dogbite wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:50 pm
I was looking into the origin of the 7 day week. [...]
The 24 hour day comes from the Egyptians. The rest is a kind of numerology-astrology mashup. [...]
You've got 7 planets as they thought of things orbiting the earth. The sun, Mercury, Venus Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the moon. The 7 planets each rule over a different hour of the day. For the cycle to complete it's 7x24=168 hours, 7 days.
No matter whether you prefer the Jewish or the Roman origin it's not as old as the scriptures tell us. And pagan no matter whether you prefer the Jewish or the Roman, for the hebrew were pagan then worshiping ashira yahweh baa, baalal and others.
We have five fingers on one hand and there are 365 days per year: Why would we use 7 days per week when there are superior divisors?
There could just as easily be 9 days per week with Uranus and Neptune added, with a day for every equinox/solstice and two or three for summer solstice every fifth year until every fifth-fifth when there are four days; then a jubilee every fiftieth to forgive debts in Israel, as described in Leviticus 25: That'd 40 weeks per year and five, six, or seven Sun-Days each year, 5th, or 25th; which adds up to six 36-day months (thirty-six 9-day weeks), three 37-day months (three 10-day weeks), and one 37 or 38 or 39 day month each year (one 10 or 11 or 12-day week); four 10-week seasons.
Also consider that about every 3 weeks (27.3 days), is enough time for our moon to revolve around the Earth and return to its same position facing the stars; to return to its same position facing the earth, there are 29.5 days.
Here's where a wrench gets thrown in: To make up for lost time (.3 days) on the moon's revolution to face the stars with 9-day weeks, a day must be added to the cycle every 3.333~ cycles, which happens to be 90-days, or ten weeks; To face the Earth (traditional moon phases), 5-days are added to the cycle every two revolutions, or 1 day is added every week, except the first week of the double cycle (six weeks).
Back to five day weeks: Are there any benefits to 73 week years with one six-day week on leap-years?
Do you think there are benefits to a debt jubilee or are system that do not use negative numbers less prone to corruption?
What would happen to our arithmetic system if we were to take out zero by having a number between 9 and 10, then start at 11.
For example: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1A, 21 [...]
-3 * -3 would be 4 (when does that ever happen?) and if you give someone something, how many things do you have left? One, because someone else has our thing. If your thing is given away again (second time), then you are going to be missing one; we no longer have it.
Why do we need placeholders for both "not one" and "zero:" Isn't "not one" nothing?
In our society we do not start counting at zero, we begin at 1, which is why there are 365 days each year, not 364. However, in our society there are software and hardware which do count 0 as its own entity and our numbering system includes 10, rather than 'A' followed by 'eleven,' though we could make life easy for ourselves and pronounce 'A' as 'ten' and '1A' as 'twenty' in order to do away with zero.
These facts from the Bible, Mathematics, Astronomy, and Modern History demonstrate our conglomerate culture, which adopts various religious and societal aspects from around our world, including in the Bible itself! Unity around seventh day sabbath could be replaced by a 3-day weekend every 15-days (unless there's a 4, 5, or 6-day solstice or equinox week), however we need to be unified about what rest is, so respect for existing people requires 7-day weeks and a Sabbath on the seventh day and a day off from work on Sunday because of the Romans, who rest by going to church and allow 12 year old girls to give the death penalty.
We live in a world where people believe God is at rest: They are from day 7; God is not yet finished: They are from day 5; or that God's work is complete: They are from day 6. Each of the days from 1 to "7" exists within the previous day, like a concentric circle. Day one hasn't ended yet because day 7 is not complete: Rest on the 7th day to get over everyone who believes God is at rest; "Rest" at church on Sunday to help everyone that rested Saturday.
