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Originally Posted by potter
Now, the sunday church thing - making it "we're already together, how about dinner". Makes some slight sense, but it's still no tradition. Neither it Smith's answer, it's still an assumption on convenience.
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You asked "Why Sunday? Why not other days of the week?" and I answered you with two possible reasons, ASM supplied at least one more. What's the problem?
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Originally Posted by potter
It's not like either way I've heard of this sunday dinner thing. Still something that is .. well just as you guys put it. Not a tradition or anything normal.
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You keep saying "It's still no tradition". Sorry but in my family it is. Seems it is in many families. Not all, but many. The fact is a tradition is something a family can create on their own, it's not always something forced on everyone like a big national holiday you can't escape. It's simply a matter of starting to do something, making a commitment to do it regularly, and then doing it. You do it long enough and it can certainly be referred to as "tradition".
"not anything normal".... Well I guess we just disagree there. If you perhaps meant "not common" then I might agree on that, which brings me back to it being a sad comment on society as a whole. We seem to have lost some if not most of our family values somewhere along the way. Maybe people who haven't heard of traditions like this need to stop and take a moment to consider this closer.
It's really not that hard a concept to understand that members of a greater family who still live within driving distance of one another would want to have a regular day to visit and share a meal. Is it?