Tag: Moon

• The ‘Sober’ Truth about the Solstice

  The English word ‘solstice’ comes from the Latin ‘solstitium’, meaning the ‘Sun standing still’. Around the 20th/21st December, the Sun slumps down to lie at its lowest point above the horizon. It needs a few days to ‘chill out’ before beginning, so slowly at first, to clamber its long way back to higher things, with…

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  21st Dec 2022

  Christmas, Environment, History, Science

  December, Earth, Mars, Midwinter, Moon, Planet, Seasons, Solstice, Sun

• Was the Bishop a Complete Idiot? (ii)

  The previous post was about how Bishop Berkeley was right (if properly understood) when he said that whatever is not being perceived does not exist. There indeed is a sense in which what we call the Moon is not ‘there’, when no one is looking at it – when no human mind is converting the…

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  15th Jul 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Berkeley, Energy, God, Limerick, Mind, Moon, Reality, Religion, Samuel Johnson, Sub-atomic physics