This 11 Day Weekly Calendar is More Natural Putting an End to the Oppressive 7-Day Week

Christians always preach about judgment day. What about the other days of the week?

They tell us there are 365.25 days a year, but who among us stays alive long enough to prove otherwise?

Honestly, we can only keep track of the coming and going of the seasons for roughly 70 years maximum.

On top of that 7 days in one week giving us 52 weeks in one year is completely arbitrary. There could be, as I will now reveal, 11-day weeks in a year of 33 weeks. That's 363 days a year.

To notice a 2-day shift in our arbitrary time would require you to live to be 120 just to notice a 2-month difference. Who among us at 120 years of age could catch on and notice that it’s actually March, not May.

The Mayans didn’t have a 7-day cycle of time.

They had 13-day and 20-day cycles. The Aztecs also used 13 days. That’s28 13-day weeks in a year.

On a 13-day calendar in present society, we could work 9 days and take 4 days off, giving us approximately 5 days off every 2 weeks instead of 4. We would essentially be fluctuating back and forth every other week between 2 and 3-day weekends. That sounds more peaceful and more human. As well as more productive according to the latest studies.

We would be working 69% of the days of our lives instead of 71%.

That doesn’t sound like much to ask for. We’d just have to get over the false idea that seven days a week was set in stone on High by God Almighty herself.

Besides, doesn’t it feel like weeks just go by too fast? The same seven days keep coming up quickly, repeating themselves far too often. If we had 11, 12, or 13-day weeks, the psychological effect may make us feel like life is longer and relieve the stress we impose on ourselves in Western society.

Or we could adopt the Akan calendar formerly used in West Africa and have a 5 day week.

No one, including the most Scrooge-like businessman, would willingly give up a 2-day weekend for themselves, so they’d have an uphill battle on their hands if they tried to take that away. That would give us 3 days on and 2 days off every “week.”

America in particular is a society highly conditioned to believe that you get ahead by working hard. That idea was called the “Protestant Work Ethic” by sociologist Max Weber.

If we abandon this easily falsifiable and thoroughly debunked idea, we may begin to question why we firmly hold resolute to a 7-day week in the first place. Perhaps it is a capitalist and/or holier-than-thou evangelical protestant who invented the concept in the first place.

Perhaps it is an unquestionable presumably unchangeable concept, a trick and light, and shadow, used to keep the common man and woman subservient to the idea that increased productivity is desirable, that the economy should always be growing. An idea that serves only to fatten the wallets of those already wealthy and powerful.

It is conceivable that we have fallen prey to psychological warfare, a stealth attack on our free minds.

If we move towards a sustainable economy, we may have to seriously question why we have subdivided the year into 52 weeks of 7 days.

Since the 7-day week could be a product of the unholy alliance of evangelicals and the capitalist class, in the spirit of “keeping things fresh and interesting”, I would like to propose an 11-day week.

In jest and in retaliation for evangelicals always focusing on “Judgement Day”, I have taken it upon myself to name the new 11 days around this idea constantly drummed upon (harped upon?) by Christians.

Let’s start with Judgement Day. Then, we can work back around the rest of the days to see what brought us there.

Judgement Day, in the new calendar I have created is the ninth day of the week.

Maybe I should write it as Judgement day. Judgment day probably best equates to the protestant Sunday, and the Jewish and Muslim Friday. The “holy day.”

This day keeps to the tradition of naming the days around something Godly, religious, or heavenly, like Thor’s day or Saturn’s day.

Following Judgement day is the tenth day of the week: Recompensationday or Justiceday.

That’s when the guilty pay for their crimes and those who had wrong done to them achieve receive vindication of their suffering, achieving justice.

A happier day than Judgement day, it should probably be a weekend day.

The eleventh day of the week according to my new calendar is Just a Normal Day day.

This also sounds like a good day to have on the weekend. Justanormaldayday sounds like it is meant to be enjoyed and work-free.

The weekend is half over, and we circle back around from day 11 to the first day of the week. It seemed like a good idea to put the official beginning of the week at the weekend. That way, we don’t have to dread the beginning of the week anymore. We can breathe a sigh of relief that we can begin the next week relaxed instead of stressing about it.

The first official day of the week is appropriately named Day of innocence or Innocenceday.

The slate has been wiped clean, all past sins have been paid in full and/or forgiven. We can begin the week anew innocent.

Falling from innocence, we have Guilt Day or guiltday as the second day of the week. Guilt naturally follows innocence. They complement each other in a yin/yang kind of way.

The day after guilt day might be called Accusation Day, or perhaps even idle gossip day, depending on your proclivities. The guilt of the previous day is revealed.

After Accusqtionday, we have Let’s Just Agree to Disagree Day, Letsjustagreetodisagreeday. The length of this day’s name is something I’ve only seen in the German language, but I digress. L-day is the time between accusation and admission of guilt. I suppose we could just call it d Denial Day (Denialday).

That looks more like we’d do it in English.

Next comes the fifth day of the week: Discovery day (Discoveryday).

That’s when we start to piece together the truth as we investigate an event, gathering evidence.

Following Discoveryday as the sixth day of the week is Arbitration Day (Arbitrationday). We could also call it Bargain day (Bargainday) to appease the capitalists. It could be a day of discounts at shops nationwide. Two parties meet to haggle back and forth regarding what action or payment is appropriate. It acknowledges that all interactions between two people are essentially transactional relationships.

Bargain day sounds more American. Perhaps we can call it Bargainday in America and they could use Arbitrationday in Europe to show their snootiness and sophistication to differentiate from us.

On the seventh day of the week, I originally named Air our Dirty Laundry in Public day, but now I think Testifyday sounds better.

All parties tell their version of the truth in a public arena so that “we the public’ may attempt to determine the absolute truth if any.

As is true in life for everyone, our time ends without warning. In order that we may keep that truth in mind, my week suddenly ends the week with Resurrection Day.

Since Judgement day is quickly approaching, and to continue our culture’s tradition of living in denial of the end of all things, or death, I have aptly named this day Resurrection Day. We can skip over the concept that death approaches us at any moment unexpectedly and fast forward straight to the resurrection before judgment.

There you have it. A new weekly calendar.

A calendar that should appease Christians and capitalists alike while allowing us the freedom to expand rusty old stagnant ideas.

In order this time from first to last:

Day of Innocence

Guilt Day

Accusation Day

Denial Day

Discovery Day

Bargain Day

Testify Day

Resurrection Day

Judgement Day

Justice Day

Just a Normal Day

This procession of days also follows the seasons and reminds us of the circular non-linear nature of time.

It is a superior calendar in many ways. It is more appropriate for the coming paradigm shift and should be immediately adopted worldwide.