Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>:
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>>>There has been periods of my life in which I've more commonly been awake at
>>>midnight than at noon. But then I live in the blessed age of electric
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>>light!
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>>>And come from a country where night is more or less optional in summer ...
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>>>                                                          Andreas
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>>And the converse of this is that day is more or less optional around this
>>time of year at those latitudes.  I found it depressing to arrive at school
>>(after a long commute) with the stars still shining and to have the sun
>>setting before 5pm.  In truth, though, I think I found it even more
>>disturbing to wake up at 6 am to find the sun well up in the sky.  That
>>really messed up my internal clock.  I was kind of happy to return to lower
>>latitudes before midsummer.
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>>Do you feel similarly strange living at lower lattitudes than you're used
>>to?
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>Not really. You get this weird feeling there's no winter (temperature plays a
>role here too!), but that's about it. I actually kind of like the properly
>dark summer nights you get at lower latitudes, since I find it hard to sleep
>without near-total darkness.
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The thing is, those at lower latitudes merely have less variance in
daytimes than those up here(ie. above 50 degrees).  That means that
we've experienced the day-lengths they have, but they never experience
ours.

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