Re: ***ing weekend
- From: FCS <sipston_777@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:44:14 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 20, 8:28 pm, "Norman Wells" <nor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Edward Cowling London UK" <edw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:LQK9yKkdcr4HFwW+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Other Easters we've headed off to enjoy the break in the country. But this
year we're both pleased to be staying put with the central heating on
after burners.
Easter weekend, -1 bloody one, and -5 with the wind chill.
Where is global warming when you need it ? :-)
The problem is that Easter is extraordinarily early this year, due to the
arcane way in which the date is set.
I wonder how many know that Easter Sunday is actually defined as the first
Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. How weird is
that?
Yeah, looney.
Particularly given the full moon is today and the equinox
tomorrow, as it's a leap year.
The sooner it's fixed within the calendar as, say, the second Sunday in
April, the better it will be for everyone. Then school term times can be
evened out and everyone will know where they stand. Even the minority
interest god botherers really can't object as it's hardly logical to
celebrate an 'anniversary' only if the moon looks right and the day of the
week is convenient, meaning it can be any date in a period of 35 days. If
they want an anniversary, they should set a bloody date, and do whatever it
is they think they have to without bothering the rest of us. But if what we
want is an extended bank holiday weekend, let's have it sometime when it's
likely to be a bit warmer.
Unfortunately several entirely valid and accepted symbolic
interpretations, certainly of Biblical scripture, and various
aspects of negotiated syncretism would be entirely uninferable
if we did that, y'know, the kind of stuff that must be meditated
on and apprehended, not taught directly (in case it corrupts
kids presumably, or disillusions the elderley or the simply faithful)
and the whole thing would become meaningless nonsense.
Besides, in the days before computers it's what kept plenty
of clergy busy.
It's high time to stop the nonsense of something that wanders through the
calendar like a drunk on Blackpool prom.
Nah. a generic Winterval I am in favour of, that lasts from a
bit before the solstice until just into New Year. Seeing as that
is just like too politically correct and radical and evidence of
bureaucratic thought-police and wrecks an entirely valid and
traditional religious symbolic festival, I have to say that you
are talking utter nonsense.
Just remembering how extremely criticised I was saying it
really isn't that bad an idea.
After all, how could we function as a society with no idea of
when the Passover is?
Nah, leave it as it is and enjoy the long hot weekends we
get when the full moon is 13 days after the equinox.
G DAEB
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