Re: CO:REA - Reading - Saturday of Easter Weekend 2012
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:58 pm
By the way if this AD/BC system is based on Christ's birth, then surely Christmas Day is 1st January.
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Well, anal I may be, and frequently wrong; but no party has ever by me been knowingly pooped.Gavin Chipper wrote:But that's you all over isn't it? Is it wrong though? I mean it's all arbitrary anyway, but is it particualarly wrong?Phil Reynolds wrote:Reminds me of those people who claimed that they weren't going to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000 but would wait until 2001 because that was the "correct" start of the new millennium, thereby managing in one statement to be party poopers, pointlessly anal, and wrong.
I heard somewhere that there was some significance placed on the 8th day after someone's birth (or 7th day after as it would be known in modern English). I guess somebody assumed long ago that our calendar has used this special day as its baseline, leading to 25 December being designated as Jesus's official birthday.Gavin Chipper wrote:By the way if this AD/BC system is based on Christ's birth, then surely Christmas Day is 1st January.
You mean because we weren't using the Gregorian Calendar back then?Phil Reynolds wrote:It would be different if 1/1/1 was a significant date in history, which might make the two thousandth anniversary of it worth marking in some way. But it wasn't.