Holy units of measurement

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  • Do you think though that the Holy Spirit works in Dynes (or, probably, Gigadynes, if such exist)? I would have thought it more likely than Newtons, but who knows?
  • One might expect a Methodist to use CGS Dynes - but this is a unit of Force, and doesn't fit our 1960s vibe at all. Would John Bell write a hymn with Force in it? I think he, and we, are into Spirit as still, small voice; graciously awaiting invitation; never imposing against the will. With this in mind, I increasingly think the Spirit should be associated with the rather neglected concept of Admittance (or 1/oms). This is measured in Siemens; there's a great nativity joke right there, but I'm pious enough to leave it :wink:
  • Wrong time of year, anyway.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Martha wrote: »
    I like the idea of a Standard Vampire. Surely we need a Standard Saint as well (someone who possesses 1.0000 HMs of holiness).

    I first read that as Standard Vanguard, a car which was hellish.
  • I wonder why it is 'metric' and 'imperial' rather than the more consistent 'metrical'? We could then devise a scientific way to classify the Psalms.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    Gee D wrote: »
    Martha wrote: »
    I like the idea of a Standard Vampire. Surely we need a Standard Saint as well (someone who possesses 1.0000 HMs of holiness).

    I first read that as Standard Vanguard, a car which was hellish.
    Oi! That was the car of my early childhood!

  • I wonder why it is 'metric' and 'imperial' rather than the more consistent 'metrical'? We could then devise a scientific way to classify the Psalms.

    And demonstrate a clear link between metrication and grammatical convolution?
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Eutychus wrote: »
    Gee D wrote: »
    Martha wrote: »
    I like the idea of a Standard Vampire. Surely we need a Standard Saint as well (someone who possesses 1.0000 HMs of holiness).

    I first read that as Standard Vanguard, a car which was hellish.
    Oi! That was the car of my early childhood!

    I don't think it was as bad as a Rover SD1, but that's not much to say in favour of any car. My mother bought a Rover after my happy experience with a P6 3500; her car started to fall to pieces as she drove home from the dealer.
  • It surprises me that amazingly reliable vehicles can be made in the UK, so long as management is Japanese. Hello, Honda Swindon. Or rather, goodbye.
  • EirenistEirenist Shipmate
    Would the Anglican unit of measurement be a Cantuar? How many Ebors to a Cantuar?
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Ebors and Cantuars derive from two different measurement systems. Cantuars are vigesimal and Ebors duodecimal so the relationship is not straightforward. Also, to further complicate matters, a Cantuar rated very slightly higher than an Ebor. Technically nether unit is divisible, but roughly speaking an Ebor is equivalent to 5/6 Cantuars.
  • True, but doesn't the relative value of the Ebor rise north of the River Trent, possibly due to the decline in temperatures; at least until one reaches Sturgeonland at which placed Knoxes reign supreme (trust the Scots to be different). This of course only applies in the Northern Hemisphere, I expect things would be different in the Antipodes).(
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    It’s not so much a change in the value of the Ebor as its relative acceptance as currency. (The use of Scottish bank notes in England is analogous there - though of course the vale of a Scottish bank note is the same as an English one.)
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    If you're going to Italy, presumably you'll need Papi, and if to Russia патриархи. And what's the exchange rate?
  • Pendragon wrote: »
    Now we're getting into Centigrade/Celsius territory!

    Does the Calvin measure the level of divinity relative to absolute depravity?

    Only in Geneva. For Scotland, please refer to the Knox, above.

    When we visited John Knox's house a few years back, the shop stuff were discussing a Reiki event happening there later that week. I couldn't think of someone less likely to approve of such a thing.
  • BroJames wrote: »
    Ebors and Cantuars derive from two different measurement systems. Cantuars are vigesimal and Ebors duodecimal so the relationship is not straightforward. Also, to further complicate matters, a Cantuar rated very slightly higher than an Ebor. Technically nether unit is divisible, but roughly speaking an Ebor is equivalent to 5/6 Cantuars.

    Since 1920, Wales moved to use the Camb in place of the Cantuar, the Ebor never having been accepted west of Offa's Dyke. Rarely tested for equivalence, an experiment in 2003 proved however that the Camb and the Cantuar can be interchanged. There is a Primatial scale of comparability but it is interpreted differently in different Provinces...
  • ZappaZappa Ecclesiantics Host
    Is the Ichabod* perhaps a universally acceptable measure of deduction of divinity?

    *Spell checker, incidentally, offers "Diabolical"
  • Presumably Ichabods only exist on the left (negative) side of the vertical (zero) axis, their equivalent on the other side being Shekinahs?
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    ‘Shekinah’ is the popular name. The IS unit is actually the Chabod.
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    The ichabod would be the imaginary part, the root of the negative chabod.
  • Of course, how silly of me. Does it have a square root though?
  • Of course, how silly of me. Does it have a square root though?

    If I'm following this right the square root of ichabod would be sqrt(2)/2 (chabod + ichabod)
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Powers (inc. roots) and certain other kinds of measurement don’t signify in holiness measurement. (cf Romans 8.38b-39a)
  • BroJames wrote: »
    Powers (inc. roots) and certain other kinds of measurement don’t signify in holiness measurement. (cf Romans 8.38b-39a)

    :smiley-clapping-hands:
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