# Sun Myung Moon has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499 "2012-09-03T00:39:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/1 "2012-09-03T00:39:02Z")
[Story.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/world/asia/rev-sun-myung-moon-founder-of-unification-church-dies-at-92.html?hp) ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/2 "2012-09-03T01:00:51Z")
Nearly croaked on a Blue Moon. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/3 "2012-09-03T01:05:56Z")
Damn, this is weird. Out of the clear blue yesterday, I wondered whatever became of this guy. I looked him up on Wikipedia, and was a little surprised that he was still alive. This same thing happened when I once reflected that all the members of the Monkees were still alive. The next day, Davy Jones died. Am I the mortality omnibeing? Does my thinking bring death? Oh, wait, the story says Moon died on Monday. (Oooooh, the day of the _moon!_) So my thinking about him yesterday couldn’t have killed him. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/4 "2012-09-03T01:09:23Z")
Good riddance. Moving on… ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/5 "2012-09-03T01:20:55Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Oh, wait, the story says Moon died on Monday. (Oooooh, the day of the _moon!_) So my thinking about him yesterday couldn’t have killed him. But according to the [Theory of Simultaneity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity), in your frame of reference, he was still alive. BTW, if you’re up for a little science experiment, drop me a line…I’ve got a whole list of people for you to think about. 🆒 ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/6 "2012-09-03T01:29:13Z")
:: **Sunspace** carefully avoids posting to the thread, so that OP won’t think about him :: Oh, damn. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/7 "2012-09-03T02:42:28Z")
I was at the mass wedding at MSG in 1982; this was back when I was a grad student in sociology of religion. Guy I went to grad school with was the president of the church in the U.S. for a while in the '90s, till he started thinking he actually ran things and butted heads with the Koreans once too often. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/8 "2012-09-03T03:07:07Z")
Well, let’s see what happens in three days… ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/9 "2012-09-03T03:25:24Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Good riddance. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/10 "2012-09-03T06:41:15Z")
_Mad_ Magazine called him Sun Set Looney…he had the same date of birth as Early Wynn. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/11 "2012-09-04T02:05:17Z")
His face looked like a biiiiig apple pie. I always thought it would have been more appropriate if Frank Costanza said it looked like a big moon. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/12 "2012-09-04T02:09:31Z")
So he wasn’t immortal after all? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/13 "2012-09-04T05:58:05Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > So he wasn’t immortal after all? If he was, why didn’t he try walking on water? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/14 "2012-09-05T00:38:32Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Agreed. why do you say that? Compared to say, the pope, his religion was/is pretty benign as far as I can see. Apparently moonie marriages are far more succesful than normal ones ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/15 "2012-09-05T01:38:04Z")
I know a family who got a free subscription to the Washington Times. They used it as tinder in their wood-burning stove to heat their house. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/16 "2012-09-05T06:04:55Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I know a family who got a free subscription to the Washington Times. They used it as tinder in their wood-burning stove to heat their house. That makes me wonder what will happen to That Old Devil Moon himself now. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sun-myung-moon-has-died/633499/17 "2012-09-05T22:26:19Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Well, let’s see what happens in three days… Well…Blue Moon on Monday and dead 3 days (now its night)…