If that guy (whatzhisname... oh! JESUS) was born at age 1, then the first year would be 1 AD.

NOW WHO THE HELL IS BORN AT AGE 1?

1ad was the 1st year of his life.
that year started at birth and ended at his 1st birthday.

Actually, scholars think that Jesus was born about 3 bc, so all of us are screwed, huh?

Nathan

I hope my post doesn't go away (not that I care that much), but WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
Please THINK about things before you post them.
Look, Jesus wasn't born at age 1. He was born at age 0. That was his FIRST YEAR OF LIVING. Hence 1 AD. When you are, say, 18 years old, you are in your 19th year of living, not your 18th. You've already completed 18 years, and are working on your 19th. Jesus, at birth, had already completed 0 years of living (obviously) and was in his 1st.
My post was probably out of line, but you people arguing against the facts need to take some time and logically reason this stuff out...
-chris

"NOW WHO THE HELL IS BORN AT AGE 1?"

Dip-shit, you don't know much about other cultures do you. I hate ignorance.

Patrick

I was born at age 2 1/2. Go figure.

The millenium doesn't start with 2000, it's 2001, and whoever says otherwise is just... well... WRONG. We started with one, we begin again with 1. Simple as that.

WHAT'S THAT GUY'S NAME? How can you say that about our Lord and savior, the one who DIED FOR YOU? People need to get their priorities straight...

But of course this is all arbitrary anyway - it's just that people like to celebrate the fact that the number times the earth has revolved around the sun since when some historian thought the prophet of Christianity was born is twice the cube of the number of fingers on a normal human minus 1.

And BTW I was LOL at the whatshisname :)

Who cares if the millenium starts at year 2000 or 2001, most people are celebrating the new millenuim this year, so I would say the millenium starts year 2000.

sorry if the spelling is bad, I am not the best speller

I don't think that using the thoughts of the masses on this matter as a measure of truth is what we should do. :)

Yeah... ever read 1984? That's kinda scary...

I think that Brave New World is scarrier in how much of it applies to society today.

Who cares if the millenium starts at year 2000 or 2001, most people are celebrating the new millenuim this year, so I would say the millenium starts year 2000.

sorry if the spelling is bad, I am not the best speller

Oh, right, of course! By God, you've got it! If MOST people think that it's 2000, not 2001, then it _must_ be right! What have I been thinking?
We should start a "Gravity Does Not Exist" petition. Maybe if enough people sign it, we can change the laws of physics!
-chris

LOL!

Anouncement: Reality is now a democracy. The next step is to vote that not only is the year 2000 the start of the third millenium, 2001 is the start of fourth millenium, 2002 is a fifth millenium, etc. We can have a new millenium celabration every year!

After that, we can vote that diseases, starvation, and runny noses don't exist. I'm planning on headlining a campaign to make Mars green.

ROFLMFAO!

yeah but the millennium is just an idea, the earth is affected by gravity but doesn't care if this revolution is different. the idea of a millennium can be changed if everyone believes it's 2000 not 2001

But popular belief can't change the fact that it's only been 1999 years since 1 AD.

...it's been 2003 years since a a.d.

The day Christ was *actually* born (4 BC) isn't really relevent. What matters is that the first year on the calendar system was AD 1.

Hey! I'm jewish, dammit! You think I worship Jesus?

(well, I'm more atheistic...)

well hopefull someday jesus will be in your life

I'm agnostic, so that technically means that I'm celebrating year 10,283,485 - since the Universe was created.
The year 2000 is totally irrelevant to me. Oh, and since the universe was created on what people from Earth would consider to be July 16, I celebrate the new year then.

People think I'm weird sometimes.

--BlueCalx

I think you might be a *little* off, considering that the earth is over four billion years old, and that's nothing compared to the visible universe.
:)

Oops! That was supposed to be ten billion, not ten million. I'm celebrating the year 10,283,742,485.

Thanks for clearing that up :-)

--BlueCalx

That's only the approximate age of this 4 Dimensional space-time Universe. Several physicists believe that this universe is merely the result of the breakdown of a 10 dimensional universe, which existed for who knows how long before that. The quantum leap from the unstable 10 dimensional universe to the current 4 dimensional space-time universe created by the "curling up" of the other 6 dimensions each into a dimension roughly the size of Planck's constant (a _VERY_ small number) cm's big caused the Big Bang which brought about our known universe. Most of the physicists who believe in this theory are String Theory supporters. String Theory is currently held as the best chance at a grand unified theory of the universe which would combine the mathematics of the 4 forces-- the Strong force, the Weak force, the Electromagnetic force, and gravity-- into one theory. Current theories are only capable of combining the mathematics of the first three forces above. Einstein, who developed the theories of Relativity, died in the midst of his quest for this "Grand Unified Theory".
Still other physicists think that is just one of many created by a "bubbling" of universes. I am not currently informed on anything other than the fact that this theory exists.

And one last thing: Time is relative. Relative to whoever decides to define certain words to represent certain distances in "Time" such as seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years.
The Chinese do have the same definitions, but a different calendar... they were/are not celebrating a new millenium OR millennium this year, or next. I have not a clue what year it is by the Chinese calendar though. I believe somewhere around 5600 or something like that. (hopefully I am not making a fool of myself on the Chinese thing; I do not claim to be in any way especially learned in Chinese practices)
And most all these definitions are relative to the movement of THIS planet around the sun. A year on Mars is a different length than a year on Earth. If creatures lived on Mars, they wouldn't be celebrating the true Mars millennium(which is NEXT year, if you go by our relative definitions of time and the A.D./B.C. dating system).
Mars's millenium would occur after 2000 Mars years, by the definition of the year of the inhabitants of Mars. Inhabitants of Mars (if there were/are any) might not even consider the year to be the length of time it takes for one complete revolution around the sun. They might think of that as a Pengilud... if they used the English Alphabet... which they almost certainly wouldn't.

So you see people, us humans are not easily capable of understanding that there are things OUTSIDE of human definition, and that what one thing is to a human might not be to something else. This is mostly due to the fact that our interaction has been limited to humans... and other animals which are [mostly] unable to communicate with us. Maybe if we could just figure out how to stabilize a wormhole as a means of traveling through space-time...

"One man's junk is another man's treasure. [One man's year is another creature's day]"

wow....
i'm confused :)

You wouldn't be able to transport any sizable object through a very large wormhole; small probes possibly in one a few miles across. :(

Hmmm, interesting that you used the word, "created," to discuss the universe's origin...makes you think whether you're an agnostic or not.

~ferich

it really doesn't matter about the word created...
created by a big bang sounds fine to me..