On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 11:37:08 PM UTC-8, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

If you have decent intuitive faculties much less a powerful sense of what works and what doesn't, you would be repulsed by that pivoting circle of illumination, a spinning moon, the awful subversion of direct/retrogrades resolutions and many other things.

I fear that your own so-called intuitive facilities have led you far astray, to the point where you cannot understand the beauty of both the solar day and its equation of time and the sidereal day with its own special place in astronomy.

Regarding the spinning moon, well, you just don't understand that virtually everything in the universe rotates with respect to something, and the moon is no exception...