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Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Mike Date: October 26, 2013, 11:15 pm
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This morning Theophilocates awoke in England to a completely
unnatural phenomena.
Whilst nature around him proceeds at a gradual pace, someone has
decreed that his time clock should suddenly change overnight by
one hour.
Theophilocrates is aware that the daily amount of sunlight which
we enjoy increases for the six months after December 21st, and
decreases for the six months after June 21st, but why should he
be forced into an unnatural 1 hour change at an arbitrary point
between those dates, when nature around him changes at a steady
19.78 seconds per day.
Theophilocrates proposes a rebellion.
Theophilocrates proposes that civilisation now has at its
disposal the wherewithal whereby mankind's things that used to
go 'tick tock' should be replaced by things than buzz smoothy
along with displays of 'time' that vary with nature by 19.78
seconds per day.
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Kerry Date: October 26, 2013, 11:36 pm
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What's an hour? In 1752 the British lost 11 days
HTML http://projectbritain.com/calendar/january/lostdays.html.
In 1752 Britain decided to correct this by abandoning the Julian
calendar in favour of the Gregorian. By doing so, 3 September
instantly became 14 September - and as a result, nothing
whatsoever happened in British history between 3 and 13
September 1752.
Many people thought that the government had stolen eleven days
of their lives. They protested in the streets, demanding "Give
us back our 11 days!"
True or not? From Wikipedia
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750:
It has been reported in some history books that a number of the
public rioted after the calendar change, requesting that their
"eleven days" be returned. However, it is very likely this is a
myth, being based on only two primary sources: The World, a
satirical journal of Lord Chesterfield, and a painting by
William Hogarth.
Chesterfield was behind the Calendar Reform Act of 1750. In one
of his letters to his son he writes, "Every numerous assembly is
a mob, let the individuals who compose it be what they will.
Mere sense is never to be talked to a mob; their passions, their
sentiments, their senses and their seeming interests alone are
to be applied to. Understanding have they collectively none."
Here, he was boasting of his skill in having the Bill passed
through the Lords; the 'mob' in question was his fellow
peers.[citation needed]
When the son of the Earl of Macclesfield (who had been
influential in passing the calendar law) ran for a seat in
Parliament in Oxfordshire as a Whig in 1754, dissatisfaction
with the calendar reform was one of a number of issues raised by
his Tory opponents. In 1755, William Hogarth made a painting
(and an engraved print from the painting) loosely based on these
elections, entitled An Election Entertainment, which shows a
placard carrying the slogan "Give us our Eleven Days" (on floor
at lower right). An example of the resulting incorrect history
is by Ronald Paulson, author of Hogarth, His Life, Art and
Times, who wrote that "...the Oxfordshire people...are
specifically rioting, as historically the London crowd did, to
preserve the 'Eleven Days' the government stole from them in
September 1752 by changing the calendar."
And thus it was that the "calendar riot" fiction was born. The
election campaign depicted was one which concluded in 1754,
after a very lengthy contest between Court Whigs and Jacobite
Tories. Literally every issue between the two factions was
brought up, including the question of calendar reform. The
Tories attacked the Whigs for every deviation, including their
alleged favoritism towards foreign Jews and the "Popish"
calendar. Hogarth's placard, part of a satire on the character
of the debate, was not an observation of actual crowd behaviour.
There were, however, legitimate concerns about tax payments
under the new calendar. Under provision 6 (Times of Payment of
Rents, Annuities) of the Act, Great Britain made special
provisions to make sure that monthly or yearly payments would
not become due until the dates that they originally would have
in the Julian calendar, or in the words of the act "[Times of
Payment of Rents, Annuities] at and upon the same respective
natural days and times as the same should and ought to have been
payable or made or would have happened in case this Act had not
been made".
Several theories have been proposed for the odd beginning of the
British financial year on 6 April. One is that from 1753 until
1799, the tax year in Britain continued to operate on the Julian
calendar and began on 5 April, which was the "old style" new tax
year of 25 March. A 12th skipped Julian leap day in 1800 changed
its start to 6 April. It was not changed when a 13th Julian leap
day was skipped in 1900, so the tax year in the United Kingdom
still begins on 6 April. Poole thought that quarter days, such
as Lady Day 25 March, marked the end of the financial quarters
of the year. Thus, although 25 March Julian marked the
beginning of the civil year, the next day, 26 March Julian was
the beginning of the financial year before 1752. After removing
eleven days in 1752, this corresponded to 6 April Gregorian,
where it remains today. Although Poole's theory is supported by
one dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary and another
dictionary as well as other sources state that quarter days mark
the beginning of their respective quarters.
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Mike Date: October 27, 2013, 1:53 am
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Whatever will you come up with next, Kerry?
Was it you that propounded the view that the world would end in
December 2012?
Based, in that instance, on a comparison between the 'other'
calendar (can't remember how to spell it) and the Gregorian one.
I very much doubt that I will get a response like yours in my
own forum.
Unless James or Helen copy and transfer it. ;)
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Mike Date: October 27, 2013, 3:13 am
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However maybe we should first thrash out which Calendar should
be the authentic 'natural' one before we fiddle with 'clocks'.
I remember a debate with certain strict 4th commandment
Christians (Sabbatarians) who were so zealous about their
precise Sabbath day observance that they insisted on using what
they claimed was God's original 'Lunar' Calendar to work out
which day really was the 7th.
Here's a list of currently recognised Calendars for us to
consider (to which can be added 23 others no longer in use) :-
360-day calendar
Advent calendar
Akan calendar
Armenian calendar
Assyrian calendar
Astronomical year numbering
Bahá'í calendar
Bengali calendar
Berber calendar
Buddhist calendar
Chinese calendar
Coptic calendar
Discordian calendar
Ethiopian calendar
Fiscal year varies with different countries. Used in accounting
only.
Germanic calendar (still in use by Ásatrúar)
Gregorian calendar used by most countries in the world today.
Hebrew calendar
Hindu calendars
Ibibio calendar used by the Ibibio people
Igbo calendar used by the Igbo people.
Indian national calendar
ISO week date
Iranian calendars
Irish calendar
Islamic calendar
Jain calendar
Japanese calendar (Gregorian months)
Javanese calendar
Juche era calendar used by North Korea
Julian calendar
Kurdish calendar
Lithuanian calendar
Malayalam calendar
Maya calendar (parts still used by Maya)
Nanakshahi calendar
Nepali calendar
Nepal Sambat
Minguo calendar used by Republic of China/Taiwan.
Revised Julian calendar
Romanian calendar
Runic calendar (still in use by Ásatrúar)
Tamil calendar
Thai lunar calendar
Thai solar calendar
Tibetan calendar
Zoroastrian calendar (including Parsi)
Xhosa calendar (in use in South Africa)
Yoruba calendar (in use in Nigeria)
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: James Date: October 27, 2013, 4:55 am
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Whichever calendar a group use may seem to them to make a
difference as to which hour of the day they are "at" or even
which day, but although they differ in duration they will all
end at precisely the same time.
[color=black]2 Thes2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together
unto him
On that day when Gods building is complete so will all of your
now calendars plus even the 23 left out be unified in
ONE.[/color]
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Kerry Date: October 27, 2013, 6:22 am
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[quote author=Mike link=topic=629.msg6242#msg6242
date=1382856784]
Whatever will you come up with next, Kerry?[/quote]
I'm surprised people didn't think Lord Chesterfield was the
"antichrist. "
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most
High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think
to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand
until a time and times and the dividing of time.
[quote]Was it you that propounded the view that the world would
end in December 2012?[/quote]
That must have been someone else. I think something is apt to
happen before 2018. Rome will be invaded, etc. It won't be
the end of the world although some people may be praying for the
end. Perhaps sometime I should write down what I expect to
happen shortly. I just ran across some news about Russia and
China that tell me things should start heating up.
[quote]Based, in that instance, on a comparison between the
'other' calendar (can't remember how to spell it) and the
Gregorian one.
I very much doubt that I will get a response like yours in my
own forum.
Unless James or Helen copy and transfer it. ;)[/quote]
I wish everyone in the world used GMT. Who cares what "time"
the sun rises? It seems to me getting the world on universal
time is more important. China doesn't have time zones -- they
picked an average for the whole country. And how preposterous
is the International Date Line where you can move back a day in
time? What a fiction.
Oh, the Coptic calendar is very complicated. It's based on
something the Council of Nicea recommended. They suggested that
the Copts use the Roman calendar to calculate Easter. That
worked well for a while -- until Gregory changed the calendar.
So what should they do? Use the old method the Church of Rome
had? That's what they had been told. So they invented their
own calendar; and it so complicated, I couldn't make heads or
tails of it.
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Mike Date: October 27, 2013, 6:59 am
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Maybe the way 'prophesies' work is not based on foresight of a
future happening, but rather that they are the floating of
plausibilities with events being fashioned to fit 'whenever' at
later dates.
On that basis there could be any number of ostensible
'fulfilments'.
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Kerry Date: October 27, 2013, 9:15 am
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Ooops! Wrong date!
HTML http://www.oslcissaquah.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DST.jpg
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Kerry Date: November 4, 2013, 10:10 pm
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Daylight Savings Time is now being blamed for a rise in crime.
The downside appears to be a big increase in crime, Steve. I
spoke with Jennifer Doleac. She's an economist at the University
of Virginia. And along with Nicholas Sanders, they analyzed
crime patterns in the spring and fall. And she finds that in the
fall, there's a substantial increase in street crime after the
end of Daylight Savings Time, especially when it comes to
robbery.
More at NPR
HTML http://www.npr.org/2013/11/04/242910381/study-sheds-light-on-criminal-activity-during-time-change<br
/>where you can either read the interview or listen to it.
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Re: Theophilocrates contemplates anarchy.
By: Kerry Date: March 9, 2014, 6:27 pm
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More news about Daylight Savings Time! From cbslocal.com
HTML http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/07/seen-at-11-daylight-saving-time-can-be-a-danger-to-your-health/:
Dr. Eric Cohen says there are even more serious health
considerations beyond losing sleep.
“There have been studies that have shown there are more
workplace accidents, more driving accidents after the switch to
Daylight Saving Time. There’s even studies that show there are
more heart attacks right afterward. So there does seem to be
some very real implications for this,” Cohen said.
Experts suggest easing slowly into the time change may help some
adjust better.
“If you are one of these sensitive individuals, start setting
your clock back by 15 minutes, even four or five days before, to
make the change more gradual,” Samton suggested.
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