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Saturn in Virgo: The Ability To Think Critically Is Not All That Common And It’s Definitely Underrated

July 4th, 2009 @ 6:29 am by Elsa

Astrology in real life

The soldier had just finished telling me a story. Pure logic put into practice.

“Now see, people don’t think like that. They can’t, it’s like they don’t know how. Um… critical thinking skills. They’re falling way short.”

“You’re right. They can’t think like that. Why can’t they think like that?”

“I don’t know but I know they can’t do it. I was just telling a story on my blog. Someone decided I had given my daughter and ugly name, Mosta. Based on that, they wrote and character sketch on me. They outlined my psychology, it was all negative and all based on this name that is neither real nor chosen by me. Do you understand? They were showcasing their critical thinking skills when they had no critical thinking skills. It’s scary as hell…”

The other night the soldier and I settled in to watch a psychopath be interviewed. The guy was on about his 5th sentence, 2nd question when we both looked at each other. “He’s lying,” we said simultaneously. We both laughed.

We proceeded to watch and listen to the guy lie for a few minutes, 10 or 15, until we could take no more.

“Do you want to watch this,” I asked. “That guy is lying through his teeth. This is not an interview. It is a psycho getting out of his cell, getting some face time on the camera and fucking with a psychologist. It’s not interesting, do you think it’s interesting?”

“It’s not interesting to me.”

“Well it’s not interesting to me but what kills me is people are going to believe this. Ooooh did you hear what he said. Listen to some bastard lie for an hour and now they are an expert on psychopaths. How can anyone think this is real? They sell this as if it is real. OOOOH, listen to the psychopath. Yeah, why don’t you come get your chain jerked for an hour. Come be made a fool, you fool.”

Critical thinking skills. Got any?

Astrology, psychopaths, 11 comments | Posted at 6:29 am

11 Responses to “Saturn in Virgo: The Ability To Think Critically Is Not All That Common And It’s Definitely Underrated”

Crackers

I dunno whether or not I do. I might have believed the psycho, I’m not sure. Certainly I wouldn’t have discounted the possiblity he was lying, keeping it in mind always, but not sure I would have known it for sure.

Do you think the skils you’re reffering to can be self-taught, or are they innate? Is it the same things as street smarts? I know I have analytical skills in the educated sense, but I’m thinking this may be somewhat different.

7/4/09 @ 9:50 am (reply)

Elsa

Crackers, I think they can be taught! People can definitely be taught to think smartly or stupidly, just ask any educator.

7/4/09 @ 9:54 am (reply)

kashmiri

I’m pretty sure I do (Saturn/Neptune never knows %100 for sure, anything)…as I understand it, critical thinking is being able to look objectively at multiple angles. Awareness of personal bias based on experience. That bias may still be there, but awareness is key.

7/4/09 @ 9:58 am (reply)

wyrdling

yup. they can be taught. sadly, my students last year were, overall, stubbornly resistant to trying them out though… too many years of expecting to be told how to think, maybe.
i had much better luck teaching critical thinking when i was doing tutoring.
there’s a big push to integrate them back into the curriculum these days. but some old habits die hard, maybe…

7/4/09 @ 10:12 am (reply)

goddess

for them to be taught, the student has to be willing to let go of the stuff that doesn’t make sense when they hear something that does. therein lies the challenge. it takes a certain degree of humility.

7/4/09 @ 10:34 am (reply)

that woman who wrote a character sketch on you was projecting her own shadow onto you. the nerve of some people.!

7/4/09 @ 11:10 am (reply)

Mara

I agree with Kashmiri. I have a strong Uranus in my chart, so it was very important to me that my kids (I have three) were able to think for themselves and to question everything that was presented to them as “the ultimate truth”. Now they are 25, 23 and 20 years old, very talented and gifted, and I am proud of their ability to analise any situation and to reach their inner truth, without having to be told what to think.

7/4/09 @ 11:24 am (reply)

Sea

Well, critical thinking can go too far. Unless you just mean knowing what’s real. But if by ‘critical thinking’, you mean willing to question everything, and to be naturally skeptical and the opposite of gullible, then it can definitely go too far. I have a good dose of skepticism myself, but I am married to one who is much more so than I am. He is one of the best thinkers I have ever met – almost a genius-level in his depth of insight into things and reasoning capabilities (he’s a scorpio). But this quality also comes with an inborn ‘contrarianism’, and it is endlessly hurtful to me – everything I want or say or think or suggest for us to do, he says NO. His first instinct is always to contradict what someone is saying… even if he is quiet about it, he is thinking that they do not know much (and they usually don’t, but that’s not the point). Living with a contrarian like that, one who is always impulsively correcting me (being right is not his goal – and he is not usually ‘right’ when we disagree; rather, his goal is to be skeptical, to question everything), and who is always first wanting to examine a situation before he will jump into it (even as I, who love him, am saying ‘jump with me, we’ll be together!’) – well, it’s hard on a love relationship!

7/4/09 @ 1:06 pm (reply)