The Theology of P
I was thinking about this last night, about the sun and the moon thing. It is an unbelievably outrageous coincidence if you think about it.
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posted by jeffrey rowland at 5:02:00 PM
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Woo. Everything works out and I didn't have to do anything. Except throw dirt at Weedmaster P.
Exploding cars are part of God's Plan for You! Those lights in the sky are oncoming headlights! Oh, wait, never mind. That was a just a reorganzine flashback. Whoa.
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well it looked like a car in the comment box... now it's a picasso car.
Weedmaster P is apparently not high enough.
that's supposed to say high enough... but the HTML tag for italics doesn't seem to work..
It is and it isn't [an outragous coincidence]...The moon is gradually moving away from the Earth, so to our ancestors (talking millions of years back here) it would have seemed bigger than the sun; in the future, to our decendants, it will seem smaller. The only coincidence is that we happen to be the ones alive at the time that they match up. Someone had to be (assuming life did't kill itself off beforehand). Still, it is pretty cool.
Wow Jeff has the same birthday as my girlfriend.
It's like Jeff is m girlfriend almost. That's pretty exciting.
Sun and moon nuthin. You notice how many of those goddam STARS look the same?
Yeah but the stars are all ages away :)
If I remember right Earths moon is unusually large for the size of the planet earth compared to other planets and their moons (useless fact of the day >.<)
My old Physics prof thought that the equality of the angular size of the earth and moon was actually the cause of intelligent life on this planet. Think about it - our ancestors were running around the savannah, then suddenly a solar eclipse happens, and everybody looks up and goes "Guh?" Boom - philosophy is born!
He's a physics professor, what the fuck would he know about that.Your physics professor is retarded, my phyics professor could beat your physics professor on a post apocalyptic field of battle any day.
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Of course, if God(I'm assuming it's a capital 'G' type of deity for this hypothesis) is responsible for our moon and sun appearing to be the same size when, in fact, they are not, this brings up the interesting question of why, exactly would he want to do this? Is it meant to be a sign or portent of some kind, alerting us of dangers yet to come? Or does God simply dig looking at solar eclipses while he is visiting earth to play skee ball from time to time? The world may never know...
Oh whatever, God talk.
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i meant cubist.
aha my new favourite OC; narrowly edging out bigfoot's rage at the reese cups.
The question is not whether or not it's a coincidence but whether it's merely coincidence.
I am a pedant.
It's because they are the same size. Science lies to us. God is a woman, and the sun and moon are her mammomories. Do not believe the false astronomers! Suckle upon the life juice of God before it is too late and you are confined to Hell (which is around about Pluto.)
I need to go take a cold shower now.
Wow. I thought there must be a good reason for this but it turns out there isn't.
How about the fact that the earth and the moon rotate and revolve just right so that we always see the same damn side of the damn thing?
And don't end the givin' away until I get some money into my PayPal.
Mammonories? As the good book says "No man can serve two masters"
"How about the fact that the earth and the moon rotate and revolve just right so that we always see the same damn side of the damn thing?"
That is a result of tidal influences.
Also, the moon and sun aren't the same size in the sky all the time. Both orbits are slightly elliptical (earth-sun and earth-moon) so the sizes fluctuate with time.
I said it before and I'll say it again:
Science ruins everything.
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