Subject: Re: Really Abitrary Points<br/>
Date: Dec 07, 2001 @ 09:00<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1456504537">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Emil Boasson &lt;eb3@a...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I have never understood this fascination about the year 0.  That is illogical<br/>
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&gt; thinking.  Look at your Thermometer.  Yes there is a 0 where - and + meet.  0<br/>
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&gt; is simply nothing, just a meeting point.  The distance from 0 to +1 is the<br/>
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&gt; same as from 0 to -1.  The 1st degree is reached when the meter fills up the<br/>
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&gt; space from 0 to + or - 1.<br/>
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&gt; This is simply the same with the calendar.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>the problem is that there really is such a thing as zero degrees but never was such a thing as the year zero in our calendar even retroactively <br/>
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& when doing cross chronologies of say the christian & roman calendars one must be careful to omit the year zero & pass directly from the year 1 bce to the year 1 ce or vice versa<br/>
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so it is not really the same but different<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; On the other hand why did the business community not think of this. This was<br/>
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&gt; a opportunity to celebrate for at least one even two  full years.  Celebrate<br/>
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&gt; the year 2000 as the last of the 20th (take note 20th century), then big<br/>
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&gt; celebration when the 20th and 21st century met and finally celebrate the<br/>
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&gt; first full year of the 21 century he year 2001.<br/>
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&gt; I hope that the business and community leaders remember this in the year 2100<br/>
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&gt; and 2101.  If I am still around I will definitely participate!!  Two years<br/>
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&gt; around 730 days celebration is something to look forward to rather than a<br/>
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&gt; hype of 2 hours!!!<br/>
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&gt; Emil<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>& just now or very soon you will have a chance to add another 365 days to the 730 day celebration otherwise ending this month so as to create a combined 1095 day or 3 year millennium celebration if you just acknowledge the palindromic or perfectly true millennium 2002 as being at least coequal with the cohype millenniums 2001 & 2000 since we all know the real millennium fell in 1997 anyway so why not celebrate its 5th anniversary too while we are at it but i agree lets celebrate in every case this coming year especially ground hog day<br/>
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