bushbushbush3@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 months agoNew Years Evesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square115linkfedilinkarrow-up1867
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minus-squarenull@piefed.nullspace.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoOkay, but why would that mean that New Years Day not being the winter solstice makes it arbitrary to celebrate on Jan 1?
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIt’s arbitrary because there’s no moment that is the obvious beginning of the cycle. That’s the very definition of ‘arbitrary’
minus-squarenull@piefed.nullspace.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat moment is the moment the Julian calendar restarts. It’s not arbitrary at all, and certainly not made so by virtue of it not being the/a winter solstice (your original statement).
Okay, but why would that mean that New Years Day not being the winter solstice makes it arbitrary to celebrate on Jan 1?
It’s arbitrary because there’s no moment that is the obvious beginning of the cycle.
That’s the very definition of ‘arbitrary’
That moment is the moment the Julian calendar restarts. It’s not arbitrary at all, and certainly not made so by virtue of it not being the/a winter solstice (your original statement).