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 Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:53 pm
I know we already have a "Happy Holidays" thread, but I'm bored and have nothing better to do. So I thought I'd wish everyone a Happy New Year, and bring up a discussion simultaneously.
Why should I have a happy New Year? Yeah, you say s**t like "happy" and "merry" for most holidays, but why New Year? Are we just saying "yay, another year has gone by and we're still alive"? But what about those of us who don't have a happy holiday? I know I'm spending New Year's Eve sitting at home on the computer, making this thread and planning to drink champagne with my parents, then pass out somewhere a few hours afterward. How is that happy? What if we don't look foreward to a new year? Why the hell does everyone pretend to be "happy", when most people hate their lives or themselves to some degree?
Damn, I'm depressing. Sorry about that. Anyway, I know it's a little late for this, but feel free to post your plans for New Year's here, or I suppose any resolutions or stuff that you want. Well, just do whatever the hell you want. This year won't last much longer anyway.
Happy New Year!
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:24 pm
Umm...happy new year to you too...
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:24 pm
I am frickin happy this year. Because I say so.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:26 pm
Joshua_Ritter I am frickin happy this year. Because I say so. And why is that, good sir? "Because I say so" is hardly an excuse.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:43 pm
My boyfriend and I were just talking about this-that this is a national holiday. I guess regardless of our differences, every person in the world can go "Whoopidee! We all agree on the modern calendar enough to mark this day the beginning of a new year! High-five."
I think that's something to celebrate.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:47 pm
Something that makes me curious is....how can it be a national holiday if the whole world celebrates it? XD
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:59 pm
[BlkCat] Something that makes me curious is....how can it be a national holiday if the whole world celebrates it? XD Hmmmm.... we Americans are awfully arrogant. rofl
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:12 pm
Andiela [BlkCat] Something that makes me curious is....how can it be a national holiday if the whole world celebrates it? XD Hmmmm.... we Americans are awfully arrogant. rofl We claim it. It's the Gregorian calendar that we use, very clearly was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, and proposed by an Italian. But we claim it. Just like we claim Puerto Rico. Because we're special.
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Tycho Marinus generated a random number between
1 and 1000000000 ...
299704842!
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:24 pm
China has a different New Year's.
*I point this out then duck behind a rock*
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:25 pm
DrasBrisingr Andiela [BlkCat] Something that makes me curious is....how can it be a national holiday if the whole world celebrates it? XD Hmmmm.... we Americans are awfully arrogant. rofl We claim it. It's the Gregorian calendar that we use, very clearly was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, and proposed by an Italian. But we claim it. Just like we claim Puerto Rico. Because we're special. Yep, no voting right to them or the anyone else on this one. It's ours. Mwhahaha.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:31 pm
KilledbyKarma China has a different New Year's. *I point this out then duck behind a rock* So do other cultures. The Islamic calendar has a different new year, and many others do, also. But the Gregorian calendar has the majority, if I'm not mistaken. The majority of countries, that is. Not the majority of people. Between China and Islamic countries, they'd definetly have the majority of people.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:34 pm
XD Yeah
That's also because of Christian country majority...and the fact that a pope set it in as a used calender
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:43 pm
KilledbyKarma XD Yeah That's also because of Christian country majority...and the fact that a pope set it in as a used calender ...So?
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:20 pm
DrasBrisingr KilledbyKarma XD Yeah That's also because of Christian country majority...and the fact that a pope set it in as a used calender ...So? Hypothetical situation: You're walking down the road, on a warm summer evening, when a man stumbles drunkenly out of an alley and tells you his friend John is a bright guy, knows his stuff. He follows you a little, saying what his buddy John, who died a little while ago, had to say. Freaked out a little? Probably. Similar situation. Only he says that the late Pope John Paul II had some words of wisdom for the world. You might care just a little more. You may not care for the Pope, but knowing that the person held the position, it will hold more meaning. Still freaked out? Probably. If some guy named George, and his Italian friend made a new calendar, no one would have really cared. Even people who dislike Catholicism and Christianity will still pay the Pope some attention, if grudgingly. The Pope suggests it/uses it so other people pick it up. Think of it as a global meme.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:54 am
DrasBrisingr Joshua_Ritter I am frickin happy this year. Because I say so. And why is that, good sir? "Because I say so" is hardly an excuse.
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