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aqua inferno
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posted August 12, 2007 12:22 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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We are a llllllong way from answering that question definately.

perhaps that's why you desire a relationship "free of vows"

Anyway choosing not to marry based on principles is just as bad as marrying "just cause".
Anyway I really don't want to mess up this string's "love vibe", so can we give it a rest?

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posted August 12, 2007 12:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azalaksh     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Yes I am sure marriage isn't a bad thing when all the cards have been played right and no one's keeping any wild hands up their sleeves.
Xodian luv -- you crack me up!!! Thanks for the belly laugh -- just imagining wild hands up sleeves is making me tear up and giggle again

PS: Not sure, but I think you might have meant "wild cards" ?? ( some more )

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posted August 12, 2007 01:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wellll... I wouldn't mind MY wild hands going up your sleeves Zala . (God! Cheesiest pickup line ever! And I hate pickup lines Lol!)

Nah! I ment a hand of cards Zala Babe . You know... using poker analogy: Straight flush, etc. (and yes... one can hide a WHOLE had without being caught.)

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posted August 12, 2007 01:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azalaksh     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ooooh, you saucy lad, you
'Poker' analogies are fine with me

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posted August 12, 2007 02:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Lol! Zala babe, remind me to send you an invitation next time I hit the lounges .

Anyway, getting back on track:

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Anyway choosing not to marry based on principles is just as bad as marrying "just cause".

And so is making unwarrented assumptions . As I said before, me and my girlfriend are both individualists at heart but we do love each other; there is no denying that.

Strength of bond has nothing to do with vows and IMO reports such as these really become saturated with biased conclusions.

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posted August 12, 2007 06:41 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Marriage means different things to different people, and there is no inherent right or wrong - I think that needs to be recognised.

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posted August 12, 2007 10:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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reports such as these really become saturated with biased conclusions.

I still personally think that that's too dramatic a conclusion. What would the author have to gain from skewing the numbers? Nothing.

From amazon.com:

Book Description
This is not a book of predictions. It is a sensational book which gives conclusive evidence of the connection between events and star signs. Taking the answers to millions of questionnaires from universities, publishers and insurance companies, an institute set up by Gunter Sachs analysed the extensive data, in cooperation with the statistics department of the University of Munich, and the results are revealed in this excellent, and highly readable, book.

Marriage, divorce, suicide, academic life, work, illness, death, criminal activities, even driving accidents - all are analysed with user-friendly charts and graphs to enable the reader to spot his own data.

About the Author
Gunter Sachs was born on 14 November 1932. He became a Sportsman, and then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker, photographer and companion of Bridget Bardot. He has always been passionately interested in astrology and its connection with mathematics/statistics.
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He's a Scorpio, and Scorpios are the detectives of the Zodiac.

While there are always exceptions in any study regarding humans, the trends can still be measured and applied, and can be assumed to be correct unless evidence is found in the contrary.

Speculating about open relationships, and whether or not they follow marriage trends is really irrelevant. Doing an actual study would give more credence to the speculation, BUT the trends could very well hold true regardless of marriage or not.

Xodian I think you're just trying to justify the possibility of your relationship working out with this Scorpio.

Fellow Libra Zala will tell you that people staying together has less to do with astrology than it does with the couple's desire to stay together. Libra Male and Scorpio female may not be a tremendous match statistically, but there's nothing holding you back from being the exception (if you both want it bad enough).

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posted August 12, 2007 11:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azalaksh     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks AG

You know, the thing I'm curious about is the "lasting attraction" angle. Did it say somewhere in the study that these several thousands of people were ALL still deeply in love with their partners?? Or were they just 'still legally married'?? For instance, I know of several couples who are still married, but sleep separately and pretty much have separate lives even though they share the same house and a marriage license.....
I have married friends whose relationships are rocky -- bad/good/bad/good (Taurus woman, Leo Man), yet they're still married. So is this "lasting attraction", or just convenience??

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posted August 12, 2007 11:15 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ooh - I just realised that the book's author was one of Brigitte Bardot's husbands in the 1960's. A Libra-Sagittarius pairing (she's a Libra with Sag rising).
http://www.nndb.com/people/815/000023746/

Interesting to note that the title of a book she wrote is 'Pluto's Square'.

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posted August 13, 2007 12:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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I still personally think that that's too dramatic a conclusion. What would the author have to gain from skewing the numbers? Nothing.

Awww AG, in what way is expressing an opinion on a little skewed matter in anyway dramatic?

"This report is such a load of CRAP! Its all right wing propaganda to justify their own going onslaught of trying to structure their society in their own vision!"

See, that's dramatic Lol!

Though I verily see your point but others need to express it in the mannerism that you did.

BTW: Yeah; You can bet your lofe savings me and that sexy Scopio are gonna come through it all shining like diamonds . The resolve is set Lol!

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posted August 13, 2007 02:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for CoralFrequency     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Were you my age? 21?

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posted August 13, 2007 02:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, to explain, I thought it was 'dramatic,' because you state as fact that this [and apparently other] report[s] are saturated with biased conclusions without a single contradictory study, or a single justification as to why the author would want to skew the numbers.

It's one thing to make a proclamation like that from a position of authority, having thoroughly engaged in studying the material yourself, but it's another thing altogether to claim something's bias simply because it may be inconvenient.

Zala,

I don't know anything about the study. Lots of people do develop a certain degree of codependence with their partner, and may stay married for that reason alone. I personally think people are constantly evolving, so a couple is likely to be mismatched perhaps several times in their relationship. That's why, in my mind, it's more important to have a solid friendship with anyone you're going to try your hand at being married to. Friendships endure hard times. Lovers, not so much (or at least not necessarily).

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posted August 13, 2007 03:19 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good point AG! I watched a documentary on TV last night, about married men who finally came out as gay. In some cases, they stayed married to their wives NOT for the purpose of keeping up a 'respectable front', NOT for the sake of the children (this does happen in some cases but often it doesn't work out and the marriage breaks up later), BUT because of the strong bond of friendship and love between the husband and wife despite openly being of different sexual orientations. A married couple I watched on this documentary loved each other very deeply, but they dated others of their own orientation - the husband said that whoever comes into his life, they need to know that he comes as a package with his wife and children. I thought that was very interesting, the fact that their marriage came to be based no longer on being LOVERS, but on being LOVING. Maybe that's getting away from the point of this discussion, but I thought it was worth throwing in there.

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aqua inferno
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posted August 13, 2007 03:32 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Xodian are you mad cause LibraM & ScorpioF are at the bottom of each others list?

well Sag and Taurus are at the bottom of mine, but do I throw a hissyfit

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posted August 13, 2007 07:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
AG:

Now you're scarily starting to sound like Jwhop (just letting you know that .) Yes to say that there is an appearence of personal bias on my account would be an understatement but that shouldn't be a facttor in what I am trying to say. In convience isn't the issue; Limitation is. And as I said, YES I see your point that the report only highlights marriages and marriages alone but it still could a whole lot better if it alleast tried to incorporate other forms of union.

And again we fall back to limiting concepts here; Who said friendship can't endure without marriage? Ont he contrary, I would say there is a higher change of a friendship to last if limiting factors and probable restrictions that come due to marriage were lifted. Again it comes down to personal prespective and how a married couple go about trying not to smother each other.

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posted August 13, 2007 07:05 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Xodian, you seem to be assuming that marriage = restrictions and "smothering". This does not have to be the case - a marriage can be whatever the two partners want it to be.

I don't think that smothering each other is inherent in the concept of marriage. People get married generally because they WANT to spend their lives with their partner.

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posted August 13, 2007 07:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In the greater sense it does ends up being that. Those marriages which actually get somewhere either had one partner sedated all the time or the partnership actually worked out the way its supposed to be; Mutually benifitial .

And I am gonna have to emphisize this again; NO! I am NOT anti-marriage... I think its probably one of most fulfilling things on this planet if it ends up working out the way its supposed to be, but the concept of it has broadened up to include many other forms of unions and I am just trying not to overlook that .

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posted August 13, 2007 11:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You don't know Jwhop, if you think I sound like him.

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And as I said, YES I see your point that the report only highlights marriages and marriages alone but it still could a whole lot better if it alleast tried to incorporate other forms of union.

Two things. One: we don't know if that's actually a true statement or not. It could be better, or it could be largely the same. Two: Marriages are probably easier to locate and study than relationships where marriage has been refused.

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Who said friendship can't endure without marriage?

No one as far as I know.

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posted August 13, 2007 11:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh actually, the signs are there Acoustico

Ah but then again we are still going back to same problem aren't we? Convinience are accuracy rarely go hand in hand .

And well just because no one's said it doesn't mean it doesn't happen . More times then not, most non-marriage union couples see no need to justify their position. They are just happy with their union as it is.

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posted August 13, 2007 02:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't know if it really matters whether convenience and accuracy go hand in hand. If you're trying to say that the author is inaccurate for the purpose of his own convenience, what would you offer as proof?

Non-marriage unions can be happy or unhappy with their position quite frankly. Taking the position you like to take, I wouldn't be surprised if you run into the marriage problem multiple times in your life, because undoubtedly you're going to run into women who like the idea of marriage. You don't have a better or more logical leg to stand on as far as avoiding marriage, than they do in wanting marriage. The dynamic is the same either way (though you seem to erroneously believe otherwise). It's still two people forging a living together having to tackle the same issues, having to make the same concessions, and having to evaluate whether the situation is worth the occasional unpleasantness. It's all the same in the end.

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posted August 13, 2007 04:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My, my, my........where to start?

On the subject of the survey itself: I honestly think its a stretch to say that its extremely biased just because it does not include Non-married couples. Because for that one possiblity that may make it biased and skewed, I can find even more concrete proof that it isn't biased. The important one being that for alot of the signs; there traditional matches were no where near the top but what was at th top were matches you'd never dream up.....like two signs that are adjacent to eachother (enter gemini male/ taurus female) or even matches sextile to eachother which are kind of considered weak. And there is a logical explanhation for this that was already mentioned elsewhere in this thread: and that is that the people of those matches often have significant planets in eachother's sunsign that may conjunct the eachother's sun like the taurus female may have a gemini mercury, venus, mars,etc. and vice versa for the gemini male). It happens all the time, its the reason why I get on well with geminis. As mentioned earlier as well in this thread; this survey has only showed why you cannot look at sunsigns as the sole determinor of compatibility. And anyways, what would the author gain by skewing numbers anyways? So I don't believe it to be biased.


Back to the subject of marraige and non marriage: I have my preferences and other people have theirs but the only other thing I will say on this subject is that marraige is not restrictive when you do with the person you choose and love and enjoy being with. Most people do it these days because they want to. Just like life: its what you make of it.

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Now you're scarily starting to sound like Jwhop (just letting you know that .)

I nearly choked on my rice when I read this. Are you serious??

Oh and Aqua? Are you ever gonna post those marraige and divorce rate for each match? I'm just curious but its fine if you don't want to or are not up to it.

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posted August 13, 2007 04:38 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Honestly never have I seen anyone so bent on not doing something. I mean honestly, even players marry - they probably cheat - but they still marry.

So it can't be fear of commitment.. it must be fear of failure, and this list must be adding fuel to that fear. So you think oh ok, so my union must work well unmarried

Tell me Xodian, what if the author did do stats on long lasting unmarried unions and your pairing got bottom result...would you assume the author skewed the facts?

I welcome criticism, I really do. But to assume it's all false because you don't like it? I mean really

Hope you don't think I'm being mean - it just comes across that way.

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posted August 13, 2007 04:39 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
No I'm up for it, Xodian just put me off

Xodian please read this, it's from the book - I don't even think the guy is an astrologer, so he can't be biased.

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Gunter Sachs was born on 14 November 1932 under the sign of Scorpio and studied mathematics and economics. As an entrepreneur, sportaman, documentary film-maker and photographer, he has achieved international recognition. Curiosity and enthusiasm for research led him to undertake this statistical and mathematical investigation into astrology.

The author will donate his share of the book’s proceeds to the Mirja-Sachs-Foundation Munich. The charity will use the full funds, without any cost deduction, for the support of needy children all over the world

“[Sachs] investigated the question of whether the stars rule human behaviour using unambiguous and highly scientific statistical data. His conclusion? Astrology does exist. Sometimes his findings tally precisely with traditional astrology; sometimes they disagree, showing new, unexpected correlations. What is certain is that his research points the way to a new astrology - one based on facts and statistics, not guesswork and superstition.”
- Daily Mail

“This is one of the key astrology books published in the last few years…The tables have been presented in a way that allows a concise approach, particularly with its “sun sign at a glance” section and its significance has important implications for those scientists that disregard astrology…This is probably the most important work since that of the Gauquelins in the sixties…It deservedly became a bestseller”
- Mercury Magazine of the British Astrological and Psychic Society



The British Astrological and Psychic Society gave him the

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posted August 13, 2007 06:19 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ok I spent the last 30mins on it and it's done! Will post it in a new string

*urrr once I stop playing a game on another site

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It looks like sextiles are the best predictor of a lasting marriage. Followed by conjunctions, quincunxes, and semi-sextiles. The conjunctions I get, and I think that the semi-sextiles probably contain Suns conjunct partners' Mercuries and Venuses. Quincunxes, I'm not sure about. Perhaps just neutral connections. I also found oppositions and squares predictors for low instance of lasting marriage.

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