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Zaldakki wrote:Do public schools also have no school today? I go to a catholic school and we had no school today, yesterday was a half day, and we also have no school monday.

I am on Spring Break.

By law everything is shut down for Holy Week except churches.

Aravea wrote:By law everything is shut down for Holy Week except churches.

Where do you live? Your nation sounds fascist.

Oh yes. In this country, on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday, only four things remain running; gas stations, utility facilities, emergency services and the military.

Wind in the Willows wrote:Unfortunately some things are shut in the United Kingdom, but not everything.

But it's free holiday.

No it was not unusual at all where I live today was pretty normal.

Russian Socialist Soviet States wrote:

Aravea wrote:By law everything is shut down for Holy Week except churches.

Where do you live? Your nation sounds fascist.

Nope nothing's closed.

Aravea wrote:

Russian Socialist Soviet States wrote:Where do you live? Your nation sounds fascist.

I was talking about my nation

This is an OOC part of the forum.

Tagmatium wrote:

Aravea wrote:
I was talking about my nation

This is an OOC part of the forum.

I'm sorry I misread it.

Aravea wrote:

Tagmatium wrote:This is an OOC part of the forum.

I'm sorry I misread it.

No worries - these things happen.

Apparently people in my community don't celebrate Good Friday because I went to work, went shopping, and nothing was closed. I didn't even remember today was Good Friday.

My wife and I are Christians and try to practice our faith as well as we may, realizing we're far from good at it. But we try.

Today her CEO called her in for an important meeting, at 2:30 P.M.

Was the day and time deliberate? Possibly. Maybe it was a way of rubbing in the point that the CEO could not care less about our values, including societal (political, economic) ones.

Businesses were open today, but I didn't have school. We have today and the Monday following Easter off.

Rural Alaska is always shut down, so...yeah.

Easter, Christmas and other religious festival have no place in secular countries, therefore they have to e banned.

Pope Joan wrote:My wife and I are Christians and try to practice our faith as well as we may, realizing we're far from good at it. But we try.

Today her CEO called her in for an important meeting, at 2:30 P.M.

Was the day and time deliberate? Possibly. Maybe it was a way of rubbing in the point that the CEO could not care less about our values, including societal (political, economic) ones.

...whaat.

Dude, I know what that's like to be called in and asked to work funky hours you don't like. No, it's definitely not her boss targeting her values- he was probably just busy, and that was the best time. You win some major points with The Man by working with his schedule and not resenting it.

[EDIT] I'm serious, by the way... any boss who's worth his salt will absolutely cherish the shit out of workers who can work odd schedules and come in suddenly when needed.

I didn't even know what was Good Friday until 2 days ago.

Pope Joan wrote:My wife and I are Christians and try to practice our faith as well as we may, realizing we're far from good at it. But we try.

Today her CEO called her in for an important meeting, at 2:30 P.M.

Was the day and time deliberate? Possibly. Maybe it was a way of rubbing in the point that the CEO could not care less about our values, including societal (political, economic) ones.

I'm Christian too, but I agree with Vicious Debaters. Your wife's CEO probably didn't mean it like that.

Our nation is Atheist. So, no.

Bojikami wrote:Our nation is Atheist. So, no.

Not your NS country, the one you live in.

General is OOC. I don't understand why this is such a hard thing to grasp.

Blazedtown wrote:

Bojikami wrote:Our nation is Atheist. So, no.

Not your NS country, the one you live in.

General is OOC. I don't understand why this is such a hard thing to grasp.

It's an understandable oversight. Sometimes I come here from clicking the 'latest forum topics' in the sidebar and it takes a minute to realize what subforum I'm in.

I'm in a mid-sized midwestern city so it was mostly normal today. Campus was a little quiet but thats any Friday.

Served a lot of people Mexican food today (er yesterday now). Only one sweet old lady mentioned she was being "naughty" for ordering what she had because it was Good Friday. Aren't Christians only supposed to eat fish or something? I dunno. What I think is hilarious is that I have 4/20 off because it's Easter Sunday. I plan on going to downtown Denver and watching all of the people get high in front of the capitol. I would make a killing if I were to sell tacos to everyone there.

Most things were closed until lunch (the metro for example, was closed until 1:00pm); some shops were closed all day.

Then the muezzin's call to prayer sounded out from the mosque minarets around noon, and things started to open up again after the midday prayer.

So about par for the course for an ordinary Friday here in Dubai.

The Archregimancy wrote:Most things were closed until lunch (the metro for example, was closed until 1:00pm); some shops were closed all day.

Then the muezzin's call to prayer sounded out from the mosque minarets around noon, and things started to open up again after the midday prayer.

So about par for the course for an ordinary Friday here in Dubai.

See, that sounds like an adventure.

Rio Cana wrote:So is it like that in your nation. That is if its majority Christian.

Italy here (majority Christian), and no. Venerdì Santo (Good Friday) is an ordinary workday. Schools, though, are closed from Thursday to Tuesday around Easter.