Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a very valid point. Why do we pick Jan. 1st to celebrate a new year? It's somewhere in the middle of meteorological winter for many places but neither at the beginning nor the end. So winter is broken into two parts distributed between two consecutive years. durr...... why???.......'>.......
Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a very valid point. Why do we pick Jan. 1st to celebrate a new year? It's somewhere in the middle of meteorological winter for many places but neither at the beginning nor the end. So winter is broken into two parts distributed between two consecutive years. durr...... why???.......'>.......
I would argue that the having the new year start coincide with the Winter Solstice, after which the days start to lengthen, would be a natural time point.
However, Christmas would then be early in the new year.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a very valid point. Why do we pick Jan. 1st to celebrate a new year? It's somewhere in the middle of meteorological winter for many places but neither at the beginning nor the end. So winter is broken into two parts distributed between two consecutive years. durr...... why???.......'>.......
interestingly enough australia has 6 seasons, with high summer dry hotness and mid winter cold wetness split off from the less miserable portions of those seasons and this makes january quite a good split from december
Gong hee fat choy! That is the only Chinese I know.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
One would think that if HP watched this, he would never doubt the superiority of Western culture ever again.....
Straya is racist. They only call the white sharks great.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
One would think that if HP watched this, he would never doubt the superiority of Western culture ever again.....
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In fact , that is how I learned water ski
Back in Iran, summers we used to go to Europe .. in Felden lake, Austria, there was something similar for water ski .. it was much cheaper than using a boat .. but more difficult as you were circling (though bigger radius)
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”