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From: António Marques on 23 Feb 2010 08:34 jmfbahciv wrote (23-02-2010 12:36): > PaulJK wrote: >> Brian M. Scott wrote: >>> R H Draney wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> If you want a crank, find the person who came up with >>>> Daylight Saving Time.... >>>> Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply >>>> for more of the year than "Standard" time....r >>> I like DST; my only objection is that we don't have it all >>> year round. >> >> I would prefer if every 24 hour day was made longer by one >> hour, i.e. 25 hours long. I know it would cause some strife >> for many people but I for one and people like me wouldn't have >> to suffer the pain of advancing my slow circadian rhythm clock >> by an hour every morning. >> > I worked with a guy who did the experiment to find out what > his circadian rhythm was. He determined it was 28 hours. > If so, he must have felt hung over during his childhood. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/28_hour_day.png
From: sjdevnull on 23 Feb 2010 08:39 On Feb 23, 6:19 am, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > Dunno about the rest of the world, but in the US court-ordered busing > has most kids riding the bus to school anyway Court-ordered busing never affected a substantial fraction of US school children (it peaked at below 5%, IIRC) and since 1980 or so has been very limited. Post-2000, it's headed toward extinction.
From: António Marques on 23 Feb 2010 08:44 Peter T. Daniels wrote (23-02-2010 12:42): > On Feb 23, 7:04 am, Andrew Usher<k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Peter T. Daniels wrote: >>>>> "The Catholic Church" (which refers to no specific organization) >>>>> hasn't spoken for all of Christendom for nearly half a millennium. >> >>>> 'The Catholic Church' or simply 'The Church' refers to exactly one >>>> organisation. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Also, it's been >>>> longer than half a millennium if one includes the East. >> >>> One doesn't "include the East." One has to wonder what knowledge you >>> have of the Eastern churches. >> >> The word 'Christendom', which you used, would normally be taken to >> include the Eastern Orthodox. One wonders why you wouldn't. > > They are among the many churches for which the Roman Catholic Church > (which may have been what you meant by "the Catholic Church"?) does > not speak. It's just that that's what he was saying. That the CC "hasn't spoken for all of Christendom" for "longer than half a millennium". You pretend not to know what "The Catholic Church" refers to, yet your answer is built on equating it with a certain church currently led by one Benedict XVI.
From: J. Clarke on 23 Feb 2010 09:36 On 2/23/2010 8:39 AM, sjdevnull(a)yahoo.com wrote: > On Feb 23, 6:19 am, "J. Clarke"<jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: >> Dunno about the rest of the world, but in the US court-ordered busing >> has most kids riding the bus to school anyway > > Court-ordered busing never affected a substantial fraction of US > school children (it peaked at below 5%, IIRC) and since 1980 or so has > been very limited. Post-2000, it's headed toward extinction. In what jurisdiction has it been discontinued?
From: Yusuf B Gursey on 23 Feb 2010 10:01
On Feb 23, 7:26 am, António Marques <antonio...(a)sapo.pt> wrote: > Yusuf B Gursey wrote (23-02-2010 11:17): > > > speaking of Eastern Churches, Easter is more important in Eastern > > Churches. significantly, modern Turkish borrows "Easter" from Greek > > (Paskalya) and "Christmass" from French (Noel). > > What you certainly mean is that the Middle East isn't as dechristianised as > the US. > > > also Monophysite Churches (Armenian Orthodox, Jacobite Syrian, Coptic) > > reject Dec. 25 as the date of Christmass. > > It's miaphysite! no, it's Monophysite (Mono, from one, Christ having only a divine nature). > Again, the date of Christmas isn't religiously significant, other than being > at that time of the year. The fact that different churches use different > dates doesn't mean they are in disagreement (as your 'reject' implies), any IIRC they considered Dec. 25 as having pagan implications. > more than having different feast days for the same saint. > The only religiously significant dates are those of the moveabe cycle. Over > which there isn't much disagreement other than what calendar to use. |