I’ve sometimes wondered why this doesn’t drive the Christian fundementalists nuts, after all they’re the names of the Norse gods (Thursday, 'Thors’day etc).
Well except for Saturns Day… 
btw Peanut Gallery I believe the leaders of the French Revolution tried to decimilise time but it didn’t catch on.
I don’t care what anybody says, I <3 Apollo 13!!!
Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) regarding Apollo 11, “It’s not a miracle…we just decided to go.”
…we did. Something so audacious as to put a human being on another celestial object. How’d we do it? We just decided to.
I went easy on ya’ 
I coulda quoted a little ditty called The Athanasian Creed!:eek:
We is indeed.
Were you thinking of something like this, perchance? If you don’t like Pink Floyd, just turn down your sound; you won’t miss anything:
Likewise, when I was researching the names of the days of the week, I was surprised to find that their meanings are very far reaching. They even hold the same meanings in the Far East. Crazy. It amazes me something so ordinary can be so ancient and universal.
Christmas trees also freak me out like that. Every year we all stick a tree in our house and pretend like that is totally normal. We rarely even give a passing thought to the origins of this or how objectively weird it is.
Ugh, so many ideas, it’s hard to think of them all:
Regarding Lisa, the brain damaged monkey that started walking upright a few years ago…maybe we’re all just brain damaged monkeys. 
Space is impossible to visualize, and to think there’s the “Great Attractor” out there pulling us all around with it is amazing to think about. Great Attractor - Wikipedia
Just as amazing, thinking of the impossible number of particles that have come together to form me, and that they can have enough organization to move together to do things I don’t even think about…but at the same time, I can trip over my own feet for no particular reason. Boggles the mind, a clear case of omniscient humor…
What if Jesus didn’t return as quickly as promised because he realized we needed to work out or own problems? Probably doesn’t sit well with the fundamentalists, but maybe once he had his own version of “near death experience” (really near!), he realized that “saving us” was the equivalent of picking up the baby every time it cries. Alternatively, he did say that there would be people that wouldn’t die until he returned (mark 9:1). Does that validate reincarnation…or are there some really old folks wandering around among us? Obviously, I don’t ask these questions to too many folks…
Isn’t agriculture just a form of mining? Plant growth in general just “mines” nutrients from the ground. Conversely, isn’t mining just agriculture on a geologic timescale? Agro-mining?
My dog is the leader of the pack. I don’t know how it worked out that way, but we all bend to her needs. Food, play, go outside, etc. Smart animals, they’ve conned us into being their slaves. :dubious:
That days of the week thing is interesting. I never realized how far it extends around the world.
But the worse, at least, most annoying, is the Matrix Oracle example. Does something happen because it just happens, or do we play a part in making things happen the way they do? Is that why bad days seem to pile up, money lands in your lap when you already have plenty, women flirt with you more when you’re hooked up, and all the crazy inconsistent things happen the way they do? To me, thinking a bad thought is like triggering the event some days. 
We are stardust…we are stardust…
I too wonder why theres something and not nothing, cmyk
Jim Gaffigan made some similar observations.
Along these lines, I am occasionally freaked out by the realization that there’s nothing between us and the blackness of space but a bunch of air.