Tbh I am a bit confused why people celebrate this. Time progresses. Congrats? (Anybody understand why this is a thing?)https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1079920239796727808 …
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
Simple: 20% because our parents did it and 80% because the neighbors do it, and some time long ago someone thought it's a good idea and started it.
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Replying to @Plinz
Yeah. But why did our parents/neighbors do it? And why in the intervening years hasn’t that stopped? Not everything that was a custom 1,000 years ago still is.
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
Yes, holidays are invented to serve a particular social purpose, and often kept if they continue doing so.
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Replying to @Plinz
1) so what’s social purpose here 2) whose keeping it and 3) why are people obeying?
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1) setting a mental mark between years, which helps to anchor memories and events, and settle current debts 2) legislators 3) most people cannot have enough holidays
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