Like wtf is this watered down horoscope crap thats making such and inpact on the dumb people… I don’t understand you have theistic religions pushing their views that we’re nothing special but we’re “gods children” then you have occult wannabe dumb dumbs who think they’re reincarnated super heros who can heal people like jesus. Both groups hate each other than you have the atheists like " we’re just monkeys in shoes bro get real."
I have not yet heard of “starseed” but … just why not? People latch onto whatever they need to get through their days. Not everyone prefers intellectual integrity or honesty (or reality – which at times these days is even understandable). So it goes.
Ah, so I looked it up:
“Unlike “Earth souls”, who are said to reincarnate on Earth, starseeds believe they have reawakened from another planet to be born here. Starseeds believe they are conduits between divine realms and the Earth and that they can transport between galaxies via meditation”
So it’s just another way to feel special. Or as the Church Lady would pronounce it, “spay-shull”.
So if you meet a self-professed Starseed, they are insecure in their identity, purpose and meaning in life and/or discontent with just being, “a monkey in shoes”.
In fundagelicalism, we had our own version of it: “I am the apple of God’s eye, his special child whose life he has a customized plan for”. Or as I now put it, “God has me in his back pocket and will make certain that nothing bad ever happens to me so long as I don’t [insert some innocuous and completely human behavior here]”.
I have found it liberating to just be “nothing special”. It makes life a LOT less fraught. Other’s mileage doubtless varies.
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This is it in a nutshell, people will believe what they want to believe, they sometimes imagine that they “need” to believe it, but ultimately the reliability of any claim rests on how well it stands up to critical objective scrutiny.
Many people’s reasoning is relentlessly irrational, but then it would be, else we’d not have needed a method of reasoning that adheres to strict principles of validation, like logic, to identify and discard irrational / poor arguments, all the heavy lifting was done a long time ago, but most people are oblivious of it’s methods.
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Personally I regard this as the main challenge of the human condition: by default, our mentation is sloppy as hell, and we have to (1) realize that and then (2) work systematically at correcting for it (3) using proven methods.
The problem is that’s not being widely taught or advocated for, even indirectly here in the US. In fact we have spent generations optimizing for deliberately blinkered thinking, with the result that we have devolved into … whatever this is.
And of course one of the main modes of deliberately blinkered thinking is theism. And even if you want to split hairs about whether that’s less a problem with religion than with humanity itself, at a bare minimum most flavors of religion act as an accelerant for disordered thinking. Mainly because it’s contrary to religion’s survival as a societal mechanism to foster critical thinking that doesn’t center the holy book or ideology of choice in people’s minds.
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Hey fuck you too. 
Jk. 
Yeah I never had respect for any of that horoscope and/or astrology BS. If anyone is so obsessed about personality types, we’ve already got other (relatively more scientific) alternatives like MBTI, Enneagram and the Big 5.
This topic is hilarious to me though, primarily because it’s my username. I don’t even know what the hell it means. I just heard it in a rap song and thought it was cool, lol.
And I just realized this is my first post here too. Way to make an intro, huh? 
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That IS hilarious – and welcome to the forum.
This is a good example why it’s unwise to assume too much about someone based on, e.g., affinity for a word or phrase, or anything really. One thing I see done over and over by new posters here and elsewhere is a failure to allow themselves to be known a little bit personally by other posters before spouting off. Your post here is a perfect example of that – and nice to meet you.
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Blah blah blah, typical Taurus… 
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Without astrology, the pool of available pick up lines in pubs would suffer.
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