tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post357046527937551822..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: SupervolcanoRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-15058604167473742252015-05-21T19:39:39.557-04:002015-05-21T19:39:39.557-04:00End-times focused dispy folks (are there any other...End-times focused dispy folks (are there any other kind?) tend to be rather dramatic, and overly speculative in my opinion. And John Hagee is a heretic.CRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231394164372721485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-44975987357658310152015-05-21T16:41:01.044-04:002015-05-21T16:41:01.044-04:001. I'd add one can't tell the sun has turn...1. I'd add one can't tell the sun has turned black if the entire sky has turned black at the same time. If this occurred, then wouldn't someone just say the whole sky has turned black? Not that the sun itself has turned black? <br /><br />However, a solar eclipse would look as if the sun has turned black, since everything around the sun would presumably be less dark than the blackened sun.<br /><br />2. Pliny the Younger was an <a href="http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/pompeii/plinyletters.htm" rel="nofollow">eyewitness</a> to the Mt. Vesuvius eruption that destroyed Pompeii:<br /><br />"It was daylight now elsewhere in the world, but there the darkness was darker and thicker than any night. But they had torches and other lights...We had scarcely sat down when a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like the black of closed and unlighted rooms...Many raised their hands to the gods, and even more believed that there were no gods any longer and that this was one last unending night for the world."Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06655829667033554000noreply@blogger.com