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FUCK WITH JANUARY 1

You agnostics and Atheists here, don't start doing silly happy new year's greetings, wishes with the Christian (Gregorian) calendar on Jan 1.

Remember 6 billion people around the world think differently:

  1. Jewish - Jewish New Year celebrations begin on sundown of the first day of September or October and ends on sundown of the 10th day. It is called Rosh Hashanah,
  2. Chinese - The Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, occurs every year on the new moon of the first lunar month, about the beginning of spring (Lichun).
  3. African - The Odunde Festival is also called the African New Year, on the second Sunday of June, the name was based on the Yoruba African culture, its celebration marks the largest African celebration in the world, which more or less was started by a local tradition. The Sotho people of Lesotho and South Africa celebrate Selemo sa Basotho on August 1 during the end of the Southern Hemisphere's winter.
  4. Cambodian New Year (Chaul Chnam Thmey) is celebrated on April 13 or April 14.
  5. The Hindu new year starts with the festival of lights .. "Diwali" in October. We are currently in the year 5115 of the Kalyug Age which is the last age in a cycke of four ages
  6. Thai New Year is celebrated on April 13 or April 14 and is called Songkran in the local language.
  7. Dravidian - Malayalam New Year (Puthuvarsham) is celebrated either on the first day of the month of Medam in mid-April which is known as Vishu or the first day of the month of Chingam
  8. Islamic - Hijri New Year in the Islamic culture is also known as Islamic new year is the day that marks the beginning of a new Islamic calendar year. New Year moves from year to year because the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar.

There are many many others. Culturally those are interesting because they were built around harvesting seasons. Religiously, all become unattractive.

St-Sinner 9 Dec 27
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The Gregorian calender is just an updated version of the Julian calender. The first day of the year being set on January 1st has nothing to do with christianity. It's because the Romans decided to place the first day of the year on the day that the new Consuls took office for the year which happened to be on January 1st. They kept track of the years not by numbers but by the names of the Consuls for each year so it made a lot of sense to have the year start on the day the Consuls took power.

Before the Gregorian calender came along, christian kingdoms typically placed new years day on important days in the christian religion such as December 25th. After adopting the Gregorian calender, they put it on January 1st because that's how it was on the Julian calender and the Gregorian calender is just a slightly more accurate version of the Julian. So the Gregorian calender actually took the religious significance out of new years day.

Thanks for the clarification. I knew that the Gregorian calendar was improved version of the Juluan calendar. But did not know about how Jan. 1st was determined. Thanks.

@t1nick Your welcome. Always glad to come across others who are interested in this trivial sort of stuff.

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Hindu new year is not diwali. It varies by region, and is usually around March. Diwali is a harvest festival after the monsoon crops.
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We celebrated New Year's at Diwali every year in my state, and community. Wikipedia is academic. India is intensely diverse in traditions... community by community, state by state. Lord Ram the main God that is different in various regions in idols, skin color, worship etc. There is also a start of New Year at Gudi Padwa when Lord Ram returned from the 14 years of exile, another in my state starting with the coronation year of King Shivaji 400 years ago. There are 4 more that I know of.

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All cultures have their own method of keeping track of time. When I was teaching on the Hopi Indian Reservation, the New Year was the beginning of the planting season. It occurs in January when the sun can be seen rising in the exact center of a rock formation on the eastern side of the Hopi valley, known as the sun alter.

It is decided and declared by a specific priest who resides on First Mesa. Sixteen days after this declaration, bean sprouts are planted and kept in the kiva until the actual planting time occurs. This marks the start of the religious cycle and a new year.

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I don't know about the forewarning, but personally I enjoyed the information provided by St. Sinner. I knew some and learned some new tidbits of info. Nothing wrong with that.

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Great post, xmas, new years and all that crap is only because the xtians happened to win another war they started. Such bullshit because the whole xtian thing was plagiarized from earlier made up bullshit.

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It is 5779 on the Hebrew calendar.

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Have a great and safe new year, which ever one you choose to observe.

Yep and YOU also,
Happy thoughts

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You lost me at "don't start doing....." Gee, I can roll my eyes only so much !!!!!!.... Here's what I know.... IamNOT Jew, Chinesse, African, Cambodian, Thai (I wish I was though), Dravidian ( whatever that is) or Islamic. Last but not least, I'll celebrate whatever the hell I want, you can do the same.

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Starting a new year on April 13 is like starting a new day at 4:35 in the afternoon.

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I hope you have a wonderful New Year! ☺

WTF? πŸ™‚

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Since I can actually see a year pass and we need a date to make it official might as well use the system the local banks do. That way we all wish each other a happy new year and bitch about remembering to write a new year during the same part of the year instead of spread out over 12 months. It's a cultural bonding ritual thingie and much less annoying that way.

But my actual, official year change is on my birthday, which is a handy way to celebrate the passing of every year twice instead of once. We humans are just so freaking clever.

1of5 Level 8 Dec 27, 2019
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I can't speak for those other religions, but Rosh Hashanah in fact starts on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei - which on the Gregorian calendar can fall anywhere between the 5th of September and the 5th of October rather than beginning on either the 1st of September or October. Also, it only lasts for two days, not ten - though the Yamim Noraim or High Holy Days, which are usually considered to begin with Rosh Hashanah and end with Yom Kippur, do last for ten days which is probably the source of the error. (Incidentally, some Jewish people consider the Yamim Noraim to begin at Rosh Chodesh Elul in the month preceding Tishrei, in which case they last for forty days.)

It's also worth noting that Rosh Hashanah is just one of four Jewish New Years - there is also 1 Nisan which is the New Year for kings and the date from which months are counted (which is why Rosh Hashanah - and thus Hebrew calendrical years - starts in the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar instead of the first), 1 Elul which is the New Year for cattle tithes, and 1 Shivat which is the New Year for trees.

Jnei Level 8 Dec 27, 2019
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I just want Barbara Walters to say "It's now 2020!" .

Plus you do realize it's a new decade and all? πŸŽ†

Thanx!! πŸ₯³

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Well, I'll take all of them, thank you...

Any excuse at all to have or join a party. About a million people are about to agree with me at Time's Square in about four day's time and there isn't a single thing you can do about it!

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