Blinded by The Light

[2pac Shakur]

At least 50 people have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary, according to reports.


Alarmed health authorities in India's Kottayam district have set up a sign dispelling rumours of a miraculous image in the sky and warning of the dangers of looking into direct sunlight.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rgin-Mary.html

The faithful should ignore those heathens' orders and continue looking for the Virgin Mary. This is the opposite of the Roman Catholic Church vs Galileo.

[Plant Food]

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun
Oh but mama that's where the fun is

[Jack]

The calliope crashed to the ground.

What the eff was the calliope doing in the air in the first place?

[Heathen]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rgin-Mary.html

The faithful should ignore those heathens' orders and continue looking for the Virgin Mary. This is the opposite of the Roman Catholic Church vs Galileo.

I would never order that. I'm having too much fun watching evolution in action.

[Plant Food]

The calliope was on top of the merry-go-round and fell off when the merry-go-round was tripped. I'm told it was sneezin' and wheezin'.

[Ohel Moed]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

This is the opposite of the Roman Catholic Church vs Galileo.

That depends on how much of the popular story is true:

http://www.ips-planetarium.org/plane...ofgalileo.html
excerpt: One of the little fictions that planetarium lecturers like to tell is that of Galileo confronting the Inquisition. Accused of holding the heretical belief that the Earth moves around the sun, Galileo stands defiantly—the enlightened man of science—facing the entrenched dogma of the Church. It is a story told so often that we have come to believe it ourselves.

[2pac Shakur]

Originally Posted by Ohel Moed

That depends on how much of the popular story is true:

Didn't they ban Galileo's writings until like 1990?

[Ohel Moed]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

Didn't they ban Galileo's writings until like 1990?

You're about 1% right:

wiki: The Inquisition's ban on reprinting Galileo's works was lifted in 1718 when permission was granted to publish an edition of his works (excluding the condemned Dialogue) in Florence.[86] In 1741 Pope Benedict XIV authorized the publication of an edition of Galileo's complete scientific works[87] which included a mildly censored version of the Dialogue.[88] In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the Index of prohibited books, although the specific ban on uncensored versions of the Dialogue and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus remained.[89] All traces of official opposition to heliocentrism by the Church disappeared in 1835 when these works were finally dropped from the Index.

On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture

[2pac Shakur]

So in 1992 they admitted the Earth is not stationary. Very forward thinking institution there.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

So in 1992 they admitted the Earth is not stationary. Very forward thinking institution there.