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Hardwired to seek distraction?

Hardwired to seek distraction?

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Why do so many of us seek distraction from our work, even if it's just to check emails, tune into social media, or other (less than) productive activities? I'm doing it right now.

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Because you’re working on a Sunday?

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Yes it’s the Lord’s day and you should not be breaking the sabbath.

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@divegeester I agree praise the Lord

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@divegeester said
Yes it’s the Lord’s day and you should not be breaking the sabbath.
The sabbath is from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.

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@kevin-eleven said
The sabbath is from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.
Correct.

This is just a bit of fun though.

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@divegeester said
Correct.

This is just a bit of fun though.
We're not allowed to have fun, will be reported to the anti fun police.

I just to like working on Sundays actually, just not during American football season.

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@kevin-eleven said
The sabbath is from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.
Is it???
Hang on, I'm trying to remember something...

Mondays' child is full of woe (makes sense)
Tuesdays' child has far to go
Wednesdays' child is loving and giving
Thursdays' child works hard for a living
Fridays' child is something I can't remember
Saturdays' child is full of grace
But the child who is born on the SABBATH day, is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

You mean to tell me that this, which I've believed all my life, is wrong??

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@indonesia-phil said
Is it???
Hang on, I'm trying to remember something...

Mondays' child is full of woe (makes sense)
Tuesdays' child has far to go
Wednesdays' child is loving and giving
Thursdays' child works hard for a living
Fridays' child is something I can't remember
Saturdays' child is full of grace
But the child who is born on the SABBATH day, is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

You mean to tell me that this, which I've believed all my life, is wrong??
Note that the blithely inaccurate moonshine-bibber . . . 😉
(j/k, of course)

Okay okay, the Christian Sabbath does fall on Sunday (although I think a couple of denominations follow the Jewish schedule).

As for the poem, it's Wednesday's child who is full of woe (otherwise Wednesday Addams would be named Monday Addams).

But maybe this has varied among versions over the years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%27s_Child

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@kevin-eleven said
Note that the blithely inaccurate moonshine-bibber . . . 😉
(j/k, of course)

Okay okay, the Christian Sabbath does fall on Sunday (although I think a couple of denominations follow the Jewish schedule).

As for the poem, it's Wednesday's child who is full of woe (otherwise Wednesday Addams would be named Monday Addams).

But maybe this has varied among versions over the years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%27s_Child
I probably just got my days mixed up, happens quite a lot, it's really only the end part that I remember. What day is it, anyway....?

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@indonesia-phil said
I probably just got my days mixed up, happens quite a lot, it's really only the end part that I remember. What day is it, anyway....?
It's usually a day earlier than I think it is, but luckily I'm sitting right next to an automatic calendar that says it is Sunday here, so early Monday in Indonesia.

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