RE: another millenium argument

["Mr. Tough" <electricfriends@hotmail.com>]

Well, a 'millenium' is simply defined as 1000 years, right? It doesn't 
really matter when it ends and when it starts as long as the duration is 
correct. If we started counting in 1950 and stopped counting in 2949 it 
would be a millenium. Milleniums are beginning and ending at every 
instant. 
You can have the millenium that begins on 1/1/2001. Personally, I'm going 
to 
pay attention to the more fun and exciting one that begins on 1/1/2000.

Mr. Tough
(Built millenium strong for your millenium needs)

>From: "Javier Miranda V." <gnominus@earthling.net>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Subject: RE: Begining of Millennium
>Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:41:15 -0800
>
>I think Greg is speaking from cultural conditioning.  There is a great 
>deal
>of tortured and misshapen arguments and notions in the US.  Starting from
>thinking that it's cool to use gallons instead of liters, miles instead of
>kilometers, and that everybody in the Universe speaks English (Star Trek).
>Same old argument, what's real?  The truth is that a millennium starts on
>the first year (that's why it's written with a number one), not on "year
>zero," as there was no "year zero."  The "Seventies" are not the seventh
>decade-- they're the eighth decade.  The Nineteenth Century ended in
>December 1900, and the Twentieth Century in December 2000-- see the
>connection (19, 1900-- 20, 2000)?  To say that 2000 is not as cool as 1999
>is like thinking that it's OK to have strange aliens in Star Trek talking
>English like they grew up in Kansas.  From the outside this looks really
>uncool.  And I'm a good outsider, I can tell you that unanimously.
>
>   | -----Original Message-----
>   | From: G716 [mailto:g716@hotmail.com]
>   | Sent: Wednesday 24 November 1999 2:36 PM
>   | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>   | Subject: OT: begin of millenium.
>   |
>   |
>   | > The 21st century begins January 1st 2001.
>   |
>   | I've always like 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.
>   |
>   | I love it!
>   | Greg
>   |
>   | (yeah, yeah, I've heard all the arguments about starting at
>   | "1".  It's just
>   | so boring and mundane.  Who'll celebrate 2001 with as much 
>excitement 
>as
>   | 2000?  Just the Kubrick fans I suppose.  And no one wants to hear a 
>song
>   | line like "Two throusand zero one party over oops out-a time.
>   | Gonna party
>   | like it's 2000.... ".  It's the chronological equivalent to calling 
>some
>   | guitar bridges "tremelos".)
>   |
>   |
>   |
>
>

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