Blood Moon

There's nothing wrong with seeing more in a lunar eclipse than a 'neat light show'.You may think finding meaning in otherwise spiritless and mechanical processes is a 'vestige of our less enlightened past', but I think it's what makes us human and our lives worth living.

It can also mean compassion for others and motivation for self-improvement.

Of course it has. Death and disease are purely spiritless and mechanical processes.The fact that we both care about them shows that we see meaning in some of the most mundane things in nature.Assigning meaning to our world is as necessary for doing good as it is for doing bad - probably even moreso.

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.

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.

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.

And how much does that pay?

It's wrong to try to end the world; it is not wrong too think the world is ending.

No, I don't. I claim that there is nothing wrong with it.

That's nice. But I have no interest in further wasting my time with you.

Nonsense. And you know it.Splitting hairs may be your specialty.But that doesn't make you good at it.