thats exactly what i was wondering, i think the theory of our existance coming to an end is too negative. we can't always live in fear of the human race ending. i do believe we will come into a new existance on this planet whether it be in a moral sence or a technological and observent way. either way i think all of what we "know" will be crumpled up and tossed in the waste basket.

you know what? We're not really in the year 2008. This is just a point of view. Historians pointed mistakes in old calendars, when the Gregorian Monks created it, placing Jesus in the Year 0. It's okay, but looks like they were a few years away, so we could be already in 2012, or back in 2004. ( i heard 4 years or something, can anybody confirm that? )

Originally posted by Matt_Mulder


you know what? We're not really in the year 2008. This is just a point of view. Historians pointed mistakes in old calendars, when the Gregorian Monks created it, placing Jesus in the Year 0. It's okay, but looks like they were a few years away, so we could be already in 2012, or back in 2004. ( i heard 4 years or something, can anybody confirm that? )

I'm not aware that there ever was a year "0" and that it in fact goes from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. as in "first year". When the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582 the date was advanced by 10 days in order to make up for the accumulated inaccuracy of having a leap year every four years in the Julian calendar that it replaced (used since 45 B.C. and introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C.).

Aloysius Lilius devised the Gregorian calendar and Pope Gregory XIII decreed it. Not sure where the Monks were involved or how four years were dropped or added.

Today is apparently July 13, 2008 in the Julian calendar.

I don't feel like sourcing since Google is your friend there.