The point isn’t arbitrary. It’s the winter solstice. It just drifted a bit due to history and stuff.
It’s Xmas that highjacked the winter solstice. New year used to be the start of spring (March) then the Romans decided to acknowledge the first 2 months, and then changed the start of the year to January so they could elect some officials to govern Spain instead of waiting an extra 2 months. It’s about as arbitrary as it can get.
https://youtu.be/RrGHtl5qJfk About 24 minutes in to skip to ^
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!
My trans sister got one right!!! Good job midribbon_action !!
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
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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.
Woosh.
Anyone who celebrates anything that isn’t relevant to me personally is an idiot.
