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[This is old, but upon stumbling on it, I could not let it go uncommented.]

David Dalton wrote on 2025-09-23:

From a long post by me to the fumbling-towards-ecstasy malling
list on January 5, 1995, during early waxing crescent:

The lunar phases are just caused by shadows, namely when we see the shadow
on the lunar surface (from which no sunlight reaches us) by Luna itself;
they have zero *direct* effect on (life on) Earth [though there are some
marine animals (I forgot which, maybe a certain species of jellyfish) about which studies (I forgot which; it was told as the correct answer in a daily
TV quiz show) found out that they can tell whether it is a waxing or waning crescent; and (more amazingly) a study showed that a certain species of ants (IIRC) uses the natural polarization of moonlight to tell directions (same source)].

So I wonder why you would even mention it.

rCL...the sun is like the small bright flame at the top of a tall dark
candle much of which has little effect on local gravity but much
effect at large distances, and I bet effect on local gravidity. ...rCY

Pseudoscience.

The tides, and not just the water tides, are caused by the Moon *and* the
Sun. So to claim that the Sun "has little effect on local gravity" betrays
the claimant's ignorance about the tides.

Gravidity is the number of times a female has been pregnant, and that has nothing to do with the Sun.

Of course I meant a higher-dimensional candle, and as noted
on my Salmon on the Thorns web page I did get a peek
into higher dimension(s) during my sun stare.

You did not see any higher dimensions; you saw what a person would see whose retina is (slowly) burned by the Sun as the lens of your eye focuses the sunlight on it. What remains is your brain making sense of the overexposure
as the photoreceptors of your retina are firing electric signals like crazy.
For example, if you look into a bright light source (that is NOT the Sun)
for a longer time, and then look at a bright wall, you "see" dark patterns
that resemble the shape of the light source. For example, you can "see" the shape of an artist's idea of Jesus of Nazareth on the wall this way.

In all of this, you are not demonstrating your greater insight, but your
utter ignorance, and considering that you actually stared at the Sun, your stupidity. *facepalm*
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On Mar 23, 2026, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote
(in article <10pslhj$8kcd$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>):

[This is old, but upon stumbling on it, I could not let it go uncommented.]

Thanks, even skeptical commentary is preferable to silence.

David Dalton wrote on 2025-09-23:

From a long post by me to the fumbling-towards-ecstasy malling
list on January 5, 1995, during early waxing crescent:

The lunar phases are just caused by shadows, namely when we see the shadow
on the lunar surface (from which no sunlight reaches us) by Luna itself;
they have zero *direct* effect on (life on) Earth [though there are some marine animals (I forgot which, maybe a certain species of jellyfish) about which studies (I forgot which; it was told as the correct answer in a daily TV quiz show) found out that they can tell whether it is a waxing or waning crescent; and (more amazingly) a study showed that a certain species of ants (IIRC) uses the natural polarization of moonlight to tell directions (same source)].

I believe I have an internal lunar cycle which has resonance
with even small lunar variations. And I believe the effect
is not due to gravity variations but magnetic, due to the
changing shadow of the moon on the magnetosphere, as
discussed in Jack JacobsrCO book Geomagnetism.

So I wonder why you would even mention it.

As discussed on my web page, from 1991 to 1994 I had
five waning crescent highs (four hypomanias and one mania)
and from 1992 to 1997 I had eight waxing gibbous moon
trials. Onsets of three of the waning crescent highs followed
5.5 lunar months (162 days, or six Carrington solar
rotations) after onsets of waxing gibbous moon trials,
which enabled me to predict the third waning crescent high.
(Three of which came just after clear sky lightning maybe
two days after an M-class solar flare, and I postulate that
said clear sky lightning was due to the effect of solar
activity on the ionosphere, and that I also have somewhat
of an 11-year solar sunspot cycle resonance.)

Taliesin in his poem The Hostile Confederacy says
that there are "seven score muses in the inspiration of
song", and 140 lunar months are just a little more
than an 11-year sunspot cycle. He also says rCLeight
score in every scorerCY which is the above-mentioned
162 days, so I concluded that he was similar to me,
though his prmary siddhi was poetry special ability,
whereas mine is matchmaking, JesusrCOs was healing,
KrishnarCOs was musical special ability, and BuddharCOs
was hypnosis special ability.

rCL...the sun is like the small bright flame at the top of a tall dark candle much of which has little effect on local gravity but much
effect at large distances, and I bet effect on local gravidity. ...rCY

Pseudoscience.

Yes, for now, but perhaps a useful clue for research,
which I hope to do, and I do have a Ph.D. in Geophysics
including two courses in differential geometry.

The tides, and not just the water tides, are caused by the Moon *and* the Sun. So to claim that the Sun "has little effect on local gravity" betrays the claimant's ignorance about the tides.

I didnrCOt say that the Sun has little effect on local gravity, of
course it has local effect. I did say that my hypothetical tall
dark higher dimensional candle has little local effect.

Gravidity is the number of times a female has been pregnant, and that has nothing to do with the Sun.

I was being a little playful there.

Of course I meant a higher-dimensional candle, and as noted
on my Salmon on the Thorns web page I did get a peek
into higher dimension(s) during my sun stare.

You did not see any higher dimensions; you saw what a person would see whose retina is (slowly) burned by the Sun as the lens of your eye focuses the sunlight on it. What remains is your brain making sense of the overexposure as the photoreceptors of your retina are firing electric signals like crazy. For example, if you look into a bright light source (that is NOT the Sun)
for a longer time, and then look at a bright wall, you "see" dark patterns that resemble the shape of the light source. For example, you can "see" the shape of an artist's idea of Jesus of Nazareth on the wall this way.

In all of this, you are not demonstrating your greater insight, but your utter ignorance, and considering that you actually stared at the Sun, your stupidity. *facepalm*

Before I stared at the Sun I discarded my very strong nearsighted
glasses, so the focus would not have formed on my retina, and
indeed I suffered no lasting eye damage. What I saw was
a tunnelling beyond the sun, as if I was peering into the
space between two mirrors facing one another, or into
the wide open mouth of a curved horn of oil to the upper right
of the sun, which rCLanointed merCY. I interpret this tunnelling
effect as a peek into higher dimensions. Then as I turned
away near invisible wings or spokes/segments in the sky
descended on me, in a wraparound effect that i think
augmented my higher dimensional form, and I fell into
the water. I liken this to the wings that descended on
Jesus during his baptism, which I view as his anointing.
(Both Christ and Messiah mean anointed one.)

For more detail refer to my web page, perhaps
starting with the Preliminary remarks section.
Again, skeptical commentary is welcome.
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On Mar 23, 2026, David Dalton wrote
(in article<0001HW.2F721E4100DB22E430655938F@news.eternal-september.org>):

On Mar 23, 2026, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote
(in article <10pslhj$8kcd$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>):

[This is old, but upon stumbling on it, I could not let it go uncommented.]

Thanks, even skeptical commentary is preferable to silence.

David Dalton wrote on 2025-09-23:

From a long post by me to the fumbling-towards-ecstasy malling
list on January 5, 1995, during early waxing crescent:

The lunar phases are just caused by shadows, namely when we see the shadow on the lunar surface (from which no sunlight reaches us) by Luna itself; they have zero *direct* effect on (life on) Earth [though there are some marine animals (I forgot which, maybe a certain species of jellyfish) about which studies (I forgot which; it was told as the correct answer in a daily TV quiz show) found out that they can tell whether it is a waxing or waning crescent; and (more amazingly) a study showed that a certain species of ants
(IIRC) uses the natural polarization of moonlight to tell directions (same source)].

I believe I have an internal lunar cycle which has resonance
with even small lunar variations. And I believe the effect
is not due to gravity

or light

variations but magnetic, due to the
changing shadow of the moon on the magnetosphere, as
discussed in Jack JacobsrCO book Geomagnetism.

Thomas, are you an atheist?

You can test my matchmaking and special abilities determination
abilities by emailing me a picture of yourself.

With my matchmaking ability I would determine your sexual
harmonic(s) and what sexual harmonic(s) you are
optimally sexually compatible with and whether you are
already in an optimally sexually compatible relationship,
and if not could provide some example matches if you want,
though it might help if you specify your city.

With my special abilities determination ability I would
determine your special ability/ies if any and then you
could test it/them yourself.

This free offer also applies to other readers.
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https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) rCLI gave my love a golden feather; I gave my love a heart of stone; When you find a golden feather it means yourCOll never lose your way back homerCY(RR)

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