A new Calendar

[MoreCoffee]

Here's a nice little video about a new calendar. This year is 12,016 HE according to the new calendar. It's an interesting idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs

 

[Josiah]

I like the Christocentric calendar and perspective. It doesn't exclude ANYTHING before that - it just notes it's before that.

This HUMAN calendar is actually pretty prideful, as if nothing before PEOPLE moved beyond hunting/gathering matters. Hey, if you want to start the calendar when our universe began, then we're roughly in in the year 13,700,000,000. But yeah, that would be a big number to write all the time.

Let's stick with 2016 AD.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I like the Christocentric calendar and perspective. It doesn't exclude ANYTHING before that - it just notes it's before that.

This HUMAN calendar is actually pretty prideful, as if nothing before PEOPLE moved beyond hunting/gathering matters. Hey, if you want to start the calendar when our universe began, then we're roughly in in the year 13,700,000,000. But yeah, that would be a big number to write all the time.

Let's stick with 2016 AD.

Since people make calendars it is not surprising that people put themselves in the middle of it.

 

[MarkFL]

That makes a lot of sense...I'm on board...now we just need to do something about the inconsistency of the number of days in a month. :scratchchin:

 

[Josiah]

Since people make calendars it is not surprising that people put themselves in the middle of it.

I think we should be Christ centered and not self centered.... so I like the BC/AD current calendar. But as I noted, IF the point is to start at the beginning, then we'd be in the year 13,700,000 or so.

 

[MoreCoffee]

That makes a lot of sense...I'm on board...now we just need to do something about the inconsistency of the number of days in a month. :scratchchin:

Traditions are not so easy to overturn. 30 days in a month (give or take), 12 months in a year, 7 days in a week ... all hard to change.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I think we should be Christ centered and not self centered.... so I like the BC/AD current calendar. But as I noted, IF the point is to start at the beginning, then we'd be in the year 13,700,000 or so.

Jews and Muslims see it differently, so do Buddhists, Hindus, Confucians, Taoists and so on. I like BC/AD but historians use BCE/CE and that's to avoid explicit reference to Christ.