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From: CDB on 20 Feb 2010 09:04 R H Draney wrote: > Androcles filted: >> "R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > [socking the ball: a round] > >>> *Poor* kids...with foreign accents...and brown skin....r >>> >> I don't know that word, what does "....r" mean? > > An ellipsis and a full stop and the world's shortest meaningful > .sig....r > Nay, say I....i
From: Yusuf B Gursey on 20 Feb 2010 10:35 On Feb 20, 2:53 am, "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum...(a)pants.btinternet.com> wrote: > Yusuf B Gursey wrote: > > On Feb 19, 4:34 am, James Hogg <Jas.H...(a)gOUTmail.com> wrote: > >> John Atkinson wrote: > >>> Halmyre wrote: > >>>> On 19 Feb, 04:58, "Ray O'Hara" <raymond-oh...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> "Andrew Usher" <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > > >>>>>news:65e2a2e7-1aef-4872-97a7-360fa6a10a6a(a)q21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... > > >>>>>> Owing to the inconveniences which attend the shifting of the > >>>>>> calendar, and attempting in passing to create a more perfect > >>>>>> Church calendar, I say the following: 1. That Christmas day > >>>>>> should be fixed to a Sunday, and this should be the Sunday > >>>>>> between Dec. 21 and 27, and that in all civilised countries the > >>>>>> Monday should be considered a holiday, or the Saturday if not > >>>>>> normally. 2. That similarly Easter day should be fixed to the > >>>>>> Sunday which is 15 weeks following Christmas. 3. That the leap > >>>>>> year rule be changed to have a leap year occur every fourth > >>>>>> save that it be delayed when the leap year would start on a > >>>>>> Thursday, and that this gives 7 leap years in every 29, which > >>>>>> is near enough. 4. That the perpetual calendar can be made, by > >>>>>> considering the first day of the year of weeks to occur on the > >>>>>> Sunday after the Assumption, and if this is the first possible > >>>>>> calendar day, it is called week 1, and otherwise week 2, and > >>>>>> every year runs through week 53. And this calendar ensures that > >>>>>> everything can be fixed to a day of a certain week, in > >>>>>> particular the American Thanksgiving must be made 31 days > >>>>>> before Christmas. 6. This is surely the best possible > >>>>>> arrangement that can be made, without disturbing the cycle of > >>>>>> weeks or that of calendar days inherited from the Romans. > >>>>>> Andrew Usher > >>>>> The calendar has several sources, not just the Rome and the onewe > >>>>> habe in fine as it is > >>>> I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with it. > > >>> But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon! You might > >>> as well scrap the whole thing otherwise. Or are you suggesting that > >>> we only take holidays at Easter every four years or so, when your > >>> settled date just happens to correspond with the right lunar > >>> phase? > > >> My Book of Common Prayer makes things easy by pointing out that "the > >> moon referred to in the definition of Easter Day is not the actual > >> moon of the heavens, but the Calendar Moon, or Moon of the Lunar > >> Cycle, which is counted as full on its fourteenth day, reckoned from > >> the day of the Calendar New Moon inclusive." Also, in a Bissextile > >> Year "the number of Sundays after Epiphany will be the same, as if > >> Easter Day had fallen one day later than it really does." > > > the Orthodox (Eastern) churches have a slightly different system. > > dunno exactly what it is. > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter > > > Easter > > Orthodox Easter and other events are based on the Julian Calendar (one year > = 365.25 days), while Catholic and Protestant practice follows the Gregorian > calendar (one year = 365.2425 days plus the 1582 dropping of 10 days). Over > several centuries, the date of the spring equinox has drifted away from > March 21 in the Orthodox calendar. > > The two religious systems have different methods for calculating Easter > within their own calendars. > > Do a Google search for "calendar FAQ". > > > yes, thank you IIRC somebody else pointed that out. > > > > > > Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the > > civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date > > of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full > > Moon) following the vernal equinox.[3] Ecclesiastically, the equinox > > is reckoned to be on March 21 (regardless of the astronomically > > correct date), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the > > astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies > > between March 22 and April 25. Eastern Christianity bases its > > calculations on the Julian Calendar whose March 21 corresponds, during > > the twenty-first century, to April 3 in the Gregorian Calendar, in > > which calendar their celebration of Easter therefore varies between > > April 4 and May 8. > > >> What could be simpler? > > >> -- > >> James > > -- > Mike Dworetsky > > (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)
From: Mike Dworetsky on 20 Feb 2010 11:43 Androcles wrote: > "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198(a)pants.btinternet.com> wrote in message > news:jc6dnUEvCLDSC-LWnZ2dnUVZ8tOdnZ2d(a)bt.com... >> Yusuf B Gursey wrote: >>> On Feb 19, 4:34 am, James Hogg <Jas.H...(a)gOUTmail.com> wrote: >>>> John Atkinson wrote: >>>>> Halmyre wrote: >>>>>> On 19 Feb, 04:58, "Ray O'Hara" <raymond-oh...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> "Andrew Usher" <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message >>>> >>>>>>> news:65e2a2e7-1aef-4872-97a7-360fa6a10a6a(a)q21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... >>>> >>>>>>>> Owing to the inconveniences which attend the shifting of the >>>>>>>> calendar, and attempting in passing to create a more perfect >>>>>>>> Church calendar, I say the following: 1. That Christmas day >>>>>>>> should be fixed to a Sunday, and this should be the Sunday >>>>>>>> between Dec. 21 and 27, and that in all civilised countries the >>>>>>>> Monday should be considered a holiday, or the Saturday if not >>>>>>>> normally. 2. That similarly Easter day should be fixed to the >>>>>>>> Sunday which is 15 weeks following Christmas. 3. That the leap >>>>>>>> year rule be changed to have a leap year occur every fourth >>>>>>>> save that it be delayed when the leap year would start on a >>>>>>>> Thursday, and that this gives 7 leap years in every 29, which >>>>>>>> is near enough. 4. That the perpetual calendar can be made, by >>>>>>>> considering the first day of the year of weeks to occur on the >>>>>>>> Sunday after the Assumption, and if this is the first possible >>>>>>>> calendar day, it is called week 1, and otherwise week 2, and >>>>>>>> every year runs through week 53. And this calendar ensures that >>>>>>>> everything can be fixed to a day of a certain week, in >>>>>>>> particular the American Thanksgiving must be made 31 days >>>>>>>> before Christmas. 6. This is surely the best possible >>>>>>>> arrangement that can be made, without disturbing the cycle of >>>>>>>> weeks or that of calendar days inherited from the Romans. >>>>>>>> Andrew Usher >>>>>>> The calendar has several sources, not just the Rome and the >>>>>>> onewe habe in fine as it is >>>>>> I just wish they'd settle on a date for Easter and be done with >>>>>> it. >>>> >>>>> But, the whole point of Easter is that it has a full moon! You >>>>> might as well scrap the whole thing otherwise. Or are you >>>>> suggesting that we only take holidays at Easter every four years >>>>> or so, when your �settled� date just happens to correspond with >>>>> the right lunar phase? >>>> >>>> My Book of Common Prayer makes things easy by pointing out that >>>> "the moon referred to in the definition of Easter Day is not the >>>> actual moon of the heavens, but the Calendar Moon, or Moon of the >>>> Lunar Cycle, which is counted as full on its fourteenth day, >>>> reckoned from the day of the Calendar New Moon inclusive." Also, >>>> in a Bissextile Year "the number of Sundays after Epiphany will be >>>> the same, as if Easter Day had fallen one day later than it really >>>> does." >>> >>> the Orthodox (Eastern) churches have a slightly different system. >>> dunno exactly what it is. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter >>> >>> Easter >> >> Orthodox Easter and other events are based on the Julian Calendar >> (one year = 365.25 days), while Catholic and Protestant practice >> follows the Gregorian calendar (one year = 365.2425 days plus the >> 1582 dropping of 10 days). Over several centuries, the date of the >> spring equinox has drifted away from March 21 in the Orthodox >> calendar. The two religious systems have different methods for >> calculating >> Easter within their own calendars. >> >> Do a Google search for "calendar FAQ". >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsD2Nku6Zqo > Over two millennia, the date of the spring equinox has drifted by a > month. Over 2000 years, the calendrical difference of 0.0075 d/yr adds up to 15 days. In 1582, a correction of 10 days was done because the original agreement for the date of Easter was made not on AD1 but in AD325 at the Council of Nicea, so the accumulation over 1257 years was 9.4 days. I'm not certain why they dropped 10 days instead of 9; possibly because 1600 would not be a Gregorian leap year? Or possibly because the most prevalent date was already pretty much set by around AD200? -- Mike Dworetsky (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)
From: R H Draney on 20 Feb 2010 12:16 Androcles filted: > > >"R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message >news:hlo79b01ml(a)drn.newsguy.com... >> Androcles filted: >>> >>>I don't know that word, what does "....r" mean? >> >> An ellipsis and a full stop and the world's shortest meaningful .sig....r >> >I don't know that word, what does ".sig." mean, Mr. ...r? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sig .....r -- A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this?
From: Jerry Friedman on 20 Feb 2010 12:27
On Feb 19, 11:43Â am, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 19, 11:49 am, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenb...(a)hpl.hp.com> wrote: > > > > I think it was two years ago that the first night of Passover was on > > > Holy Thursday (or vice versa), which precisely reproduced the > > > historical occasion. > > > Oh, that's what you meant. Â I though that you were talking about > > Passover and Easter actually occurring on the same day. Â But if Holy > > Thursday is taken to run from midnight to midnight (rather than > > sundown to sundown), I don't think that that's possible, since the > > Hebrew calendar doesn't let Pesach fall on a Friday (with the seder on > > the preceding Thursday night). > > In Christ's time, there was no such rule, clearly. Clearly according to the Synoptic Gospels, but some interpret John to say that Passover that year was on a Saturday. From an Orthodox site: "According to the Gospel of John, Pascha just happened to fall on a Saturdayâ the year that Jesus was crucified. It is important to note that Christ died on the Cross at the very hour the paschal lambs were being slaughtered for the Feast; thus Christ is our Pascha, our Passover Lamb, sacrificed for us." The footnote is to John 11:55. http://www.antiochian.org/node/17394 The chronological table in the Jerusalem Bible dates Jesus' death to 30 A.D. on the basis that it was on a Friday, "the eve of the Passover". -- Jerry Friedman |