Re: Way OT, Re: begin of millenium.

["David Potter" <papadave55@hotmail.com>]

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 --
>

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