(October 1, 2012 at 11:20 am)LiakosVikernes Wrote: 1.Is this accepted worldwide?
2.Why is it accepted?
China has it's own calander and Jews have theirs. But the most used is solely for consistency in global transactions and communication.
But the religious use of BC and AD are fucking stupid. No one can put an exact date, to the day and hour and minute of the birth of the planet, it was manifested over time, not born.
Pluss there is absolutly no good reason to place the importance of one alleged person as being central to evolution by superstitiously counting the years since his Hudini act.
"Common era" is all we as a species in reality have. We all rotate around the sun at the same time so while we cant fit that many zeros on years in terms of billions, our common use is 2012.
I say BCE and CE, because that in reality is the only thing we can universally measure in terms of years. Anything else is mere superstition.
I find it funny that the fans of the Jesus myth that started our common use of years blindly hope for their super hero who has not stopped violence or suffering in that alleged 2000 year period. Nice bodyguard you got there guys. Fakes a suicide and then sits on his hands all that time bribing you with cookies and threats of hell, all while the same pain and suffering that happened before still continues today.
2012 is meaningless in the age of the universe. But we still need some arbitrary starting point to track our motion in terms of years. But we can do it without superstition.
