RE: OT: begin of millenium.

["Javier Miranda V." <gnominus@earthling.net>]

That's right, what does it matter?  What are we celebrating here?  2000
years of what?  What does it matter that we have all this technology, all
these Rights in our constitution?  What does it matter that we have
Echoplexi and electric guitars?  Doesn't matter at all.  Let's burn it all,
destroy all the factories, pulverize the whole thing, let's go back to the
stone age and live in caves, fight to keep a light on all the time.  Let's
all live in fear and superstition.  Hey, I'll start by trashing my computer
and my tele set, and my electric guitar, and my bass.  Hey, why don't we
raid the Soviet nuclear bombs and get it all over with.  Why live at all?

  | -----Original Message-----
  | From: floyd@voicenet.com [mailto:floyd@voicenet.com]
  | Sent: Friday 26 November 1999 12:20 PM
  | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
  | Subject: RE: OT: begin of millenium.
  |
  |
  |
  | Does it matter if there was a year zero?
  |
  | What is the origin that we are supposed to celebrate the fact that it
  | has been 2000 years since?  That is probably arbitrary enough to make
  | whether or not that happened in year 1 or year 0 a moot point.
  |
  | Whatever the beginning of our current calendar was, I think the big 
news
  | is that we'll be flipping over 3 digits all at once.  I still like to
  | watch the odometer in my car roll over at the major milestones.
  |
  | It's like watching for the wink of the LED on my EDP telling me that's
  | where the loop started :)
  |
  |  - Floyd
  |
  |