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

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >Quoting Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>light!
> >>
> >>
> >>>And come from a country where night is more or less optional in summer
> ...
> >>>
> >>>                                                          Andreas
> >>>
> >>>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Do you feel similarly strange living at lower lattitudes than you're used
> >>to?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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.
Of course. But the lack of seasonal variation does register, even if it on the
whole troubles me not at all.

                                                        Andreas