Blood Moon

We could scarcely avoid finding meaning in death or disease given their impact on us personally. I wonder how that supports an argument that assigning meaning to astronomical phenomena like comets and eclipses is at all helpful. How about an example of how this might work for an astronomical event such as an eclipse or the moon appearing in the seventh house?

Because you did not limit your remarks to total eclipses. Totally wrong. There were eight tetrads in the twentieth century alone.

And that is your problem. All prophetic ministries have been shown to be wrong 100% of the time for at least the last 2015 years. Their record is even worse that abysmal; it is a record of never ever ever getting anything right but instead being very profitable at getting the gold out of Christian pockets and into theirs.Edited by jar, : fix sub-title

A few months ago we had a lot of smoke in the air from forest fires hundreds of miles away - so much smoke as to be a health hazard. The moon was blood red.So prophecy nuts don't have to rely on mere astronomy for "fulfilment".

I see. So it's only okay for people to find meaning in the spiritless and mechanical processes you approve of.Have fun with that.

People can do what they want. But apparently your mouth has once again written a check that your butt cannot cash. You cannot show that people being concerned about death or disease, things which affects them severely means that they also ought to believe in astronomical omens that have no effect on them whatsoever.If you have a real argument or even a persuasive reason to attach fake significance to any natural event, perhaps you'll present one or the othr at some point.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

I talked my wife into going outside to view the eclipse. The sky was quite cloudy and we caught just a few glimpses of the moon through a few areas of thinning cloud cover as totality approached. I have no idea whether I even caught a glimpse of totality. I certainly could not see any hint of anything red.I called my daughter in the Chicago area, and she reported seeing just about the same thing I did. I went back inside to finish my work, and did not look up again until the eclipse was well over. I never went back outside.Overall, a pretty disappointing night. I would suggest that if anyone intends on seeing the total eclipse during the summer of 2017 that you probably should not invite me to join you. Apparently I bring bad viewing eclipse weather.

If we are going that route, the Great Tribulation is supposed to come before the darkening of the sun. Also the stars are supposed to darken, something that never happens during an eclipse anyway.

Moving the goal posts, again. inre: celestial events and lunar eclipseHas nothing to do with the discussion of celestial events and lunar eclipse being given "meanings" history has shown all too often are anything but "compassion for others and motivation for self-improvement."Jon, if you haven't any appropriate counter-argument then don't reply. Stop trying to create a face-saving win by diddling the subject with nonsense.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Which, yet again, is an event that happens quite frequently. In this case, every single day.To assign the timing of a prophecy of a once-in-all-eternity all-emcompassing event, such as the end of the earth (which has an extremely long history), to something that happens all the time just makes no sense at all.

I never said people ought to believe in anything, much less 'astronomical omens'.Once again you are inventing an argument and calling it mine to avoid dealing with the argument I am actually making.

I'm moving nothing. My original statement was:

There's nothing wrong with seeing more in a lunar eclipse than a 'neat light show'.

And I stand by that statement.Finding meaning in the mundane is a basic part of being human, and there is nothing wrong about finding meaning in anything and everything at all.

Good. Nothing has changed. You're still wrong.

Yesterday afternoon I found a truck stop parking lot a couple miles from home that looked like a spot to watch the eclipse. Later I set up 2 cameras with long lenses to shoot some photos.This is the eastern horizon at 19:04 pdt. Note the pinkish band of smoke. I'm thinking this will be a problem......The white arrow is where I calculated the moon would appear. The red arrow is where the moon was when I actually first spotted it. It was so close in tone (level of brightness) to the sky that it was almost invisible. This is the size the moon appears on my sensor. While I was first setting up my cameras and lenses, a woman drove up and asked if I was going to watch the eclipse. I said yes and she got out and said she had driven down from Portland to watch it. Over the course of the eclipse, 30 or 40 cars parked nearby and people got out and stood and waited and then watched for a while once it was visible. Most of them came over and spoke to me, I guess because I was the only one with lenses set up. I let some look through my camera, but it was set too high for some. They could see the shots I was getting on the camera LCD screen. I spent about an hour talking mostly to one guy from Alabama as I was snapping shots. The truckstop was right off the freeway and quite a few people said they were just passing by and wanted stop and find a place to watch. Oddly, no one said they were from around here.I do not think they were quite as sharp as the ones from last October, but this eclipse was redder. I was disappointed that one of my setups did not work well. I had never mounted that lens on a digital camera before so I need to practice with it and experiment a bit. It should capture sharper images plus fill the frame.ABE: This was shot with a Nikon D700 camera, Century Precision Optics 500mm f4.5 lens, ISO=1600, f8 @1.6sec.Photos of the moon during eclipses are much softer than can be achieved normally. I think I will try a few shots of the moon tonight.Edited by Tanypteryx, : No reason given.

If you truly and deeply believe it is wrong to find meaning in an eclipse, you are mad.I suggest you find better things to worry about, though, than what some folks think of the moon.