Yes...I'm a looney, Sonny!

as i understand it:

lunatic

Noun:
S: (n) lunatic, madman, maniac (an insane person) 
S: (n) daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum (a reckless impetuous irresponsible person) 

Adjective:
S: (adj) lunatic, moonstruck (insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon) 





if it's a sunny day look up [er...not directly] 
to that big orange hot thing
that supplies the entire planet 
with biosustainability, 
warmth, energy...light...

are these things not evidence that the sun might
just have an affect on us?

Now, if it's a clear night, take a look up
at the moon...[trying not to bark]
and see it's beautiful light rain down

but this light is not light emanating from the 
lunar surface because of any fusion type energy displacement.
It is glowing as it reflects the sun down onto the earth

So, as we bask in the light of the moon, 
We are still getting a fraction of the suns energy...
Sunbathing by proxy, if you will.

What of the effect of the moons mass on the tides?
Considering we consist of mostly water ourselves

what effect do other super massive objects in the universe have?

So... am I affected by the moon, yes

especially when i wish to get to Lindisfarne Island 
and the tide is up, and have to wait! Or when that ferry cannot
sail because the sea is too rough...

actually the sea is rough because of air molecules being hoovered 
about by atmospheric pressure [the wind] 
or caused by seismic activity from geo-thermal heating causing tectonic 
plates to wobble about, fold or split under the ocean. which in turn is all caused 
by the transfer of energy through the biosphere we live on, from the sun as it 
Radiates Electromagnetic Energy Frequencies on the solar wind.

but I digress!

The next time someone calls you a looney...
there's no real need to feel quite so bad about it....
after all...these name-callers are actually admitting to the quite 
alarming proposition that they think themselves not
affected by the moon, and therefore not affected by
that rather obvious, huge source of energy and all life
on this planet, at the center of this solar system known 
to you & I only as the SUN...

They must be mad, off their chumps...
out of their tiny little minds, no?

You are now 'Galileo'
and your accusers are the apparently 'infallible' heirarchy of dogma.