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Before today’s Gregorian calendar was adopted, the older Julian calendar was used. It was admirably close to the actual length of the year, as it turns out, but the Julian calendar was not so perfect that it didn’t slowly shift off track over the following centuries. But, hundreds of years later, monks were the only ones with any free time for scholarly pursuits – and they were discouraged from thinking about the matter of "secular time" for any reason beyond figuring out when to observe Easter. In the Middle Ages, the study of the measure of time was first viewed as prying too deeply into God’s own affairs – and later thought of as a lowly, mechanical study, unworthy of serious contemplation.
As a result, it wasn’t until 1582, by which time Caesar’s calendar had drifted a full 10 days off course, that Pope Gregory XIII (1502 - 1585) finally reformed the Julian calendar. Ironically, by the time the Catholic church buckled under the weight of the scientific reasoning that pointed out the error, it had lost much of its power to implement the fix. Protestant tract writers responded to Gregory’s calendar by calling him the "Roman Antichrist" and claiming that its real purpose was to keep true Christians from worshiping on the correct days. The "new" calendar, as we know it today, was not adopted uniformly across Europe until well into the 18th century.
Originally posted by DOADOA
we have to assume that all prophecies take into account of calendars used at time of said catastrophe. if you were to look into the future you would see everything as is, including what kind of messed up jean style people are paying 500 dollars for. the time our prophets lived in is irrelevant.
Originally posted by xxshadowfaxx
Well, I used 2012 as my starting point, and I subtracted 2160 three times. The year I ended up with, was 4468 B.C.... So I decided to google that year. Surprisingly enough, I found a timeline of the ancient egyptians. And there it was, the year 4468BCE. I have found something called the Narmer Plate.
Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
reply to post by xxshadowfaxx
I like your thread.
The thing that gets me with things like this is the fact that we can't know that our current way of counting years is the correct way. How do we know if a "year" is the same length as a year back in 2000 BCE? How can we use our current year length as a measure then? How do we know where to start? It's for this reason that I think that the Mayans have a better start on things like this than we do because their calendar at least was for a very long timeline. They may not have started at the "right" place either but at least theirs was consistent through the millinea (sp?). Take this for example,
History of Our Calendar
Before today’s Gregorian calendar was adopted, the older Julian calendar was used. It was admirably close to the actual length of the year, as it turns out, but the Julian calendar was not so perfect that it didn’t slowly shift off track over the following centuries. But, hundreds of years later, monks were the only ones with any free time for scholarly pursuits – and they were discouraged from thinking about the matter of "secular time" for any reason beyond figuring out when to observe Easter. In the Middle Ages, the study of the measure of time was first viewed as prying too deeply into God’s own affairs – and later thought of as a lowly, mechanical study, unworthy of serious contemplation.
As a result, it wasn’t until 1582, by which time Caesar’s calendar had drifted a full 10 days off course, that Pope Gregory XIII (1502 - 1585) finally reformed the Julian calendar. Ironically, by the time the Catholic church buckled under the weight of the scientific reasoning that pointed out the error, it had lost much of its power to implement the fix. Protestant tract writers responded to Gregory’s calendar by calling him the "Roman Antichrist" and claiming that its real purpose was to keep true Christians from worshiping on the correct days. The "new" calendar, as we know it today, was not adopted uniformly across Europe until well into the 18th century.
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by xxshadowfaxx
could you point me to where the masonic symbols are at? I am interested in the 2012 phenomenon, and I agree that I don't think it will be the end of the world. But as a mason, I have never encountered any significance to that date. Maybe I'm just a low level mason thought.
Originally posted by Julie Washington
It's the same story told by many cultures.
Originally posted by Julie Washington
Eventially when all the pieces of the puzzle are finally put together the truth and knowledge will be known to all.