Re: Genesis of the Humans

On 2025-06-30 11:54:44 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 30/06/2025 5:05 pm, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-06-29 23:20:27 +0000, solar penguin said:

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-29 11:24:48 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 29/06/2025 00:53, The Doctor wrote:

In article <103pf4o$10ujq$1@dont-email.me>,
 BTW 1500 BCE.

 WHAT?? YOU, Binky, using 'BCE' rather than 'BC'!!
 Will wonders never cease??

 "BCE" is the Politically Correcterised nonsense because whiners
complain about "BC" being too religious based / biased (i.e. Christian,
rather than any other religion or no religion) ... that is what the
entire Western and business calendar system is based on anyway. Adding
a pointless "E" on the end doesn't actually change anything except to
appease morons wit nothing better to do.

 I first saw BCE in the Virgin NAs, so I always think of it as a
Doctor Who way of writing dates.
 Plus it’s fun to say out loud because you get three rhyming
letters instead of just two.

 The problem is that "BCE" means "Before Common Era", but very few people actually know what the silly "common era" actually is.
 Plain old "BC" is at least understandable by almost everybody, whether or not they believe in the mythological Jesus, who wasn't actually born 2025 years ago even according to Biblical scholars.

 2029 years ago, last I heard!!
 One wonders .... do all the other, non-European, peoples have a Before and after time frame.

The Chinese use the reigns of the emperor's, so "the Ming Dynasty" for example. Other asian countries probably have similar systems.

Last I heard, we are in about the year 5,500 according to the Israelites!!

North Korea was using their own calendar system, so our "2024" was their "Juche 113". Reportedly they have started using the stanard calendar, so this year they are in "2025".
I wonder what happened to all those birthdays in the 'missing' 1912 years - someone who was 23 last year will be turning 1936 years old this year!  ;-)