Will you please ask everyone to stop if you see them doing it? It really bugs me. This is clearly bollocks.īut I keep seeing it.

If 12 noon was pm then 12:01 would be 12ppm, and 24 hours later it would be 12pppm. There can be no such thing as 12pm - noon after noon. or p.m.! How can noon be before noon? How can noon be after noon? Noon is the standard by which time is measured, everything else is before or after noon. 21:14-15 Ezekiel was to clap his hands together as he continued to. So this has been a public service announcement, so far. The hand of the LORD came upon me reflects Gods control of His prophet as does. I learned all this when I was about seven or eight years old and am frequently amazed by the number of people who don’t know it. For convenience we use abbreviations of those labels, and traditionally we use abbreviations of the latin phrases with the same meanings: In order to know whether someone is referring to 10 before noon, or 10 after we need to label our time with ‘before noon’, or ‘after noon’. And that creates a problem for pedants like me. I guess it would make more sense to start counting at lunch time and keep going for 24 hours, but we don’t. One of the more well-known koans is what is the sound of one hand clapping Whereas the KOAN is the not so ancient, but repetetive practice of sandwiching. You may have noticed that before the meridian we can be happily counting up to 12, and after the meridian we start again. It’s so important it even has its own name. The apparent elevation of the sun will vary, but the time that it happens is constant.

The only event that happens at exactly the same time of the day, every day, whatever the latitude, is high noon - the time at which the sun is at its highest point in the sky.

The sun rises a little earlier or later every day depending on the time of year and how far from the equator you are. I believe (not 100% sure) that the day was divided into 24 hours by the Babylonians, who naturally faced the simple problem of deciding when to start counting. Whether this koan really originated with him or not, we can perhaps not ever be totally sure. Hakuin Ekaku was a famous Japanese Zen master, who lived within the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I’m sure someone will want to tell me that I’m wrong, but I’m feeling argumentative… Australia Aug7:47pm CST The koan of the paradoxical idea of one hand being able to clap, has been attributed to the Zen master Hakuin.

One hand clapping zoan