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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
The simple logical reason why these cycles should fit human behaviour is that precession is a real encompassing framework for everything that has ever happened on earth. That is just a fact.
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Without something to explain the cause and effect this is meaningless - nothing more than astrology.
How does precession affect life on Earth and how could this manifest itself in cycles of civilisation?
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
Proceeding from the observation that cycles are real to the prediction that events should conform to them is no more a logical fallacy than Einstein’s prediction of the precession of the perihelion of Mercury – where he proceeded from the observation that relativity is real to the assumption the data will fit it.
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I think Einstein had a pretty good reason to think there was a relationship to be found; relativity provided a mathematical framework to calculate precession.
What reason would you have, to think that precessional cycles should affect human events on Earth? Without looking at history, how would you predict events or cycles?
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I concede the strength of a precessional cycle can be disputed, but not its existence.
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What does "strength" actually mean here?
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Your comments demonstrate that you are too fixed in your views to see that the comparisons between Zama and Normandy/ Hiroshima, between the expulsions of the kings in Rome and England, and between the imperial expansion of Rome and the USA have strong parallels separated by exactly one cosmic age. To me these examples are interesting evidence, but I can see that it challenges some emotional assumptions of modern astronomy so I understand why stubborn rejection is so attractive. I am illustrating a deductive thesis of cosmology by events that are well known. It makes little sense to ask to illustrate it from things that are not well known, whether by me or by others.
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This confirms you are cherry-picking things that fit your idea.
If I roll a die 10 times, and pick out just the events where "3" followed "2", can I say that's a cycle?
I also think people here have provided examples that contradict your word (that I bolded) above.