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Welcome folks, to the Biden administration!

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Biden's cabinet will be made up of people who will be quietly competent, stable, dignified and experienced in their particular field, with the occasional inspirational story thrown in for good measure. Apparently the kind of people trump thought constituted a swamp.
 
Handyman said:
Thats a ripoff of Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

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Dave Chappelle's name is Achoo and when meets him he says "A Jew...here?" which always makes me laugh.
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Son of Asneeze.
 
Kepler said:
So am I.
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The smartest person I ever worked with/for once asked me sincerely, out of the blue, if I knew why there are seven days in a week. It really opened my eyes as to how knowledge is specialized even when it seems foundational to an individual. I tried to summarize the biblical Creation, and he gave a polite, “huh.” Dude was a brilliant scientist but had never heard the story.
 
Jason Johnson on MSNBC: "diversity in Biden's cabinet is great but if those diverse people want to drone strike Yemen then I don't need that."
 
geezer said:
The smartest person I ever worked with/for once asked me sincerely, out of the blue, if I knew why there are seven days in a week. It really opened my eyes as to how knowledge is specialized even when it seems foundational to an individual. I tried to summarize the biblical Creation, and he gave a polite, “huh.” Dude was a brilliant scientist but had never heard the story.
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To underline your point the Creation story is not why there are 7 days in the week. :-)

The Sabbath being the 7th day and marking the end of the week is a retro-explanation of the development by the Israelites of either their own or an adaptation of earlier Middle eastern divisions of time. The non-arbitrary divisions of time are:

The day
The month
The solstice
The year

Completely meaningless divisions of time include:

The second
The minute
The hour
The week

What happened was, the Babylonians (or earlier) took the two most significant non-arbitrary divisions, the day and the year, and considered the ratio (360-ish) to be magical. Cue 360 degrees in a circle, a base 60 counting system, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and that calculates out to 24 hours.

Why divide the 28-day month into 4 7-day weeks? Firstly because you get the comparison of solstice : year :: week : month. Secondly because 7 is magical: sun, moon, and 5 "planeta" -- wanderers. So every day belongs to one celestial body / god.

tl; dr: The Creation story being broken into 7 days isn't the source of the 7-day week, it falls out from the 7-day week.
 
SJHovey said:
Moon phases, I assume.
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For some reason I thought a lunar cycle was 28 days, which would have been just crazy. But at 29.53, the 30 days makes a little more sense. The 30-31 days still makes no sense then. It would have made a lot of sense if we went with 6 months of 29 and 6 months of 30. That would have made a little more sense, but then we’d only have 354 days. So.... still kinda arbitrary.

This just seems like a futile attempt to square the circle.
 
Kepler said:
To underline your point the Creation story is not why there are 7 days in the week. :-)

The Sabbath being the 7th day and marking the end of the week is a retro-explanation of the development by the Israelites of either their own or an adaptation of earlier Middle eastern divisions of time. The non-arbitrary divisions of time are:

The day
The month
The solstice
The year

Completely meaningless divisions of time include:

The second
The minute
The hour
The week

What happened was, the Babylonians (or earlier) took the two most significant non-arbitrary divisions, the day and the year, and considered the ratio (360-ish) to be magical. Cue 360 degrees in a circle, a base 60 counting system, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and that calculates out to 24 hours.

Why divide the 28-day month into 4 7-day weeks? Firstly because you get the comparison of solstice : year :: week : month. Secondly because 7 is magical: sun, moon, and 5 "planeta" -- wanderers. So every day belongs to one celestial body / god.

tl; dr: The Creation story being broken into 7 days isn't the source of the 7-day week, it falls out from the 7-day week.
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Well that underlines your original point. I’ve kind of wondered why weeks don’t match up with months/moons...
 
Kepler said:
Jason Johnson on MSNBC: "diversity in Biden's cabinet is great but if those diverse people want to drone strike Yemen then I don't need that."
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tD just gave uae drones to do that for all of us.... we’re covered (all in the name of peace)
 
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