Support
Looper's Delight
|
Support |
|
|
The Chinese and Hindus from India are giggling at our little millenium with their calendars that go back thousands of years. I AM an eternal infinate Spirit with no calendar or millenium charting my time and space. Om and Out Papa Ji >From: "Don \"Mango\" Pancoe" <pancoe@netaxs.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> >Subject: Way OT, Re: begin of millenium. >Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:12:14 -0500 > > > I've always liked this philosophy. Too bad I didn't know about it >until >this > > year, otherwise I would've enjoyed being in my 20's while I was still >30! > > It's 31, 41, 51, etc. that we all get to dread from this point forward. > >Nope, that doesn't work. The reason the millenium doesn't technically >begin >until 2001 is that, back when Ceasar Augustus began the current calendar, >they were using Roman numerals (of course,) and there was no symbol for, >nor >even a concept of "zero." Therefore, they were calling the first year >"Year >1" even though a full year had not yet passed in the new calendar. That is >why we will not complete 2000 years until the end of 2001 (2000 years' >worth >of accounting errors notwithstanding; by some accounts we are actually in >the year 2016.) > >In your case, however, you were most likely not delared "1 year old" until >you had been alive for one full year. Therefore, at age 30, you have in >fact >completed 30 years of your life. > >Sorry to be the spoiler, ;-) >-- Mango -- > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com