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To: PGR88

I tend to bypass any entirely that uses the idiotic “BCE” date differentiation. The time may come when it is unavoidable given the PC madness that is enslaving the planet but we aren’t there yet.


7 posted on 07/26/2020 9:45:26 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: iamgalt
Apparently you don't.

10 posted on 07/26/2020 9:47:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: iamgalt

I tend to bypass any entirely that uses the idiotic “BCE” date differentiation
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Me too. Same dating, different meaning.


20 posted on 07/26/2020 10:10:02 AM PDT by Doche2X2
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To: iamgalt

> I tend to bypass any entirely that uses the idiotic “BCE” date differentiation. <

I was curious about that, so I looked it up. It turns out that BCE - Before Common Era - has been in use since at least the 1600s. So it’s not some new PC thing (although PC types push its use today).

And I understand why many folks - and Jews in particular - prefer the BCE/CE method. AD = anno Domini = in the year of the Lord. That’s not something most Jews want to be associated with. No more than I’d want to go with some method based on Mohammed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era


22 posted on 07/26/2020 10:11:09 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: iamgalt

I simply read “BCE” as : Before Christian Era, and move right along.


60 posted on 07/26/2020 3:23:00 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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