How Many Angels Can Dance On the Head of a Pin?

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Did we ever get an answer to this important question?

It it important that they are dancing? Could you get more of them on there if they were just standing still?

Wouldn't it depend on what sort of dance they are doing?

I think this should be a question for the next debate.

 

[naturalmwa]

Is the head of the pin the pointy bit or the blunt end?

 

[fredjr82]

Is the head of the pin the pointy bit or the blunt end?

Aren't you the resident expert on what pointy things are called around here? Did I miss a memo?

 

[naturalmwa]

Aren't you the resident expert on what pointy things are called around here? Did I miss a memo?

That's exactly my dilemma. Based on my expertise, I would think it was the pointy bit. But linguistically I think head really refers to the base or blunt end on the pin. No wonder I'm going to hell.

 

[DanL53]

My vote is that the head of the pin is the wide part you push. Sorry but it has nothing to do with what we call the various bits of our privates.

As to the op. It is an unknowable answer. One, all of them, simple as that. Not meant to be considered. Accepting, without question, a belief. Faith.

The same thing you've been railing against for who knows how long but this really can't be good for you. Obsession never is.

 

[naturalmwa]

My vote is that the head of the pin is the wide part you push. Sorry but it has nothing to do with what we call the various bits of our privates.

As to the op. It is an unknowable answer. One, all of them, simple as that. Not meant to be considered. Accepting, without question, a belief. Faith.

The same thing you've been railing against for who knows how long but this really can't be good for you. Obsession never is.

Couldn't science answer this? We ought to be able to figure out the smallest size a thing able to dance could possibly be in nature. Then how many of those microscopic dancers could fit into an area. I bet a whole PhD thesis could be written.

 

[DanL53]

Couldn't science answer this? We ought to be able to figure out the smallest size a thing able to dance could possibly be in nature. Then how many of those microscopic dancers could fit into an area. I bet a whole PhD thesis could be written.

No, science can't answer this.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

My vote is that the head of the pin is the wide part you push. Sorry but it has nothing to do with what we call the various bits of our privates.

As to the op. It is an unknowable answer. One, all of them, simple as that. Not meant to be considered. Accepting, without question, a belief. Faith.

The same thing you've been railing against for who knows how long but this really can't be good for you. Obsession never is.

Hey, you're the one who insists on the existence of imaginary beings yet I'm the obsessive one?

I just figured HROT could probably lay this old problem to rest.

So let's try. Why would you say it's unknowable? What makes it unknowable? How could we make it knowable?

 

[DanL53]

Hey, you're the one who insists on the existence of imaginary beings yet I'm the obsessive one?

I just figured HROT could probably lay this old problem to rest.

So let's try. Why would you say it's unknowable? What makes it unknowable? How could we make it knowable?

What makes obsession? Repeatedly bringing up the same subject would be a start. And I might add, when it is a subject that one presumably has no personal stake in? That is rather concerning to me. And I mean that in a nice way, I worry for you, about you.

 

[LuteHawk]

Atheist: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"

Christian: "With God nothing is impossible."

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

What makes obsession? Repeatedly bringing up the same subject would be a start. And I might add, when it is a subject that one presumably has no personal stake in? That is rather concerning to me. And I mean that in a nice way, I worry for you, about you.

I haven't brought up dancing angels before.

You cannot go through a day in America without someone bringing up religion. On TV. In casual conversation. When someone sneezes.... But again, when an atheist takes a jab, your think it's obsession.

If you and other religious folks will stop throwing it in our faces, stop trying to make laws based on it, stop rewriting science and history to fit it, stop diverting public resources to support it, and stop using it as an excuse to discriminate, then I'll stop taking jabs. Deal?

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

In the meanwhile, Dan, why is it unknowable?

 

[DanL53]

I haven't brought up dancing angels before.

You cannot go through a day in America without someone bringing up religion. On TV. In casual conversation. When someone sneezes.... But again, when an atheist takes a jab, your think it's obsession.

If you and other religious folks will stop throwing it in our faces, stop trying to make laws based on it, stop rewriting science and history to fit it, stop diverting public resources to support it, and stop using it as an excuse to discriminate, then I'll stop taking jabs. Deal?

What I would suggest. Buy a cheap notebook and each time you are "confronted", write the incident down. Otherwise, take a break from worrying about it entirely. Open the book up after a week and look at the entries and ask yourself how many really screwed up your life? I think you'll be surprised just how much power you have over these intrusions.

Then once you have shook off the monkey, you can use that powerful intelligence of yours (and I know you have it) to think about important stuff.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

What I would suggest. Buy a cheap notebook and each time you are "confronted", write the incident down. Otherwise, take a break from worrying about it entirely. Open the book up after a week and look at the entries and ask yourself how many really screwed up your life? I think you'll be surprised just how much power you have over these intrusions.

Then once you have shook off the monkey, you can use that powerful intelligence of yours (and I know you have it) to think about important stuff.

So your cure for this alleged obsession is to become much more obsessed about it for a week?

 

[TJ8869]

Pic of dancing angels?

 

[HawkPT]

I haven't brought up dancing angels before.

You cannot go through a day in America without someone bringing up religion. On TV. In casual conversation. When someone sneezes.... But again, when an atheist takes a jab, your think it's obsession.

If you and other religious folks will stop throwing it in our faces, stop trying to make laws based on it, stop rewriting science and history to fit it, stop diverting public resources to support it, and stop using it as an excuse to discriminate, then I'll stop taking jabs. Deal?

Actually, you just did in the the of this thread that you started.

 

[DanL53]

So your cure for this alleged obsession is to become much more obsessed about it for a week?

I'm betting you discover that the person interrupting your happy life with all this Religion "nonsense" turns out to be you. Or hadn't you noticed that between your moniker and many, many of the posts you start, you are the one keeping this subject alive in your head.

 

[TexMichFan]

How big is the pin and what kind of pin is it?

Does it take a certain number before you affirm your belief?

These are the really important questions.

 

[DanL53]

How big is the pin and what kind of pin is it?

Does it take a certain number before you affirm your belief?

These are the really important questions.

How big was the nothing before the Big Bang?

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I'm betting you discover that the person interrupting your happy life with all this Religion "nonsense" turns out to be you. Or hadn't you noticed that between your moniker and many, many of the posts you start, you are the one keeping this subject alive in your head.

That's because it's fun to talk about.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Pic of dancing angels?

Here's on eof them

 

[TexMichFan]

Here's on eof them

While I appreciate the effort it does not count since she is not dancing on a pin head.

 

[mstp1992]

While I appreciate the effort it does not count since she is not dancing on a pin head.

 

[TexMichFan]

Much better but I am not sure these are the angels WWJD is referring to.

 

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[thewop]

What I would suggest. Buy a cheap notebook and each time you are "confronted", write the incident down. Otherwise, take a break from worrying about it entirely. Open the book up after a week and look at the entries and ask yourself how many really screwed up your life? I think you'll be surprised just how much power you have over these intrusions.

Then once you have shook off the monkey, you can use that powerful intelligence of yours (and I know you have it) to think about important stuff.

This, is brilliant.

 

[DanL53]

This, is brilliant.

You'll never know how much a nice comment like that lifted my spirits up this morning. I need to be brilliant today....and if I captured it once, there is always a slight chance I might capture again today when I need it.

Thank you!

 

[ottumwan in tx]

I dunno but that was single handedly the best possible way for the patriot crowd to fight the gun grabbers, that was the best moment on tv ever, it was awesome

 

[ottumwan in tx]

 

[CeMar_Clone]

I haven't brought up dancing angels before.

You cannot go through a day in America without someone bringing up religion. On TV. In casual conversation. When someone sneezes.... But again, when an atheist takes a jab, your think it's obsession.

If you and other religious folks will stop throwing it in our faces, stop trying to make laws based on it, stop rewriting science and history to fit it, stop diverting public resources to support it, and stop using it as an excuse to discriminate, then I'll stop taking jabs. Deal?

Actually , I believe you have the roles reversed here.

 

[mstp1992]

Actually , I believe you have the roles reversed here.

Explain.

 

[naturalmwa]

Explain.

CeMar is back!!!!! He's not likely to ever explain anything. He probably won't even read your question or open this thread again. The ultimate drive-by sharpshooter makes his return.

 

[TexMichFan]

CeMar is back!!!!! He's not likely to ever explain anything. He probably won't even read your question or open this thread again. The ultimate drive-by sharpshooter makes his return.

That would explain his 2 likes after 10,218 click-by posts.

 

[Lone Clone]

I can't help the OP with his obsession, but I can provide an answer to the question, from a fundamentalist Christian point of view.

None.

God doesn't approve of dancing.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Atheist: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"

Christian: "With God nothing is impossible."

Hey, hey, hey Father! Hey, uh, if God is all-powerful, can he make a rock so big that he himself can't lift it?

 

[tarheelbybirth]

How big was the nothing before the Big Bang?

Before the BB, there were more dimensions..."size" in that context is beyond our ability to comprehend. Or maybe there weren't.

 

[Noble Hawk]

In all seriousness.........

Yawn.