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Is it really a new year?

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Is it really a new year?
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RE: Is it really a new year?
January 1, 2015 at 7:53 pm
(January 1, 2015 at 7:51 pm)lifesagift Wrote:
(January 1, 2015 at 7:47 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The 2015 is certainly an arbitrary number considering the earth is 4 billion years old. But our species has in many different parts of history charted the behavior of the sun and moon and stars for a very long time. It is meaningless in the scale of the universe, but our planet still has a consistent orbit around the sun and that is what a year is.

And that's why I want o make a stand... so happy new year tomorrow

Good luck with that, 2015 is pretty universal around the world and is the business standard.
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Is it really a new year?

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Is it really a new year? - by lifesagift - January 1, 2015 at 7:41 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by Brian37 - January 1, 2015 at 7:47 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by lifesagift - January 1, 2015 at 7:51 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by Brian37 - January 1, 2015 at 7:53 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by lifesagift - January 2, 2015 at 5:08 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by Brian37 - January 2, 2015 at 5:21 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by lifesagift - January 2, 2015 at 5:32 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by Tonus - January 2, 2015 at 5:22 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by Brian37 - January 2, 2015 at 5:36 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by lifesagift - January 2, 2015 at 6:10 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by Brian37 - January 2, 2015 at 6:15 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by lifesagift - January 2, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by JuliaL - January 2, 2015 at 6:16 pm
RE: Is it really a new year? - by Heywood - January 3, 2015 at 6:49 am

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