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originally posted by: UnBreakable
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: IAMTAT
So we got a bunch of doom porn for the first eclipse of the year and now you are posting one for the first lunar eclipse. Are we just going to see doom porn for every eclipse this year? What is so terrifying about eclipses anyways?
Doom porn with natural events on specific dates provides for enjoyable speculation. As usual, nothing out of the ordinary will happen. Same old political corruption, man's inhumane treatment of his fellow man via crime, terrorism, war, etc. will still happen. A billion years from now people will still ponder if a meteor, EQ, eclipse, et al, will spell doom for mankind or portend the "return" of a God who never existed in the first place. But most people's lives are so boring and mundane they yearn for an upcoming event which will be transformative. This rock will still be around for five or six billion more years until the sun decides to burn out.
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: IAMTAT
originally posted by: butcherguy
So.... Are we all going to die, or what?
LOL...I don't know about you, but I just plan on watching it with my family. I love this stuff.
I gotta say, my kids are really beginning to smell a rat here.
Every time I tell them that we are all going to die on each new doom porn date and then nothing happens....
They are getting to the point where they don't believe it any more!
originally posted by: Bluesma
The sun turns to darkness?
What does that have to do with a lunar eclipse??
originally posted by: BlueMule
a reply to: IAMTAT
In other words it would be nighttime. But that hardly seems like the same thing as it turning dark.
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originally posted by: grandmakdw
When this has happened in the past, every time it happened in the past. Great historical changes took place shortly thereafter.
originally posted by: BlueMule
a reply to: IAMTAT
If it does, then it is such a regular occurrence that it can't be used as a sign.
No, the sun going dark either means to see it go dark in the sky, or it's a mystical metaphor.
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originally posted by: SlapMonkey
originally posted by: grandmakdw
When this has happened in the past, every time it happened in the past. Great historical changes took place shortly thereafter.
I call these things self-fulfilling prophecies. When enough people are ignorant to what eclipses are, and they're associated with mass hysteria, of course things change. But when you place a scientific understanding behind these phenomena, you lose the hysteria the world continues as it did the day before.