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

[CyberCubed]

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.

[ToTheNines]

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

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

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

Cubed.

Summarized enough?

[AT-Man]

Yes, I agree.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

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.

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

[CyberCubed]

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.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

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

[TheSkeletonMan939]

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

O_O

[CyberCubed]

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

[TheSkeletonMan939]

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?

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

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.

[plastroncafe]

Cubed is teaching anthropology?
Oh this should be good.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Modern humans were not modern 150k years ago.

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

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

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

BCE/EC works fine over BC/AD

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

[plastroncafe]

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.

Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 are.[6]

(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)

[TheSkeletonMan939]

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.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

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

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

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

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.

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)

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

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

I feel bad.

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

(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)

Now I feel worse, should had remembered that.

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

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.

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.

[Candy Kappa]

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