Dear Pluto
Pluto is no longer a planet. I know it is sad. You grew up learning that Pluto was a planet and now a bunch of astronomers have decided to rewrite the rules. And those poor Plutians are worse off than you! All this time they believed their planet was a good as ours, but now they don’t even have a planet and are just the inhabitants of some little rock a few miles away!
I just wanted to bring this up to point out that belief systems sometimes cause troubles. I have been reading this book Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, and the author points out that too many times belief systems are like a brick wall. You pull a brick out, and all of a sudden, the whole wall collapses (well, this doesn’t always happen with just one brick, but sometimes, and even if it doesn’t collapse, you do have a big hole.) This is clearly a problem.
Let’s step back and look what we have been sitting on. Let’s not end up like the Plutians.
August 24th, 2006 at 18:22
Per Jon Zuck:
Your blog is not letting me comment. I just wanted to say:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/08/24/plutonian-process/
August 27th, 2006 at 21:41
Let’s step back and look what we have been sitting on.
Just so you know you’re opening Pandora’s box here… but, like you said in a previous post… no going back.
Warmly,
August 29th, 2006 at 19:01
Oh, yeah, and I’m with you on the belief systems bit. A lot. You know that already!
September 5th, 2006 at 12:57
Ah, the rules are always being rewritten. The curse (and also blessing) of our postmodern age. Some astrologers are having a hard time with this, although I don’t know why. Pluto is still the same heavenly body it has always been, whether we call it a planet or a dwarf planet.