--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., a172aeroguy_at_h... wrote:
> Well, the easiest would be from the year of some dramatic event
that
> all the world could agree on as a basis. I don't know necesarily
> what you'd use, but I can see that working as a basis [e.g. these
> days, one could make an arguement for a new dating based on the
first
> controlled use of atomic energy or of the first lunar landing].
>
> Cateagle
>
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., "J.H." <jmhcustomart_at_y...> wrote:
> > --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., "Brandon Payne" <payne_brandon_at_y...>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > What I mean is this:2001 AD(Anno Domani, in the year of our
> lord), from the time Jesus Christ was born for the Christian
> calendar. 1379 AH(Anno Hegira, in the year of flight), from the
time
> Mohammad fled from Mecca to Medina for the Muslim calendar. 5761 AM
> (Anno Mundi, in the year of creation), from the creation of the
Earth
> for the Jewish calendar. That is what I mean about 1752 in that
> world of yours.
> >
> > ---Oh. Shit, I dunno, man. There's no such thing as religion in
> > that particular universe (and can you imagine how many wars THAT
> > prevented?), so I don't think it'd stem from a religious
notation.
> I
> > never really thought about it. Anybody got any ideas?
Sigh...Okay...let me try and put the question on a more secular basis
(I am an avowed secularist by the way). Is there any specific event
that the furries of your world would what to mark their calendar from
a point of referance? Perhaps they all decided to just mark their
calendar from a point or their civilization's formal beginning? Or
just decided that it would be from when they started to record
history?
> >
> > --Jim Hardiman
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 11:23:06 CST