the rule of threes

There's more to a calendar than the year it begins there is how you divide the days up.  The year makes perfectly good sense because of the sun, and months make perfectly good sense because of  the moon, but come to think of it how important is the moon?  Oh I guess it meant some nights our forebears could hunt and gather by moonlight, and I reckon the tides come in there somewhere, but really how big a deal are these?  And hardly a big deal to us modern people with our electric lights, and streak of lightning cars, and fancy clothes.  The latter two have nothing to do with the moon, but I am a fan of the man in black.

And weeks, oh right the bible.  Did I speculate on why the bible has seven days?  Did they just go, lessee, light and dark, seas and earth, animals and fishes, the rib thing that women have never forgiven us for, When I first heard of that I started wondering does that mean women have one more rib than we do, but before I could bring up the point the kid nest to me, perhaps Beagles, had brought up the subject of what is a adultery and the Sunday School teacher was stammering.

Anyway this and that and by the time they were done they had six days, and if our biblical scholar has his ducks in a row that was bad Babylonian boogie joogie, so somebody must have chimed in, wouldn't all that work make Him tired, though I think Medieval scholars would decide He could never be tired, but this was early on and seven is the fourth prime, and if you subtract four from seven you get three and three is the trinity which meant nothing to the Jews of the time but, I suspect the Son was even then bristling, as younguns are apt to do, can't I get involved in this whole human thing, and the Father was oh, We'll see, and the Holy Ghost was playing video games or something because He could go back and forth in time and all.

I suppose those ancient astronomers were something alright considering the crude tools they had and that stuff was moving all the while they were measuring it. But then it all got dumped in the laps of philosophers who are pretty good at knotty logical problems and can lay on the pleasing platitudes pretty deep when it pleases them or their followers, but when interpreting scientific stuff they come up with crystal spheres withing crystal spheres and all kinds of fantastic crapola..

I like the rule of threes.  Whenever I list things I list them in threes.  One is not a list, two leaves you wanting one more and four is one too many.  Like the three bears something is either too hot or two cold or just right, the only real possibilities.  I was interested in hearing more about Old Dog's negative, zero, and positive, but he hasn't revisited the subject.  I will take the biblical scholar's word for it that it's common knowledge that Jesus rose after three days, I was probably napping that slow morning in Sunday School.  Has it ever been cleared up Who rolled that stone away?  I reckon the Son with His fantastic abs, or maybe the Father reached down a divine digit and gave it a flip, or maybe the Holy Ghost sent out some kind of zap ray because that is the sort of thing that He is apt to do.

I think that six trumps three in the beer packaging sciences, because there are no three packs of beer, nor niners, nor thirty-three (the rule of threes) packs. Since Beagles is an aficionado of yellow beer he is probably not aware of the recent trend of four packs in craft beers, but I, of course, find it disturbing, especially since the price (usually around ten bucks for tall boys) is not much less than you would pay for a sic pack.  You pull out what you think is a six pack of some tasty rye IPA and the last two cans are gone,  Talk about the mark of the beast???