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Originally Posted by newguy1234
If all those bigs words you wrote prove your point then the Mayans etc should have a central figure that denotes year zero for them. If they don't then I'd suggest putting Jobs as year zero is really just thinking in Jesus terms.
As for the number 365 youre just spouting base 10 conditioning as is the earth rotating around the sun. Things taught to you in school, forced by government traceable to monarchy, supported and fueled by the clergy.
These are Jesus ideas.
No, no, no, you have it all wrong. All my words did was demonstrate that ANY point is a suitable reference point, and not even just those points related to historically significant figures. Our calender scale is based upon objective criteria that remain wholly independent of reference point and this is the reason why the reference point being Jesus' birth is absolutely irrelevant. All that the scientifically arbitrary use of Jesus' birth as our axis origin does is allow us to use our non-arbitrary scale of years (with the unit of years being based again upon objective and independent criteria w/o regards to Jesus or any other reference point) to pinpoint historical events to some timeline. Shifting the origin of the timeline, i.e. the zeropoint, does NOTHING to affect the relationship between other historical events whatsoever. All that is important in reality is that everyone understand the system of reference currently in place such that intelligible discussion regarding items of significant historicity may occur. For that matter even if EVERY society changed their reference point to some culturally significant historical event, as long as we all measured in units of earths rotation around the sun, conversion between systems would be simple, not unlike conversion between Kelvins and Celsius.
Even in the case that I accept Jesus' birth as the reference point for some timeline scaled in years, what the **** does that have to do with not being atheistic? Is it really not conceivable that an atheist doesn't care what the reference point is and will simply continue to utilize the current convention out of pragmatism??