Re: Timekeeping

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, J.A. Mills wrote:

> In a message dated 10/1/98 3:13:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> raybrown@CLARA.CO.UK writes:
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>  In all these fine schemes, the 7-day week gets overlooked.  Whatever i=
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>  planned, I cannot imagine for one moment that Jews, Muslim or Christia=
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>  will abandon that measurement of time.
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> Why is that an issue?  The world has abandoned Latin as a "modern
> language". European church leaders use the metric system, even though
> that system is not to be found in the bible, the torah, the koran,
> etc.
But none of the Ten Commandments says anything about weights or length.
One of them does mention the 7-day week.

If the secular world went to a 10 day cycle, say, then Jews, Christians
and perhaps Muslims would _still_ demand every 7th day off for religious
reasons (although not the same day...)  No other specifically Biblical
measurement (if there are any relevant ones) affects one's interaction
with society so deeply.

Greetings,
=D8rjan.

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