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  • No. Started in a Baptist family, but Mom died while I was young and Dad was less interested in the church, so I spent most of my adolescence not even acknowledging the hard questions of life. When those hard questions did arise, and answers aplenty showed their face, I was able to pick apart things in each religion that didn’t make sense in order to keep myself from falling into the easy answers offered by others. Eventually, watching my grandma suffer from Alzheimer’s gave me everything I needed to know about the soul and what makes each person themselves, so I found myself wholly stuck in an atheistic and scientific worldview.

    Could there be something more? Maybe, but I can’t see any of the existing religions fitting neatly into our cosmos.











  • It’s because the center of mass between the earth and moon is off center, nearly 3k miles from the core, and constantly moving as the moon orbits.

    So it’s not due to a direct pull upwards alone, and the earth’s orbit around the sun technically has a slight wobble due to it.

    Edit: For more info, look up info on the barycenter of the earth and moon.