Re: master 9b762c35a1: Add Sefirot to Omer counting

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > But then neither do the names of the Parshiot.  They just name the
  > Bible chapters, they don't tell what one should do with them.

They don't completely spell it out, but the information they give is
pertinent only to that.  Thus, we can understand them as partial or
incomplete instructions for what to do.

  >   "Yom Kippur" and "Eid el fitr" may mean nothing to someone
  > except the name, but may mean the world to someone else, including
  > _exactly_ what should be done or not done on that day.

Indeed, religious people know their customs for certain holidays, but
that's beside the point.  The issue is, what is proper material to
include in the Emacs calendar?  The calendar should limit itself to
naming holidays and should not try to be a guide for ways of
celebrating them.

There are many religions that have ritual calendars, and people could
circulate machine-readable lists of them which they could load into
Emacs.  There could potentially be hundreds of these.  It is fine if
people use them, but we should not include those lists in Emacs.

  > >   > > The natural place would be between
  > >   > > (1) identifications/names of specific days, and
  > >   > > (2) specific things some groups customarily DO on specific named days.

  > I already said: every holiday matches (2), IMO.

I've already shown that that is not so.


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