-The sun is a convex disk facing the earth 5000 (+or-) miles high. As the sun moves in its circuit, it moves out of a persons visual field. It goes past a person's eye sight vanishing point.
Why only half?-The sun is a convex disk facing the earth 5000 (+or-) miles high. As the sun moves in its circuit, it moves out of a persons visual field. It goes past a person's eye sight vanishing point.
Better than that, the idea that "666" is "the devil's number" is a crock. First off, it's not just three sixes in succession, it's the number three huindren sixty six, or if you prefer Roman numerals, DCLXVI. Secondly, the Revelator is quite specific that it's "the number of a man", and that those amongst his intended readers would know to whom the number referred. Best bet it's a code number for Nero Caesar, whose name was probably best not mentioned in unflattering terms if you valued either the recipient's, or your own, safety.What is quite laughable about these vague associations of physical constants, irrespective of whether they have been accurately defined or not, with the devil's number 666 is that the devil's number may have been in fact 616.
So old Nick wrote the specs by which God created the earth. Or Nick actually created the earth. Dang, this is worse (as in dumber) than I thought.
None of those values are actually correct.
Better than that, the idea that "666" is "the devil's number" is a crock. First off, it's not just three sixes in succession, it's the number three huindren sixty six, or if you prefer Roman numerals, DCLXVI. Secondly, the Revelator is quite specific that it's "the number of a man", and that those amongst his intended readers would know to whom the number referred. Best bet it's a code number for Nero Caesar, whose name was probably best not mentioned in unflattering terms if you valued either the recipient's, or your own, safety.
None of those values are actually correct.
Never thought of it like that. Here on out I'll call him something else that's more pointedly disparaging.I do have to confess I wish we could phase out the phrase “old Nick” vis a vis the devil as it seems contrary to the veneration appropriate to St. Nicholas the Bishop of Myra, who was tortured in the Diocletian persecution and who also famously slapped Arius at the Council of Nicaea. Which has led to an amusing variation on the song “Santa Claus is coming…”
I want to mention that him slapping Arius seems to be a historical fiction. Nicholas of Myra actually being at Nicaea to begin with is a bit uncertain--some lists of attendees have him, but some don't. But if he was, the first mention we have of him slapping someone at Nicaea seems to show up a full thousand years after the council happened. And even this story doesn't have him slap Arius, but an Arian (follower of Arius), and it was only in later retellings of this story that it was "upgraded" to him slapping Arius. This link goes into it:I do have to confess I wish we could phase out the phrase “old Nick” vis a vis the devil as it seems contrary to the veneration appropriate to St. Nicholas the Bishop of Myra, who was tortured in the Diocletian persecution and who also famously slapped Arius at the Council of Nicaea. Which has led to an amusing variation on the song “Santa Claus is coming…”
If the story just appeared in late antiquity, I sincerely doubt it would have been without controversy if it was not already part of the mind of the Church. You may have noticed that Eastern Orthodox are very resistant to change of any kind.I want to mention that him slapping Arius seems to be a historical fiction. Nicholas of Myra actually being at Nicaea to begin with is a bit uncertain--some lists of attendees have him, but some don't. But if he was, the first mention we have of him slapping someone at Nicaea seems to show up a full thousand years after the council happened. And even this story doesn't have him slap Arius, but an Arian (follower of Arius), and it was only in later retellings of this story that it was "upgraded" to him slapping Arius. This link goes into it:
Did St Nicholas of Myra / Santa Claus punch Arius at the Council of Nicaea?
In many places online we can find the statement that St Nicholas of Myra – the basis for Santa Claus – was present at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, where he punched Arius in th…www.roger-pearse.com
If the story just appeared in late antiquity, I sincerely doubt it would have been without controversy if it was not already part of the mind of the Church. You may have noticed that Eastern Orthodox are very resistant to change of any kind.
The Earth's average speed in its orbit is 66,627 mph, so the range of orbital speeds between perihelion and aphelion includes 66,600 mph. The Earth's present rotational obliquity is 23.4363°, so the latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic circles are ±66.5637°. However, when the book of Revelation was written (ca. 90 AD), the Earth's obliquity was larger (about 23.725°), so the latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic circles were then about ± 66.275°.Gene2memE has already posted arguing that the numbers in question are not accurate (while you could maybe get the first two by rounding, the last one seems completely wrong) and several rely on using a measurement system the majority of the world does not use.
Where the extreme cold is moving at 0.00005mph doesn't sound pleasant.At 20 degC, yes. But at 27.7 degC it is 777 mph, which is why I choose a slightly warmer temperature.
And yes - this whole graphic is a pile of nonsense.
Yes, I thought nautical miles per hour per second was a bit of nonsense. Whoever put that graphic together was an idiot.And a knot is indeed speed, not acceleration. It's nautical miles per hour.
Yes, I thought nautical miles per hour per second was a bit of nonsense. Whoever put that graphic together was an idiot.
Indeed, why measure the rotation of the Earth in MPH when NASA and Roscosmos and China use the Metric system for measuring the velocity and acceleration of spacecraft? It’s absurd.
Because this whole business is numerology. In this case trying to get 3 consecutive 6s to appear in a number to claim it is the sign of the devil or whatever. To that end they pick whatever quantities and units fit their needs. (Note how the "examples" don't make a coherent group and if you can find a group they are part of the set of values is quite incomplete.)
That's certainly possible, butIndeed. By the way, as mentioned earlier it seems highly likely that St. John was referring to Nero using 666 as a cypher, since the text of Revelation implies that it refers to a real person whom the reader ought to be able to discern,
I think the evidence for Nero as a persecutor is rather thin.and I think the chap who started the horrific murderous and even genocidal (in that some predominantly Christian ethnic groups like Bohairic and Sahidic speaking Copts, and the Syriac/Assyrian Christians of the Levant were targeted) persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire generally qualifies as “the Beast.”
Of course the Beast is also typological, so we can regard Nero as the prototype of the genocidal murderer of Christians, the likes of Emperors Commodus and Diocletian and Constantius, Julian “the Apostate” (which I find amusing since his predecessors were already arguably apostate by virtue of their Arianism), and others, and later, the likes of Tamerlane, who killed off most of the Church of the East, and various Ottoman Sultans, and in the 20th century, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and in a way especially pernicious, Enver Hoxha, who persecuted a higher ratio of Christians than anyone else in his zeal to obliterate religion in Albania, which of course failed completely. All of these evil men have a prototype in Emperor Nero, who falsely accused the Christians of starting a fire which did great damage to Rome.
I think the evidence for Nero as a persecutor is rather thin.
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