1st BOC show of the new century!

[Jill]

"Michael S. Habiby" wrote:
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> I believe the universe was started on APRIL FIRST by the great sun jester.
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> Behalf Of Kevin Sommers
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> since the year 1000....I'm still trying to figure the absolute year, or
> exactly how long since the beginning of the universe (which I believe was on
> April 10, not January 1 anyway).

The world was created in the year 4004 BC at 4am in the morning.
Leastways that was the conclusion of one very eminent Victorian scholar
(though I admit I can't recall his name!)

The current Christian calendar lost 4 years due to a medieval calendar
reorganisation (trying to sort out Easter and get the leap years right)
and then another 8 months due to a later calendar reorganisation in the
18th century.  The various celestial events recorded in connection with
the birth of Christ (if they are assumed to be a combination of
planetary conjuctions and/or a comet) seem most likely to have occurred
around 6BC or 8BC using current calendar reckonings so if you calculate
that in with all the previous messing about with dates then 2000 years
since the birth of Christ actually happened quite a while ago.    We
missed it!

jill

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