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If we base the calender on the birth of Jesus (which we really shouldn't do, anyway), New Year's and Christmas would be the same day (since it wouldn't make much sense to base a calender on someone's birth, but not have the year start on that person's birthday). Now, supposedly, when Jesus was born, there were shepherds out herding their sheep. I read somewhere that December is in the rainy season in Israel, meaning that shepherds probably wouldn't have their sheep out in the fields, meaning Jesus probably wasn't born at that time of year. So, if we move Christmas to the correct time of the year, and put New Year's on Christmas... See?
Anyway, it would make the most sense to put New Year's on one of the equinoxes or solstices, since those are natural phenomenon. How'd it get stuck where it, anyway?
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If any of you think that the fact that the millenium doesn't start in the year 2000 is a reason not to make whoopie, you have your priorities all wrong.
Any reason to party horizontally, vertically, or in an accelerating arc descending from the vertical to (or through) the horizontal is just fine by me.
Not the millenium? HOO-Hah! Let's party!
The millenium? Hee-WACK! Let's party s'more!
Elvis isn't dead. He just had to go home.
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[This message was edited by Baloo on March 31, 1999.]
And how'd you get that the calander was based on Jesus anyway? The year numbering system is, but not the rest of the calender.
You can't have Christmas in March. It snows much more often here in March than in December. The whole point of Christmas is to get really excited about the weather getting colder, and then get bitterly crushed again when it fails to snow.
Besides, if Christmas was in March, Jesus would die only a couple of weeks later.
I mean, bad enough to have your birthday on Christmas anyway, give the guy a break.
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I'm not saying people can't celebrate the year 2000. They just should know that they'll still have a year of the second millennium left to go...
And where's the sense in basing the year numbers on a certain event, but not when the year begins and ends? That's like saying "Let's base our calender system on the birth of the graet and powerful Tim Nix, but let's make the year start somewhere else. Find a guy on the street and ask him to pick a random day, and that'll be New Year's..."
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This debate has about as much value to it as the one about the great mystery of the Klingon forhead. *Chimaera grabs nearest megaphone* GET OVER IT! WHO CARES? Not me. I'm not going to delay my celebration a whole year just because some monk in the middle ages didn't understand the concept of zero. As people have already mentioned, the date system is completely arbitrary (and has been changed several times since the birth of Christ anyway), and is off by several years. This is something that only the bean counters and bored history buffs would be interested in. As far as I'm concerned, the new millennium starts at 2000, and if its technically wrong by one year, well that's an error of only 0.05%, I can live with that
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Something tells me a certain TSN isn't going to any parties this December 31st...
And neither am I! Damned lack of a social life!
*pouts*
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Yes, well... Even if I ever did go to parties, I wouldn't go to any party the celebrates the third millennium at the beginning of the last year of the second. But, since I never go to any parties, I guess the question is somewhat moot, eh? :-)
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Recommends the follwing global celebrations:
Jan 1: New year's Day Feb 5: Montgomery Day (Birthday) March 21: TFI Spring day April 1: Great Maker Day July 31: Sunbathing day August 21: Hallucinogenics Day September 8-15: World Trek week December 31: Alcohol day
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To be honest, I'm plainning to spend new years knocking on all the British guys houses here, taking a photo, and saying 'foxy Monty wanted to see you one last time before the world ended'
Except Monty's house obviously. I've got something much more fun planned for him. He he he.
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The shock of it all has just hit me!!! This is 1999!! In 8 weeks DS9 will be gone, in 9 months it'll be 2000! GEEZ! Worse yet, in two years 9 months I'll have graduated!!!!!!
Where the freaking hell have I been?
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