03-16-2004, 08:34 AM
Conn,<br>
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I agree completely!<br>
As a historian, I find the CE dating hoorible, only ranking below the BP-dating, which is ridiculous because no-one will be able to tell infuture waht the BP of the source might have been.<br>
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The CE-dating is, after all, a childish way to get around the Christian Era dating, which initials they kept. The former East german communists did the same thing once, retaining the AD dating but naming it 'Nach unserer Zeit (NuZ)', 'after our time'. Which was ludicrous when taken literally.<br>
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So why is BC/BCE considered neutral? To retain the starting year of the Christian Era and to pretend you use a different system because you are not a believer in Christ is silly. Why did the so-called 'Common Era' (why 'common'?) start the same year of the Christian Era? Was that the year of mr. or mrs. Common's birth? I see this as similar to some people writing 'gawd' when they are not allowed to use 'god'. Hypocritic. I you don't want to use the Christian system because you have religious objections (which is fine), start a new system or or a different one, like AUC, indded!<br>
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Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert<br>
historian<br>
<p></p><i></i>
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I agree completely!<br>
As a historian, I find the CE dating hoorible, only ranking below the BP-dating, which is ridiculous because no-one will be able to tell infuture waht the BP of the source might have been.<br>
<br>
The CE-dating is, after all, a childish way to get around the Christian Era dating, which initials they kept. The former East german communists did the same thing once, retaining the AD dating but naming it 'Nach unserer Zeit (NuZ)', 'after our time'. Which was ludicrous when taken literally.<br>
<br>
So why is BC/BCE considered neutral? To retain the starting year of the Christian Era and to pretend you use a different system because you are not a believer in Christ is silly. Why did the so-called 'Common Era' (why 'common'?) start the same year of the Christian Era? Was that the year of mr. or mrs. Common's birth? I see this as similar to some people writing 'gawd' when they are not allowed to use 'god'. Hypocritic. I you don't want to use the Christian system because you have religious objections (which is fine), start a new system or or a different one, like AUC, indded!<br>
<br>
Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert<br>
historian<br>
<p></p><i></i>
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
