More on anger

[robinturner]

There are times when I almost want to believe in astrology, just so I could say "Ah, this is happening because Mars is tricepting the copula of Pisces and the Crab Nebula." For example, these days, an unusually large number of people I know, both online and face-to-face, seem to be really angry about various things (including, sometimes, me). I recently had a colleague nearly resign because her boss was shouting at her (continuous aspect used to emphasise duration). My (Turkish) family are angry with each other when they're not being angry with me, but I suppose that's not unusual. I've been banned from one LJ (though admittedly I literally asked for it) and in other journals and mailing lists I have pissed people off for no reason that I can fathom.

On the other hand, I suppose it could be because I've gone from spending a week in England in the calm presence of maggie_lucy and spending very little time online, to being back in Turkey in a stressful job which I de-stress from by going online and conversing with other stressed-out people. Nah, that's a boring explanation. I reckon it's demonic activity.

Comments

Where would we be without our demons ? - bless 'em

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

I've tried to adopt a 'scientific' approach to astrology - but it resists. It's too 'poetic' - it falls into that troublesome area which Wittgentsein called 'the ineffible' (yeah, that's right, the effin' ineffible). When a girfriend who was a talented interpretice of birthcharts said to me one time 'It must be Uranus,' all I could reply was 'Please ! Let's leave my anus out of this..'

Re: Where would we be without our demons ? - bless 'em

[solri.livejournal.com]

Even in my wildest forays into the occult, I could never get into astrology, not because it isn't scientific, but because it tries to be scientific and fails miserably. On the other hand, if someone starts talking about demons, I know they're playing a different language game, and I can play that game by its own rules if I choose.

[vret.livejournal.com]

Modern anger, and especially online anger, is all due to coffee, either too much or too little. In ancient times, BC (Before Coffee), they had only righteous anger, which was superficially similar, but we have the emotion of irony instead of that now.