Re: Which Decade are we in ?
Tremella Concinnus Xylosoxidans Deltavirus
news:7qkcrg...@mid.individual.net:
>> is the A.D. era calculated as starting from the year that includes the
>> first Christmas or did it start from the following year?
>
> The first Christmas? Are you trying to make the first Dec 25 mark
> something that has to do with Christ's birth? If there were a Jesus, he
> wasn't born in the middle of winter.
<indicates up>
And there you have him, folks. A true complete and utter fuckwit in the
mould of Bullis.
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Richard Crowley
> Mike Easter wrote :
>>> first Christmas or did it start from the following year?
They weren't very good mathematicians back then and they
completely skipped year "zero". But then they got the year
numbering and date wrong, too, so it is a moot point.
>> The first Christmas? Are you trying to make the first Dec 25 mark
>> something that has to do with Christ's birth? If there were a Jesus, he
>> wasn't born in the middle of winter.
>
> <indicates up>
> And there you have him, folks. A true complete and utter fuckwit in the
> mould of Bullis.
Nobody believes that Jesus was born in winter. All cultural, sociological
and historical evidence points to spring or maybe summer. The Dec 25
date was clearly based on 1st century Roman festivals like Saturnalia,
etc. Lots of other "Christmas" traditions like bringing trees indoors
and decorating them, exchanging gifts, etc. came from Saturnalia.
And, alas the year numbering is off as well because Dionysius
Exiguus wasn't a very good astronomer or historian. The most
popular year for Jesus' birth is 4BC because of the dates of other
people like Herod the Great and John the Baptist.
Arkansan Raider
William Sommerwerck
There was no "year zero", * and that's that. The subject is not open for
discussion.
* For astronomical calculations, 1BCE is considered "year zero", because it
slightly simplifies calculations.
Richard Crowley
> That's all fine and dandy, but why, exactly, is this in rec.audio.pro?
Because it got cross-posted from some unrelated (and likely irrelevant
illogical, idiotic, immoral and even illegal :-) newsgroup. I had trimmed
all the cross-posted groups in the pursuit of sanity.
The current storm of cross-posted irrelevant and stupid posts can be
traced directly back to those Linux "discussions". Every time another
Linux storm blows through r.a.p here, it brings all this blowing debris
with it.
I was assuming that you were asking (and wanted answered) a literal
question. If yours was a rhetorical or philosophical question, I
apologize for misreading your intent. :-)
Arkansan Raider
Ah, roger that.
It looked as though you had purposely posted it here to get something
started. Evidently I've plonked the OP and the first responding poster,
making your answer the first post in the thread.
---Jeff
Scott Dorsey
William Sommerwerck <grizzle...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Fact: We are in the last year of the first decade of the 21st century.
Sure, but what decade is it?
There was the "Me Decade" and then the "Neil Young Decade," and then
the "Internet Decade" and the "Stupid Asian Wars Decade." What's this
decade going to be?
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Les Cargill
> In article <hi9vqt$84c$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> William Sommerwerck <grizzle...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Fact: We are in the last year of the first decade of the 21st century.
>
> Sure, but what decade is it?
>
> There was the "Me Decade" and then the "Neil Young Decade," and then
> the "Internet Decade" and the "Stupid Asian Wars Decade." What's this
> decade going to be?
> --scott
>
The "Trini Lopez" decade.
--
Les Cargill
RD Jones
> In article <hi9vqt$84...@news.eternal-september.org>,
>
> William Sommerwerck <grizzledgee...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >Fact: We are in the last year of the first decade of the 21st century.
>
> Sure, but what decade is it?
>
> There was the "Me Decade" and then the "Neil Young Decade," and then
> the "Internet Decade" and the "Stupid Asian Wars Decade." What's this
> decade going to be?
We are in the recession decade.
I don't see it getting much better anytime soon, regardless what the
politicians would have us believe. The Music Biz will likely remain
one of the hardest hit, except for the hardworking major-label artists
who are running the wheels off their tourbuses.
example - I've just been offered a new project with a young band out
of Athens Ga. I'm expected to either get paid peanuts or (worse)
work on spec at below C-list points. They look like rockstars and have
a gimmic that makes them memorable. I like them. So I'll probably go
for it. If I don't, one of the other thousands of wannabe engineers in
Nashville with a recording "studio" in his closet will.
rd