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monkey <defau...@domain.com> wrote in article
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>    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.

That's interesting. I'd never heard that.

> 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.

More or less true. We do need a calendar, of course, for record keeping and
keeping track of historical events, but its starting date doesn't matter
much. The only important thing is that we agree on the same calendar.

> 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.

I'd be disappointed about dropping dead whether I saw the new millennium or
not.  :-)  
The arrival of the millennium itself means nothing to me, just another day.
Same goes for New Years. I never celebrate it or pay much attention to it,
don't even bother to watch the ball come down.

Neil