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Post by bradx on Dec 24, 2009 2:38:28 GMT -5
actually they forgot to have a year zero when Jesus was born. they started with 1 AD, so thats why the millenium wasnt until 2001. there is no roman number for zero, so the calendar jumped from 1 BC to 1 AD. when you start counting from 1 and add 1000, the first millenium was 1001, and the second 2001.
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Post by Steven H Christ on Dec 24, 2009 2:51:37 GMT -5
actually they forgot to have a year zero when Jesus was born. they started with 1 AD, so thats why the millenium wasnt until 2001. there is no roman number for zero, so the calendar jumped from 1 BC to 1 AD. when you start counting from 1 and add 1000, the first millenium was 1001, and the second 2001. I'm well aware of the blunder of the Dionysius Exiguus. Dionysius claimed that Jesus was born 25 December 1 BC, which is bullshit as Christ was "born" during the reign of Herod who died in 4 BC. In any case, how could the mythical bearded-one have been born before he was born? So fuck basing our timekeeping on the stupidity of an innumerate fag. 1960 was still the first year of the '60s, despite Dennis the Little's inability to count.
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Post by bradx on Dec 24, 2009 3:04:23 GMT -5
sure, if we're counting years that way, of course 1960 is the first year of the 60s, and 69 the last, but if we are counting by thousands and started with year 1 instead of year zero, the second millenium began in 2001. 1+2000=2001 no matter how you are counting.
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Post by bradx on Dec 24, 2009 3:05:05 GMT -5
in other news, there is no historical proof of jesus so its a fucking stupid way to keep time anyways.
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Post by fazer on Dec 24, 2009 3:23:14 GMT -5
I dont use clocks or watches, i just judge time by seeing where the sun is in the sky and if its cloudy, i just guess.
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Post by Steven H Christ on Dec 24, 2009 3:30:19 GMT -5
in other news, there is no historical proof of jesus so its a fucking stupid way to keep time anyways. Yeah, true. It's all gay. As with everything else in Christian mythology, the Gregorian calendar was just a rip-off of "pagan" dates, ideas and systems.
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Post by Freakrusted on Dec 24, 2009 3:39:00 GMT -5
people are changin' aint it beautiful? So you and your wife are finally beginning to lose some weight? Nice. Post the pics.
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Post by bradx on Dec 24, 2009 4:03:13 GMT -5
rape you baby. i am on the cover of two books. how many are you on the cover of? i am an art model and quite happy with my looks. leave my wife out of this, please.
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Post by Lee de Parade on Dec 24, 2009 4:06:28 GMT -5
in other news, there is no historical proof of jesus so its a fucking stupid way to keep time anyways. Yeah, true. It's all gay. As with everything else in Christian mythology, the Gregorian calendar was just a rip-off of "pagan" dates, ideas and systems. I think it's the other way around, I think it was the pagans who were proto-gregorian.
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Post by fazer on Dec 24, 2009 4:11:32 GMT -5
what books are they, they sound an interesting read.
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Post by clearlight on Dec 24, 2009 5:31:30 GMT -5
yes, it's basic mathamatics (or Math to those in the US.) The reason that there is no year zero in the Christain calender is that zero wasn't introduced to the West until the 11th Century, we got it from the Arabs who got it from the Indians...
I'm sure the Millenium was celebrated in Oz in 2001 like everywhere else... In fact I do remember the impressive firework display from Sydney.
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Post by bradx on Dec 24, 2009 6:13:38 GMT -5
youre celebrating an odometer rolling over then, not the millenium.
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Post by Steven H Christ on Dec 24, 2009 6:16:17 GMT -5
yes, it's basic mathamatics (or Math to those in the US.) The reason that there is no year zero in the Christain calender is that zero wasn't introduced to the West until the 11th Century, we got it from the Arabs who got it from the Indians... I'm sure the Millenium was celebrated in Oz in 2001 like everywhere else... In fact I do remember the impressive firework display from Sydney. They have a spectacular fireworks display in Sydney every New Year's Eve -- much like they do in every other major city in the world, as surprising as that must seem to you. In fact, the year 2000 was seen by most people worldwide (apart from those using different calendars) as the start of the new millennium, as indeed it was. It certainly wasn't the 1900s any more, was it? For fuck's sake. Only a few smug, misinformed contrarians considered 2001 to mark the end of the 1900s, without knowing or understanding why they had such a foolish notion. The AD system is deeply flawed on many levels (not the least of which is that Christ was born Before Christ), why give credence to the ancient stupidity of omitting the year zero? The first decade AD only had nine years in it... it was a mistake. Get over it.
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Post by Steven H Christ on Dec 24, 2009 6:18:12 GMT -5
youre celebrating an odometer rolling over then, not the millenium. Well, what's the millennium? All it is is a thousand years, give or take a 20-year error margin for the birth of Christ (which didn't happen anyway).
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Post by bradx on Dec 24, 2009 6:19:35 GMT -5
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