[cdoxsey]

> what our society would need to look like for the Sabbath to be possible.

Keeping sabbath is possible, though sometimes difficult.

Coming from a fairly conservative presbyterian background, the hardest part for me was on-call responsibilities. There are exemptions for emergencies (for doctors, police, fire fighters, etc), but in some software jobs "emergencies" happen nearly every day and it didn't seem like that was adhering to the spirit of the rule.

But outside of that it just means you need to be better about planning to make sure you get work done on Saturday, or early Monday morning.

Once you get in the habit of disconnecting its totally worth it though.

[DanAndersen]

I grew up LDS and remember a church youth speaker saying something like "It's OK to pull the ox out of the mire on Sunday as long as you didn't push him in on Saturday." :)

[jfk13]

> in some software jobs "emergencies" happen nearly every day

Perhaps in some cases we (managers? developers? customers?) ought to reconsider what constitutes an "emergency".

Or perhaps the software concerned is particularly poor.

[specto]

Sounds very adventist ;)