Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 15:45:03 12/24/99
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On December 24, 1999 at 12:22:23, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >On December 24, 1999 at 10:09:34, Charles Unruh wrote: > >>The millenium does not start till 2001!! 2000 is last year of this millenium. >> >>2000 is just the cap, 2001 is the beggining man i want to blow up the world i'm >>tired of people refusing to acknowledge the obvious ughhh! Merry X-mas >>>MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! > >1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 > >1901 1999 2000 2001 2099 2100 2101 > > >As in a decade so in a century....so in a millenium (but 1960,1970,1980,1990 >and 2000); we would not say that 1970 was part of the "sixties" would we? So >even though we think the millenium begins in 2001 it is not aesthetic to call >year 2000 part of the 20th century. What does aesthetic have to do with it? I suppose it's really aesthetic to have a century called 20th with all the years starting nineteen. The first century year 1 occured at the >supposed birth of Christ and was not zero however. By convention, we ignore this >fact..... We do not and it is not convention, what it is , is the moronship of the ignorant masses. > >You know, that is probably why Stanley Kubrick chose the title "2001: A Space >Odyssey" But then, he ignored convention. It's not a convention! Kubrick had a half way decent education is all that's why he named it 2001. > >
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