@mimi @mimi

I'm seeing it as a wonderful play on words.

Chet is an old-fashioned, cowboy-ish nickname for Chester or Charles. As applied to the Divine Being, it's kind of amusing.

Consulting the Urban Dictionary, I see that "Chet" is also used to describe an "alpha male", the "take-charge" kind of guy who's the top dog in the pack, someone you don't want to piss off.

Chet is also one of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, although it's pronounced differently from the man's name. In the kabbalah, it has various esoteric spiritual meanings, the main one being life. Undifferentiated, pure potential. Gateways, doorways, new beginnings, the realm of all possibilities.

So Chet has both profane (worldly) and sacred meanings.

I can't say for sure what Caitlin meant by using the name Chet for God, but I suspect she's very aware of the different meanings. Very clever, is our Caity.

Clearly not following the rules of how we roll here on C99p. Didn't God read the FAQ (that are no fuck rules, God, just to make sure you get it)?

Good morning, I am having headaches. So forgive my attitudes.

PS: I don't understand what the reference to 'Chet' means. I guess it's something funny. Let me have a laugh, thanks.

@detroitmechworks that's just further proof that god is an asshole.

Don't ask any questions, just listen to the dogma and don't question. No, science isn't a dogma, it's a fact! How can I tell, because scientists tell me to. No, I don't completely understand the math and I have only what the MSM tells me the scientists say, but I can trust them because I've always trusted them, and know they know the truth. Because proof isn't really necessary when you have faith.

Because it has always been so. It's not like it's dogma or anything.

At a certain point, every simplistic model falls apart. God in this story apparently has decided to be a dick about it. Rather than the proper response to a simplistic model's failure, which is to expand the model to encompass new material, he chooses to fall back onto "Shut up and trust me, because I'm God." An Arrogant god, for arrogant people.

Because, guess what, God. IT IS ALL ABOUT ME. I can control only one person's actions. Only one person's emotions. Only one person's mark on this world. It's all I get, and you fucking know it.

Maybe the only thing I get out of this life is a little crazy and a few great stories. I'm comfortable with that. I'll get it right next time. Or I won't. But I won't stop trying. This God seems to be happy to stick a fork in humanity. I've seen humans be better than they are. I've seen good things come from doubt, and things that every rational scientist swears is completely impossible and only the result of a deranged and addled imagination.

I've also seen far worse. Often done in the name of Gods just like this.

@Lookout Composition of sand in any area depends totally on source. I just figured as described they must be on a shore where corals. Around many temperate river mouths, a great source of the world's sands, it can be from the mountains, and like you say quartz based. Other places it is volcanic, and especially where corals, calcium carbonate based.

Now I can't speak for Australian beaches, perhaps weathered reef provides most of it's beach sand...but I doubt it. Most beach sand is carried to the shores by rivers and swept along and deposited by the longshore current.

So I had to look it up and like most things - it depends...

...in the Florida panhandle, (our closest beach), the sand is often very white because of its high quartz content over feldspar and hornblende.

Farther south around Miami, the sand also trends fairly white, but for a completely different reason: A significant amount of the sand particles there are made of calcium carbonate, or the tiny bits of fragmented shells from sea life.

Tropical regions have more of this shell-derived sand than temperate regions, where the sand is mostly silica-based in the form of quartz.

Williams pointed to some other neat examples. "Many of the beaches in Bermuda have not only white sand but have pink or reddish sand particles as well," he said. The origin of this famous coloration is the remains of tiny, single-celled creatures called Foraminifera that have pink or reddish shells.

Hawaii, meanwhile, is well-known for its black sand beaches, the result of ground-up, dark volcanic rocks. Some beaches on Hawaii's Big Island even have a greenish tint, thanks to the presence of the mineral olivine.

https://static7.businessinsider.com/where-does-beach-sand-come-from-2013-7

Not that science is relevant when a conversation with Chet is involved, but it's a pretty good idea to hold peoples feet to the sand when speaking for Chet.

Thanks for posting Caity's piece, and hope you don't mind the science 2 cents.