that the constellations actually tell the biblical story across the night sky. Leo for example is the Lion….of the tribe of Judah.
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Hate to disagree with u ma’am, but your post is not silly at all. We have talked in the past re. de-volition, and no argument here.
Hope the likes of violet, Zande, and ark etc read this. It is wonderful, not because I agree, but because u pin the tail on the bulls eye. I know truth when I see it, and the so called evolution of man toward utopia is a big fail- men should be so embarrassed to speak of ‘advanced thinking’ while ignoring the malfeasance of humanity which should embarrass ravenous wolves who have an excuse.
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nailed it Sister!
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Just as long as the mercury isn’t in centigrade, I won’t break a sweat over it.
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Bravo. IB, we might not always be in step, but this is still one of my favorite places to visit
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Astrologers say some of the dumbest things. Funny thing is that the ancient astrologers were the first to make a serious study of the stars and planets.
Is retrograde evolution possible? Would it fit what the fossil record tells us? Well, I expect the experts would say no quite emphatically. Thing is that they can’t easily verify their own expert conclusions.
Still, it is an interesting sort of speculation. Were Adam and Eve contemporaries of the dinosaurs? Did the huge dinosaurs die off because they would not fit into the Ark? Did the Behemoth cease to exist because retrograde evolution eliminated it and the creatures it hunted? Does retrograde evolution, the loss of so many lifeforms explain the fossil record? Perhaps, but I don’t know. I don’t think anyone does, but the “experts” most certainly believe themselves.
We should know better than to create our own truths, but we don’t. As Christians we know God created everything, but how? The Bible leaves out lots of things we want to know. Does it include retrograde evolution? Sort of, but we have to be careful not to infer too much.
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Not a silly post… This is a hard admission – Until I delved into the tower of babel (god was angry enough to scatter mankind and confuse the language, so we couldn’t attempt to defy Him and reach heaven by physical means) I had been more versed in Astrology then most. I round filed my involvement from then on because the tower was a ziggurat, We anger Him enough without worshiping the constellations. (It doesn’t bring that up in Genesis)
Problem is the dynamics work, but from the wrong knowledge, the occult. Since you posted on this particular subject, I will only say that any important project should be prepared for, but wait till that (omitted) gremlin goes direct because progress will be delayed and erratic.
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I appreciate your comment, Partnering. 🙂
I am certainly not Catholic, but I do like the way they worded it long ago, (astrology, palm reading, the occult,) “…they contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone. ” As you have said, the dynamics may work, but they are from the wrong source.
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A friend said that to me the other day. I had never heard it before. Very strange.
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When Mercury is in retrograde, it’s because on this long racetrack around the sun, we just passed Mercury, so it looks like it’s going backward. The fact that people can see shapes in the stars is due to the fact that navigation by starlight is made easier when you can recognize a pattern. The patterns in the sky, the planets, the moon and sun positions, these are all factual and observable phenomena. There is, however, no causality between these celestial positions and their movements to human behavior. Because people tend to want to find reasons for unreasonable, they assign the weirdness to something beyond human control–nature and physics. Funny that they use the creations of God to prove there is no God, isn’t it?
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“Mercury is in retrograde” is the astrological excuse for why people are suddenly acting like fools, war like, aggressive, communication problems, just basically people being “off.”
So, you’re saying Mercury has been in retrograde since the beginning of mankind. 🙂
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Yep, pretty much! And it happens at least 3 times a year, so the odds are good. 🙂
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LOL this was a great read! I thought I was handling it well, but this week I have spilled and dropped so many things! maybe I am superstitious but I have been blaming Mercury in Retrograde a lot lolol
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