what if...a different day

[Vor]

the bible says nothing about a day of rest having to be the same for everyone, does it? Though a country would permanently lose 1/7th of their workforce, people usually have time off anyway, a government could just cram it into one day...what do you think about this...and i got a private message i was trying to convert people. i dont mean to offend:slap:

 

[Wandered Off]

a government could just cram it into one day...what do you think about this...

I think the government shouldn't try to tell people when they have to rest.

 

[Sola'lor]

I think there should be a government required 'rest day'. Not necesarily on Sunday and not of a religious nature. But I think it would drastically increase productivity, and releave stress on machinery. Although there would have to be something done for police, firefighters, and maybe a couple other groups.

 

[Wandered Off]

I think there should be a government required 'rest day'. Not necesarily on Sunday and not of a religious nature. But I think it would drastically increase productivity, and releave stress on machinery. Although there would have to be something done for police, firefighters, and maybe a couple other groups.

It would have exactly the opposite effect on productivity. If productivity through mandatory "rest" is the goal, then you're better off resting different people on different days so productivity doesn't grind to a halt 1/7 of each week. If machinery is "stressed" it can be similarly rotated.

I just think we are smart enough to figure out when to rest without having the government tell us. Should the government require us to eat specific foods or at certain times also?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I think there should be a government required 'rest day'. Not necesarily on Sunday and not of a religious nature.

Even while the Christians are resting on Sunday, the Jews are resting on Saturday, and the Muslims are resting on Friday? Why not just let people decide for themselves when (and if) they want a day of rest.

But I think it would drastically increase productivity, and releave stress on machinery. Although there would have to be something done for police, firefighters, and maybe a couple other groups.

How would shutting down a machine one day in seven relieve stress on it? Yes, there's very little stress on a non-operating machine, but I don't see how this would make it last for any more hours of operation. In fact, for machines like internal combustion engines, startup is the time of highest stress and wear - shutting an industrial diesel generator down and starting it back up once a week rather than letting it just run around the clock would almost certainly reduce its useful life.

And how does a day off increase productivity? Say you've got a widget factory running three shifts a day; how would the factory produce more widgets in a month by running six days a week instead of seven?

 

[logician]

A "government" day of rest smacks highly of the government becoming involved in religion, something our founding fathers adamantly opposed.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

A "government" day of rest smacks highly of the government becoming involved in religion, something our founding fathers adamantly opposed.

If all we're after is "rest", maybe the government could spread one workday's worth of "rest" across the entire week by mandating a ~2-hour government "siesta time" every afternoon. That'd get rid of the church-state separation issue.

It'd also help to make sure that the "rest" was actually rest and not other activities... like going to church, for example.

 

[ChristineES]

Right after my husband retired from the Navy, he got a job driving cabs. He worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and he was impossible to live with--grumpy and irritable all the time. God gave us a day off because we obviously need at least one day a week off to relax. I know that from experience.

 

[Wandered Off]

God gave us a day off because we obviously need at least one day a week off to relax.

We do indeed. The issue here is we don't want the government telling us when we have to do it.

 

[ChristineES]

We do indeed. The issue here is we don't want the government telling us when we have to do it.

My husband's days off from work are Thursday and Friday. No, since not everyone is not a Jew or a Christian, we really can't force everyone to observe their rules.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Right after my husband retired from the Navy, he got a job driving cabs. He worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and he was impossible to live with--grumpy and irritable all the time. God gave us a day off because we obviously need at least one day a week off to relax. I know that from experience.

Cab companies can split their hours of work between more people without any change in the law. Having a government-mandated day of rest would effectively say that nobody can drive a cab on Sunday (or Tuesday, or whatever day you pick), even a part-time driver who only works weekends.

Actually, I guess this doesn't apply to cabbies, but truckers have rules and laws about hours of work (both in a day and in a week, as well as hours of rest between shifts); the implication of them is that a trucker would never be able to legally work a schedule like your husband's - they have government-mandated rest time without the government specifying which day they take off (though, to be fair, this rest time might be half a continent away from their home and family). There are solutions that provide the benefits of rest that don't involve saying "nobody works on Sunday!"

 

[Vor]

We do indeed. The issue here is we don't want the government telling us when we have to do it.

what if Person A wants to rest when person B is resting...etc.
Whole neighborhoods could be choosing to rest the same day and hang out and play games...that could be way too many people having their sabbath at the same time...just a thought

 

[DallasApple]

We should take a day off when we need to..It doesnt need to be the whole country at once.

Sometimes I wish the bank was open on Sunday and the Post office for that matter.

We already have national holidays..Why should the whole country shut down the same day once a week?..It not practical anyway..Hospitals and pharmacies,fire and police,public transportation workers, airlines ,the ones behind the scenes keeping our lights on and gas running and so on....they would be excluded.

We should take a day off when we are tired..It shouldnt be mandatory..and if I need to go to the store to get tylenol for a child with a fever I would not like it if they were shut down..

And also what about those self employed like my husband?..Would this be a mandatory day of rest?.....My husband goes out on call to customers calling for computer repair?..I dont want the government telling us we have to shut down one day of the week.Sometimes he has no jobs on a Wednesday and 3 or 4 on a Saturday..and none on Monday and 4 on the next Wednesday..We have to take them on the days they come in..

Blessings

Dallas