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If another person refers to Mercury being retrograde as being the cause for whatever bad is going on in their lives (and there have been a number lately) I am going to SCREAM.

Because crap happens to people ALL THE TIME -- and somehow, the rest of the time, it's just "crap happening." As someone who really does not care about what the hell the planets are doing, I can attest that there are other things that tend to affect people more: bad spells of weather and bad political events, for example, and as far as I can tell, those have nothing to do with where Mercury is.

And yeah, I know, my beliefs are really weird too. You're entitled to scream -- and a lot of people do: according to many if not most commenters at Atrios, for example, people of my ilk are responsible for all that is wrong with the world today (check out the comments following his post last week about Barack Obama's speech).

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I have often experienced people telling me that God is testing me/them under trying circumstances. You're right, it's not pleasant. Neither of those really come up to "non-consensual religion" for me, though. I mean, if either hypothetical person decided to give me an unasked-for lecture about it, and I couldn't leave, then I'd have a problem. But if someone's just saying "oh Mercury is in Retrograde," or "God only gives us what we can handle," or whatever, then it just tells me a lot about their guiding ideas in life.