Re: God's work week
- From: anon1@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2005 21:19:37 -0800
> apparently both the Hindus and the Babylonians were using the 7-day
> week before the Hebrews adopted it:
One more nail in the coffin of Mosaic myths as Word of God.
Obviously the Hebrews simply inherited the mythology, and the 7-day
week culture, from Babylon, and then reworded it just enough to suit
their local variation of that culture.
> God did a rather slapdash job in designing the cycles of the sun, moon
> and earth. If He had put a little more thought into it, a lunar month
> would be precisely 28 days or four weeks long, and there would be 13
> lunar months in a solar year. That would make the solar year exactly 52
> weeks or 364 days long. Had God done this, calendar keeping would have
> been a whole lot easier. Each year would start on end on the same day
> of the week.
That would have been an awful design. Children would have been locked
into castes according to their birth day-of-week. Those born on Monday
would never get to introduce their Daddy to their birthday-party
friends, because Daddy was always at work because Monday is the most
important day of the work week. Those born on the non-Sabbath day of
the weekend would *always* have Daddy at their birthday parties, and
*never* have a chance for a girls-only party. Those born on Sabbath
would never be allowed to see a movie or get catered food at their
birthday parties, or even takeout pizza or Chinese food or special
birthday cakes, because nobody is allowed ot work on the Sabbath.
Children born on the bad days would be jealous of their siblings
born on the good days, causing increased rates of fratricide.
The only advantage would be that nobody would ever be born on that
utterly horrid day that happens only once in four years and
consequently decreases the number of birthday parties by that factor.
And the horror of having to explain to schoomates, when asked "when is
your birthday this year".
If the year could be exactly 7*52 + 1 days long, then there'd be no
leap years but still the birthdays would rotate among the days of week
to give everyone fair share of Daddy.
It would be funny if the year were an exact multiple of 8 days, yet
scripture had it divided into 7-day weeks. With the Moon's tidal force
slowing Earth's rotation, eventually the day will be long enough that
the year will be such an exact multiple of 8 days. Does anybody know
when that will be? In the distant past, the Earth rotated faster, so
there were more days in the years, so long ago another exact multiple
of 8 days in year occurred. Does anybody know when the last such event
occurred? It would be funny if that was coincident with some mass
extinction event that cleared ecological niches for us humans to later
evolve. If so, I could start a religion that claimed that Creation was
exactly then, that everything before then was mere illusion, and the
8*n-day year was deliberately set up by the Creator. My religion is
more ancient than even Hindu or Babylonian religion. The Dinosaurs were
of my religion. :-)
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