JESUS <3

[pocaracas]

As has been shown, the ideas were far from new - peace and harmony have always been the motto of the common folk; it's the leaders that keep wanting to have power.

If there was a person calling for peace and harmony in a province controlled by a foreign empire, with soldiers of that empire enforcing the empire's law, while telling the people that the established religious leadership is corrupt? most certainly, there have been quite a few such persons.
If one of them was called Jesus, or the hebrew equivalent name?... why not? even if no one by that name did those things, let's give him that name.

The dead sea scrolls speak of such a man, although they don't name him... these scrolls have been dated to early-to-mid 1st century BCE (or BC, if you prefer), so well before the commonly held birth of the Jesus guy... Just one more pebble of info telling you, at least, that such "ideas" were already being preached decades prior to the alleged life of the Jesus character.

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The start of the numbering of the years is as arbitrary as they come... I'm fine with BC/AD (although, this makes little sense in english, what does AD mean?! shouldn't it be AC?), I'm fine with BCE/CE, I'm fine with Before Transistor/After Transistor (BT/AT), I'm fine with Before Poca/After Poca (BP/AP... I really like the sound of this one... I wonder why?)

It's latin. Stands for "Anno Domini", which translates to "Year of Our Lord."

yeah... but ... it's stupid... and it seems to be in use in most languages, except in portuguese!

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini


A.C. - Antes de Cristo (before christ) [oh yeah, this one messes us up when reading stuff in english 'A' is for After, right?)
A.D. - Anno Domini (life of christ)
D.C. - Depois de cristo (after christ)

Perfect! Makes so much more sense.