Why do we have seven day week? - Page 2

i referenced the OT, not jeebus? you hard at reading?

 

cool clip, informative, 7 days because god made the universe that way - hardly.

 I actually read your link, did you?

The origin of the seven-day week is the religious significance that was placed on the seventh day by ancient cultures. The earliest ancient sources record a seven-day week in ancient Babylon prior to 600 BCE.^[1]

 BCE  is the alernative to Before Christ, for Christian sensitive people like yourself.  Fact is, the OT is a record of what happened before Christ, a true record.  The Babylonian empire is quite talked about in the Bible, in fact it is also talked about in Bible prophecy.  The Babylonian empire was at it's peak in the times of Abraham.

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000214.htm

 

ok the jews copied it from the babylonians and the bible prophecised things that already happened, and the catholics who wrote the bible at first council of nicea around 300AD, and about everyone on here do not acknowledge the catholics as true christians and about every myth in the bible OT & NT can be found in earler cultures that predate both the OT & NT ....and you were saying.

Since it is just made up for society/peoples to organize their time, you could imagine a world with no weekly cycle at all. Everyone would be like it's day # _ of month X.

Did anyone get to the Chinese and Maya, Egyptian Weeks?

i would prefer to do away with it and just reference the seasons; near my place there is an area that aboriginal tribes congregated at every year to party. they came from very distant areas and took "months" to get there, they always seemed to arrive at the same time more or less in the middle of the jungle, stay a few days and leave.

 

do we really need to be organised into 5, 7, 10 or whatever arbitary number of days  somebody picks for us  per week?

 

i prefer not to if i could.

How about my system for America when I'm Dictator?

(73) 5 day weeks
You work 3.5 days a week
We get rid of Tuesday and Wednesday
You work Monday, Thurs, Fri and half day on Saturday
For the Religious, Sunday is off and you now have 21 extra Sundays for mass, service, etc
That's 109.5 days off vs 104 previously.

I think people would be better rested and the religious can get their fix.

No! That will not work for me. I can not, and I will not make any appointments on a Monday or a Friday if I can help it. If you take away Tuesday and Wednesday, that only leaves me, Thursday. Thursday is always my last choice! I will hate every thing I do, out of protest, if I have to do it on a THURSDAY.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. 

Religious people can squeeze in what they need for meditation/prayer, as they always have. No one will stop them.That is the law. Do the squeeze for Jesus. He will understand if there is a delay in the send.

OK. I'll keep Tuesday and Wed and rid Monday and Thursday.

Worth a try. Don't make it set in stone or anything.

I like the months/moons though :)

It took many moons to cross the Ocean/desert/whatever!