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Do All Athiests Recognise The Gregorian Calendar?

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  • #52
    Undergod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    Me_Grapes wrote: »
    Or are there people who refuse to accept all that, and consider us to be in the year 13 billion?

    That'd be ridiculous; trying to make the measurement of time less arbitrary by beginning at the big bang; then dividing it up completely arbitrarily into how long it takes for a bit of rock to orbit some nucelar fire. Also, neither of them existed until 9 billion years into the calendar.


  • #53
    JimiTime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭JimiTime


    Zillah wrote: »
    Why is it that hover cars are the universal signifier that the future has arrived? I am as guilty of this as anyone. I distinctly recall thinking as a child that we would have hover cars in the year 2000.

    I don't know about the year 2000, but I've been to the year 3000.

    Not much has changed but they live under water.

    And your great, great, great, grand daughter is pretty fine.


  • #54
    liamw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭liamw


    JimiTime wrote: »
    I don't know about the year 2000, but I've been to the year 3000.

    Not much has changed but they live under water.

    And your great, great, great, grand daughter is pretty fine.

    Me too. I met your great, great, great... grandson. I showed him the Bible and he couldn't believe that you thought it was all the inspired word of a creator god. He said people back in 2010 must have been really ignorant; I guess he has a point since we tend to think people a thousand years ago were quite ignorant with their god's of thunder etc.


  • #55
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    JimiTime wrote: »
    I don't know about the year 2000, but I've been to the year 3000.

    Not much has changed but they live under water.

    And your great, great, great, grand daughter is pretty fine.

    Talk about understatement! It's almost identical, but.........

    I like the calendar with the hookers and the blackjack, i'm gonna follow that one from now on, it's better, for example instead of good friday there's f'ucking great friday.
    Join us, you know it makes sense!


  • #56
    virmilitaris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭virmilitaris


    goose2005 wrote: »
    You western imperialists can go to hell, it's Juche 99.

    Honestly shocked so many people got that reference.


  • #57
    Enkidu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Enkidu


    JimiTime wrote: »
    I don't know about the year 2000, but I've been to the year 3000.

    Not much has changed but they live under water.

    And your great, great, great, grand daughter is pretty fine.
    You went there too! I went there and that song hand gone multi-platinum, everybody bought our 7th album. In fact, if I recall correctly it had outsold Michael Jackson.


  • #58
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Enkidu wrote: »
    Michael Jackson.
    Who?


  • #59
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    Me_Grapes wrote: »
    A serious question, do all athiests count the years since the preceived birth of JC, as is the commonly used method of establishing what year we are currently in, i.e. we call this year 2010, and not the year 13 billion odd? If so, why? Is it habit, conditioning, just the way things are, or do you ever think why you accept the birth of a religious figure as the start of the counting of the years we use in the modern world?

    Or are there people who refuse to accept all that, and consider us to be in the year 13 billion?

    There are some who attempt to refuse to accept that. One hears the BCE/CE moniker more often these days - certainly amongst the academics. The reason given sounds plausible enough..
    Common Era notation has been adopted in several non-Christian cultures and by many scholars in religious studies and other academic fields wishing to be sensitive to non-Christians


    ..the fly in the ointment follows swifly enough thereafter. A variation on papering over the cracks.
    Some suggest Common Era designation is not sufficiently culturally neutral, because it does not remove the birth of Jesus as the era marker, leaving the focus on an event significant to Western civilization.


    Suggestions on how to wriggle out of this problem on a postcard - although it appears to me a case of first up (or first born from amongst the dead) best dressed.

    :)


  • #60
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Well, I have no time for historical revisionism; that's the date system we use, and it does what it says on the tin, so to speak. Even if we could change it, we'd still have to remember the "old" system and convert whenever we referred to any written history.

    I wasn't aware of the Juche system, but it wasn't hard to guess where it's used before I hit Wikipedia. There's only one country in the world left that's daft enough. (And no, North Korea is not an "atheist country", not with a dogmatic state ideology that includes worship of the "dear leaders", dead or alive!)

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



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  • #61
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    I posted this over in the funny side of religion too, but it fits here, so I ought to post it here, too.


  • #62
    sponsoredwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Happy new year 13 Billion plus or minus one completely insignificant figure!


  • #63
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    sponsoredwalk wrote: »
    Happy new year 13 Billion plus or minus one completely insignificant figure!
    Hey! I object! You are plus or minus an uncertain amount of hours from said 13 billion plus or minus a insiginificant figure!

    :P

    In all seriousness, hopefully 2011 will be better for all of us than 2010 was. And hopefully we don't have our sanity tested too much by f***in' imbeciles.


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