>Usually I have trained myself to avoid reading billboards and other ads along the road, it's distracting and can be dangerous. This one I couldn't miss, because there's nothing else around, it sits in a middle of a lawn by a slow road, and I had to pass it four times during the day (took daughter to a party and then took her back). The house at the other end of the lawn architecturally looked like your typical Virginian rest area visitor center. The billboard, done in those movable letters, read
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SUN WORSHIP 12 30
>THE LIGHT SHINES
>IN THE DARK
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>Obviously, the worshipers of the Sun are gathering, but I really never got the local date/time formats right, and whoever put up the sign was cheap on punctuation, so my question here is: is the Heliophile mass scheduled for every day at 12:30 or is it at usual time on December 30th?
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>And no, I don't think they're better than any other religion - they don't even try AND make sense (shouldn't that be "NOR make sense"?). When the Sun shines, it's not dark, by definition. Dark, again by definition, is absence of light. But I won't be caught trying to mix logic with faith, not this time. If they so believe, I say let them.
I don't know... I think you might want to consider that lately the days have been getting longer and the nights shorter. Coincidence ? I think not ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
