|From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com |Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:09:23 -0800 | |What is really needed is a better system that has some meaningful starting |point such as the establishment of the first human agricultural society. But |since we can't possibly pin down an exact year for such a thing I don't think |it is at all possible (and if it were there would invariably be later |research that finds an even earlier society). So that leaves us with the |Christan calendar. IMO pretending it isn't is just pure delusion (that |doesn't mean we should use AD - AD is overtly POV and not needed to |distinguish from BC dates). |
After all, Jesus wasn't even a European (or a Christian), was he?
A less controversial date, not that it will ever happen, would be the birth of Alexander, the first person to conceive of the world and humankind as a joint enterprise, and as good a marker as any of the actual point at which universal history begins, uninterrupted to this day. That would make this the year 2358 AA.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88