Quote: This is an age of modernism, of science, and of technology.
You think so? Have you checked out the Bible Belt lately?
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Where would you restart the calendar?
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 You think so? Have you checked out the Bible Belt lately? 
I'd start it at the beginning of the Unix epoch, 1-Jan-1970 00:00:00 UTC, that'd keep me from having the add 1970 to all the tm_year elements of tm structs. Man, I've wasted actual seconds of my life doing that.
Reset to the date of publication of On the Origin of Species, 24 November 1859.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Reset to 380 AD. When Theodosius issued the Edict of Thessalonica requiring everyone to be xtian.
We could call it BGTS and AGTS. Before Going To Shit and After Going To Shit  (February 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm)Chas Wrote: Reset to the date of publication of On the Origin of Species, 24 November 1859. So would you also specify that Nov 24th be the new New Years, too? So not only would the calendar year change, but the months and days would shift around, too?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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I would restart the clock in the day that people having magic beliefs stopped doing so. Forgive me for not sounding confident.
(February 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I would restart the clock in the day that people having magic beliefs stopped doing so. Forgive me for not sounding confident. By that reasoning, the clock never would have started in the first place :p
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
(February 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(February 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm)Chas Wrote: Reset to the date of publication of On the Origin of Species, 24 November 1859. Yes. And I would make it 12 30-day months with a non-month holiday between each quarter, and a New Year's Day once a year. And an extra New Year's Day every 4 years.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method. 
I would go with 1957 because of Sputnik. That is a demarcation point separating our limitation to a single planet from the period where we can access the much larger universe beyond it.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein  (February 24, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Chas Wrote:(February 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: So would you also specify that Nov 24th be the new New Years, too? So not only would the calendar year change, but the months and days would shift around, too? Nice. I like that. Would the winter holiday be back to back with New Year's? And on the leap year, would we have three straight days of party!?!?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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