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The sun rose today is a fact only if you can prove it. I think you're crazy everyone knows the sun just appeared out of nowhere.

PS: Your aunt Sally called, she misses you.



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The sun will rise tomorrow is an opinion/speculation. The sun rose today is a fact.

The fact that the sun rose today, has no effect on whether the sun will rise tomorrow.

Just because you dont see it, doesnt mean it didnt happen. The light the sun emits will only be seen by us ~8min later, but it's still being emitted right now.

"Nobody knows what makes the sun rise."

"We have excellent records of its reliable daily rise, going back centuries."

But sunrise is caused by rotation of a spheroid planet, in no way implied by those records.


In other news the sun rose this morning. How do these stories get upvote?

Turns out the sun is out during the day.

It's in the SUN so it must be true!

lol I call sun is going to rise tomorrow. genius.

I make the sun raise every morning.

No, seriously. Every morning, I wake up and the sun has risen. Clearly I made it happen. It happens while I'm asleep so it can't have been the placebo effect.


Wasn't that Sun?

Just because the sun has risen every day of your life, that doesn't mean that you can expect it to do so tomorrow.

Do you have a proof of that?

I've been to places where the sun doesn't rise for months on end...


When you die, from your perspective, the sun doesn't rise. It doesn't have to be a cosmic anomaly. For every single human, there are more days the sun doesn't rise than does.

Exactly. The sun also rises.

It's a different sun every day, duh.

Indeed. The sun has successfully rose every morning, hundreds of billions of times straight! That's a pretty good record.

I hope you don't assume that sun rises everywhere every day.

In other news: the sky is blue, and the sun rose from the east this morning

It would be hard to argue that Sun has not disappeared.
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