Subject:
|
Re: new millenium bugs me
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.fun
|
Date:
|
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:40:16 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
590 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Christopher Lannan writes:
> In lugnet.general, Paul Davidson writes:
> > Of course, since the new millennium doesn't start until 2001, we have a year
> > to discuss it. :)
>
> YES!
>
> This has really gotten to me of late- how come it's so simple to sit down with
> someone and explain to them that if you have 10 things, and you count them ,
> then the last one is 10, and if you have 2000 things, and you count them, then
> the last one is 2000! The first year of the 21st century is 2001! Simple. You
> can tell this to people 'til you're blue in the face and then ask them when
> the new millenium starts and they'll say "2000"
> I think maybe folks just don't care, or they're just going along like with the
> rest of the cattle.
> I don't mind celebrating the year 2000, it IS a milestone, but IS NOT the
> start of a new millenium!!!
Of course, another thing people forget is that the gregorian calander was
created several hundred years late and grandfathered a lot.
And of course, by the opinions of (most) biblical scholars and historians, the
whole thing is off by *at least* several years in the first place.
So who cares? The whole thing is relative anyway.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | new millenium bugs me
|
| (...) YES! This has really gotten to me of late- how come it's so simple to sit down with someone and explain to them that if you have 10 things, and you count them , then the last one is 10, and if you have 2000 things, and you count them, then the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
34 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
