[ExI] autumnal equinox

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 14:53:11 UTC 2016


…Also, equinoxes are beautiful: everything aligns. I think they make the
proper holidays, not set by human standards. We should be celebrating
equinoxes, perihelions and apehelions. --  Dr Anders Sandberg

Hey!  What about us loonies?    bill w

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:20 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> >…Also, equinoxes are beautiful: everything aligns. I think they make the
> proper holidays, not set by human standards. We should be celebrating
> equinoxes, perihelions and apehelions. --  Dr Anders Sandberg
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> Pagan heresy!
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> I agree.  We almost do the solstices here in the states with our Christmas
> buying season and our patriotic 4th of July celebrating independence from
> England, but on the latter, I would think the celebration would be after
> the war was won, rather than the signing of the document that started it.
> Then we would be celebrating 19 October 1781 as the birth of the nation.  I
> would prefer a different date however: 21 June 1788, when the US
> constitution was ratified.  This would align a patriotic holiday with a
> celestial event and would call attention of America to the really important
> event of agreeing on a structure of law, rather than kicking off a war.
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> We can likewise find reasons to move Christmas to 21 December, or better
> yet, move New Year’s Day there and leave Christmas where it is for historic
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> We can likewise find good reasons to celebrate at the Autumnal equinox:
> Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, East and West Germany
> ratified reunification signaling the end of the cold war in 1990, both of
> which are good reasons for celebration.
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> For the Spring Equinox, we can celebrate Spring Break and the legendary revelry by college students all across the land, the drunken nekkidness for which so many are fondly repentant, the youthful abandonment of propriety to which so many owe their lives.  (Anders, do Europeans do wild and crazy Spring Break over there?  You should.)
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