Fronleichnam
I could Google it and find out what in the world that is. But I’m actually enjoying the mystery a little. I can tell you it’s the reason I get work off on Thursday, when seemingly everyone else still has to work.
For those of you who don’t know, Germany has a very fair way to decide what days are holidays. The majority of each province effectively “wins”, and whatever holidays are associated with their religious beliefs are the official ones. So here in the southern-most province of Germany, Bayern, the majority is Catholic. That means that people working in Bayern get holidays that aren’t celebrated in the neighboring province, Hessen (think Frankfurt) - since Hessen is majority Protestant. This is a useful way to maintain separation of church and state; by treating religion as part of culture, the big religious holidays can be days off work without making the things they stand for part of what the government stands for.
Of course, if you work in Bayern and your partner works in Hessen, there will be a few days in the year your holidays don’t match. But who cares? Just means you’ll get the house, the TV, and the sun or snow to yourself for those extra hours :)
on June 6th, 2007 at 2:17
hehe yeah you can look at it that way but i would rather spent my time with my love instead of sitting alone gaming dragging the hours of time alone.
on June 6th, 2007 at 13:16
and what’s wrong with gaming? i love gaming as much as i love….what’s her name again? *lol* (i’m not alone gaming when i’ve got thousands of other guy-gamers to chat with.)
what if you’re atheist? does that mean if a province is mostly atheist, they get no holidays? or the agnostics, do they get every holiday just to try them out? and the existentialists, hell, they will get every day off, sortof a permenant holiday.
i’m an interventionist, an evolution of evolutionism, a creation of creationism. i believe the leap from australopithesene (sp?) to neanderthal to cro-magnon to homo sapien were genetically engineered/enhancements by the annunaki/nefilim to aid them in terraforming/cultivating this planet. They were gods because they taught us things we would not know, like the 12 month calender and zodiac, of procession, of the equinoxes, etc. etc.