On 9/7/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/6/06, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
> > ScottL wrote:
> >
> > >maru dubshinki wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On 9/5/06, ScottL <scott(a)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.
I doubt their numbers are in the billions, or that they
exert a
dominating influence on Western culture.
Ahh, if only NPOV were such. Numbers, or influence, has absolutly 0 to do
with NPOV. Just because a group is popular does not mean it's POV is more
dangerous then one not so popular. I prefer CE/BCE, but your argument is so
ludicrous as to actually damage the rationale to use it.
-Brock