[NTLUG:Discuss] Millinneum rant

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "al" == al h <al_h at technologist.com> writes:

    >> All of those events represent potential candidates for accurate
    >> start dates; which would be most appropriate is a matter of
    >> opinion.  I'm afraid that the choice of "accurate"
    >> interpretation is just that, opinion.  There are just too many
    >> reasonable candiates for "start of epoch."
    >> 
    >> Of course, the above is *somewhat* irrelevant (if irreverent),
    >> as we're using the Gregorian calendar today that arbitrarily
    >> started at 1752, by legislative authority.  (Or as late as this
    >> century, in some places...)  By *that* token, it is readily
    >> argued that there's still about 752 years left until the end of
    >> the first Gregorian millennium.
    >> 

    al> Ahh I see ....  Accuracy has no place in religion.


Let's stop this increasingly silly thread right here before it gets
out of hand, please.

Best,
Kendall