[ale] [OT] Date change proposal

[hooterpincher at gmail.com (Charles Shapiro)]

Heh. That's assuming you believe in all that stuff.

I know of course that the reason for the 9/11 attacks was to cover up the
faked moon landings, which were necessary in order to keep us from learning
about the vast Bilderburger conspiracy to conceal the alien origin of the
pyramids, which of course were built in order to distract us from the
overwhelming evidence that THE EARTH IS FLAT (
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=41f2eadf7a70242111286145d94c0c82&topic=13876.0).

Seriously, I like this but I think it's gonna be a tough sell.

-- CHS


On 8/11/08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This may seem to come out of left field (as do many of my ideas...) but I
> would like some feedback on a proposal to renumber the calendar year.
>
> The current scheme is based on an event that is controversial and not
> exactly well defined time-wise. Further is is oriented around a time period
> that is longer than a solar year. Having the year numbering system based on
> an event that is central to one religious culture denigrates all others.
>
> I would like to propose a new calendaring scheme based around an event that
> represents a human milestone achievement. Granted is tied to the
> accomplishments of a single country but it is clearly a global, human event.
>
> In 1969 of our current counting practice, humans first set foot on a
> non-terrestrial object, the Moon.
>
> Maybe I'm just a science nut but that is a milestone of human achievement
> that would make a better marker for calendaring than a nebulous date range
> of 32 years not well known in the past and not acceptable to some other
> cultures.
>
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