You get the day off, that's already worth celebrating. No need to care about the history behind the holiday.
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Solstices and equinoxes. And ideally the mid points between them. It's been one of the best parts of my paganism to just feel in touch with the year as it goes by like that, but you don't need to be pagan for it.
Baking some bread in early August because summer is halfway over is nice. Having a mid spring and Halloween bonfire is nice. Lighting candles for midwinter is great for the mental health in the gloomiest time of year.
Ironically, soltices and equinoxes don't really matter in tropical countries are we are not affected much by them. I would still love to have those as holidays because why not.
July 26, anniversary of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster, when in 1184 around sixty nobles fell through a collapsed floor and drowned in a pool of excrement.
I think it should be celebrated by 60 of today's "nobles" going through the same.
I have some ideas:
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first Friday of May
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fist Monday and Tuesday of June (long weekend! classic)
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last Friday of September
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first Monday of December
I propose twelve holidays: 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, 4/4, 5/5, 6/6, 7/7, 8/8, 9/9, 10/10, 11/11, and 12/12.
Love it!
The 11th of November is Remembrance day (the whole minute of silence on the 11th minute, hour, day, and month thing was a big thing at my old school)
11/11 is also a big holiday in East Asia, Pocky Day in Japan, Peppero Day in Korea (both because of the resemblance to the tasty stick biscuits), and Singles Day in China (the 1s represent unmarried individuals), all three of which are huge shopping days for Asian malls (similar to Black Friday, but combined with the hyper consumerism of the Asian markets)
The 11th of November is Remembrance day (the whole minute of silence on the 11th minute, hour, day, and month thing was a big thing at my old school)
We have it already, at 11:11h, but not for remembrance, but it marks the begin of the carnival season
The solstices and equinoxes seem like a good natural choice. Various cultures past and present have celebrated them but since they're natural events experienced by everyone they can be culturally neutral. They happen even independently of whatever calendar system you use and are important milestones of the year.
Wyld Stallyns day
A day to remember that we must first be excellent to each other then we can party on, dude.
Once a year, for one glorious day, it’s “hunt a billionaire” day! Everybody gets the day off work and is allowed ONE tag (per individual). Any prizes’ estates are liquidated and awarded to a charity of the hunter’s choice.
Nothing can be celebrated by everyone. Even pizza isn't universally liked and appreciated.
Everyone loves pizza.
It's pineapple on pizza that we're divided about.
It's pineapple on pizza that we're divided about.
I'm convinced that whole thing is a psyop by either the government or a marketing agency to see how intensely tribalized and indignant people can get over something so trivial. Lol
...it's an amazing combination and if someone disagrees they don't have to have it lol. :p
…it’s an amazing combination and if someone disagrees they don’t have to have it lol. :p
How much did the government pay you to say that?
Especially with our looming climate apocalypse I think Arbor Day would be fun if it was reframed as a day for hanging out outside, doing volunteer work for local parks. Make it fun and educational
Similarly International Workers' Day (or May Day) needs to be more seriously celebrated until we reach utopia status
I think May Day will be even more important once we win. But also the events that made it international workers day happened because it was already the mid spring holiday with deep pagan community roots, so it's worth also taking time that day to smell a flower and maybe gather over a fire with friends and comrades
I think we need more global holidays. Right now we have New Year's and... I think that's kind of it. April Fools' Day had a bit of momentum at the start of the internet but I feel like it lost something as it got chewed up and digested by the corporations that control so much of the internet now.
Some ideas, off the top of my head:
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Friends' Day: tell your friends you care about them. An opportunity to message someone you haven't talked to in a while, just to let them know you still think about them. A time to meet up with your local friends too. I've had a few Friendsgiving get-togethers over the years and I find them highly preferable to the born-into-family version of Thanksgiving Day.
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Neighbor Day: Have a block party with the people who live around you, or get to know someone on the other side of the world. A time for the world to recognize that we're all in this together so we might as well get to know each other.
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Big Problem Brainstorm: we can't all focus on all the big problems all the time. I think it's good that we all take breaks. But, I think we should have one day a year where we all take the day, pick a problem, and try to make it better. We don't all have to work on the same thing, but we all pick something. Energy crisis, food crisis, housing crisis, environmental crisis, just pick a thing. Maybe you pick a problem and find out you like working on it, maybe you meet some people and decide to form a group to work on it long term. Maybe you don't, and you just spend one day more than you would have thinking about how to make the world a little better. I think it would be cool.
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Carnival: I know we already have this one in parts of the world, but I think it would be cool if we all celebrated it all at the same time. Global Carnival. Sounds dope.
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People who don't usually post day (better name TBD): Everyone who talks on the internet the other 364 days of the year just chills for a second and lets the rest of the world talk.
I'll agree to number five if those of us who lack the natural ability to not be interrupted all the time get the opposite in return. While they post, the rest of us can speak.
Never thought about it.
Maybe something for found families. We’re have so many traditional familial relationship days, but nothing for the family you made along the way. The friends who became brothers and sisters, and the kids you “adopted” along the way. Stuff like that.
Maybe a no-tech day. Call it Disconnect Day. Make it on a weekend so you’re not taking the piss outta bankers and such, and obviously exempt medicine, but everyone else is frowned upon for looking at any screen.
Maybe a no-tech day. Call it Disconnect Day.
I like this as kindof an extension to Earth Hour on Earth Day. The idea being if a lot of non-essential electrical stuff goes unused for an hour at the same time, it produces a positive impact.
No screens at all would be a bit of a drag though, when we live in a society (lol) that has been so massively fragmented that this is primarily how many people can communicate.
...Maybe a zero media consumption day. Chats only? That'd be neat.
Sorry I'm just expanding on your idea, I like it. 🌎
Labor day (1 may) is the first that comes to mind. Days like mother's day could work, but they're always on sunday.
11 November and 2 September as the end of WW 1 & 2 would apply for most of the world, but maybe that would only encourage people to start new world wars in order to get more holidays.
but maybe that would only encourage people to start new world wars in order to get more holidays.
LOL...well maybe we can all unite and wage a global war vs. our bosses to get more holidays? :D
The ends of WWI and II depend on countries… and so does mother’s day.
And they should. Australia currently has the Easter spring festival in autumn
The end of the counties involvement depends on the country, the end of the war does not. For mother's day there is an internationally recognized date with some countries using a different date.
Seems like a lot of work just to get a day off.
Alive Day: can be celebrated any day and by anyone around the world, so long as they are living.
so long as they are living.
For everyone else, see: Dia de los Muertos.
Crazy hair day
I just realised that while here in Spain almost all holidays are after one saint or another, I've never thought of them as religious holidays (outside of holy week). To me and most people I know it is just the name of the holiday or festival.
Labour day is celebrated by Australia by almost everyone taking it off. So there is that one.
I'm in favour of ditching the royal birthday for a friends and family day. Make it a Friday so we can shorten it to FFF ( sorry Factorio)
Definitely in favour of abandoning the celebration of some old monarch's birthday.
What did ostriches ever do to you?
Nothing... Allegedly.
What has that to do with holidays?
Oh, you don't want a holiday where the publicly voted and most despised person in your city/country has to leave for 10 years?
Was it that hard to elaborate just a little?
No, that's a terrible idea for a holiday
God forbid you think critically about something without being led around by the hand, but thanks for the interaction and opinion, I suppose.
Again! What are you talking about? Other people don't share your train of thought, your conclusions are not obvious to everybody.
Your idea for a holiday is terrible because is based on hate, and punishment. What can go wrong?
(Whispers)
Psssttt....
I think they're making a playful nudge that this would be a good way to kick out the handful of stubbornly-rooted "most hated people on the planet" that are ruining it for everyone else, like the orange one and the apartheid mine baron one, and the genocidal ones, and the tech-bro ones...
...I agree though as a concept in a polite society, "blame it all on the most unpopular person and make them get lost" day feels like it'd be stressful and rooted in mean-spiritedness. XD
Wonderful, thanks again for the input. I'm sure your name wouldn't appear on many of those shards of broken pottery.