Poll, links, hurrah!

[axver]

One poll, two questions plus the obligatory Axver bonus.

Question one: purplicious and I somehow ended up discussing on what day the week starts. She says Sunday; my mother also says Sunday but I grew up being taught Monday in the schools. I'd also like to point out the fact that Sunday is one of the two days of the weekEND, not the weekSTART

Comments

[screendoor3]

It's like bookends. They're bookends, but they're on opposite sides of the week. Yes the two days of the weekend are bookends and the rest of the days are books. Simple. Call me old fashioned, but I thought a lot about this growing up and that's what I came up with.

[axver]

That is EXACTLY the same example as the one Kate gave me.

I say you have five working days, then two off, then the cycle repeats. It's a cycle, or it's a line of days extending on into infinity. There's no bookending about it.

[screendoor3]

Great minds think alike.

Who says time is linear?

[axver]

Time is a linear progression from past through present to future, an endless line of seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc., extending on into the future. There's no bookending, but a continual line.

[screendoor3]

Time is an illusion.

In any case, the bookends are a part of that line, so they don't break the line.

[axver]

Time is an illusion? Come off it.

[screendoor3]

Reality is an illusion, therefore time is an illusion.

[screendoor3]

Bookshelves. Each week is on a different bookshelf.

[axver]

Time doesn't suddenly come to a halt at 11:59:59pm on a Saturday and jump down to another shelf though. It continually flows. There's no bookends.

[screendoor3]

It's continually flowing, it's just more organized is all.

[axver]

It's a single line.

Bookends would end that line. It would cut time into millions and millions of distinct, separate micro-lines.

[screendoor3]

Who says we can't?

[axver]

Because time is a continuous flow.

[screendoor3]

It's not linear.

[screendoor3]

From your point of view.

[purplicious]

*high fives*