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Article #423Re: The New Century & Millenium Does Not Start On January 1, 2000
From: Richard S Kain
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:00
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. > > -- > for i in databasix primenet ; do ; gburnore@$i ; done > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > How you look depends on where you go. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gary L. Burnore | �۳�ݳ�ݳ��ۺݳ�ݳݳ�ݳ��۳ > | �۳�ݳ�ݳ��ۺݳ�ݳݳ�ݳ��۳ > DOH! | �۳�ݳ�ݳ��ۺݳ�ݳݳ�ݳ��۳ > | �۳ 3 4 1 4 2 ݳ 6 9 0 6 9 �۳ > spamgard(tm): zamboni | Official Proof of Purchase > =========================================================================== I raised the question somewhere and now here. If your new millenium starts with 2000 which millenium are you shortchanging: 1. the current one, 2. the previous one, 3. the next one ????
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f6cc7,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6cc7,public X-Google-Thread: fa15f,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa15f,public X-Google-Thread: 10374a,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gid10374a,public X-Google-Thread: 10a12a,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a12a,public X-Google-Thread: fa37c,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa37c,public From: Richard S Kain <rskain@injersey.com> Subject: Re: The New Century & Millenium Does Not Start On January 1, 2000 Date: 1998/08/07 Message-ID: <35CB294F.46EA@injersey.com> X-Deja-AN: 378886996 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <6ptd1j$c2b$1@news7.ispnews.com> <35c26a7a.167433871@news.surfshop.net> <jackson-3107982343180001@di07-011.cviog.uga.edu> <35d25ca2.12943206@nntpd.databasix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Organization: InfiNet Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: rskain@injersey.com Newsgroups: nj.general,ny.general,pa.general,ga.general,nc.general