This is actually, factually incorrect. We used to celebrate winter solstice and this is directly caused by and deterministically occuring on a certain (albeit slightly blurry) point of our orbit.
Quite. “… completely arbitrary” is wrong.
X days after winter solstice where X is completely arbitrary.
It’s not that far off the solstice.
We are the part of the universe with consciousness so if we decide it isn’t arbitrary then it isn’t.
Besides I like new years eve, it’s a good time for reflection, resetting my motivation and optimism and an excuse to party all night
Anyone who celebrates anything that isn’t relevant to me personally is an idiot.
100% arbitrary
Sure, if you ignore the expansive history of humans’ measurement of time and the cultural impacts on it. That’s just looking for reasons to be a dismissive ass, though.
The sun and moon dont give a fuck
That’s mercury!
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oh you’re mad mad, huh? I don’t have the time right now to stick my nose in y’all’s drama but I’m gonna warn you to be nice or you’re gonna be banned by someone
lol
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Irrelevant to the claim. Something isn’t arbitrary just because you don’t care about it.
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The fact you think that’s the moon explains a lot.
Isn’t the moon next door to the sun? Theyre both in thr sky together
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Well, it has an actual meaning. The date is arbitrary but the event isn’t.
The same way that our life’s depend on the cycle of day and night, they also revolve around the stations. Cycles of abundance and scarcity, of heat and cold.
Years are points of reference for historical reasons.
To be clear, we are mostly idiots but some non-idiots calculated the days in a cycle.
The date is arbitrary but the event isn’t.
It’s a bit off the mark of the Winter Solstice, which is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
So I wouldn’t even call it arbitrary. It’s highly relevant to a person on Earth, waiting for the day when nights start growing shorter and we can look forward to a spring harvest season.
I might argue that the problem with the New Year is that we don’t also celebrate the Summer Solstice (longest day of the year) and the two Equinoxes.
If it was the winter solstice it wouldn’t be arbitrary.
I celebrate all the solar holidays. What’s stopping you?
Restriction on sale and use of fireworks, mostly
The comic doesn’t say the event doesn’t have meaning its saying the start and finish ppint doesn’t have meaning. Which is exactly what you’re saying.
Then why don’t we light a sparkler everyday at midnight?
You don’t?
Woosh.
Sure, let’s shame everyone for grasping at a somewhat political neutral occasion to spark a little joy in their lives!
You see Mercury, this is why no one invites you to anything.
New Year’s is literally the only holiday I have never disliked
Round numbers and fireworks? Countdown me in!
C’mon man. Thanksgiving has pie! And Turkey! And a celebration of a meal between two warring peoples…who we eventually genocided…hey look! Cranberry Sauce!
do we really need a justification to get together and have fun?; or to have a day off and do fuck all? for those that rather do that instead?; or anything in between?
Hey that guy is having fun! Get him!
people just want to have a reason to celebrate
Earth is celebrating another year closer to the death of the Sun.
Celebrate solstice, y’all. Fuck the hegemonic “holidays”.
Consider for a moment that at any point in that “circuit” this ball of dirt has a ‘non-zero’ chance to be vaporized into dust, making it all the way around actually is a momentous ocassion
But that non zero is extremely close to zero. But it’s making more fun about the fact that January 1st is very arbitrary cosmically. Even the solstice would make more sense
