christwriter wrote:(I dont' have to be Politically Correct. I hate being Politically Correct. Being Politically Correct is like having a creative lobotomy.)
Political correctness, like anything else, can be taken too far and can be destructive and limiting. But sometimes it has it's place, and I believe this is one of those cases. I don't think we should be basing time on some guy who one group of people thinks was the son of god, no matter how cool he may have been. This isn't meant to diminish the importance of the man in your life or anyone else's, but to me he was little more than a great man in history, certainly not someone who everyone of all religions and philosophies should center our concept of time around. It'd be stupid to change the number at this point, but we can change what it means.
So it is politically correct for me to be constricted. Ok. I'll accept that without agreeing with it in any way, shape or form.
I could argue with you for a while how dangerous it is to edit history that way...but I won't. I think this conversation is getting too punchy. For me, anyway.
But I will say this...Christ is the most important thing to me. Ever. So you date your way, I'll date mine, and I'll explain why I choose to honor him that way to anyone who is overly offended.
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Funny thing is, whether you're doing it BC/AD or BCE/CE, I think it's still based on roughly the same date. Kind of defeats the purpose I guess.
And really, I don't think the whole world is based on that dating system. The Chinese still have a separate calendar, right? Food for thought, at least.
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Yeah they do, and I think the Japanese have their calendar years based on the current emporer or something. Though I think a lot of the world has become accustomed to the "Americanized" current year.
Gage Kronos wrote:Yeah they do, and I think the Japanese have their calendar years based on the current emporer or something.
Yeah, something like that. Here's some stuff about me that popped up:
This year is Heisei 16. You were born in Showa 58
This year is the year of Monkey. You were born in the year of Boar.
It has been 7769 days since you were born.
So, um, ok.
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Thats all ya need to know. Gonna start using it on papers. Its just as valid as any other timeline, who are they to say I can't deify myself with my own measuremnt of time?
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brockway wrote:
This year is the year of Monkey. You were born in the year of Boar.
And I am Dragon.
*eats brockway*
Boar gumbo!!
Woo!!!
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christwriter wrote:
So it is politically correct for me to be constricted. Ok. I'll accept that without agreeing with it in any way, shape or form.
I don't agree with that in any way, shape or form, either. No one even suggested that.
And I repeat: I didn't mean to diminish the importance Jesus holds in your life, just simply pointing out that not everyone in this culture holds him in that same importance, and that's their perogative.
But I'll follow you down the path of wisdom and stop here. This wasn't supposed to be personal, you just struck a nerve and I felt, rather foolishly, that I should point something out.
KittyKatBlack wrote: I was talking about the fact that you'll readily believe the teachings in some book of unknown origin, but have no problems in dismissing other people's beliefs as 'myths'.
christwriter wrote: Helenistic mythology is something that fasinates me, but I have never thought of it as more than a good set of stories. Not to hurt anyone's feelings. I never let the ideas cross. So if I did hurt anyone, I am sorry.
Doesn't offend me... then again I'm one of those people who uses the word "christian mythology" to refer to most christian beliefs. So long as you don't mind me thinking of your mythology as a set of fairly average stories we're fine.
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