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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 23 Feb 2020

      Vapor Weyve Retweeted Arthur Chu

      I think a lot about how by all rights society should be using a calendar designed a whole lot more recently than the Gregorian calendar but we're locked into it because it would decouple Christian holy days as a centerpiece of the weekhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1231721667904172034 …

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      Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affect
      Admittedly, the calendar would make more sense if there were exactly thirteen months in a year of 28 days (plus one extra day on New Year's Eve, plus a leap day every four years) I just question how she never questioned why the names of the months don't line up https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1231614013894688768 …
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      Enh at this point we're just locked in period, changing the calendar would require massive institutional revisions of everything no one wants to pay for

      4 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Also it's not just Christianity, it's all three big Abrahamic faiths that use a seven day week to mark their holy day (Saturday for Jews, Friday for Muslims)

      3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      yeah but the Hebrew calendar is always going to exist one way or the other

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      It's a lot harder to ask to get Shabbos off if Shabbos falls on a random day of the secular week every time

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      yeah but making the entire rest of humanity be systemically beholden to those accomodations isn't what I'd call a morally neutral solution either Obviously we're stuck with it but unfortunately it also pretty blatantly reinforces the supremacy of the religion it was designed for

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      Well yeah I'm just saying it wasn't originally invented for Christianity (the Christians adopted the ancient Near Eastern week used by the Jews) and it's not just Christians, it's the whole Abrahamic world Muslims would be pretty mad if you officially abolished Fridays

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        1. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          So would the casual dining franchise restaurant

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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I mean I understand that and I in turn am kinda mad I have to abide by a system that adheres to standards set by sixteenth-century ecclesiastical figures in correction of iron age ideas

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy

          I think I agree that *months* are arbitrary and annoying and create all kinds of problems but seven day weeks are probably here to stay It's the desyncing of months to weeks that really creates all our annoying problems ("What day of the week is Christmas this year")

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          The real thing here is that the whole concept of a weekly day of rest is a Jewish thing (or rather a Mesopotamian thing that came to us through the Jews) So the major non-Abrahamic faiths don't have a competing weekly cycle to challenge the 7-day week with

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          And even though Buddhism, say, does not have the custom of a weekly day of worship, in the secular world the concept of a weekend is very popular and people generally wouldn't like you trying to take it away

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