Saturday, December 5, 2020

Journal Question #7

The winter solstice comes this year on December 21st.  It is the shortest day of the year; after the solstice, there is a little more sunlight every day, up until June 21st.  Since ancient times. humans have celebrated the return of light to the earth - the picture above is of Stonehenge, in England, which was built as a kind of solar calendar by ancient people in England.  How about you: will you celebrate the solstice?  Do you hate the increasing darkness of the days this time of year?  Are you a sun worshipper?
 

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  1. AnonymousDecember 7, 2020 at 12:26 PM

    When the summer solstice, I will celebrate together with my friends, because the summer solstice is the end of a season and the beginning of a season, which makes people happy. It will not make us feel that it will be more and more dark. Each season has the benefits of each season, so I like it very much

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  2. Gabriela FernándezDecember 14, 2020 at 11:03 AM

    I don’t celebrate any solstice, but if I would I wouldn’t celebrate winter solstice. Even though I like winter, because of Christmas. I wouldn’t celebrate it because I don’t like having more darkness and less hours of sun. The sun is a very important “ingredient” for my mood and how I feel. When I have more sun I feel better with more energy and more enthusiasm.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 14, 2020 at 6:47 PM

    Honestly this is my first time hearing about the solstice.I have never celebrated once or witnessed myself. Personally, I don't understand why they must celebrate for such a thing. Perhaps the lack of knowledge for events, background, and people's beliefs. I like the increasing darkness of the days.I feels more comfortable and warm with the darkness. I find it unsettling ,waking up early with a bright ray shooting through my eyes. Despite my personality, no, I’m not a sun worshipper.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 16, 2020 at 11:03 AM

    I do not think this day is bad, the truth is that it does not make me sad, on the contrary, it pleases me, apart from the fact that it seems to me a very interesting phenomenon, the night seems to me something relaxing and beautiful.

    Ayla Catasus

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  5. AnonymousDecember 16, 2020 at 9:01 PM

    I won’t celebrate solstice this year.Honestly,I haven’t heard of anyone celebrating it.I more prefer summer time because during that time day lasts longer than night what makes me more happy, healthy and energetic.Also,I hate this period of year because darkness increasing and if we sleep a little bit longer we can see light just for a couple of hours.I’m sun worshipper.

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  6. AnonymousDecember 17, 2020 at 12:25 AM

    Hanwen Liu
    Here in China we will celebrate the winter solstice. We will make dumplings at home, because there is an old Chinese saying that eating dumplings can protect you from freezing. , So we will eat dumplings to celebrate the winter solstice. I will not hate darker days because I don’t think I like bright days too much. I am not a sun worshiper.

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  7. AnonymousDecember 17, 2020 at 6:55 PM

    Khoa Vu
    Vietnam located near Equator so the different of night time almost no difference between summer and winter. We don't celebrate solstice like the other country. When I'm at Vietnam the sun raise at 5:45 and set at 18:15 at summer and raise at 6:15 and set at 17:45 at winter, I really don't mind of increase of night time. But when I'm at USA, I'm feel unusual at November, I see the sky though it was 19:00 actually it was 16:30. I'm not wordship to any god like Sun.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 18, 2020 at 4:53 AM

    First, I’m a sun worshipper. So I hate increasing darkness. If it’s increasing darkness of the day, I can’t play outside sports for a long time. Also, I think the sun gives me energy. That’s why I hate increasing darkness. But it’s different each people that what people feel about darkness. That’s a interesting point of human. So I think it’s good to celebrate the solstice. I think it’s a difference between our culture and other cultures. I think talking bad things about other cultures is not good. So we have to keep it in mind.

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  9. AnonymousDecember 18, 2020 at 7:52 AM

    I haven't listen about solstice . I hate the dark, because I can't exercise and if it's dark, there's an increased chance of accidents. I prefer summer time since I have more time to play soccer and more time to do something.So I'm sun worshiper.

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  10. AnonymousDecember 18, 2020 at 2:47 PM

    I have never heard about celebrating solstice before. I don’t think I’m a sun worshipper. I’m not a sunworshipper but I still like day more than night, although no I’m a night person.

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  11. AnonymousDecember 18, 2020 at 7:26 PM

    I never heard about celebrating solstice. Also I don’t really care about night time goes longer, because I usually stay at home for all day. And also when I have to go somewhere, I usually use car.

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  12. Tom GriffinDecember 19, 2020 at 12:17 PM

    from Pablo:

    I prefer light you can see everything and in the dark is nothing to do, no soccer , no sport basically because you can see nothing that’s why people that steal or murder do it in the night or in the dark, because de other people can’t see

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  13. AnonymousDecember 20, 2020 at 2:25 PM


    I think the sun worshiper but I don’t really celebrate This day Because I haven’t quite heard this thing before and I don’t like a lot of darkness because it really upsets me and I cannot play sports in darkness and on the other hand The reason why I love sun is That I can’t go out and spend a lot of time with my family outside

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  14. AnonymousDecember 20, 2020 at 5:30 PM

    I will celebrate the winter solstice. To be precise, Northeast China will celebrate the winter solstice. It reminds us of places to store food and thicken clothes. Although I don't know why the winter solstice is celebrated, I will do it even though it is because of dumplings. I don’t hate the daytime and I’m not a sun admirer, but I like winter nights, especially in my hometown winter nights. I don’t know why there is always a unique charm that attracts me in my hometown winter nights.

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  15. AnonymousDecember 21, 2020 at 8:32 AM

    I am going to celebrate for the winter solstice. Because I like the short time of day time since I feel comfortable when it is night time. Which means the solstice would give me the comfortable feeling more than the usual time.

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  16. AnonymousDecember 23, 2020 at 5:55 AM

    The winter solstice has been a very important festival since ancient times. I will spend this day with my family. We will discuss the harvest and thoughts of the year together. Every time we come to this day, we will eat certain foods such as noodles or others. Pasta.

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  17. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2021 at 10:05 AM

    I don't celebrate the summer solstice. It's not necessarily a bad thing that the days get darker and darker, because I can sleep longer on weekends, although I hate the temperature now. I like the light of the sun, because the light of the sun will illuminate and warm the poet's heart.

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  18. UnknownJanuary 22, 2021 at 10:33 AM

    I will celebrate the solstice. Because solstice is kinda unique day, it doesn't happen in common day. Moreover, if it's dark all day, it would looks super amazing. I haven't celebrate the solstice before, so if I have a chance, i wanna celebrate it-cha-

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