From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 20:48:03 MST
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was describing the Hebrew calendar instead of the Islamic calendar.
> I was confused and Spike is correct. The Islamic calendar is shorter than
> the Gregorian one, it does not have leap years, and holidays do migrate
> around the year.
Here's a bit of curious lore from the history of
the Seventh Day Adventist meme, which started in
the U.S. in the 1840s. Around 1860 god told the
prophetess Ellen G. White to send missionaries
to the rest of the world, which consisted in those
days of the European continent.
The meme didn't sell in England, didn't sell in
France, didn't sell in Spain, Italy or Germany.
But in one of history's many curiously unexplainable
happenstances, it caught on like wildfire in...
Sweden. (Why Sweden, Anders?)
Turns out, about the same time, god told Ellen
that sabbath would be observed not midnight to
midnight as had been their custom, but rather from
sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. This created
a hardship for the Swedes, for in winter it would
nuke two workdays as sunset receded to not much
past noon. Indeed the far north, Swedes would have
no sunset, for on some winter days there was no
sunrise.
The local Swedish Jews had managed to work out
an arrangement, or rather the more open-minded ones
among them, of observing Shabbos from 6 PM to 6 PM
the year around. The more traditional minded Jews
observed Shabbos strictly according the heavenly
signs, inconvenient or no.
The perplexed Swedish Adventists wrote to Sister White
in a letter that has been preserved. They asked, should
we observe the holy hours from 6 to 6, or shall we
observe strictly by the sun?
She prayed fervently, then advised them to
move south.
The exploding Swedish Seventh Day Adventist movement
imploded. It has never recovered to this day.
I don't expect the SDA meme to sell in LEO or on
Mars either.
spike
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