OldLady
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Noticing your lack of a sense of humor is "stabbing," and disagreeing on naming the earth after a nekkid religious diety of yore is attempting to engage in a conversation in which you would rename the earth in the name of female amazonian power rather than the model of modesty and compliance expected of our nation's mothers is somehow unworthy to be heard? You go, girl!I'm not at all sure where you're coming from, B. I'm sure you'll find some way to criticize an attempt to have a conversation without stabbing anyone.That's religious poop.The other planets in our solar system are named for the classical gods of ancient Rome or Greece. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus, their ancestors, and then Pluto.
So how did we get stuck with EARTH?
Sounds so common. Does anyone know? What should we be called if we could choose an ancient name?
I'd go with Gaia.
The reason the scientists of the ancient world called us earth is because when they went travelling afar, ships were the travel system of choice, and when they got where they were going again, they had to change from sea legs to walking on dirt, that earthy substance.
Surely, the scientists who named earth Earth had a sense of humor. You should, too.