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What I could find out about it is that the story is a rehashing of a comment made a couple of years ago by a few NASA scientists that they want Pluto reinstated as a planet. In searching the NASA news releases, I could find none on the NASA site expressing any such desire. Regardless, NASA or anyone may refer to Pluto as a planet of they wish. The fact is, it is the "International Astronomical union" that decides such things. The problem is, if Pluto is reinstated as a planet by the IAU, then around a thousand other planetoids in our solar system also qualify as a planet as well. And why stop there, from the position of the observer, everything revolves around the earth; sun, moon, stars, planets, etc..
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Oh, they want Pluto reinstated as a planet.
That's right!
It was a fact that Pluto was already a planet at one time, wasn't it?
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In reality, they want an exception made for Pluto. As RickG mentions, any definition that includes Pluto as a planet also includes thousands of other rocky objects orbiting the Sun. At that point, "planet" becomes a meaningless term.
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This is true... ironically.
Nothing that comes from humans, at least, is true. Is it always some monstrosity of self-approved subjectivity.
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Perhaps they need a better definition then?
But I guess that's what happens when the planetary astronomers got locked out and couldn't vote.
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Not when it comes to THE TRUTH of GOD
if we're lying, where in more trouble then anyone who offers false misleading confused information about temporal things
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Nothing that comes from humans, at least, is true.
Nothing.
Is it always some monstrosity of self-approved subjectivity.
Now, is God Human? Is His Holy Spirit? Absolutely, the spirit which drives the mouth to speak - being the Holy Spirit - does NOT lie.
Humans, however, almost always lie - to themselves, to others and to God even. Nothing we say is ever true. Ever.
It is always some sort of monstrosity of self-approved subjectivity to feed our egos, and to maintain our superego (while we convince ourselves - with these lies - that we control our id.)
Light topics like the status of Pluto show the disjointed foundation of human intellect, thought and conclusions based on similar culture and learning. It shows a kernel of the psychological games we will play with ourselves to justify what we - at certain temporal proximity especially - deem to be true, or at least meritorious for our temporal purposes.
I.e. "today," Pluto may be a planet. Tomorrow it isnt. Yesterday, however, it was!
If it was truth - if it was unchanging in qualifiable and quantifiable substance - there would be a foundation.
That's why it's always a good idea to believe none of what you hear, and half of what you see - especially if it comes from a human.
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