What day is the first day of the week? (1 Viewer)

What's the first day of the week?

  • Sunday

    Votes: 32 42.1%

  • Monday

    Votes: 44 57.9%

  • Other (really?)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    76
Btw anyone trying to stop over in Dubai for a fun weekend, they actually work Sun-Thurs. fairly common in Muslim countries as Friday is the holy day. So don’t expect to be able to go out Saturday night, everything is closed
 
ekricket said:
Arbitrary time measurements are artificially constricting your thought. Once you can free yourself from someone else’s restraining concept of “time” then you can begin to live each moment in its own, and forget about days. Even naming the days is a constraint- do you think any other species on earth knows if it’s Monday or Tuesday? The answer is Thursday by the way, the first night of live poker in the week.
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I was filling out my timecard when I saw the poll, and I looked at it and my calendar on the wall. Both start with Sunday.

Also, Brak starts with Sunday in this song. /thread

 
Schmendr1ck said:
My work week starts on Monday.
My kids go back to school on Monday.
My Google calendar starts on Monday.
Sunday is the last day of the weekend.

GTFO with this "Sunday starts the week" crap! :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
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Then again, my social constructionist view -- that Sunday is the first day of the week (based on religious and political norms passed down for many generations) -- was adopted into the economic fabric of this nation and (despite some modification to the Saturday/Sunday sabbath switcheroo... giving credit to @allforcharity as to the Jewish heritage of present day Christianity) perhaps the primary driver of our modern work and school weeks... which you now cite as the fundamental basis for your own thesis. In the timeless debate of "which came first, the chicken or the egg", would your answer be the egg? If so, you wouldn't necessarily be right or wrong... or it would at least seem rather difficult to prove/disprove. Perhaps anything socially constructed or symbolic might arguably be considered arbitrary if we do not place value on the symbolism jwhich justified its creation in the first place.
 
Steppenwolf said:
Then again, my social constructionist view -- that Sunday is the first day of the week (based on religious and political norms passed down for many generations) -- was adopted into the economic fabric of this nation and (despite some modification to the Saturday/Sunday sabbath switcheroo... giving credit to @allforcharity as to the Jewish heritage of present day Christianity) perhaps the primary driver of our modern work and school weeks... which you now cite as the fundamental basis for your own thesis. In the timeless debate of "which came first, the chicken or the egg", would your answer be the egg? If so, you wouldn't necessarily be right or wrong... or it would at least seem rather difficult to prove/disprove. Perhaps anything socially constructed or symbolic might arguably be considered arbitrary if we do not place value on the symbolism jwhich justified its creation in the first place.
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I tend to think much more pragmatically in matters which, while originating in religion, have become societal, secular constructs.

I'm not denying the Judeo-Christian symbolism of the Sabbath, be it Saturday or Sunday. I might try to justify my view based on the idea that God rested on the seventh day after working all week. If the Sabbath - Sunday in most Christian denominations - is the end of God's week, then it seems like it should be the end of ours, too. But that's a religious argument, not a practical one.

Most Americans call Saturday and Sunday "the weekend." Students and many working adults (including me) begin their work week on Monday. In all ways that matter to my life, the week ends on Sunday and begins on Monday. So it makes little sense to adhere to a different standard that is confusing and inconvenient.

Finally, my original post was a joke, so none of this really matters anyway. ;)
 
Schmendr1ck said:
Finally, my original post was a joke, so none of this really matters anyway. ;)
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I actually did appreciate your joke (as I often do) @Schmendr1ck and simply wanted to pay you the respect of a worthy counterpoint. However, the purpose of this thread does seem more about comic relief than philosophy, so I probably should have been funny, instead of an intellectual bore, in keeping with that theme. My bad. :banghead:
 
Steppenwolf said:
I actually did appreciate your joke (as I often do) @Schmendr1ck and simply wanted to pay you the respect of a worthy counterpoint. However, the purpose of this thread does seem more about comic relief than philosophy, so I probably should have been funny, instead of an intellectual bore, in keeping with that theme. My bad. :banghead:
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Your post made me laugh, and I was pretty sure that was your intent but had to hedge my bet a little - glad I was right. :tup:
 

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