I just saw a video about BC/AD as opposed to BCE/CE and the invention of the Gregorian calendar and I wondered what year it would be if we counted the years like the Romans did.

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    23·
    5 hours ago

    with the earliest recorded year being rooted in archaeology

    Wait, THAT’s your source of “4241BC is the beginning of history”!?!?!?!? A 19th-early-20th century preacher!?

    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    He didn’t use any kind of evidence-based system to establish that date. He did, for all practical purposes, numerology! That claim is as valid as the various pre-Xia mythical dynasties of China or the claim of the Australian Aborigines that they were “always” in Australia and didn’t come from anywhere else!

    Hoo boy, somebody needs to do a little bit more reading before redesigning time!

    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      The conclusion goes beyond just the background of a lone preacher. I also did explicitly specify that part is not unquestionable, so I’m not sure why the analysis is being mocked as if it were declared finalized. Many alternatives may be argued, though none would seem equally precise/unbiased.

      Note I said recorded history, not actual history. I’m well aware the Earth goes back much longer and that the young earth hypothesis is false.

      I’m not sure where the parts about the pre-Xia dynasties of China or the Australians always being in Australia come from, unless the latter is a jab at something many may have picked up about me (in which case this is another testament to the demeanors I receive from others).

    • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      What the fuck are you on and why are you up and down haunting this man like re-fuckin-lax girl.

      Second, 4241BC is the oldest on the Egyptian calendar, it literally says that on the link. So a Christian preacher interested in the study of Egypt thought about how human history is recorded and chose 4241BC as the start point because the Egyptian calendar starts there.

      You didn’t even read the link you’re just trying to discredit because you’re pissy for god knows why.

      Shut up, somebody needs to do a little reading AT FUCKIN ALL

      lmfao