Dan Aykroyd of Ghost Busters fame and paranormal enthusiast and myself were born the same day July 1 about 450 miles apart. There's one good proof about astrology.
Classic example of how the uncritical human mind gets what it wants from facts that offer it no support.
Within a 450 mile radius of Mr. Mike's birthplace (that's a circle 900 miles in diameter), how many folks do you suppose were born on the same day he was?
It gets funnier. Read Mike's post and it's like reading an LRL story! The problem with LRL stories is that you have to be careful not to tell the whole truth that could form the basis of critique, the fairy tale must be kept alive! In this case, the fairy tale is the one Mike made up about his birthplace, so where was he born? He drops hints, unlike most people who if you ask them where they were born they can out with it straight. Here's how people who don't feel compelled to keep their fibbing options open do it: "I was born in Sacramento, California." No multiple choice, no different story last year or next year. It was Sac. Always has been and always will be. No secret and no equivocating.
So, although Mike (being an LRL'er) can't tell his story straight, not even the perfectly ordinary part (!), I give him the benefit of the doubt on his assertion that he was born on the same day as a famous person, less than 450 miles away! What a coincidence!
Me, I've never wondered if there were any famous people who share my same birthdate, although I suppose some do. Even famous people have birthdates. Nor have I wondered if anyone famous was born within 450 miles of Sacramento, although I suppose that quite a few were. Gotta be born somewhere. Common sense, no mystery.
We know from Mike's previous posts (see his Wallenda post for a recent manifestation) that he wants to attach his reputation to that of famous people, hoping that their bona fides (if any) will stick to his Revelation Rod since Mike himself has provided abundant firsthand testimony that the RevRod itself has no bona fides of its own. And Mike, being into LRL fairy tales, is gonna have his eyes and ears tuned to ghosts, so Mr. Ghostbuster pops up on his attention screen and the rest is history, as Mike himself posted.
I'm not picking on Mike, just using his posts as an example of how to understand the kind of thinking that so often manifests itself among LRL enthusiasts. Mike is evidently clueless about science so he flits about trying to connect his RevRod to the reputations of Wallenda and Aykroyd even though neither is known for giving their imprimatur on LRL's. More commonly we see pseudoscientists trying to pin their donkeytails onto the dead bodies of famous scientists like Einstein and Tesla hoping that the mystique will rub off onto their products. (Living scientists one must avoid because those might reverse the game and pin the tail on the correct donkey.) When LRL proponents can't name personal names, it's "NASA" or "secret government files" or the court of last resort "scientists say". Willingness to take personal responsibility for credibility is always the missing ingredient because they have none to offer. They're so used to that principle that when it comes to the example of "where was I born" it falls under the same rubric, I ain't sayin' nuthin' that anyone can pin me down on!
Human nature ain't pretty, and there's nothing like an LRL forum to put the magnifying glass on its warts. It aint' just about LRL's, either: once you understand how LRL-think works, understanding USA presidential election politics gets a whole lot easier. It's all a con game.
The psychology of LRL'ing takes strange turns. Stay tuned for the Hung versus Minelab story!
--Toto
