On 07/09/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/6/06, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
ScottL wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/5/06, ScottL scott@mu.org wrote:
Guettarda wrote:
>Actually one of the major issues in the dispute is whether BC/AD violates >NPOV because it requires Wikipedia to make an assertion the Jesus is the >Messiah/God. BCE/CE merely describes the condition, and thus does what the >NPOV policy asks. > > If I am not mistaken the beginning and ends of the months etc were originally set up based on astrological principals. Would it violate NPOV (since we would then be making astrological assertions) to keep using months?
But those astrological measurements are objective and empirically verifiable in a way that AD/BC is not, and often track significant events, such as the changing of the pole star.
According to [[March]], the month is named after Mars the god of war. The fact that he is the god of war is empirically verifiable?
We also need to abandon our days of the week. It is clearly a breach of NPOV to go around celebrating a barbarian God like [[Thor]] every seven days.
A significant difference being that nobody worships the Norse/German/Roman gods these days
I know some neopagans who would be quite insulted by that statement.
So, how far deep can we get these headings to go?
And now for something vaguely on-topic, I know some Discordians who would be irritated to be called 'neopagans' just because they worship She Who Resides In That Gland Of The Brain Which Sounds A Bit Like A Tree Found In Norway, And Who Happened To Be Known To The Ancient Greeks (The Goddess, That Is, Not The Gland).
Yours hoping-people-get-the-joke-despite-recent-threads-ly, Sam