July 16, 2005
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My recent rumination:
When does evening begin?
It may seem like a petty quarel and an endless discussion, but I refuse to admit that Fact does not know the answer. Does it start at five o clock? Six? Seven? Or perhaps it begins in relation to sundown? Maybe it starts around dinnertime? But when in correspondence with dinner? After? Before? Is the beginning of evening related to season? Does evening last until midnight or is there another moment where the periodof ‘night’ begins? What about afternoon? Is its endpoint directly when evening begins?
Think this is nothing but a mere minutia? I beg counter that view. How often do you hear the question, “What are you doing this evening?” If we only had definite outlines for evening and night how much clearer would communication and planning be? The answer is imperative!
What do you think?
Comments (14)
hm evening.. if someone ask me what im doing in the evening. im thinking afternoon.. maybe later.. maybe even 3 can be considered the evening.. interesting.
::A::
wow philip that comment was weird because i want to learn how to play the guitar and i keep wanting to go to the zoo and crafts are fun
you must be able to read my mind!
I think the evening starts @ 5…because some people start having dinner that early i guess! i dont know this is a good question!
lol. Phil I think u’ve been reading a lil too much CS Lewis. And I think we found an answer when we were doing the Screwtape Letters Study..I don’t remeber tho
thanks for the comment. seya in a week or so..
Hmmmm….I’ve contemplated the same thing many times. I believe that we should ban the use of such words. Way too confusing! If I had to guess….5:00 am. morning begins…5:00 pm evening.
hey kiddo!! today was fun we definately need to hang out more often!! in response to ur question i must say i believe that morning starts at midnight, then noon comes, then afternoon goes until 5, at 5 the evening starts, and finally night begins at 8 and lasts through 11:59 and 59 seconds. this is just my own personal opinion but this is how ive always split the day up!! so hope it helps answer ur question and gives you some insite!! well call me sometime or ill call u and we can hang out again!! love ya kid!
<33 steph
yer nuts.
hmmm, that didn’t sound right.
so i’m going to say it the right way.
you are nuts.
im thinkin 5….
yes definitely 5
at night its dark, in the evening the sun is setting, or maybe its all just a state of mind? Kind of like why bad words are bard words, because somone made them bad words. Maybe the only way to find out what evening and night are is to track down the person who coined the word and beat a confession out of them.
haha ur the best phil…
~Lauren
Evening begins when you want it to begin. Then again, 5 seems like a popular choice, so lets go with that. Yay.
Well phil I have decided that evening is relative to the person, cultural and season of the year so in the end there can be no exact, definitive, answer but there can be relative times set for evening in certain cultures and groups of people that would be relative to the season and if you would like to do that for us have fun lol.
God Bless
kevin
i think ure crazy
yes its a real bear. in my free time i train them to be nice. we are planning to make bears pets soon. they are nice a cuddly, however we’ve had a feal mauling cases that dont end well–we we’re choosing not to tell the public that… so just keep that between you and me.
jk
no i havent seen newsboys live..maybe we should get a big group and go! it would be fun