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Re: The New Century & Millenium Does Not Start On January 1, 2000

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From: Richard S Kain
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:00
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Gary L. Burnore wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 23:43:18 -0500, in article
> <jackson-3107982343180001@di07-011.cviog.uga.edu>, jackson@igs.cviog.uga.edu
> (Ed Jackson) wrote:
> 
> >In article <35c26a7a.167433871@news.surfshop.net>,
> >dilbertfan@usa.(dot).net wrote:
> >
> >> �    That's right, the first day of the 21st Century and new millenium is
> >> � actually January 1st, 2001!  If you don't believe me, check The World
> >> � Almanac's calendar section.
> >>
> >> Only in factuality.  In everybody's mind (except yours and mine), it's
> >2000, so
> >> there's really no use debating it.
> >
> >My response cannot avoid religion, since religion -- specifically the
> >birth of Christ -- is the key factor in calendar system used by the U.S.
> 
> >According to everything I have read, the birth of Christ did not occur on
> >Dec. 25, 1 A.D.  It probably occurred 5 or 6 years earlier, which meant
> >that Christ would have been born in the "B.C."--not "A.D."--era. Thus,
> >*scientifically*, we're already in the new millenium. But even if Christ
> >had been born on Dec. 25, 1 A.D., the Gregorian calendar we currently
> >follow was two weeks off from the Julian Calendar then in effect. So, the
> >*scientific* celebration of the true millenium cannot take place on Jan. 1
> >of any year.
> 
> It also didn't occur on Dec 25 according to all that is known. That's when his
> birth is CELEBRATED.  Easter is on a different day every year but he didn't
> die on a bunch of different days either.
> 
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I raised the question somewhere and now here.
If your new millenium starts with 2000 which millenium are you
shortchanging:
  1. the current one,
   2. the previous one,
  3. the next one
   ????
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From: Richard S Kain <rskain@injersey.com>
Subject: Re: The New Century & Millenium Does Not Start On January 1, 2000
Date: 1998/08/07
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