Hobbies that are slowly dying due to apathetic millenials

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 3:03:31 PM UTC+1, Mike Collins wrote:


Nature speaks to you but you are deaf and blind. Ostriches don't bury their
heads in the sand but with you it's second nature.
Facts are inconveniences to you. You prefer your immature fantasies.

What happens when you look out one morning or indeed an evening when the Sun disappears from view on any given weekday and you realize you have been following people who believed there are more rotations than weekdays ?. What happens when you realize that the field of stars close to plane of our orbital motion change their position to the central and stationary Sun ?. The last one you already did but that indoctrination you were subjected to in your youth remains so entrenched that the only avenue open to you is attack what you can't admire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFrE7hWj0A


The two sticks and a watch brigade can't appreciate the only acceptable way these old tools were used in converting the variations in the natural noon cycle to a 24 hour average nor even when Sir Isaac tried to classify this timekeeping facility as time itself.

You people are lost .

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 2:56:43 PM UTC+1, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

You are driven by convictions derived from empirical 'laws' and the legal terminology of evidence,proof ect but as you see, it is stone cold and nothing vibrant is let in

It is funny to think that you sit there typing a message railing against empirical science... on a device created by empirical scientists and engineers.

Simply unimaginable that the dark ages of science/astronomy is marked off by an inability to equate a weekday with one complete rotation of the Earth. No wonder you consider yourselves 'nobodies'.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8:38:25 PM UTC+1, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
Simply unimaginable that the dark ages of science/astronomy is marked off by an inability to equate a weekday with one complete rotation of the Earth.

Unimaginable to you, but then you can't imagine walking around a tree while pointing North. I'm sure a lot of real things are unimaginable to you.

Atheists sometimes remind me of reformed alcoholics. They never shut up.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 4:00:36 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:

Atheists sometimes remind me of reformed alcoholics. They never shut up.

Well, the exact same thing could be said, for example, about Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, both Baptist ministers... and there are many, many other TV Evangelists who talk way too much...

On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 12:28:26 AM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 4:00:36 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:

Atheists sometimes remind me of reformed alcoholics. They never shut up.

Well, the exact same thing could be said, for example, about Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, both Baptist ministers... and there are many, many other TV Evangelists who talk way too much...

You are not a 'nobody' however you are a drone in the same way all gang members are anonymous within their beliefs and their slogans. In a way your are an accident of history as 'universities' were originally a guild of academics bound together in order to protect themselves against an uncomprehending and hostile world but now that meaning has morphed into mathematical propaganda,at least in astronomical affairs.

http://9thlevel.ie/history-of-irish-...sity%E2%80%9D/


Astronomy is for people who take most out of their journey through life and not,as some would have it, an exercise/hobby that can be bought with a magnification device. Remove the theoretical muck or at least jettison the suffocating empirical slogans of experiment/evidence/proof and most can engage in speculative approaches using electromagnetism for planetary and solar system dynamics.

On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 19:28:26 UTC-4, palsing wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 4:00:36 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:

Atheists sometimes remind me of reformed alcoholics. They never shut up.

Well, the exact same thing could be said, for example, about Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, both Baptist ministers... and there are many, many other TV Evangelists who talk way too much...

Yes, but you go to an evangelical meeting I presume to hear them talk, unlike the unwanted droning of a person who suddenly "found God" or sobriety.

In sci.astro.amateur message c47677da-c69e-4563-b452-b142b3368275@googl
egroups.com, Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:01:14, posted:

On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:45:12 PM UTC+1, wrote:

Ireland is a British Isle.

Just as America is a British colony.


The island of Ireland, part of which is the Republic of Ireland, is part
of the British Isles (which is a geographical term, mot a geopolitical
one), and almost all of the rest is the United Kingdom. But the Isle of
Man is part of the BI without being part of either the RoI or the UK.
The anglophone part (there is also a francophone part) of the european
Channel Islands are not part of the UK either, although sometimes
considered part of the British Isles. Rockall is part of the UK.

Also, America was at most briefly an English colony; it soon became some
British colonies, finally numbering thirteen.

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On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 1:54:01 AM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 19:28:26 UTC-4, palsing wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 4:00:36 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:

Atheists sometimes remind me of reformed alcoholics. They never shut up.

Well, the exact same thing could be said, for example, about Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, both Baptist ministers... and there are many, many other TV Evangelists who talk way too much...

Yes, but you go to an evangelical meeting I presume to hear them talk, unlike the unwanted droning of a person who suddenly "found God" or sobriety.

Well, I've heard way more of Jackson and Sharpton than I've ever wanted to hear, and I can assure you that I've never darkened the doorstep of an evangelical meeting :)