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In the last few hundred years, when the Europeans (mostly christians) started to explore the world, they got this calender with them and it stuck. Following the BC/AD system is related to convention alone and not an acknowledgement of the "success" of any religion. Else we would be believing something stupid like history extends out to 6000 years!
In the last few hundred years, when the Europeans (mostly christians) started to explore the world, they got this calender with them and it stuck. Following the BC/AD system is related to convention alone and not an acknowledgement of the "success" of any religion. Else we would be believing something stupid like history extends out to 6000 years!
Umm.... let me think, who patronized those explorations?
Anti-anti-christian intellectuals in the Unholy Roman Empire, Crazy Conquistadorian Spain, Unanglican Britain and disliberal Europe.
You obviously do, why else would you even bother to post
I posted because it is always nice to put some sense in BS echo-chamber threads like these. Why did you post - apparently since the world uses AC?DC, christers have won - go home and rejoice the last 6000 years -this will not last beyond 2012.
Is the Julian calendar the same as the Gregorian calendar?
That's exactly the types of responses I wanted to hear.
Keep the perspectives coming.
We actually use the Gregorian calendar, rather than the Julian, but they are essentially the same. Same names for the days and months, same number of each and same year in both, just a different day. Back in the 1500s, one of the Pope Gregorys adjusted the calendar to get it back in line with the seasons. As a result, we moved about 10 days forward and redid the "leap" system to account for leap minutes and leap seconds.
A few places still use the Julian calendar, which would put today as approximately March 29th, 2009 (13 days difference)
As for myself, I don't care which system we use, or what it is based on, since its totally arbitrary anyway. Even the Christians don't really know what year their figurehead was supposedly born. They picked a year and went with it. I would love to see a global form of reckoning for everyone, but what would you base it on? As another poster said, the entire history of the planet might be too many digits to write on a check.
I know, lets base the new calendar starting with year 0 as the year Star Trek was first aired. Its just as arbitrary as any other system we have.
I posted because it is always nice to put some sense in BS echo-chamber threads like these. Why did you post - apparently since the world uses AC?DC, christers have won - go home and rejoice the last 6000 years -this will not last beyond 2012.
AC/DC ...
Now there is a dating system I can get into. Lets see, the band was formed in 1973, so that makes today April 10th, 36.
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I doubt that our primal ancestors or cave men cared what day or year it was...they knew "yesterday" and "tomorrow"...so the idea of a calendar must have come along when our brains began to develop a sense of "when?". And also with the written word or mark. With or without Jesus or any other religion, it would have happened because "modern" man needs to keep track of time. And not always for good reasons
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