Are you in favor of this Bible command?

[Richard]

The 7 day week comes from a Judeo-Christian background.  It is right out of the Bible.  Would you be in favor of metricizing the work week to say, 10 days with 2 days off?  Or perhaps some other solution?

Or would you want to keep it like the Bible dictates it to be?

[A18]

Give it another 100 years and the Massachusetts Supreme Court will rule the 7 day week unconstitutional.

Anyway, the Bible does say the earth was created in 6 days (and on the 7th, God rested), but I think you're wrong on this. I don't think the Bible actually established the 7 day week. The tradition might be based on that, but it is not in the text itself, I'm quite sure.

[Richard]

Exodus 20:9, 10 basically establishes 6 days of work + 1 day of rest.

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Exodus 20:8-11 (KJV)
   ⁸Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
   ⁹Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
   ¹⁰But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
   ¹¹For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

[John Dibble]

7 days is just fine, and that has nothing to do with the Bible saying it. 5 days of work then 2 of rest has served us well.

[phk]

Just as long as the number of days designated in the week is set to a number that is a factor of 365, were alright.

No need to fix something that isn't broken.

If we metracized it, we'd have to rework quite a bit.

[David S]

Just as long as the number of days designated in the week is set to a number that is a factor of 365, were alright.

No need to fix something that isn't broken.

If we metracized it, we'd have to rework quite a bit.

I agree with your last two statements, but as for the first it doesn't work with 7.       365/7= 52.14 but so what?

Anyway changing the number of days in the week would confuse the heck out of everyone and would serve no purpose.

[phk]

Just as long as the number of days designated in the week is set to a number that is a factor of 365, were alright.

No need to fix something that isn't broken.

If we metracized it, we'd have to rework quite a bit.

I agree with your last two statements, but as for the first it doesn't work with 7.       365/7= 52.14 but so what?

We've devised leap years to take care of that remainder.

[John Dibble]

Just as long as the number of days designated in the week is set to a number that is a factor of 365, were alright.

No need to fix something that isn't broken.

If we metracized it, we'd have to rework quite a bit.

I agree with your last two statements, but as for the first it doesn't work with 7.       365/7= 52.14 but so what?

We've devised leap years to take care of that remainder.

Actually, we devised leap years because it takes 365.25 days for the earth to revolve around the sun, not because of that other remainer.

[opebo]

I don't care about the length of the week, but we need to move to three days off, four days on, plus more holiday time - say at least 6 weeks per year.

[A18]

I don't care about the length of the week, but we need to move to three days off, four days on, plus more holiday time - say at least 6 weeks per year.

Yeah, what a great way to damage productivity!

[ian]

I don't support either of the options.  Don't necessarily "obey the bible" but keep the 7-day week b/c it works.

[angus]

"Man, these two-day workweeks are killing me."
   --George Jetson

Anyone old enough to remember that show?  All anti-gravity, no internet.  Funny how people the future will be till they actually get there.

[John Dibble]

"Man, these two-day workweeks are killing me."
   --George Jetson

Anyone old enough to remember that show?  All anti-gravity, no internet.  Funny how people the future will be till they actually get there.

Where the hell is my foodarackicycle and robot maid? *shakes fist*

[JohnFKennedy]

"Man, these two-day workweeks are killing me."
   --George Jetson

Anyone old enough to remember that show?  All anti-gravity, no internet.  Funny how people the future will be till they actually get there.

I remember that show and I am 17 . Not seen that in AGES!

[Gabu]

Well, technically, we're not following the Bible command, because the usual scheme of things is to work for five days and then take two days off.

[David S]

I don't care about the length of the week, but we need to move to three days off, four days on, plus more holiday time - say at least 6 weeks per year.

Opebo you already have a zero day work week and 7 day weekends.

[angus]

opebo, I never have understood the constant bitching about this either.  clearly you have more holiday time than I do.  and I have far more than six weeks per year.  so what the hell are you still bitching for?  you're like my sister.  except she's on drugs most of the time.  what's  your excuse?

[opebo]

I don't care about the length of the week, but we need to move to three days off, four days on, plus more holiday time - say at least 6 weeks per year.

Opebo you already have a zero day work week and 7 day weekends.

opebo, I never have understood the constant bitching about this either.  clearly you have more holiday time than I do.  and I have far more than six weeks per year.  so what the hell are you still bitching for?  you're like my sister.  except she's on drugs most of the time.  what's  your excuse?

That's the point guys, I know how great it is to have weekend all the time - heck I rarely even know what day of the week it is.  I just think people undervalue leisure - perhaps because they've never had any, but more likely because they are desperate for money - and they should really fight for it politically.

[Gabu]

That's the point guys, I know how great it is to have weekend all the time - heck I rarely even know what day of the week it is.  I just think people undervalue leisure - perhaps because they've never had any, but more likely because they are desperate for money - and they should really fight for it politically.

I could slack off seven days a week and live off welfare, but why would I?  It would be an entirely meaningless life in which you accomplish absolutely nothing.

[opebo]

I don't care about the length of the week, but we need to move to three days off, four days on, plus more holiday time - say at least 6 weeks per year.

Yeah, what a great way to damage productivity!

Productivity is how much is production per hour worked AuH20.  Reducing total hours worked might reduce production, but it has nothing to do with productivity.

[opebo]

That's the point guys, I know how great it is to have weekend all the time - heck I rarely even know what day of the week it is.  I just think people undervalue leisure - perhaps because they've never had any, but more likely because they are desperate for money - and they should really fight for it politically.

I could slack off seven days a week and live off welfare, but why would I?  It would be an entirely meaningless life in which you accomplish absolutely nothing.

You couldn't live on welfare if  you are in the US, particularly if you are a single person, as they wouldn't give it to you.  Besides, leisure is no more 'meaningless' than work.  But it is more fun.

[Alcon]

Opebo, in 30 years, you're going to have quite the midlife crisis when you think about how you've spent your life.

[opebo]

"Man, these two-day workweeks are killing me."
   --George Jetson

Anyone old enough to remember that show?  All anti-gravity, no internet.  Funny how people the future will be till they actually get there.

Just think, that show is only about 35 years old, but things certainly have changed - people back then actually expected things to get better not worse.  We certainly ought to be progressing in the direction of the two day work week instead of in the opposite direction.

[opebo]

Opebo, in 30 years, you're going to have quite the midlife crisis when you think about how you've spent your life.

Not a chance.  I might have a crisis about money, but not about 'meaning'.