Re: First post of 2008? (Look! Brand new subject! Reassuringly off-topic!)

[L-28C <kixdemp@...>]

This is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY off-topic.

Do you want new users to see this when they first come? Didn't think so.

I vote to end this thread. =/

Stefan Sandberg wrote:
> Just because you view the aforementioned character in the aforementioned 
> book as being religious doesn't mean I do.
>
> I'm just pointing out that it's about as arbitrary as starting a count 
> from anything else, the erection of Stonehenge,
> the first pyramid, or when prince Vlad 'The Impaler' Draculea died in 
> 1476...
>
> Shane Lee wrote:
> > > Or, for that matter, labeling time as an offset since the death of a
> > > character 2008 years ago in a book...
> > >
> > >     
> >
> > FYI: Anno Domini (or AD) actually attempts to calculate the "birth" of
> > Christ, which consequentially was not recorded in "a book" but rather
> > four separate books with four separate authors.
> >
> > This is waaay off-topic so I will post no further on this issue,
> > however it appeared to be an attack on my religious beliefs made in
> > ignorance which I cannot in good faith stand idly by and swallow. If
> > you wish to make semi-religious postings, might I suggest you take it
> > off-list and direct them to me, since I am more than willing to back
> > up any of my statements with historical records instead of knee-jerk
> > reactions to the Discovery Channel.
> >
> > -Shane
> >
> >