Philosphy, Skeptism & Belief
Ross Ulan
Would you get a life!
The space program is not important people don'y give 2 _
about it!
The world is flat
Extraterrestial life does not exist, just a bunch of
weather ballons!
Go crab a beer, take it easy, switch on the hockey game to watch
a star being paid 16M a year score a few goals.
Get your priorities strait.
The year 2000 is approaching and it's showtime folks!
Have a good one,...
Richard K Bethell
Ross Ulan (cf...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) writes:
> The year 2000 is approaching and it's showtime folks!
The year 2000 is a meaningless number.
Dinonysius Exiguus, a monk, was asked to prepare an updated version of the
Roman calendar, set to start at the birth of Christ. He was asked to do
this in what we now call the 6th century by Pope John I.
Well, he got it wrong. The year he declared to be the first was 753 ab
urbe condita (from the founding of Rome.) This is known to be wrong, as
Herod died in 750 A.U.C. and we all know that Herod was around for the
birth of Christ.
Furthermore, Dinonysius declared that time began anew at Jesus'
circumcision (January 1, 0001). Think about this. We measure time (after
years) in units of 10; decades, centuries, millenniums.
In other words, any so-called doomsday prohpecies associated with the year
753 A.U.C. (Roman calendar) would not come to pass until January 1, 2001!
And this in itself is a stretch, as we now know that whenever Jesus was
born, 753 a.u.c. was not it!
The moral of the story is - don't get paranoid about the big "year 2000".
It is, in the end, just a number, that in and of itself means nothing.
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Jim Poushinsky
Richard K Bethell (cj...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) writes:
> Ross Ulan (cf...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) writes:
>
>> The year 2000 is approaching and it's showtime folks!
>
> The year 2000 is a meaningless number.
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> The moral of the story is - don't get paranoid about the big "year 2000".
> It is, in the end, just a number, that in and of itself means nothing.
Right. After all, the 10,000 year cycle of time in the Mayan calendar
doesn't end until the year 2,012 :-)
Of course conditions seem to be getting rougher on our planet as the end
draws closer, so no guarantees we'll all be here to see The End together.
"That's All Folks!"
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Ginette Mercedes Polewski
Has anyone heard the news announcement on CBC today about the
discovery of Atlantis?
I only caught the tail-end of the program and thus have missed the
bulk of what was said.
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Brian RA Sterling
Apparently the news story was on CBC radio. No wonder you couldnt find
any mention of it on Newsworld or CNN. Then again what was on CBC
might not be a 'discovery' at all, but a new book which might turn out
to be fiction.
Leave it to the CBC to fudge an important detail like this..
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Ginette Mercedes Polewski
I don't think they were talking about a fctional book. I caught the tail end of a discussion on the "new" found location of Atlantis. The commentators ended with saying "interesting stuff". Then moved on to other news. I believe it was the bird flu .
The time was about 3.30 p. m. I was driving along Elgin St.
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Martin Potter
"Evidence of Atlantis discovered on Elgin Street in Ottawa!!" I got it
from a usually reliable source who heard it on CBC, so it must be true
(let the doubters choke!). Spread the word!
... Martin
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