I happened to be listening to the radio in my car a few hours ago, and I heard an ad promoting the purchase of silver as protection against a financial crash. While I offer no opinion on the subject, I must comment on the promotional item that was being offered on the ad. The company was offering a "free one gram silver bar" to anyone who purchased metal from them. They repeated the offer four times during the one minute ad.
It is worth noting that silver presently sells for twenty dollar per ounce. That makes a one gram silver bar worth roughly seventy cents. That's right, the free promotion was a seventy cent bar of silver. In other words, it was such a small amount of silver that no one who got the free bar could ever expects to sell it.
This is just one of the many bits of nonsense that are making the rounds these days. Another is the ongoing story about the "blood moon". There are going to be four consecutive lunar eclipses during which the full moon will turn reddish in color. That is interesting. The problem, however, is that some folks then take the event further. Each of the four eclipses will happen on a major Jewish holiday and each will involve a full moon only. That sounds important, until someone tells you that there can only be an eclipse of the full moon. Such an event is not possible with the moon in any other position. Further, because the Jewish calendar is based upon the moon, the two holidays in question only occur when there is a full moon. In other words, there is no significance to the fact that the eclipses will happen during these holidays or during a full moon.
It is worth noting that silver presently sells for twenty dollar per ounce. That makes a one gram silver bar worth roughly seventy cents. That's right, the free promotion was a seventy cent bar of silver. In other words, it was such a small amount of silver that no one who got the free bar could ever expects to sell it.
This is just one of the many bits of nonsense that are making the rounds these days. Another is the ongoing story about the "blood moon". There are going to be four consecutive lunar eclipses during which the full moon will turn reddish in color. That is interesting. The problem, however, is that some folks then take the event further. Each of the four eclipses will happen on a major Jewish holiday and each will involve a full moon only. That sounds important, until someone tells you that there can only be an eclipse of the full moon. Such an event is not possible with the moon in any other position. Further, because the Jewish calendar is based upon the moon, the two holidays in question only occur when there is a full moon. In other words, there is no significance to the fact that the eclipses will happen during these holidays or during a full moon.
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