i am offended

[7th_Sephiroth]

the days of the week are based around a crazy voodoo teaching and i want a non secular calendar, its offensive and unconstritutional that the goverment is showing favoritisim on this partucular cult that they impose thier teachings on me

[ewagner]

1. BARTENDER!

I'll have two of whatever he's drinking......

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. serious

the days of the week were based on the teachings of "creationisim"

[Guaranteed]

6. They're not named after them, though...

In Spanish the days of the week are named after the planets.

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. i still feel

like complaining, it feels like christianity is being shoved down my throat

[ewagner]

7. Be that as it may

It is something so deeply ingrained into our present society that it is an absolute given.......better yet, and to make you feel a little better about it, I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority doesn't have a clue about the origin of the names or gives a damn about it.

[Narf]

2. Sounds like you need to sue somebody!

I'll put my name on the bottom of your petition for, oh say...15% of the settlement.

[Nevernose]

4. Can we sue Sephiroth?

If we view DU at work, can we sue him for creating a "hostile work environment?"

[7th_Sephiroth]

5. than you would be fired

for slacking off at work

[Nevernose]

9. Trust me, Seph

if they were gonna fire me for being a slacker, they would have fired me a looooooong time ago.

I suspect that part of the responsibility lies on their shoulders. During the interview, they told me that "no one else has ever wanted to do this job. In fact, the three people we hired before you quit within the first two weeks."

Although the IT bastards have started prevented me from viewing "The Onion." Maybe it's time to quit...

[7th_Sephiroth]

11. i'll give you a job

but the hours are long, and your only allowed one 6 pack

[Triple H]

10. Is this for real?

:eyes:

[warrior1]

12. Chill

The seven-day week originated in ancient Mesopotamia and became part of the Roman calendar in A.D. 321. The names of the days are based on the seven celestial bodies (the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn), believed at that time to revolve around Earth and influence its events. Most of Western Europe adopted the Roman nomenclature. The Germanic languages substituted Germanic equivalents for the names of four of the Roman gods: Tiw, the god of war, replaced Mars; Woden, the god of wisdom, replaced Mercury; Thor, the god of thunder, replaced Jupiter; and Frigg, the goddess of love, replaced Venus.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002065.html

[7th_Sephiroth]

13. but why

the 7 day week?

[warrior1]

14. math

and seasons

365 days around the sun.

another version.

The first thing to understand is that a week is not necessarily seven days. In pre-literate societies weeks of 4 to 10 days were observed; those weeks were typically the interval from one market day to the next. Four to 10 days gave farmers enough time to accumulate and transport goods to sell. (The one week that was almost always avoided was the 7-day week -- it was considered unlucky!) The 7-day week was introduced in Rome (where ides, nones, and calends were the vogue) in the first century A.D. by Persian astrology fanatics, not by Christians or Jews. The idea was that there would be a day for the five known planets, plus the sun and the moon, making seven; this was an ancient West Asian idea. However, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire in the time of Constantine (c. 325 A.D.), the familiar Hebrew-Christian week of 7 days, beginning on Sunday, became conflated with the pagan week and took its place in the Julian calendar. Thereafter, it seemed to Christians that the week Rome now observed was seamless with the 7-day week of the Bible -- even though its pagan roots were obvious in the names of the days: Saturn's day, Sun's day, Moon's day. The other days take their equally pagan names in English from a detour into Norse mythology: Tiw's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, and Fria's day.




Just like everything else religion takes over....

But rest assured it didn't start with religion.

[MisterP]

15. 7 days = nearly a quarter of a lunar cycle:

it's a little over seven days from, for example, new to half moon

[7th_Sephiroth]

16. oh goddamnit

sorry for sounding ignorant

[salinen]

17. Listening to the radio

concerning the Ape that was shot they recorded a mother saying to her child that the Ape was in Heaven now, and then they played a portion of the eulogy for the Ape that was all Christian based. Christianity = force open your mouth!!!