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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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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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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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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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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