A Momentary Diversion On The Road To The Grave

i dont. think you can play fun with astrology shit hating on people for star sign bullshit “as a joke” and then get surprised when people use it for realsies to justify or explain awful shit

i think ascribing people personality traits, often negative, based on the circumstances of their birth, is bad full stop period, and i think people are kidding themselves when they say that all these jokes they make about x sign acting like this (usually gemini or scorpio) are just jokes and wont influence how they actually think about people. i think when you “jokingly” ascribe traits to people based on that shit over and over it will affect how you actually think, and even if it doesnt (it does), it lends credence to the people who ARE using this shit seriously to do some bullshit armchair psychoanalysis of victims, or explaining abuse cases in terms of magic star sign shit, or asking potential roommates what their fucking birth chart looks like to see if they can have a place or not

In terms of like, Please For The Love Of God Get Hobbies That Aren’t Scrolling Through An App For Six Hours A Day, I understand and experience completely the argument of like. with the stressors of modern work, you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to do anything but mindlessly watch Netflix and scroll through your phone. but like I would like to gently encourage you to simply force yourself for a time to do something instead of pick up your phone, bc the phone is literally designed to light up your brain with no effort from you whatsoever and it does in fact rot your brain. It makes literally anything but scrolling on your phone seem difficult and joyless. But if you stop scrolling on your phone all the time, and start like, reading or embroidering or gardening or going for walks, you will eventually find the joy in them once more

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