BC/AD vs BCE/CE

[ChezC3]

Our calendar year is based on the birth of Christ.

Pouring syrup on shyte don't make it pancakes and changing the terminology don't change the fact that the fruits of Christendom are all around you.



WOOGEY OOOGY BOOOGY!!!

 

[RAMOSS]

Our calendar year is based on the birth of Christ.

Pouring syrup on shyte don't make it pancakes and changing the terminology don't change the fact that the fruits of Christendom are all around you.

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WOOGEY OOOGY BOOOGY!!!

It's ironic that you post someone whose native calender is not the western one, but rather the Tibetan calender.

 

[ChezC3]

It's ironic that you post someone whose native calender is not the western one, but rather the Tibetan calender.

I know...life is full of them...

 

[ashurbanipal]

Some history, not all history. History in China isn't very tied to Christian events; early history in North America isn't very tied to Christian events. We used BC and BCE in school and it works fine and has no chance of offending anyone. What's the problem?

The phrase "Common Era" came into use after English and Continental uses of terms that translate as "vulgar era" to distinguish such dates from dates which tracked from the coronation of a reigning monarch (in the twelfth year of the reign of Wulfric the Bold...). It was originally meant to be the date system "of the people" rather than of some specific faction of aristocracy or dynastic clan.

If you think about this, it's just as potentially offensive as A.D. and B.C., since the use of C.E. and B.C.E. assumes that everyone both does and should reckon time from the culturally accepted date of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. That is, it assumes that you, as one of the people, figure that when Jesus popped out, that was year one of the present era, and further, that this is just how things ought to be. By calling this the "common era" it's like saying this system of dating is "the people's system."

 

[Lethargic Aptitude]

I say scrap Ad - BC - BCE - CE altogether as half assed failures. And replace it with the Holocene calendar.

Holocene calendar - Calendar Wiki

"The Holocene calendar, Human Era count or Jōmon Era count (Japan) uses a dating system similar to astronomical year numbering but adds 10,000, placing a year 0 at the start of the Jōmon Era (JE), the Human Era (HE, the beginning of human civilization) and the aproximate beginning of the Holocene Epoch (HE) for easier geological, archaeological and, especially for Japanese regnal years, historical dating. The current year can be transformed by simply placing a 1 before it (i.e.: 12014). The system is not officially acknowledged and so far is only used within some Japanese academic circles. The Human Era proposal was first made by Cesare Emiliani in 1993."