Axial tilt. The reason for the season.
Happy Solstice, everybody!
Dec 22 2011
Axial Tilt
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shouldbeworking
December 22, 2011 at 1:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thank you for such a moving post.
Allen the atheist, curmudgeon of a physics teacher.
stonyground
December 22, 2011 at 2:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The recognition that midwinter festivals pre-date Christianity is starting to become a regular feature on the blogs that I visit. Not all of them are science and religion-bashing blogs, some are just news, UK politics and general commentary type blogs.
Andrew T.
December 22, 2011 at 2:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Brilliant! I had been having trouble picking a theme for my holiday cards this year, but this one hits the spot.
Gregory
December 22, 2011 at 3:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Let us keep the Sol in Solstice!
Parse
December 22, 2011 at 3:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And a very merry twenty-three degrees to you too!
'Tis Himself, OM.
December 22, 2011 at 4:36 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Bah. Humbug even.
Happy Solstice! Out upon Happy Solstice! What’s Solstice time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will every idiot who goes about with ‘Happy Solstice’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
With apologies to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.
F
December 22, 2011 at 7:27 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Mmmmm. Holly steak.
Snoof
December 23, 2011 at 1:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thanks to A Very Scary Solstice, I can no longer hear the Carol of the Bells as anything _but_ the Carol of the Old Ones!
Truly, it is the most squamous and eldritch of all holiday albums.
Snoof
December 23, 2011 at 1:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ah, curses. Meant to post in the other topic. Oh well.
less of me
December 23, 2011 at 10:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Merry Solstice to All, and to All a 23.5 degree Axial Tilt!”
Jeffrey Soreff
December 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There is a very nice rationalist solstice celebration
over at less wrong:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/8×5/ritual_report_nyc_less_wrong_solstice_celebration/
one of the high points is a reading of
a dramatization of evolution