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Originally posted by Spectre0o0
reply to post by Thurisaz
if you think just the jewish calender is right,why don't you date the checks you write with that year?
the accepted,or julian calender is a standard modern reference point to let you know in today's world what day it is.
kinda seems that commenting on this can only be looked at as anti-semite... are you trolling?
Originally posted by badmedia
The position of the stars is generally the best calandar. Can't be edited or changed, only the position of them changes, so if you know the positions and see the change, then just by looking at the stars you could figure out a pretty close date. Using something as a guide or steady point, you could eventually do the math to find the exact date.
People who lived in say 200BC didn’t have the year called 200BC (they couldn’t called it “Before Christ” – they didn’t know he was coming).
Originally posted by Thurisaz
And why with BC do we count backwards to zero and then count forwards to 2009? Seems a bit odd to count backwards. What society would live like that?
Hahaha, this is funny.
No calendar is "right"
And the 2012 date comes from the end of the Mayan long count. They did not say "2012" but it was calculated from the knowledge that the Mayans expected a certain number of cycles, and we know how long each cycle was.
Originally posted by Thurisaz
Quite interesting but confusing too.
Hmm which calendar is right? Can we be absolutely sure?
How can a calendar be right? It's like saying a timezone is right or something. Time is one of those things that can be measured a number of ways, none of them have to be right.
Originally posted by 12.21.12
Well think about it like this. A clock measures time when both hands hit the 12 it is midnight. It is the same case with the Mayan calendar, only the milky way is the clock.