Do temperatures vary more in the sourthern hemisphere?

BTW, I found this webpage because I was looking to learn more about the flat earth.

As I suspected, the earth is shaped like a pizza pie.

Scholars believe this means the earth was invented by Italians.

Bear that in mind when you're digging for onions to put on your pizza.

Now that we 'know' the earth is flat, is Atlas carring it, or is it a large turtle ?

That statue of Atlas carring the earth will need to be revised to show a flat earth instead of a round one.

I suppose the potential is there but the northern hemisphere has vastly more land in the higher latitudes where the weather swings the most. That is not true in the Southern Hemisphere. Bring up google earth and center the south pole in the circle. Then do the same with the northern hemisphere. You find out pretty quickly that as soon as you get outside the arctic circle, the southern hemisphere is mostly ocean that will moderate the temperature and the northern hemisphere is mostly land. Temperature can go nuts over land. Fairbanks Alaska is a great example. It is in the middle of a big land mass and the temperature swings from almost 100 in the summer to 50 below in the winter. (It was 99 in Fairbanks when we got off the plane in late June on our trip, hotter than it was in Ft Myers Fla when we left)

Easy to do if Micky is right. Re4place Atlas with a Dominos delivery guy holding a pizza.

Excellent. But I'd have the pizza companies bid against each other to see what brand is written on the box, at his feet. And of course in the spirit of the day, I'd keep 25%.

Good point.

One summer, 50 years ago, I got postcards from 2 people who did not know each other but both knew me. They had different views of Mt. McKinley on them, and both wrote that I should go to Alaska because there were great jobs for people who could fix things. Unfortunately my huskie was about to have puppies and I coudln't go.

Democrats love taxing working people.

You think Domino's and aother national pizza companies are "working people"? LOL

You think getting a comission on a statue they will use for advertising is a tax? LOL

You're just the kind of stooge the Republican bigwigs love.

Not invented. CREATED. It's why the guys in the bible all have Italian names(they were translated to Hebrew hundreds of years later - just to fsck with our minds). []'s

That depends on which bible you are talking about. OT or New.

There are TWO of them? Two to one? That's unfair. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" never stood a chance. But it might explain why my janitor is a Latino called "Jesus". Assuming the second one was in the original Italian, of course. Thanks for the update. Ping me when the third version is published. I'll torrent it. []'s

There are actually lots of versions but the big difference is between the Old Testament that our Jewish friends have been passing down tor a few thousand years and the New Testament written, mostly in western Europe over the last 1500 years or so. Each brand of Christian seems to have their own take on what it is supposed to say.

I went to Catholic school and they never made much mention of the bible. It was like "don't bother reading it, we'll interpret it for you" Yeah, sure, thanks.

Growing up we had a bible in the house and thought it would be a good idea to read it. Two pages was enough.

So, what did I learn from 12 years of Catholic school education? Use your church envelope.

I was pretty fortunate to have never been encumbered by any organized religion. I can see virtue is some of the things all of them tell us, other stuff is pure bullshit. It is still none of my business what other people believe and I think they have as much of a right to free speech as the other special interest groups. That means I am not offended if they put up a creche in the park.

That wasn't the worst thing in the world considering the crap semi-literate self-ordained preachers have extracted from it.

I had an aunt on the Protestant side of the family who was considered to be a religious nutter. She had a prominently displayed bible in the living room. Being a kid who would read a ketchup label if there was nothing else around, I gave it a whirl. I may have made it to three pages...

I never have read the complete OT. I did make it through 'Good News for Modern Man' in boot camp. Like I said, I'll read anything and once through the Green Book I'd gathered which way a Claymore should be pointed and needed fresh material.

I was subjected to 'religious instruction' for a total of six years or so. I was off to a good start when Sister Mary Elephant asked me to recite one of the Commandments. It quickly became apparent I didn't even know there were 10 commandments let alone being familiar with a particular one. She branded me a Heathen. I still am. I did catch the movie when it came out a couple of years later.

The high point was the nun using Necco wafers for the First Communion practice. She did impress on us we weren't supposed to chew the real thing. I was sad to learn of the demise of Necco. I used to walk by the plant on Mass Ave. in Cambridge and can understand why the new owners found 'sanitation issues'.

I did revisit the topic in my 30's. There are enough intelligent devout Catholics that I thought re-examination was worthwhile. Still not for me although I have more respect for the Catholic Church than the Church of God with Signs Following.

If there is a disappointing thing about Christianity it is, after preserving Western culture for over a thousand years, many are capitulating to political correctness. The Jul season is pleasant; after all they stole almost everything from the Old Religion.

'Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North' by G. Ronald Murphy S.J. goes into quite a bit of detail. He has also written two books on the Heliand, an adaptation of the gospels in Old Saxon that was edited to make it more appealing to the target audience. Jesus is the drighten of a small band of warriors.

Christmas is a marketing event with a lot of phony sentiment and unreasonable expectations. If I want to give someone a gift. I will do it when they need it, not just because some pagan solstice celebration happened a couple days before. If History is as accurate as passed down legends Jesus was probably born in the summer and not on year zero ... or is that year one? AD or BC?

I tend to ignore Christmas. The solstice is another matter however. The turning around of the sun lies deep in the ancestral memory. The evergreens are a promise that the earth will again become green.

The vernal equinox, which symbolism the Christians stole, is similar.

One thing I remember is read the first 4 books of the New Testament, and then write ONE coherent story containing everything you read. It's not easy.