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Last year's was awesome and hilarious, would be nice to have a think tank for the April fools though, but I'm down with it being like this for a day112233 said:Not to be "that guy", but this was a disappointing April Fool's for the nexus. I guess the well of ideas has been tapped. My computer didn't even register the mirror flip thing, I guess it changed it to normal automatically, though my ipad mini version was mirrored. All the other April Fool's on the Nexus have been much more subtle and clever, but just flipping the text around? Meh. Perhaps there should be a secret group of Nexians that plot the April Fools prank to keep a once rich tradition alive.
112233 said:Not to be "that guy", but this was a disappointing April Fool's for the nexus. I guess the well of ideas has been tapped. My computer didn't even register the mirror flip thing, I guess it changed it to normal automatically, though my ipad mini version was mirrored. All the other April Fool's on the Nexus have been much more subtle and clever, but just flipping the text around? Meh. Perhaps there should be a secret group of Nexians that plot the April Fools prank to keep a once rich tradition alive.
entheogenic-gnosis said:Ha, this actually got me.
Funny stuff.
I've been around the nexus for a while, though I think this is my first April fools...
I generally pay very little attention to the Gregorian calendar, and was caught off guard.
-eg
downwardsfromzero said:eg, may I ask what calendar - if any - do you use?
Terence McKenna suggested that the neolithic Chinese used a lunar calendar in which a year of 384 days consisted of 13 lunar months (alternating in length between 29 days and 30 days). In a talk entitled "A Calendar for the Goddess" he put forward a proposal for a new calendar similar to the one allegedly used by the neolithic Chinese. In this calendar there are thirteen months in a calendar year, with a total of 384 days. The names of the months, he suggested, could be the same as in the present Gregorian calendar except that there would be an extra month called "Remember" between August and September (so as to remind us to remember the Goddess).
One of the virtues of this calendar, according to its author, would be that it would help to free us from "solar paternalism", subservience to the myth of the solar deity (originally the Roman Emperor, now the chief executive of the modern bureaucratic patriarchal nation state), who rules over a static ordering of time in which everything, from the seasons down, has its fixed and allotted place. A calendar in which years are not seasonal years might, he thought, promote a less bureaucratic mentality. - The Goddess Calendar
DmnStr8 said:Pulled this off the web.
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entheogenic-gnosis said:downwardsfromzero said:eg, may I ask what calendar - if any - do you use?
None I guess, I'm self sufficient and am pretty much able to generate my own schedule, most of the time I don't know what day of the week it is, let alone the month, though I do pay attention to seasons, particularly in interest of the local plant and fungi wildlife as well as my cultivated outdoor and indoor plants plants. I also celebrate the equinoxes and solstices...
I see the Gregorian calander and it's designated holidays as part of the culture that I honestly want very little to do with, most the holidays are marketing schemes any way, and have never been my cup of tea.
I organize time similar to nomadic and tribal peoples, it's based around seasons and plants more than anything else...
-eg