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4936396 No.4936396[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Why is it that so many books have 'last Thursday' as a point of reference?

>> No.4936400

Because they'll see you next Thursday.

>> No.4936401

>>4936396
Last Thursdayism holds that is when the world was created.

>> No.4936405

Encyclopedia dramatica pls go

>> No.4936407

>>4936396
Probably the same reason why:
Pick a number between 1 and 10
[%]It was 7 wasn't it[/%]

>> No.4936410

>>4936407
wtf is [%]

>> No.4936412

>>4936407
Shit I haven't used spoilers in ages, I forgot how. Well the point's still there

>> No.4936417

>>4936410
I think some other board uses them, I must've got mixed up.

>> No.4936421

>>4936417
Blaze it.

>> No.4936424

What reason? I mean, even in hazard, most players will choose seven despite the range of choices being 1-12, so I don't know what effect you're trying to demonstrate.

>> No.4936429

>>4936424
>>4936407 forgot to link

>> No.4936450

>>4936424
I think you conflated the numbers and got it into your head I was somehow relating it to the days of the week.
7 hits the mark in randomness, evens don't seem random, 1,3, and 9 are too close to the ends, 5 is right in the middle. People pick 7 because it seems most arbitrary; when picking a day, Thursday seems most arbitrary. Weekends have significance, Monday is always associated with work, Friday is associating with ending and freedom. If someone just wants a random day they'll usually pick Thursday

>> No.4936453

>>4936396
It's because the author tries to be random.

Monday and Sunday are considered the
beginning of the week (depending on calendar format). Friday is the end of the week, as well as Saturday.
That leaves you with Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday is the middle of the week.

>> No.4936459

>>4936396
unrelated to your question, but related to your imagine, i FUCKING HATE IT when calenders start each week with sunday

>> No.4936466

>>4936459
How could anyone get angry at calenders lmao, nevermind bothering to post and in caps lock aswell angry

>> No.4936481

>>4936466
every year i get given one for christmas and it's confusing and enraging to me, even to the point of using the extra effort to type in capital letters in order to express my extreme feelings about this important subject

THEY'RE USELESS TO ME, USELESS

>> No.4936483

>>4936450
Well, not for hazard, 7s in hazard have the best max-min. Last Thursday got swept to the omphalos thory because the world had been predicted to end on a Wednesday at 10pm, making Thursday the earliest the new wold could have been born, so I'm not convinced of its arbitrary nature there either. Good theory for other uses but I want some sauce.

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4936499

>>4936453
>>4936450
That makes a lot of sense now
Thanks

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4936506

>>4936450
>mfw i always pick 1 when people ask me to pick a random number

>> No.4936508

>>4936483
Wait, so... we're talking about choices of the majority of people here... and... you think that Thursday's (a day in the week) arbitrary position for those majority-of-people's lives (9-5, free weekends) doesn't qualify for Thursday being arbitrary, because... the world got predicted to end on a Wednesday so Thursday was the earliest day the new world could have been born? That random thing that the majority of people have no thoughts on, counterbalances Thursday's natural position regarding something completely relevant to almost everyone... ok

>> No.4936515

>>4936424
It's called "gambling" you Pole/Czech/Serb.

>> No.4936560

>>4936508
No I'm saying those two choices are not arbitrary and have enough social impact that other such choices might not be arbitrary at all. Likewise
>I could never get the hang of Thursdays
isn't arbitrary for Adams whe he puts it in the myth of an average human but another of his personal references. Usenet and Adams have a fairly wide spread to influence things to not be, as you picture things, arbitrary.

(The week being arranged as you describe is not natural either as Wednesday and Thursday are named for the primary gods of Norse influence and Monday and Sunday being the start of week is a JudeoChristian thing. Neither positions of the most important day were placed arbitrarily by either, and you seem to be taking it as read that it is arbitrary and the major choice because of this assumed arbitrary nature.)

While it might be the major choice, it might well be influenced by culture and may or may not be arbitrary. However, it's selection for Last Thursdayism, HHGTTG and many other things hasn't been arbitrary, so why you think non abitrary influences wouldn't have impact seems just preconceived.

>> No.4936571

>>4936515
Bah, hazard's in Hoyle's and comes from Arabic through France. It's called history, kraut.

>> No.4936706

>>4936515
>>4936515
hey im a serb i resent this


but really, this whole last thursday thing is like the red hammer thing all over again