Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2001/01

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Michael L`s Millennium
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 11:18:12 -0500

I heard that it was 4 BC when Jesus was born. So he was born 4 years before
he was born if you get my drift. I know that this <calendar> thing "is all
over the place", according to different religions and eccentric
mathematicians, but if we settle for <2000> years, our <convenient
calendar>, then we <are> actually celebrating his 1st birthday <this> year -
2001, and not his <birth>. That has got to be crystal clear surely. Why
everybody is divided on this issue I do not understand.
But then I`m not a mathematician, just a guy who likes to try to think
logically: "And not much of <that> left", said the great big aside - - - -

And certainly no clarinets, but lots of double reed instruments, flutes,
strings and horns. Not forgetting taut camel, ass and sheepskins stretched
over hollowed out tree trunk.
Best,
Tony W.

From: "Michael Lawrence"

> One of those weird random facts that I know (or think I know, at any
> rate;-)) is that Jesus was actually born on the 4th or so year AD. I
could
> quite easily be wrong, but that's one thing that keeps me from drawing the
> same conclusions as you. Besides, the actual BC/AD thing wasn't made
until
> sometime in the 18th century, I believe (that would ne 1701-1800;-)), by a
> monk. (Hehe, and if they did have the same system around 0 AD, there
would
> have been no 0 AD, because most of the world back then didn't even have a
> symbol for nothing... the first year would have indeed been 1, and Jesus'
> first birthday would have been celebrated on 2 AD:)). Worst of all (to
keep
> this semi-on topic) is of course the fact that there was no clarinet back
> then!
>
> -Michael L.

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