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Re: A83: (no subject)
That's interesting, but I bet you those "pagan festivities" didn't have the
name "Christmas". :)
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Bryan Rabeler
rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu
http://www.msu.edu/~rabelerb/
"Let me remind people that we're not in the business of censorship" - Chris
Dornfeld, 4 November 1998
----- Original Message -----
From: "mhlandry" <mhlandry@bellsouth.net>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 1999 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: A83: (no subject)
>
> Bryan Rabeler wrote:
> >
> > Well, the actual *day* doesn't really matter. Would it make any
difference
> > to us if we were actually a day off in celebrating New Years Day 2000 or
> > not? No one would really know, because time is just what we define it
to
> > be.
> >
> > And the thing about Christmas is, no one really knows what day Jesus was
> > born on. So somewhere down the line, someone picked December 25th and
it
> > stuck...
>
> >From what I was told, they picked December 25th because it fell around
> some pagan festivities and they were trying to get more people to become
> Christian so....
> - Matthew
>
> >
> > --
> > Bryan Rabeler
> > rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu
> > http://www.msu.edu/~rabelerb/
> >
> > "The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that
the
> > end justifies the means." - Georges Bernanos
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Laurens Holst" <laurensh1@yahoo.com>
> > To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
> > Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 5:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: A83: (no subject)
> >
> > >
> > > > And when did it end?
> > >
> > > Same problem... But I think the people then also thought 1000 was the
> > start
> > > of the new millennium. IF they had their millennium at the right date,
> > > 'cause I remember at a certain point (somewhere in 1600 I believe)
they
> > > skipped fourty days or so because they at first thought a year was 365
> > days
> > > while it is 365.24 days or so, and at the moment they realized that
the
> > > church thought "well now we are celebrating the birth of Jesus at the
> > wrong
> > > date!", so they corrected it again. But that means that the years
before,
> > > while they advanced in time they celebrated newyear a day too early
every
> > > four years. Or something like that.
> > >
> > > Hey, let's keep this TI-83 related. I bet the TI-83 isn't
> > > millennium-proof!!! :)
> > >
> > >
> > > ~Grauw
> > >
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