| ▲ | melling 4 days ago |
| “when the realignment caused ten days to be subtracted from the year, mobs across Europe attacked Jesuit houses to protest the time stolen from them.” Do we see these people among us today? This resonated too: “ He said, “Even scientists who don’t believe in God have to believe in ‘Oh, my God.” |
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| ▲ | antognini 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > when the realignment caused ten days to be subtracted from the year, mobs across Europe attacked Jesuit houses to protest the time stolen from them The outrage over the implementation of the Gregorian calendar had more to do with landlords in some areas charging a full month of rent for a month that lacked 11 days. |
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| ▲ | vasco 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Almost invariably when large groups of people did something really dumb in the past, we just don't have the full story. Not wanting to pay 11 extra days for nothing is completely reasonable, as opposed to the portrayal of dummies going around with pitchforks because someone stole 11 days from their lives. | |
| ▲ | southernplaces7 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Amusing how some tendencies never really change no matter how much the superficial world changes. | |
| ▲ | exe34 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Classic landlords! | | |
| ▲ | cwmoore 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Were their taxes due later? I would not be surprised if they also lost all 11 days of scheduled annual maintenance. |
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| ▲ | jajko 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That has nothing to do with religion, beliefs or any validity of those. Just a phrase burned too deep into cranium over decades to dispose of it easily even if wanted. 'What the fuck' or other fuck variants are in same category. |
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| ▲ | headcanon 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I took it to mean that religious and non-religious scientists are drawn by the same sense of wonder at the cosmos. | |
| ▲ | 1718627440 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I disagree with that. The phrase "Oh my God" expresses the surprise that there is something way larger, deeper and/or more powerful than the speaker imagined; this is the textbook definition of what God is. |
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