Posted on 03/24/2017 10:13:32 PM PDT by Salvation
The hard part was getting the rooster to crow an hour earlier during daylight savings time.
The hard part was getting the rooster to crow an hour earlier during daylight savings time.
They are called hour glasses.
“We do need to free ourselves from all “time” traps as much
as possible.”
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How did they get anything done with no congress to fores the Idiotic Daylight Saving Time on them? /sarc
ping for later
quote from article-
One of the greater mysteries in terms of telling time is the seven-day week. Most of the other increments make sense based on the cycles of the moon or the sun, but there seems to be no obvious reference in the natural order to explain a week being seven days in length. Surely the book of Genesis is the theological source for this practice. God worked for six days, creating the heavens and the earth, and then rested on the seventh.
Some versions say God finished His Work on the seventh day. And also rested from all His Work on the seventh day.
That seems like a contradiction using the world’s timekeeping.
On God’s timekeeping, that is not a contradiction.
And He uses the lights in the firmament, and their increment cycle, to differentiate between the 2 different 7th days detailed in Genesis 2.
That is confirmed,plainly, in at least one verse in the bible. But that verse, when counted out, starts to show a pattern of how his 7 day week was really set to a cycle of those lights in the firmament.
And that pattern is just below the surface reading of the bible.
It’s a mystery that can be solved if one is interested.
And it’s a blessing to know the Son is at the center of it all.
Which shouldn’t surprise believers.
By the Roman calculation at the time, tenth hour was ten hours after sunrise. Most versions of Scripture say they stayed until the tenth hour. But some versions say ten o’clock in the morning and other versions say four in the afternoon.
Source http://biblehub.com/john/1-39.htm
Well, that was amusing. Thanks!
"Time zones” were invented to rationalize railroad schedules.Said differently, prior to the advent of fast mechanical transportation, each locale was its own time zone. “Time zones" as we know them make sense in that if you travel 20 miles at 60 mph within a single time zone, the time will be 20 minutes later - whether you traveled east, west, north or south.
Prior to the advent of the railroad, people didn’t travel fast enough for the difference among all the individual local time zones to be readily noticeable.
The Atomic clocks have been in the habit of introducing “leap seconds” in order that things stay evened up.
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Roosters can be trained but just you try re-calibrating a metal sundial and you’ll know frustration.
Probably the same why I do when out in the yard: watching the sky.
Oh bull!
Good overview indeed!
Didja notice, around 17.00 on the timeline, he used the word CLOCKWISE? I did, and was waiting for him to define it. I didn’t find it.
You know that the world’s history has been dominated by those who lived in the Northern hemisphere. As Julius Ceasar and his bunch DOMINATED his day; thus HIS ‘julian’ calendar was in force; the Only True Church DOMINATED it’s day and the Gergorian calendar ruled (mostly).
So we have days and years set by fiat; where did the word CLOCKWISE come from?
Ya remember that shadow the fella in the video was talking about? Well, in the Northern hemisphere, this shadow moved a certain direction thruout the day. Trees leave shadows, fenceposts do, even buildings and mountains (but they are a bit too big to use. The movement of this shadow across the ground was known as ‘clockwise’ for it was the same movement found in a clock: known as a sundial.
Except (did you know this was coming? ;^) in the Southern hemisphere! The shadow of the sun moves BACKWARD down under!! And their seasons lag (or lead) the ones in the Northern hemisphere; too!
He told us about leap years and leap days; but did you know that there are leap SECONDS as well?
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