Post #2064314

2026-02-01 05:54 UTC

Okay rereading this this maybe comes off as a bit intense and, uh, hopefully-not-hurtful-I-didn't-mean-it-to-be? Like, I really like, from the sense I've gotten from an outsider perspective, the Discordian project and what it tries to do, and iirc some of the things I've seen it do. I really want it to do what it seems to be doing, as well as possible. And here-- it just seems like it's leaving so much on the table.

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@gaditb@icosahedron.website 2026-02-01 06:08

Like. The Islamic calendar dispenses with solar-cycle (and thus, Gregorian cycle) alignment entirely. That's all I know enough to say about that, but I can talk about my practice-- I use, on a weekly-at-least basis, a calendar that maintains its solar-cycle alignment by tossing in an extra month sporadically on a 19 year cycle. The end and start of days vary, ranging from 3pm to 8pm, depending on day of the year, latitude, longitude-within-the-time-zone, and /elevation/. (And, arguably, which day of the week it is.) ... also varying, by those same (nonparenthetical) conditions, is the length of an hour. (These are the parts that affect day-to-day living in practical, tangible, ways. I'm skipping the circumstantial technicalities like how a minority interpretation holds that our calendrical new year, on the first and second day of the 7th month, is halachically one single day.)

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