# Does God live in the Pleiades Star Cluster? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550 "2010-06-09T16:21:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/21 "2010-06-09T18:37:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*The constellation of the seven stars forming the Pleiades appears to be the crowning center around which the known systems of the planets revolve… The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one compared with others which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man. \* The Pleiades isn’t a constellation, J.F. It’s a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. > [@blondebear](#): > > If s/he does drive a car, I’ll bet it’s a Subaru. Nice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/22 "2010-06-09T18:54:33Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Don’t call a goddess a ‘chick’. > > Trust me on this. ☹ Not even Poultra? ---
**Author:** ![Like\_Fry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@Like\_Fry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Like_Fry)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/23 "2010-06-09T18:57:21Z")
hmm, does that mean god is in my steering wheel, and front grill? oh, and hubcaps, manual, and probably a few places under the hood. ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/24 "2010-06-09T19:00:05Z")
\*Alcyone, then, as far as science has been able to perceive, would seem to be ‘the midnight throne’ in which the whole system of gravitation has its central seat, and from which the Almighty governs the universe. - ~JF Rutherford ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/25 "2010-06-09T19:02:43Z")
\*We do well to bear in mind that among the drugs, serums, vaccines, surgical operations, etc., of the medical profession, there is nothing of value save an occasional surgical procedure. Their whole so-called “science” grew out of Egyptian black magic and has not lost its demonological character… we shall be in a sad plight when we place the welfare of the race in their hands. The Journal of the A. M. A. is the vilest sheet that passes the United States mail… Nothing new and useful in therapeutics escapes its unqualified condemnation. Its attacks are generally ad hominem. Its editorial columns are largely devoted to character assassination… Its editor is of the type of Jew that crucified Jesus Christ.\* ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/26 "2010-06-09T19:07:46Z")
Um, **Quintas** …are you going to contribute anything to your own thread other than quotes from this insane drivel? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/27 "2010-06-09T19:12:32Z")
Joke too dumb to make redacted. ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/28 "2010-06-09T19:14:35Z")
It is insane isn’t it? Just something to keep in mind when those nice grinning fools come banging on your door next Saturday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/29 "2010-06-09T19:18:01Z")
Well, thank God I finally have a reason to tell Jehovah’s Witnesses to go away. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/30 "2010-06-09T19:22:32Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, thank God I finally have a reason to tell Jehovah’s Witnesses to go away. :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/31 "2010-06-09T19:23:35Z")
I’m not seeing your point here, Quintas. Would you like to make one? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/32 "2010-06-09T19:24:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I hate it when he hides under my bed and makes snarling sounds. And if you were a better person, She wouldn’t have to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/33 "2010-06-09T19:27:58Z")
I think God must be a raccoon. Sounds like it, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/34 "2010-06-09T19:51:43Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > The Pleiades isn’t a constellation, J.F. It’s a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. > Nice. 😃 Okay, so does He drive an Accord or a Taurus? Well, whatever He drives it’s to go play Skee-Ball. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/35 "2010-06-09T20:27:44Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > Okay, so does He drive an Accord or a Taurus? Well, whatever He drives it’s to go play Skee-Ball. Neither - He drives a Plymouth. He drove Adam and Eve from Eden in a Fury. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/36 "2010-06-09T20:33:41Z")
“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all” ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/37 "2010-06-09T20:35:06Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I’m not seeing your point here, Quintas. Would you like to make one? Jehovahs Witnesses believe in all sort of wild and insane ideas. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/38 "2010-06-09T20:46:10Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > The Pleiades isn’t a constellation, J.F. It’s a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. Rutherford is using the less formal definition of “constellation,” meaning any group of stars forming a pattern. The “official” 88 were only defined six years before the quote. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/39 "2010-06-09T20:49:10Z")
snarky comment removed after a bout of common sense on my part… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550/40 "2010-06-09T20:50:31Z")
> [@Quintas](#): > > Jehovahs Witnesses believe in all sort of wild and insane ideas. Pretty sure we all already knew that. Can’t you tell us about chasing one down the street with a sword, while clad only in your drawers? That was some good reading. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-live-in-the-pleiades-star-cluster/542550.md?page=3)