Valens, dah corazoane ii plina valea...

Day 4,104, 00:51 • Published in Romania Hungary • by Hunkakaricum




“…stupid, it’s just a made up holiday!” This strikes me as just about the most ridiculous statement ever spoken about holidays.

Of course it’s a made up holiday, dipshit. How the hell else do you think holidays get created? Do they spring up out of the ground? Fall from the sky?

All holidays, are dates set aside by us to consider, honor, worship, or otherwise value something. Even Christmas was not really celebrated until the 4th century, so the “preordained by God” argument I’ve heard is hogwash unless you want to simultaneously accept that God was too busy hanging out with his son for the next 400 years to get around to actually ordaining it.

Making a holiday up doesn’t make it any less real or sacred. In fact, I would argue that Christmas is more sacred precisely because we’ve decided to set it aside. Whether we call it Christmas, Solstice, Hanukkah, or anything else, we don’t celebrate the magic of Midwinter because we have to, we set this time aside and place it differently in our hearts because we want to.

The same is true of any holiday. The Christian Easter is no more or less made up than the Diwali or Ramadan, and none are any more or less valid because they are made up. Any sacred space or sacred time is sacred precisely and only because we deem it sacred.

But let us, for the sake of argument, ignore the fact that a time honoring St. Valentine in the Christian tradition goes back almost as far as Christmas itself and assume, for the moment, that it is purely the fabricated holiday support the international florist and candy industries.

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Spread the Love! Join the Team!

Dear Citizens,

For this year’s Valentine's Day Plato has prepared a 3 day event that includes the famous Love Button, the popular Strength Switching and hunger, Love Hunger.

Love hungry

For those of you who missed last year Valentine’s, the Love button appears on all battles and when pressed it gives an extra Prestige Point to all fighters as long as the battle is not epic (or contested).

This year, during the event for each 100 energy you spend you will get back one special gift worth 100 energy to recover. When gifted, the recipient becomes love hungry and can recover 100 energy by eating food. Each Citizen can receive up to 100 gifts during the event.

All gifts expire at the end of the event, on Day 4,107, at 23:59 eRepublik time.

In the same spirit, we are looking to extend you an invitation to join the team. If you are a Citizen who likes to help others or if you want to show off your translating skills, we are ready to welcome you in our two awesome teams:

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