Adopting a better calendar/dating system

Lousy Smarch weather.

Ach, what say you of a funeral, on a cold Extrember mourning?[This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 10-02-2003]

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Erasing all the evidence which shows the Bible to be credible get's tough, doesn't it?

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Almost as tough as shoehorning the same invented motive into others' diverse actions and beliefs, ignoring their stated (and quite reasonable) intentions, and mocking the strawman you built... over... and over... and over again....

Agreed, King, but we need to tie to the year and the day. Those are the basic things I think you have to work around.Does anyone suggest otherwise?And another point:
I had assumed that everyone knows that the year 1 is "inspired" by the birth of Christ but is not the actual time by a few years. That in fact it hasn't been possible to pin that down with absolute certainty.

Buz, what are the names of the days of the week where you live? On which mythological system are those names based?

You missed the intial point, Buz. Having the year 1 (and worse no year zero) in the middle of history was taken as a problem. I agree, a little that it is a nuisance and worth a change.However, the size of the hassle of having centuries of material with old dates might mean that the advantage of a change is overwhelmed. Certainly if you understood the discussion you would not be suggesting a date for the year 0 furthere into historic times.

The Xtian calender is global like English is the current global language, and like French used to be. Things can change. Who knows. Maybe the Chinese will force their calendar on everyone else when eventually Chinese or Chinese-mixed races outnumber everyone else.And it hasn't worked fine for centuries. It has been fixed a number of times to keep it alive. I told you why I opened this thread and it had nothing to do with bibliophobia. Not only did I point out that the current Xtian calendar isn't accurate to the life of Christ, I was practically advocating adoption of the Jewish calendar which is not against the Bible at all!Christ didn't make our current calendar or call for it to be made. Neither did God. It certainly is not mentioned in the Bible.The current calendar was made by a person inspired by Christ. That is it. As has been pointed out already, it also contains references to other pagan systems of belief. It's inaccuracies as a system have already been corrected a number of times before... by Xtians!I have only raised the question of the current calendar's utility. Some people have treated it with humor and some with scepticism and that's cool. But the heavy handed bashing of motives isn't... especially when they aren't real.Please get a sense of humor or proportion or how to be constructive in your criticism.------------------
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Parasomnium writes:

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Birthdays are always on the same weekday. So is every other date.

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Oh, that's not nice. Always having your birthday on a Tuesday? They'd never get to have it on a weekend when everybody is available. And Halloween would disappear, there being no 31st of October anymore.And what to do about the Fourth of July? That'd always be a Wednesday. Some companies would let you have the really long weekend, but others wouldn't. Same with Christmas.

Hi Rrhain,Here in "Old Europe" we have the good sense to invite people in the weekend nearest to our birthday. Or the even better sense, when above a certain age, not to mention our birthday at all. (But that's only grumpy me.)"Halloween would disappear", huuuuh, that's eerie! But wait: Halloween can still exist in the new calendar, it's on the 24th of November, a Tuesday. And it gets even eerier: every leap year it's on (lowers voice to whisper) Wednesday the 25th.
Of course, the greatest mystery of all would be how November 24th can be the eve of November 1st (All Saints' Day). What fun this new calendar is!The Fourth of July? That's easy: move to France. They have Quartorze Juilet, which means The Fourteenth of July. It would always be on a Saturday. How France is going to cope with 250 odd millions of Americans is another story. (Though I guess it would rather be a matter of 250 millions of odd Americans.)Christmas isn't a problem either. If we leave Christmas where it is in the 365 day year, the two days of Christmas we observe in Europe (do they have two days in America?) fall on Monday the 23rd and Tuesday the 24th of Extrember, in the new calendar. So, unless you work in a restaurant or any other business where they think it's a good idea to work on a holiday, you would have a very nice, very long weekend. And in a leap year you'd have to take only one day off to turn it into an even longer weekend.I say let's go ahead with this new calendar right away. (Do you think Buz would come along if we changed the eighth month to "Aubuzzed"?)"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event." - Oscar Wilde.[This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 10-03-2003]