Everybody knows about the ball dropping, but Good Riddance Day in Times Square is a newer tradition, only two years old. “SHRED YOUR BAD MEMORIES – EVERYTHING FROM WORTHLESS STOCK CERTIFICATES AND DEPRESSING BANK STATEMENTS TO PHOTOS OF OLD LOVERS AND DEAR JOHN LETTERS – IN THE HEART OF TIMES SQUARE,” read the invitation on Craigslist.
Step right up and make your New Year’s resolutions public on this open thread.
Religious people are self-controlled not simply because they fear God’s wrath, but because they’ve absorbed the ideals of their religion into their own system of values, and have thereby given their personal goals an aura of sacredness. Nonbelievers could try a secular version of that strategy.
BBC: On Sunday five bishops questioned the morality of policies and whether people should be urged to spend more. One said Labour was “beguiled by
The days are growing noticeably shorter; the nights are longer, deeper, colder. Today the sun did not rise as high in the sky as it did yesterday. Tomorrow it will be still lower. At the winter solstice the sun will go below the horizon, below the dark.