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In the bible/Hebrew, days of the week are simply numbered. Sunday is "First Day" etc. Anyway I'm starting a new fitness regime and want to work out every other day and
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Barrel Cactaur posted:Re: daysoftheweek Sorry, but the Bible is very clear on this: Genesis 2 posted:By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Wikipedia posted:For most Christians, Sunday is observed as a day of worship and rest, holding it as the Lord's Day and the day of Christ's resurrection. [/Tongue in Cheek] To be a bit more serious: Sunday being the first day of the week comes from the Jewish tradition of Saturday being the seventh day of creation and the day of rest. Later, in Christianity, Constantine made Sunday, as the day Jesus was resurrected, the holy day and the day of rest. However, for some reason, in many regions Sunday still stayed/stays the first day of the week, while in other reasons it became the seventh day.
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Mar 26, 2024 21:03
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I propose a six‐day week. It’s not a loving prime number like seven. It multiplies closer the lunar cycle of twenty‐nine and a half days. It annoys like four billion people worldwide who follow Abrahamic religions. We’re keeping the two‐day weekend and cutting the workweek to four days.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:31
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Platystemon posted:I propose a six‐day week. First pluto, now sunday... The woke left are taking away all of our cherished sequences of things that you learn as a child
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Mar 26, 2024 22:44
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Platystemon posted:I propose a six‐day week. Finally, I could also safely work out every other day
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Mar 26, 2024 22:53
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Platystemon posted:I propose a six‐day week. 6 day week, 10 months of 6 weeks each. The five days at the end are a holiday, six on leap years.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:58
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DTurtle posted:That you Americans (and some others) think that the seventh day being the the first day makes sense is your problem and goes counter to all good Christian basis for days of the week.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:02
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:10 months of 6 weeks each What is with the Franco–Deutsch obsession with the number ten? It’s twelve months of five weeks each, plus the leap week.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:05
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I am fond of the idea of uncalendered time, like you just add some days here and there to keep the calendar roughly right with the sun and people just do whatever on them.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:06
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alnilam posted:First pluto, now sunday... The woke left are taking away all of our cherished sequences of things that you learn as a child Wait'll you see what we did to "ROYGBIV"
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Mar 26, 2024 23:09
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Platystemon posted:What is with the Franco–Deutsch obsession with the number ten? 10 is the basic number. Everything is based on 10. We have ten fingers and you have ten toes. It's the only logical base number
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Mar 26, 2024 23:13
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Revolutionary France tried doing 10 day weeks but you still only get two days off. It sucked. The only thing mildly interesting is that they tried to also introduce a secular "rural calendar" to replace the old catholic saints calendar that would associate a saint for every day, and instead the idea was that people would secularly contemplate a plant, animal, farm tool, or mineral. Today is the day of the pimpernel. Two days ago it was the day of spinach, two days from now it will be the day of twine, and two days after that is the day of parsley. Yippee. There was even a proposal for metric hours and minutes, but not even the French revolutionaries could really be bothered trying to make that work. FreudianSlippers posted:We have ten fingers and you have ten toes. That makes twenty.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:15
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Platystemon posted:What is with the Franco–Deutsch obsession with the number ten? Ten means we can just remove the Vanity months, and the month names will make sense again. But sure, 5 week months is fine too.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:17
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The month names aren't wrong because of the vanity months, the mistake was moving the year start date to the middle of winter for some reason.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:22
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:27
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The French Revisionary calender is the only logical way of telling time. Anything else is feudalism.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:32
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Eiba posted:Quakers have called Sunday First Day since before America existed. The idea of Sunday being the first day of the week is a Christian idea (at least a protestant/Puritan idea), and has been for a long, long time. Pointing at Quakers as some kind of "long, long time" thing is an extremely American thing. Sunday being the first day of the week was the numbering/naming system introduced by the Jews some time in the second century BCE, and then apparently picked up and spread by the Romans. Some eighteen hundred years ago Constantine the Great then made Sunday the day of rest, but kept it as the first day of the week. In some areas it then supposedly slowly shifted to Sunday being considered the seventh day in some areas (as seen by some coins having Saturday as the "sixth day"). DTurtle fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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Mar 27, 2024 00:05
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Muscle Tracer posted:Here's a question. Every paper calendar I've ever seen in my life starts on Sunday. Is this also the case in the UK or Australia? Or these other countries? (My partner is Very Into Stationery and has been looking for a Monday-start calendar, unsuccessfully, for YEARS). Order from a civilised country instead of one of the Englands? https://putinki.fi/collections/seinakalenterit This was just the first hit, I have no idea about that shop. And the week numbers might be wrong if you care about that. Oh yeah and there's OTHER LANGUAGES present.
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Mar 27, 2024 00:30
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FreudianSlippers posted:10 is the basic number. Honestly base twelve makes more sense, if you learn it from a young age it's easily divisible by 3, 4, and 6, where 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5. Byzantines did it and it's why there's 24 hours in a day instead of ten or 100 hours in a day.
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Mar 27, 2024 00:30
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Constantine made Sunday a day of rest for everybody in the whole empire. It was a civil order, not a religious one. "All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun."
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Mar 27, 2024 00:45
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SlothfulCobra posted:Revolutionary France tried doing 10 day weeks but you still only get two days off. It sucked. The only thing mildly interesting is that they tried to also introduce a secular "rural calendar" to replace the old catholic saints calendar that would associate a saint for every day, and instead the idea was that people would secularly contemplate a plant, animal, farm tool, or mineral. Today is the day of the pimpernel. Two days ago it was the day of spinach, two days from now it will be the day of twine, and two days after that is the day of parsley. Yippee. was there a process for obsoleting plants/animals/farm tools/minerals? should we still be contemplating the plow instead of the combine harvester?
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Mar 27, 2024 01:39
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redleader posted:was there a process for obsoleting plants/animals/farm tools/minerals? should we still be contemplating the plow instead of the combine harvester? What the gently caress, do you think ploughs aren't used anymore? How the gently caress do you think fields work? E: and before some wannabe fishmech fucko wikipedias at me, I know you can grow crops without ploughing, but I also know about 100% of fields you see out there are ploughed. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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Mar 27, 2024 01:51
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What the gently caress, do you think ploughs aren't used anymore? How the gently caress do you think fields work? oh i was thinking those old timey ones that get pulled by a donkey or whatever
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Mar 27, 2024 02:08
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you think i've ever seen a farm irl?!?
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Mar 27, 2024 02:08
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redleader posted:you think i've ever seen a farm irl?!? Probably, yes. You just glossed over them because visually they're boring as all gently caress most of the time. (And invisible for several months if you have proper seasons.)
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Mar 27, 2024 02:11
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FreudianSlippers posted:The French Revisionary calender is the only logical way of telling time. ^^^^ it's germinal right now, love it or leave it
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Mar 27, 2024 02:36
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Probably, yes. You just glossed over them because visually they're boring as all gently caress most of the time. (And invisible for several months if you have proper seasons.) i was exaggerating a bit, but thinking about it i don't think i've really seen much in the way of plant farms. it was all bloody sheep farms, until it became nothing but loving cow farms
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Mar 27, 2024 02:55
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Do NOT plough the sheep.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Do NOT plough the sheep. another erasure of new zealand in the map thread 
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Mar 27, 2024 03:49
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OwlFancier posted:I am fond of the idea of uncalendered time, like you just add some days here and there to keep the calendar roughly right with the sun and people just do whatever on them. Those are the days when you can sin freely because they lie outside of God's plan
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Mar 27, 2024 07:27
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redleader posted:you think i've ever seen a farm irl?!?  A moisture farm, surely.
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Mar 27, 2024 07:34
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I thought this was the Lichtenstein version of the map of Napoleon's grand adventure in Russia, except this time the army gets bigger. 
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redleader posted:was there a process for obsoleting plants/animals/farm tools/minerals? should we still be contemplating the plow instead of the combine harvester? The magic of it staying the day of the plow is that you’re free to contemplate the Wurzels whenever you want.
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mmkay posted:I thought this was the Lichtenstein version of the map of Napoleon's grand adventure in Russia, except this time the army gets bigger. This border adjustment is zero sum! Both countries lose and gain 239 m².
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Mar 27, 2024 08:36
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dublish posted:But the sun wasn't made until the fourth day. Platystemon posted:I propose a six‐day week.
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Mar 27, 2024 09:34
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PittTheElder posted:The month names aren't wrong because of the vanity months, the mistake was moving the year start date to the middle of winter for some reason. The calendar was changed for a pragmatic reason - to make conquering Hispania less of a hassle. Republican Rome's highest political office was the two consuls, who were elected on a yearly basis. These were the guys who made the final desicions on who to fight, how to fight them etc. They were usually also the ones leading the largest armies. Once Rome had started expanding outside of Italy this system began having some issues, especially once they began having yearly campaigns in Hispania (Spain and Portugal today). The consuls would begin ruling in March, since that was when the year began back then. They would then spend a couple of months getting organized back in Italy. This took some time, since Hispania was an overseas province and getting a large enough fleet ready with supplies and everything was expensive. Then once they got to Hispania they had to spend a bunch of time on convincing/bribing/threathening their local allies to get ready. So it was not uncommon for the year's consuls to find that they had barely gotten started in Hispania before their local allies started leaving for the autumn harvest, and their own soldieers getting worried that they were going to have to spend the winter overseas. Everntually they said "gently caress it, the year starts two months earlier now!". That way the new consuls could spend the winter months on getting everything organized and then head out in early spring.
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Brawnfire posted:Wait'll you see what we did to "ROYGBIV"
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If we're determining the optimal length for a secular week then obviously the most important thing is that a year should be composed of an integer number of weeks. So during a normal year weeks should be 1, 5, 73, or 365 days long - I like 5. In leap years our options are more extensive: 1, 2, 3, 6, 61, 122, 183, or 366 days. A lot of you might go for 6 but I like the 3-day weeks - they're punchy, they'll get people moving.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:If we're determining the optimal length for a secular week then obviously the most important thing is that a year should be composed of an integer number of weeks. So during a normal year weeks should be 1, 5, 73, or 365 days long - I like 5. 5 days week with 2 days off? and in leap years 3 days week with 2 off? where can I vote for you?
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Guavanaut posted:Do not ask what they used to say for the resistor color code mnemonic. That was far worse than I'd anticipated
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