rotational greetings...

[jay]

Happy solstice, for those who celebrate it.... it doesn't work for me, per se, but I respect the choices of others to follow their own spiritual paths.
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A useful link for those inclined to planetary movement-based holidays (solstice, equinoxes, etc) is here, with tables of dates and UTC times of each from 1992-2020.

Comments

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Ok, I've attempted to rewrite the post to sound less irritating or dismissive, and without losing the US Naval Observatory tables.

[deedeebythebay.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rewrite. *hugs*

[princeofwands.livejournal.com]

Yes, thanks for the effort that went into the rewrite on this post.


I would like to leave this thread with the following parting thoughts.
Please take this rhetorically if you like.

Do you find it necessary or appropriate to pass the same disclaimers as you have here when passing on seasonal well wishes to persons of Jewish faith?

Have you observed this level of disclaimer as common or useful in social settings between people of differing religious backgrounds?

As someone with a stated preference for avoiding making direct confrontational statements, can you imagine the connotation that going to the lengths you have here to disclaim yourself from this particular belief set above and beyond cultural norms?

I think that last one is source of the disconnect between your intention on this post and the reaction from your reader-friends here.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

My two concerns are... expressing confusion, and not being inadvertently viewed as posing as a member of something I'm not. Given Jewish holidays... I have an idea of what's going on at Passover and Yom Kippur. And rarely am I in a position where someone might think I'm posing as Jewish.

More relevant, actually, are disclaimers I issue WRT Southern Baptists and other Christian fundamentalists -- not because of confusion over what they're doing, per se, but because I feel like I need to differentiate my practices and beliefs and politics from theirs, and in some circles I'm assumed to agree unless I overtly dissent. I don't want to be mistaken as passing as a evangelical fundie, even though I *could* in many situations (particularly around my parents' in Atlanta, where it is as much the assumed cultural norm as paganism is an assumed norm in many poly circles) by doing or saying nothing.