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Not Much Going On Between Easter and Christmas

Rumpel said:

Not Much Going On Between Easter and Christmas?​


There is Whitsun and Corpus Christi Day and Assumption and All Saints Day and Advent and Saint Nicholas' Day.
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Pentecost Sunday is coming up and then Trinity Sunday.
 
calamity said:
A busy few months, the time from Christmas to Easter is. You have a birth in a manger, a new year, someone getting fat on Tuesday and then starving through Passover until it all comes to a head on Good Friday, followed by Resurrection Sunday. But, then what? Nothing...it's like crickets for 9 months.

So, I ask. Why didn't religion find some filler material during barbeque season? Surely they could have found another holiday to make up and put to goof use during the summer months.

Any ideas on what special day we can invent that would fill the time?
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Does it have to be a christian religion?

In new zealand we are getting a brand new public holiday called Matariki day. Matariki marks the rising of the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. It usually rises in late May or early June. In Māori tradition it is seen as a time of renewal.

It is the first time a public holiday has been based on an indigenous belief.

Another difference which makes me laugh is that in america , US workers are not legally entitled to any paid holiday at all. There is no law that requires US employers to offer paid holiday time to their staff.

While in nz all public holidays are such that employers must pay and if they want someone to work during a public holiday they have to pay time and a half and a day in lieu..
 
soylentgreen said:
Does it have to be a christian religion?

In new zealand we are getting a brand new public holiday called Matariki day. Matariki marks the rising of the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. It usually rises in late May or early June. In Māori tradition it is seen as a time of renewal.

It is the first time a public holiday has been based on an indigenous belief.

Another difference which makes me laugh is that in america , US workers are not legally entitled to any paid holiday at all. There is no law that requires US employers to offer paid holiday time to their staff.

While in nz all public holidays are such that employers must pay and if they want someone to work during a public holiday they have to pay time and a half and a day in lieu..
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The US doesn't really have public holidays for the general population. All holidays are for the benefit of Federal Government employees.
 
devildavid said:
The US doesn't really have public holidays for the general population. All holidays are for the benefit of Federal Government employees.
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Good ol" america the land of the free where they are all equal.

The lies american will tell themselves.
 
devildavid said:
The US doesn't really have public holidays for the general population. All holidays are for the benefit of Federal Government employees.
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Strange ideas ....
 
@ goings on

Soon we will have the FIRST of MAY! :)

MAY-DAY! :)
 
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