# Two lights **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 15, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572 "2015-12-15T22:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Teachtru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Teachtru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teachtru)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/1 "2015-12-15T22:40:40Z")
Is anyone here aware of the two lights that God has presented to mankind? ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/2 "2015-12-15T22:46:17Z")
Green means “GO” and red means “STOP”? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/3 "2015-12-15T23:00:30Z")
Which one is the light that never goes out? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/4 "2015-12-15T23:02:34Z")
Are you talking about the sun and moon? Yeah, I’ve heard of them. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/5 "2015-12-15T23:05:09Z")
“There are **four** lights.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/6 "2015-12-15T23:11:27Z")
Yeah, biblically it’s the Sun and Moon, the greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night. Not sure why anyone should care, though. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/7 "2015-12-15T23:12:26Z")
I think those are the headlights of the car that’s about to whack you. That’s why your mother told you not to play in the road. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/8 "2015-12-15T23:15:42Z")
I got the lights, but they clashed with the drapes, so I donated them to Goodwill. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/9 "2015-12-15T23:20:43Z")
Lights is damned talented, but I didn’t realize there were two of her. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/10 "2015-12-15T23:23:18Z")
Also, I suppose I’ve had more than two lights in haggis. A plucky little dish. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/11 "2015-12-15T23:26:25Z")
Marlboro lights and a lighter? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/12 "2015-12-15T23:27:22Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Are you talking about the sun and moon? Yeah, I’ve heard of them. I presume the O.P. has something more esoteric in mind, but it’s going to be pretty hilarious if this person ever comes back and is in fact just talking about the Sun and the Moon. I mean, I always find those evangelistic tracts where some monumentally clueless inhabitant of a 21st Century industrialized democracy winds up slapping himself on the forehead and saying “Wait–you mean _Jesus died for my sins?!?_ Why was I not told of this before now!!!” to be quite ridiculous, but this would be a new low. “Wait–there is both a _Sun_ **and** a _Moon_?!? Truly, this is irrefutable evidence of a Benevolent Creator!” This could be the start of a whole new product line for the Chick people: Very Special Chick Tracts. “Wait–God made them _male_ **and** _female_?!? You–you’re saying Susie is shaped differently…_Down There_?!? Is that why looking at Susie always makes _me_ feel funny…_Down There?_” > [@Chronos](#): > > Yeah, biblically it’s the Sun and Moon, the greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night. Not sure why anyone should care, though. Well, without the Sun, we’d all die! And the Moon is very pretty, and there’s tides, and it [gives us a place to go](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=778164). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/13 "2015-12-15T23:33:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Yeah, biblically it’s the Sun and Moon, the greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night. And one light to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them! ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/14 "2015-12-15T23:52:41Z")
Yeah, I’ve got a bunch around the house. I think you can get a 40-pack at Pier 1 for pretty cheap, but the problem is they don’t last very long and blow out pretty quickly. …Oh wait…those are\*\* tea \*\*lights…nevermind! ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/15 "2015-12-16T00:01:06Z")
Bud and Miller? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/16 "2015-12-16T00:03:23Z")
> [@Teachtru](#): > > Is anyone here aware of the two lights that God has presented to mankind? Well, to paraphrase the Ghostbusters Dr Ray Stantz, ‘I recall a Genesis 1:16, And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (King James Bible) Every ancient religion has it’s own myths about the beginning of the world.’ Winston Zeddemore, ‘Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we’ve get blinded when we look up in the sky during the day is because of that sun thingy up there?? And that those tide things that you love to surf on may just be related to that moon thing going around the freaking planet???’ Are you wanting to debate what the two lights were (seems obvious with the stars reference, as others have mentioned, that they are talking about the sun and the moon)? Or did you have something else you wanted to talk about on this subject? Or are you just witnessing and want to bring us all the happy news? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/17 "2015-12-16T00:04:19Z")
I know there’s a light over at the Frankenstein place, and there’s a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight burning in the fireplace. Are these the ones you’re talking about? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/18 "2015-12-16T00:09:34Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I know there’s a light over at the Frankenstein place, and there’s a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight burning in the fireplace. Are these the ones you’re talking about? No, we are talking about the lightsssesss which hurtsessss our eyesesssss, precioussssssss. The yellow face and the white face, oh yes, precioussssss…we wants it, yessssss we wants it! Er, no, we wantsssss to hide from it, preciousssss, yesssss, hide… Or something. I’m not sure, I got distracted there, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/19 "2015-12-16T00:14:28Z")
Yeah, I got a light. Your butt and my face! No, wait, I meant match. And it’s _my_ butt, and your… You know what? Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572/20 "2015-12-16T00:26:56Z")
> [@Teachtru](#): > > Is anyone here aware of the two lights that God has presented to mankind? Nope. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-lights/740572.md?page=2)