Posted by Applesauce_Bitch at 24-117-41-230.cpe.cableone.net on September 26, 2003 at 07:05:10:
In Reply to: Thank you... posted by Kiss It on September 26, 2003 at 05:39:34:
: May Pazuzu fuck your rose garden.
: A thousand years ago was the 1800's-1900's.
- Wrong. 1000 years ago was 1003 AD (or CE, Common Era).
The fact that the situations discussed in the Bible surrounding Satan happened between B.C. and A.D. (Anno Domini "in the year of our lord") makes it 3003 years ago.
Just what the hell do you mean "happened between B.C. and A.D."? Between? Like there was some sort of period between BC and AD? If you must know, the BC and AD system was devised well after Christ (about 525 AD, by Dionysius Exiguus). The calendar became the de facto standard (of course, there are variations of days, and even months, by some calendars, even thos based on this system), and that is what we measure against now. People alive in 1 BC did not call the date 1 BC, they had no reason to be counting down. It was whatever the calendar system of the time said (probably whatever the Romans said it was).
And since the Bible is a fiction-based book (or embellished, I should say, to lessen the shit in the Christian's diapers) the calender and events vary so much, that it looks like it was put into a blender and let the scenes fall where they may.
-Yeah, because there is so little truth in the Bible, that it is that difficult to ascertain the approximate dates of events. You know, because, historically speaking, there can't possibly be any correlation to what the Bible says happened, and what historical records show. Because that would totally turn your argument upside down.
And since the part in Dogma about the million years is so hot for you, remember, he was talking about the results of the "War for the Throne", which most likely happened several, SEV-ER-AL years before any recorded date.
-I don't think I can argue with this. Dating would certainly seem to be important only to mankind, so why would there have been a calendar during this war?
: Since Dogma supposedly rights misconceptions about the Bible, take the fucking demon's word for it, alright? Sound good? Ok, then.
-OK.
: Now, it is not 2003 A.D. It's 2003 C.E.
-Changing the letters does not mean anything- besides, it's generally only those who need to date things, like anthropologists, historians, paleontologists and the like (scholars), who use CE and BCE. AD still retains it's significance.