Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2001/01

From: "Michael Lawrence" <belgarath10@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Michael L`s Millennium
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 16:59:32 -0500

Yeah, I think you're right about the 4 BC... I remember the 4, but then I
can never remember if it's AD or BC. Every Monday, here in Lubbock, there
is "[a] page produced by teens, for teens"... and one of the articles today
was "History says new millennium starts today." Just for a point of view
that was (hopefully) researched a little bit, I'll type it up:

"Last year skeptics debated whether the year 2000 was the real millennium
and many asked, "Why should it be?"
"Here is the reason. Going back to the year 525, a Roman monk, Dionysius
Exiguus, designated the year A.D. 1 as the birth of Christ. The surrounding
years are 2 B.C. 1 B.C., A.D. 1 and A.D. 2. He excluded the year 0 because
in his counting system zero was not used.
"Then in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the standard calendar into The
Gregorian Calendar Reform. This calendar, which retained the starting point
at A.D. 1, is the calendar we use today. In light of the calendar starting
at A.D. 1, millenniums begin with a year ending in one and conclude with a
year ending in zero. For example, the first millennium was from A.D. 1 to
A.D. 1000, the second millennium was from A.D. 1001 to A.D. 2000, and the
third millennium is from 2001 to 3000.
"This concept also holds true for the centuries. The 20th centuray was
from 1901 to 2000, and the 21st century is from 2001 to 3000.
<snip>"
-By Kristen Pajares

The part I snipped was just quotes from students saying "wow, I didn't know
that the millennium was really this year" etc. Anyway, that's what she has
to say about it (hehe, so I was off by a century or two for when it
started;-)

-Michael L.

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 thing "is all over the
place", according to different religions and eccentric mathematicians, but
if we settle for <2000> years, our calendar>, then we actually celebrating
his 1st birthday year - 2001, and not his . 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 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.

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