I used to be a hard core atrology buff. I'm not talking sun and moon signs, I mean full birth chart interpretation, etc. I got alot of it from my hippy mother that was reading birthcarts, ruins, and tea leaves the entire time I grew up. I was asking people their signs when I was like, 9 yrs old lol. Anyhow, in my early twenties I decided to really research it.. scientific studies on it. I came across this study, (I can't remember the name and don't ask me to dig it up - I say do your own research) but this guy did a study over a 30 year timeframe. He tracked a bunch of people all born on the same date, time, in the same area.. so this would mean their entire birth chart would be the exact same, right down to the rising sign.. and he followed these people for about 30 years. He studied their personalitys, physiological traits, life choices, careers, blah blah blah. He came back with less than a 3% consistency on any of it. Prior to his study, he had been an astrologer (I wanna say he was in Germany) and had written multiple books on it. He had decided to do the study to prove astrology was infact valueable when interpreted correctly, and he found out it was a steaming pile of shit. After I read this study, (and many others that just couldn't pull any evidence) I stopped asking anyone their sign and don't think I have since.
It's the same for being an x-smoker, or x-religious fanatic, or x-straight edge hahaha as you actually seem to be even more intolerable of it, because you were so deluded yourself at one time. I fucking cringe when I see people bringing it up now.. and feel that this Doug Stanhope Clip does my feelings justice:
(forward to about 6:25, especially if your sensitive to anti-semitism)
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAVyiJ1SINE"]feeding me chili dogs[/YOUTUBE]