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Happy Solstice!

Bulletproof said:
Warmer? Maybe not. Days will start getting longer though. The longest "night" happened yesterday for you. So you can look forward to longer and longer days from here until around Dec. 21st, when the days will start to get shorter again.

Solstice is a beautiful holiday! It is a marker of hope and happiness. Each one, Winter and Summer, are times of joy for reasons that hove nothing to do with the arbitrary or mysterious.
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I don't think we celebrate that here.. I haven't heard of it.. haha..
 
ONE LOVE said:
I don't think we celebrate that here.. I haven't heard of it.. haha..
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It is not really a holiday, per se. It is a thing that our planet does as it rotates around the sun. I'll post an instructive picture.

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So for me, in the Northern hemisphere (where normal people live) the Summer Solstice is the day with the longest period between dawn and dusk. The Winter Solstice is the longest night, as far as periods between when the sun sets and rises again. The Vernal and Fall equinox marks the days when the period between sunrise and sunset are equal to the period between sunset and sunrise (day and night are exactly equal). These are not supernatural, they are not religious, they are not man-made holidays. These are things that happen to us and our planet as it spins around the sun on it's tilted axis.

But it matters. It affects us. It is part of who we are and how we interact with the planet we live on. It is real.
 
Bulletproof said:
So for me, in the Northern hemisphere (where normal people live) the Summer Solstice is the day with the longest period between dawn and dusk. The Winter Solstice is the longest night, as far as periods between when the sun sets and rises again. The Vernal and Fall equinox marks the days when the period between sunrise and sunset are equal to the period between sunset and sunrise (day and night are exactly equal). These are not supernatural, they are not religious, they are not man-made holidays. These are things that happen to us and our planet as it spins around the sun on it's tilted axis.

But it matters. It affects us. It is part of who we are and how we interact with the planet we live on. It is real.
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Exactly. More real than your Tobias Harris folly

I’m freezing my **** off and it’s dark before dinner. I hate June
 
Bulletproof said:
Days will start getting longer though. The longest "night" happened yesterday for you. So you can look forward to longer and longer days from here until around Dec. 21st, when the days will start to get shorter again.
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Actually, the days start getting shorter now, until the Autumnal Equinox, about Sept. 21st, when days and nights are of equal length, after which the days keep getting shorter still, until the Winter Solstice, about Dec. 21st, the shortest day of the year, after which the sun begins its journey north again, and the days begin to get longer once more.

Oh, but maybe it's flipped where One Love lives? Now I'm really confused. Where's my coffee, lol..

So, Happy Summer Solstice!

And once we reach the 4th of July, Summer flies by, every year, lol...
 
Bulletproof said:
So for me, in the Northern hemisphere (where normal people live) the Summer Solstice is the day with the longest period between dawn and dusk. The Winter Solstice is the longest night, as far as periods between when the sun sets and rises again. The Vernal and Fall equinox marks the days when the period between sunrise and sunset are equal to the period between sunset and sunrise (day and night are exactly equal). These are not supernatural, they are not religious, they are not man-made holidays. These are things that happen to us and our planet as it spins around the sun on it's tilted axis.

But it matters. It affects us. It is part of who we are and how we interact with the planet we live on. It is real.
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I don’t believe it.
 
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