Bah Humbug Christmas

[Huntinger]

[torus9]

The celebration of the alleged resurrection of Jesus is timed to the moon. Easter falls on the Sunday following the first full moon of Spring. The alleged birth of Jesus is timed to the Sun. Right now, the Sun of God is descending into the 'underworld', culminating on the Solstice of Dec. 21, and begins its ascent thereafter.
The stars, baubles, shine and glitter, that accompanies Christmas is all related to Sun worship. Always has been, always will.

[torus9]

See the time stamp. Yet 12 21 is not an "equinox", but it is a palindrome.

[torus9]

We'd all change our ways in some regard if time-travelling demons were appearing in the middle of the night, scaring the shit out of us. Making you feel like a contemptible worm for having been tasked with a life that you never asked for in the first place while rubbing your own alleged 'future' in your face for being the fuck-up that you are. A not-so subtle metaphor actually. Hinduism will give you aeons of reincarnation to weed the Ebenezer out of you. Fundamentalist Christianity is giving you a one-shot opportunity at redemption, with the ghosts of Christmas, past, present, and future, all laid out for you. Jesus...

[Huntinger]

Fundamentalist Christianity is giving you a one-shot opportunity at redemption, with the ghosts of Christmas, past, present, and future, all laid out for you. Jesus...

Once one believes in the supernatural for which there is no shred of evidence the possibility of Time Travelling Demons become real as well, perhaps even the Zombie Apocalypse; it starts of with lying about Santa. Before 1931, there were many different depictions of Santa Claus around the world, including a tall gaunt man and an elf —there was even a scary Claus.
Santa Claus is just of course the pronunciation of Saint Nicholas in Germanic Nordic languages. Of course there is also father Christmas.

Ded Moroz is :Grandfather frost". the Russian Santa.

In 1931 Coca Cola decided to use the image of Ded Moroz, changed the colour from Blue to Red and create the Santa we know today.

With all this lying one would suspect a certain group of people known for their lies and deceit are involved.

[torus9]

Once one believes in the supernatural for which there is no shred of evidence

There was no evidence for Ptolemy's distorted world-view but it held precedence for 1500 years.

[torus9]

With all this lying one would suspect a certain group of people known for their lies and deceit are involved.

"The November 4 -11 election steal would not have been possible if it weren’t for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Not only was Facebook used as a social engineering tool over the past four years — exclusively removing conservative content and elevating left-wing messages — but the CEO himself funneled over $500 million into Democrat-controlled strongholds to change the election system itself. His money was used to coerce Democrat election officials to change the rules for mail-in ballots, weakening the criteria for voter identification and destroying the simple, transparent process for voting in person on election day."

https://patriotrising.com/election-inte ... on-system/

[Huntinger]

Make Christmas Great Again

[Turnagain]

Huntinger wrote:

Once one believes in the supernatural for which there is no shred of evidence...

Your claim of knowing all there is to know about the universe is touching, Hunt. For example, why is the speed of light a constant while the speed of sound a function of the density of the medium it's traveling in? Why shouldn't light slow down when encountering anything but a vacuum? Conversely, why doesn't it speed up? Who or what mandated that it remain constant?

The multiverse theory is gaining respectability while previously it was solely the province of science fiction. How does a black hole function and what are their purpose? Gravity?

Dismissing the unknown and its attendant myths based simply on your own ignorance is hardly a rational decision. At least to my way of thinking. Life and death could very well be nothing but a shift in perception. There is some anecdotal evidence for that but there's also evidence that "dead" is simply dead (shrug). The point being that there's simply too much that is unknown and perhaps unknowable to our limited intelligence to make such sweeping generalizations.

[blake121666]

The speed of light is constant in a vacuum. It slows down in a medium (refractive index).

It is constant in all inertial frames of reference though. That's the significance of the constancy.

Light faster than its speed in vacuum are postulated as tachyons.

The constancy of the speed of light in vacuum is more an axiom (taken as a given) than a hard fact.

EDIT: Sound (on the other hand) is a product OF the medium itself. Light particles are conceived as fundamental - not derived from any medium.

EDIT 2: FYI, the constancy of the speed of light in vacuum is a postulate based on the Lorentz transformation leaving Maxwell's equations invariant (like the Galilean transformation does for Newton's laws). If one assumes the constancy of the speed of light in vacuum, it makes the equations easier to handle. You actually don't really need that assumption though (BECAUSE of the Lorentz transformation - using Emmy Noether's theorem). Since you can deduce its constancy in any inertial frame - that makes it constant - whether you wish to say it actually is or not from some philosophical principle or other. It's an axiom IOW - you don't actually prove it (and kinda can't do that within the standard framework).