LDS Cautions Against Lunar-Based Eschatology

[BvBPL]

A total eclipse of the super moon is taking place RIGHT NOW! Go see it if you have the chance.

It is pretty awesome. So awesome that some people think it is the end of the world. Some people in Utah, which, ironically, may only see a partial eclipse tonight.

Which has, in turn, lead to the Mormon church taking a break from baptizing dead Indians to announce that such doomsaying is, well, less than constructive.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ac5f...a/blood-moon-seen-sign-end-times-some-mormons




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[Valka D'Ur]

Well, a bit of common sense. Good for them.

Last night was clear here, but tonight it's cloudy.

 

[downtown]

A bunch of emergency supply salesman in Utah have been hyping this to take advantage of gullible people. I can't imagine God will take kindly to them.

No man knoweth the hour and all that too, btw.

 

[shadowplay]

It's been cloudy here too, and it was supposed to clear up in time. Grr.

 

[Tigranes]

Still observing...

Spoiler :

 

[Narz]

A bunch of emergency supply salesman in Utah have been hyping this to take advantage of gullible people. I can't imagine God will take kindly to them.

Lol, God created suckers so surely he created hucksters as well. Man & woman, night & day, fool & those who make it their business to part him from his money.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Saw it on my way to work. Pretty cool
That someone would interpret it in an apocalypse-like fashion did not even occur to me until I opened this thread.
Now I wish I hadn't opened this thread.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The link in the OP was pretty tame compared to some of the garbage that turned up on CBC.ca. The "journalist" who wrote the article stuffed it full of superstitious drivel in among the actual science. You really have to wonder what the editor was thinking when a sentence containing the word "Earthlings" appears in what is supposed to be a serious science article. She did the same thing last spring, and that article was so riddled with errors that I tracked down a link to complain to CBC about it (their feedback link is useless). So they edited the article a little (several days after comments were closed so it's unlikely many people noticed) but there were still several glaring errors left.

And then Bob McDonald, who has written many excellent science articles over the years, also posted one... and guess which article allows comments and which doesn't?

Yep. The serious article does not allow comments.

 

[CavLancer]

The moon is a figment of the collective imaginations of peoplekind and therefor it cannot disappear. So, no worries.

 

[Cutlass]

I went out and looked, but didn't get that good of a view. The cheap telescope I bought at a tag sale was of no use at all. Couldn't even focus in on the moon with that.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

A cheap lens will do that. To increase resolution, a lens has to disperse the light, like a prism, and then you need another lens to bundle the light again to get a sharp picture. And for a lens to do that, it is going to cost ya, because we still lack cheap methods to do so, since the cheap methods lack precision and the surface of the lens needs to be just perfect for a clear picture.

 

[warpus]

Little does the LDS church realize that it's easy enough to see a big red moon whenever you want, if you take enough LSD.

 

[Birdjaguar]

We had clear skies and a great view.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Are we dead yet?

 

[CavLancer]

I looked and the cheeze apears to have been eaten in spots by a certain Brit claymation pair whose names shall go unmentioned by this reporter. Besides, its late, long day, and I can't seem to recall their names. :embarrassed:

 

[Zelig]

The link in the OP was pretty tame compared to some of the garbage that turned up on CBC.ca. The "journalist" who wrote the article stuffed it full of superstitious drivel in among the actual science. You really have to wonder what the editor was thinking when a sentence containing the word "Earthlings" appears in what is supposed to be a serious science article. She did the same thing last spring, and that article was so riddled with errors that I tracked down a link to complain to CBC about it (their feedback link is useless). So they edited the article a little (several days after comments were closed so it's unlikely many people noticed) but there were still several glaring errors left.

And then Bob McDonald, who has written many excellent science articles over the years, also posted one... and guess which article allows comments and which doesn't?

Yep. The serious article does not allow comments.

News organizations don't do "serious science articles". Bob McDonald is great, but he's pop science.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

News organizations don't do "serious science articles". Bob McDonald is great, but he's pop science.

He's light-years ahead of the airhead they've got doing articles on the eclipses and now this Mars thing. She's very fond of the word "earthlings" and has numerous inaccuracies, typos, grammatical errors...

And no, I'm not being picky. Quite a few other people commenting there are also complaining.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

I can't believe this needed to be stated by people in the US in the year 2015. Maybe the world SHOULD end if people are that stupid.

 

[CavLancer]

*Seconds the motion.

 

[warpus]

To be fair 25% of Americans don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun. With that in mind you've got to expect to find large enough groups of people in America with all sorts out incorrect and silly beliefs, especially when it has to do with the moon, sun, or other parts of the solar system.

Heck, do you know how many people in North America think that astrology actually works? Or that the earth is 6000 years old?

People are stupid. You'll find them everywhere, not only in America. And I have no idea how many Europeans don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun, and I'm sure it's not 25%, but even if it's 5% - that's a lot of friggin uneducated people walking around believing stupid stuff like this.