1st BOC show of the new century!

[Ted Jackson jr.]

On 21 Jan 00, at 11:34, DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 1/21/00 10:57:44 AM, nick at THECAMPUS.COM writes:
>
> <<
> If you can prove to me that Jesus was born exactly 1,999 years ago,
> I'll believe you. Besides, most people partied this year. I'd
> celebrate the new millennium next year, but who wants to party with a
> bunch of physicists and mathematicians? ;)
>  ====
> not that i particularly wanna go here, but i thought that the 'jesus'
> entity turned out to have been born 2,003 years ago...

The academic world no longer uses BC or AD to denote periods in
time, using, instead, CE [common era] and BCE, avoiding any silly
ethnocentricity...

theo