Re: Winds order

On Jul 16, 8:28 am, mstanw...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 15, 10:45 pm, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Hello, Michael,
I could not reply direct to your post in "Why a Sparrow", after
earlier attempts, so I now give you that first, then we can discuss
the directions tiles.

Hello Allan. Ok. But 1st, can you please quote only the **immediate
piece of text that contains the info you are replying to**?
..
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Michael

Hello, Michael, we will start all over again.

Let me restate my hypothesis on MJ (Sparrow) Directions.

The Directions in MJ play are in reversed order (i.e. ESWN
counterclockwise) because the game of MJ was created at a time when
ESWN counterclockwise was thought to be the correct order and that
would have been quite correct if it was the SUN that revolves around
the EARTH as believed in the whole world at one time.

In other words the Chinese MJ (Sparrow) game creator still believed
the earth was stationary and the sun was revolving around it
counterclockwise when he designed the game, because the anomaly of
reversed order of ESWN directions in MJ play can be simply explained
by a geocentric system. That is ESWN CCW (counterclockwise) was the
proper order if the sun was revolving around the earth and the earth
was the center of the universe as people believed prior to the
seventeenth century.

The geocentric concept lasted from about 100 BC to 1700 AD until it
was finally displaced by Copernicus and Galileo who proved to the
world that it was the sun being stationary while the earth rotates on
its own axis as well revolving around the sun.

The fact that the game creator was unaware of the revised knowledge of
astronomy is inferred to be an indication that the time of the game
creation was dated prior to 17th century when the new knowledge became
available. This is intellectual evidence.

There may be other games that used the counterclockwise rotation of
play. Those games either did not have ESWN Directions involved or they
too were created in geocentric time. Ignoring the situation is a sign
of ignorance, on the part of the game designer. Such ignorance of a
game designer may be explained if the new theory was not yet known at
the time the game was created. If that was the case, based on the
reasoning given above, I hypothesize that the MJ game is dated back
earlier than the seventeenth century at least.

If possible, we should direct a discussion to the question without
bringing on too many extraneous items. Timing is the key concern.

Cheers........AL

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