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Lance Birch wrote:
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> Ok ok, but I'm sick of everyone else saying that the year 2000 is the
> starting point for the second millennium AD.
...
A.D.: an abbreviation for anno Domine, Latin for 'in the year of our Lord'. In
theory, this calendar counts the years since the birth of Christ, but most
scholars believe that Christ was born in 4 B.C.
So, the third millennium, if the Christian calendar were to be appropriately
adjusted, has been with us for a few years already. (Of course, it won't be adjusted.)
The Christian calendar has been adapted for the rest of the world by replacing
A.D. with C.E., or common era, presumably by those who wondered if they were
offending non-believers by adding 'A.D.' every time they wrote down the date.
I'm not sure when the abbreviation C.E. was first used, but it must have been
after A.D., which well after Christ [is said to have] died, anyway. If there
was no 0 A.D., there was probably no 1 A.D., 2 A.D., etc... And as Dan
Connelly pointed out, the whole calendar is arbitrary anyway; we are
celebrating a coincidence of numbers, which sounds like math to me, and
definitely worthy of a party.
As for me, I think the big party will be in just under a year, regardless of
any sort of public awareness campaign, because we just like to watch all of
those digits change. (Who cares when their car's milage changes from 10,000 to
10,001?)
(A[nother] completely irrelevant side note: others have tried to calculate the
date of the creation of the world according to religious texts, but these
differ by as much as a quarter of a millenium...)
-Mark R.
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I just don't want people to call 2000 the first year of the new millennium
when it isn't...
--
Lance.
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Lance Birch wrote:
> I just don't want people to call 2000 the first year of the new millennium
> when it isn't...
>
> --
> Lance.
Apples are neon blue in color.
--
Ken Tyler
tyl### [at] pacbell net
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Lance Birch wrote:
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> I just don't want people to call 2000 the first year of the new millennium
> when it isn't...
>
But it is the new millenium -- the new millenium of "2's in the 4th digit".
Who cares if the millenium of "0's in the 4th digit" got shortchanged?
It wasn't my problem. Non-leap-years get shortchanged, but nobody complains.
Not even all centuries have the same number of days.
The Christian calendar has been adopted to secular purposes... it's
the digit that is being celebrated, not some obscure, arbitrary anniversary.
Dan
--
http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/
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If only that stupid moon would rotate around the earth in sync with the
rotation of the earth around it's axis and the sun! Who designed this
solar system anyway?
Maybe if we protest to God he'll go metric!
Heh heh,
Mike
Dan Connelly wrote:
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> Lance Birch wrote:
> >
> > I just don't want people to call 2000 the first year of the new millennium
> > when it isn't...
> >
>
> But it is the new millenium -- the new millenium of "2's in the 4th digit".
> Who cares if the millenium of "0's in the 4th digit" got shortchanged?
> It wasn't my problem. Non-leap-years get shortchanged, but nobody complains.
> Not even all centuries have the same number of days.
>
> The Christian calendar has been adopted to secular purposes... it's
> the digit that is being celebrated, not some obscure, arbitrary anniversary.
>
> Dan
>
> --
> http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/
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Good idea.
--
Lance.
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>Apples are neon blue in color.
Well, I'll admit I didn't expect that as a response...
--
Lance.
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Lance Birch wrote:
> >Apples are neon blue in color.
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> Well, I'll admit I didn't expect that as a response...
>
> --
> Lance.
I was just testing you to see if you are naturaly argumentative
or if this is just a pet peev. <grinnnnn>
--
Ken Tyler
tyl### [at] pacbellnet
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On Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:24:06 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>Apples are neon blue in color.
Only the iMac variety.
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Just a pet peev :)
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Lance.
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