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Re: 20th century



On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, James Espinosa wrote:

... I wonder if others on this list also believe that come January
it will be another century? I know that the media is convinced that the
new century is about to start and apparantly nobody is correcting them.

I, like many others I suspect, understand this argument and am not moved
by it. We aren't celebrating the end of the second millennium (and
*certainly* not anything as mundane as the end of the twentieth century);
we are celebrating the turning of the most significant digit on the
odometer!

Being a nonchristian I celebrated last year (or was it two years ago -
I forget) the end of the sixth millenium according to Bishop Ussher and
associated followers. I forget what I did, but I do know that the day
was the autumnal equinox date in Jerusalem. Somehow the importance of
the event did not rise to the level of what I had for dinner that
evening, and I even forget that.

Next year I will refer to this year as "last year".

Leigh