🚀 go-pugleaf

Neil Harrington wrote:

> Noe Gutierrez, Jr. <no...@SPAMKILLERci.bryan.tx.us> wrote in article
> <33AB63...@SPAMKILLERci.bryan.tx.us>...
> > Bruce Tyler wrote:
> > >
> > > The first year AD was Jan 1, 0001, not 0000 (excusing the fact
> that
> > > 12/25 was Christs' supposed birthday) The new millenium starts on
> Jan
> 1,
> > > 2001. Period. End of BS.
> > >
> >
> >       Boy, wait 'til somebody brings up the fact that no one really
> knows
> > exactly when Christ was born. Best estimates are now something like
> > springtime of about 6 B.C., aren't they?
>
> Right, somewhere between 4 and 6 B.C. is the consensus, and, as you
> say, in
> the springtime. "Christmas" is evidently the Christian adoption of a
> pagan
> day celebrating the winter solstice.
>
> Doesn't really matter, though. The calendar wouldn't change a bit even
> if
> we knew the exact day of Christ's birth. Jan. 1, A.D. 1, would remain
> what
> it is, and would still be the beginning of the first millennium. Much
> too
> much trouble to correct it now.
>
> There was plenty of confusion when the Gregorian calendar replaced the
>
> Julian, some countries switching to the more accurate one while others
>
> continued to use the old one for hundreds of years. (Russia didn't
> change
> to the Gregorian until 1918, I believe.) And that was a *necessary*
> change,
> to keep the calendar year accurate. Moving the nominal years ahead now
>
> wouldn't serve any useful purpose, and would sure make a mess.
>
> Neil

   I once read that the Etheopians were also left behind by the calander
change due to their self imposed isolation from the rest of the world
after the collapse of  their powerful civilization. I think nobody
actually told them. And as a result the they were, until fairly
recently, some 15 years behind the rest of the world in terms of their
official date keeping.
I don`t really know if this is true but this and other examples(see
above) just go to show how absurd it is to argue about something  when
the `facts` are hardly `facts` at all and history is really just a
convienient estimate mostly laid down by religious rulers to suite their
own beliefs and to try and add some credibility to those beliefs.

Today is today. This is the only certainty, so i say make every day the
party to end all parties `cause you (or all of us) could drop dead
tomorrow.And think how dissapointed we would all be just because we
didn`t see the clock tick over into the new millenium.