A Week Without God

[VanReal]

Okay and how would we count that on our knuckles to determine what decivol we are in and how many days that last decivol has in it in a given year? And what would a minute be when we are counting them down to something? This would be confusing for a lot of us, of course I am sure it'd become digital so I guess it would be okay. Or maybe there would be some kind of conversion table to get us in sync for the first five years or so.

I'm fine with the Godless version above, as long as we'd be godless I don't care what we call them. Wasteday actually sounds good to me, kind of like my current Sundays.

It would work just like a converion from metric to standard. Completly different standards of measurement that do the same thing but the base ten system of metric is more logical and in the end easier to use, just as a base ten time scale would. I serriously dought that it would ever happen for the same reason that the US has never switched to metic even though over the years it has been brought up. It's hard to change a system that so many people are comfortable with even if that system is arbitrary. This is just a thought exercise. Though I know it's not how the thread started, funny by the way.

Got it:)  In payroll employers use a 100 minute clock rather than 60 minute, took me a bit to get used to when I took over that department but now I couldn't imagine going back.  Biggest problem is always thinking in quarters now.

[Tom62]

I'm in for 5 day's week. The problem that we have now is that we work too much and have too little time free for ourselves and our families. By eliminating two working days, factories would reduce environmental pollution;  we would reduce the need for natural resources and would no longer over produce. To do the same amount of work in three working days, companies would have to hire more people. So my 5 day's week would also solve the unemployment problem. Another great advantage is that we would eliminate the the "holy" 6th and 7th days of the Torah and Bible in one single stroke. So no more church bells ringing on Sundays!

[Tanker]

Whos to say it wouldn't be a 10 day week with 2 day or even 3 days off. Or if it was a 5 day week mabey with only 1 day off. In this hypothetical world of base 10 time we would have to completly rescedual how we lived. Holidays (ie; the 4th of july) would still happen on the cronoligical day of where the Earth was positioned, but nothing else would need to be the same. Mabey move the new year to a soltice or eqinox.

[jrosebud]

Perhaps we could do away with the whole cataloging of time altogether.  If what matters most is the present, we could emphasize that by having only three terms for time: lasterday (my daughter's term when she was younger for any time in the past), now, and time-forth.

[Will]

Perhaps we could do away with the whole cataloging of time altogether.  If what matters most is the present, we could emphasize that by having only three terms for time: lasterday (my daughter's term when she was younger for any time in the past), now, and time-forth.

Now that's thinking outside the box! Very minimalist and naturalistic.

[Tom62]

Perhaps we could do away with the whole cataloging of time altogether.  If what matters most is the present, we could emphasize that by having only three terms for time: lasterday (my daughter's term when she was younger for any time in the past), now, and time-forth.

Great idea, I just wonder how we'd deal with appointments, bus-, train- and plane- timetables etc.

[jrosebud]

Perhaps we could do away with the whole cataloging of time altogether.  If what matters most is the present, we could emphasize that by having only three terms for time: lasterday (my daughter's term when she was younger for any time in the past), now, and time-forth.

Great idea, I just wonder how we'd deal with appointments, bus-, train- and plane- timetables etc.

I've been reading too much Nihilistic and Existential philosophy lately.  Not really useful, but elegant, no?