Eh Chad, you should know why people thought Newton's view of gravity was occultish. It was because Newton sort of broke the norm of explaining how something acted a certain way, and moved on to merely using the fact that it did behave a certain way to generalize about it. Rather than ponder how gravity worked, Newton took the more pragmatic route.
"The reason things will never get better is because people keep electing these rich cocksuckers who don't give a shit about you."
-George Carlin
-George Carlin
