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rebel
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All hostoric and present dates are listed as Before Christ and After Death. For example we are presently in the year 2001AD. Why, if less than the entire population of the world believes in Jesus, does everybody conform to this?
Nov 14 2001 5:54PM
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dylhole
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it does not officially represent AFTER CHRIST...dont ask me what it really means
Nov 14 2001 6:20PM
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Nov 14 2001 6:38PM
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WillBallin
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AD stands for anno domini

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Nov 15 2001 4:18PM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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which stands for After Death. Well they call it BCE (Before common era) and CE (Common Era) now to be politically correct. But the reason for the Whole thing was that Christian Monks started todays calender. So one of the monks in 400 AD calculatied when christ died and figured out what year it was compared to Jesus's death. So thats why a lot of people are saying that the calender is actually about 4-5 years off because The exact date wasn't calculated right.

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Nov 15 2001 4:26PM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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Before the time that the calender was started I'm pretty sure that the romans (who had taken over a lot of the world) counted years as the era of their king. So when the Roman Empire became Catholic and the calender was invented all of Rome adopted the calender. So the rest of the world had to follow.

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Nov 15 2001 4:30PM
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TAK
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you forget that there more to the world than just what the Christians have touched. Civilization all over the world probably had their own calenders and stuff too.
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Nov 15 2001 5:04PM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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Yeah but rome was the biggest empire ever. so basically when they adopted the calender the rest of the world had no choice but to use it. There are other calenders (Chinese, Aztec) but the current calender spread from england to India because they were under Roman rule making it the most widely used.

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Nov 15 2001 5:19PM
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skibrdingbitch
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also the romans calender and clock were only off by like 60 seconds, something crazy like that
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Nov 15 2001 5:52PM
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WillBallin
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Mike anno domini means 'in the year of our lord' if havent totally lost my latin... im like 99.9 percent sure tho

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Nov 15 2001 6:08PM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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Yeah it is 'the year of the lord' It still has the same meaning though. 90 A.D. Is said as 'the 90th year of our lord'. Meaning that it is 90 years since the resurection of Jesus. Because it was his resurrection that made Jesus our lord. so you can see how it still means after death.

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Nov 15 2001 6:29PM
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WillBallin
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haha... thats kind of a stretch but ya i guess id have to agree with u

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Nov 15 2001 9:08PM
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SkierX
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Very good point. We do subject to confomrity and all other religions such as Hindu and the like should take offense to this, but there is nothing they can do about it.
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Nov 15 2001 9:16PM
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Other religions do take offense, but like you said its not like you can change it. Its the almost the same as how everyone calls tissues 'Kleniex'(that has to be the worst spelling ever), its just public habbit to use BC and AC it would be almost imposible to change it within our lifetimes.



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Nov 15 2001 9:35PM
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newschooler14
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yeha once someting was so widely used someone cant just up and change it. It is wierd ti think about how else they could have started it. like what date would they start with?
Nov 15 2001 10:04PM
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