Fantastic historical video of how our calendar should be the year 12,000's
 

Instead of celebrating 2017 soon, we should be celebrating the year 12,017 this new years.

Its amazing how humans don't realize how long we've been on this planet and how the modern calendar condenses too much human history.

Someone summarize it. I don't have time to watch it.

Cubed.

Summarized enough? :twink:

Yes, I agree.

'Cubed, have you ever heard of the 'B.C.' measurement?

I think a lot of people are ignorant because of religion, but I don't want to get into that here. Modern humans have existed for at least 150,000 years, but we didn't start moving out of caveman times until about...15,000 years or so ago.

We may think we're only in the year 2000's....but we're really in the far future, the year 12,000's or even 100,000's depending on how you view it. It feels like we're in the future when you think of it like that.

Modern humans were not modern 150k years ago.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/modern

CyberCubed thinks "modern" means 150,000 years ago.

O_O

That is modern humans after we evolved from the common ancestor splintered from apes.

That doesn't mean anything of value suddenly started happening. How long ago did humans learn to write? Like 10,000 years ago, if that?

In that video they said the first temple was erected 12,000 years ago. Society had already begun around then, so let's say 15,000 years ago is when we stopped being cavemen and actually started farming and having culture.

Cubed is teaching anthropology?
Oh this should be good.

The Anatomical Modern Man (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) came to be around 200k years ago, though. I think that's Cubed refer to in that instance.

That said, I don't see a good reason to change the calendar. It's not the only one just the most used one and it's a nice number, plus BCE/EC works fine over BC/AD

How? It's the exact same thing, except almost no one uses CE.

BCE/CE were in common usage during my undergraduate studies of anthropology/archaeology.

The Gregorian Calendar might be the most widely used calendar, but it's not the only one.
Both Judaism and Islam have their own calendars.

And let's be honest....the Gregorian Calendar is hardly efficient. I mean...leap years. What the hell.
(also as a side note:
binomial nomenclature should only have the Genus name capitalized, species is lowercase...and it should be in italics.

Homo sapiens sapiens)

If you're trying to scrub away references to Christianity in the calendar you might as well just follow Cubed's flawless idea. Because the "current era" still starts with the birth of Jesus.

You're killing me, CK. You're defending Cubed!? When you could be on my side of an argument instead!!!??? :tlol:

Eeeeeh... Maybe. but, the calendar is wrong there as well, as the mythical Jesus was probably born sometime between 6-4 BC (he was born while Herod was still alive, and that guy died 4 BC)



I feel bad.

Now I feel worse, should had remembered that.

Common, not Current.
I dunno...I prefer them, because AD translates to "year of our lord" and I'm not Christian.

Besides, this is what happens when religious folk force everyone into their habits: we make them our own.

Christians appropriated Yule, now we appropriate their calendar, we give and take, endless glorious circle of appropriating. :lol:

Its just weird to me the entire world accepted a calendar where we're only in the 2,000's. Meanwhile the Jewish calendar is in the year 5,000 from what I read.

Meanwhile we're really in the year 12,000. Or even 100,000-200,000 if you count "Year 1" as when humans existed.

:lol::lol::lol:

I remember that time Cubed said that.

So you're saying you don't accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, HUH?

I think the Jewish calendar is actually on year 6000. But I could be wrong on that... I eat bacon, after all.

And do we really want to track the 5000 years of Neanderthal history where some hairy schmuck couldn't even figure out the wheel? Buncha stupid man-apes.

I remember Calvin on a strip saying USA was founded on a b.C: year, which led his teacher to ask him "b.C?!" and him saying "before Calvin".

The Hebrew calendar has this year listed as 5777, while the Hijiri/Islamic calendar is year 1438.

Or so says the internet.

When it comes to calendars, I've always been rather partial to this:

DO we have any Jews or Muslims in this forum? We must know this.

:lol:

http://i.imgur.com/aCn2vPo.gif

Yes yes yes. You are both officially awarded the Cylons Ruby Star of Excellence for your knowledge and love of Calvin & Hobbes. Wear your badges proudly.

Yes, but it doesn't mean Jewish people know anything about the Jewish calendar if they don't practice the religion heavily.

True, but they're statistically more likely to know about it than you and I do.

One need not practice the religion to know what year it is.
One need only be culturally away.

Yeah CyrberCubed, you're a f*cking New Yorker. You must have Jewish friends and acquaintances, right? :lol:

I don't know anything about the Jewish calendar but I'm well aware what its like to be Jewish.

Well, considering most Jews who lived in my country were pogrommed by the Inquisition and such hundreds of year ago, I don't know a single one. There's probably less than a thousand Jews in my entire country.

So, do most Jewish Americans not care much about their religion nowadays? Even less than Christian ones?

Nope.

There are a lot of religious Jews in New York, or rather Queens where I live. Many of them are also Russian.

As in Orthodox Jews' The ones with the cool hats?

Yes, I see them go to temple every Saturday. There's also a lot of Jewish areas/temples around my area.

I mean I've never gone inside a Jewish temple since I was like..13, but what do I know.

I visited a Synagogue once. I was a kid, so they let me keep my sports cap on, since you gotta cover your head inside one.

I've worn a yamaka a few times, also had to wear it to weddings of some my distance relatives. I don't think I've worn one since I was a young teen. Its really weird to be part of a family that doesn't practice the religion heavily.

My family has never celebrated Christmas, but I do like the pretty lights.

So you're part Jewish, eh? Is it true what they say about you guys controlling everything? :tgrin: