Posted on 05/27/2014 11:23:42 AM PDT by C19fan
For eons, all manner of animals have lived their lives according to the cycles of the Earth’s rotation on its axis, the moon’s orbit around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbit around the sun. But why do we observe the week? The pattern of living on a seven-day cycle—with one or two of those days set aside for rest—is a relative novelty. Only in the past few centuries, with Western colonization of most of the world, have the majority of human societies adopted it.
The case for the week was never airtight. It’s now weak and getting weaker. Most Westerners no longer observe a weekly Sabbath, and the coordination advantages of keeping everyone on the same uniform schedule have evaporated. So why does this arbitrary time cycle still dictate the rhythm of our lives? Is it time to abolish the week and find a better way to structure time?
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Right and the Bible says this stuff will happen in the very last days, “but not yet.”
What kind of nonsense is this? The week was instituted by God himself and goes back as far as recorded history, the Bible, in the first chapter of Genesis.
However, this kind of nonsense is prophesied to be implemented in the last days (Daniel 7:25), “but not yet.”
And NO, I am not a JW. ;-)
The seven-day week adopted by the Romans did not come from the Jews. The astrologers invented it based on the fact that they knew of five planets plus the sun and the moon. Had they known of six planets, they would have had an eight-day week.
Productivity would shoot through the roof.
Egyptian had a 9 day work week.
this is the “people are just slaves” mentality. Family is illegal, rest is illegal, just work 365 like an obedient slave.
The Soviet Union tried to force New Soviet Man into a 10 day week cycle. It was done in large part to eliminate Sunday as a religious day of rest, just as this author wants to do. But it didn’t work with New Soviet Man either. He turned out to be a Vodka swilling wife beater.
” How about the sloths and the undulates and all the species with fewer digits? “
And how about Hound Dog Taylor?
I think this is, in the end, exactly what this proposal would lead to.
I don’t remember God’s Bible mentioning what happened on the eighth day, only the first seven. I guess there is always the bris...
Didn’t the Navy somewhat ‘toy’ with this in regards to the Nuclear Submarine Crews that were capable of being submerged for ‘weeks/months’ at a time?
“What kind of nonsense is this?”
A. Ego
B. Vanity of Vanities
C. Godless Communism
D. All of the Above
It already has. AD is now CE. BC is now BCE.
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NOt in my world.
I chalk the CE and BCE users as group think bots.
I’ve seen similar suggestions, where you have a 10 hour day, with a 100 “minutes” & 100 “seconds” – you’d still have the Solar day, but it would be 100,000s long instead of 86,400. The current Second is actually defined as so many billions of vibrations of some Cesium isotope anyway.
I suppose it would be more like Military Time, and without the annoying AM/PM or the 1 o’clock hour coming after 12 ;-)
I remember back in the 1970’s when I asked my grandmother what CE and BCE meant and she told me, “CE = Christian Era” and “BCE = Before Christian Era.”
Commandment Four: Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all they work. But the seventh say is the sabbath of the Lord thy God.
That’s a good enough reason for me.
If you want to mess with something, why not change to 10 36-day months (or 12 30-day months) with a five-day “fallow period” at the end to round out a year? The months were originally aligned with moon phases, which no one really cares about anymore and whose 29.5-day cycle is not reflected in the calendar months anyway.
I just laugh when I hear/read the usage of BC/BCE.
The bigots who changed the terms never even realized that those designations still refer to the same timeline, with it’s foundational center point remaining as the birth of Christ. ;)
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