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Subject: Re: The first decade ever had, so it's 2000.

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 10:20:24 12/28/99

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On December 28, 1999 at 11:31:22, Charles Unruh wrote:

>On December 27, 1999 at 22:41:32, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>Oh I get it: if Christ was born in AD 1 then he would celebrate his second
>>birthday when he turned one year old in AD 2.  Just brilliant!!!
>>
>>
>>Hey Charlie,
>>
>>
>>Stay Demented its funner that way
>>
>>
>>TJ
>
>
>You are demented, the current callender is not based on the exact date of
>christ's birth!  It as primarily accepted that he was born in 4bc, a very few
>think around 7 b.c.  The fact is that the current callender is set to have the
>new millenium in 2001.  I guess the both the U.S. Government, the Israeli,
>Government, China and Japan are all demented to since it is there OFFICIAL stand
>that the millenium begins in 2001.  Get an eductaion, do they let guys like you
>back into grade school?  Learn to count to a hundred.

Dear Charles,

I am aware of what the USNO and Greenwich say about the millenium but it is
illogical to say that a decade begins at 00, 10, 20, 30 etc. and then to say
that the millenium begins at 2001.  It reminds me of a kid that I once knew who
was convinced that the pronunciation of mountain was mount-ayn.  It also reminds
me of the creation "scientists" who insist that the earth is only six thousand
years old because it says so in the bible.

Get with the human race.  We are, in the majority, celebrating the New
Millennium next year whether you want to or not.  The monkey who devised the AD
system and ignored the concept of zero just represents a step in our cultural
evolution.  We now know of zero and negative numbers and even imaginary numbers
and thanks to Euler and other great mathematicians we were able to do circuit
and network analysis which eventually led to the microprocessor in your
computer.

Expand your intellectual horizons, learn to conform and be a nice person.


Happy New Millenium,

Tim Frohlick



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