# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489 "2016-05-23T21:38:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/3178 "2017-08-03T04:35:38Z")

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I was afraid my response to the astrology zombie (esp. one of **psjt** ’s lines) would be seen as threadshitting. So I’ll post my reply here instead:

> [@Why Do People Believe In Astrology?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-believe-in-astrology/137322/99):
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> A belief in a material universe is a metaphysical belief.

As a scientist and a minister, I believe in both the material and the metaphysical.

Yet I have never read a more uninformed sentence in my life.  
Please tell me that, upon your rereading it, that it doesn’t actually make sense to you, so that I can maintain some hope in your ability to walk down the street.

Or are you really trying to reduce something like gravity to a matter of faith? Do you do your chart or throw the i ching or pray to the saints that you’ll fall flat on your face when you trip?

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