Posted on 08/29/2004 5:12:51 PM PDT by Salvation
Front Page StoryWhen the big hand says Thirteen Moon Calendarby Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com August 27, 2004
The United Nations, which has a finger in every global pie, and ambitions to take over the World Internet, is inching its way towards calendar reform. Long on lofty words and windy clauses, the official UN description for calendar reform is, "Calendar Reform and the Future of Civilization" (CRFC). Ostensibly, the UN rejected considering calendar reform in 1995 as part of its 50th anniversary. Within four years, UN officials were passing calendar duty over to lifetime activist for peace, Dr. José Argüelles, an originator of Earth Day. Dr. Arguelles’ World Summit on Peace and Time was convened on June 22-27, 1999 at the UN-owned University for Peace, in Costa Rica. Why is the UN itching to change the method by which the world tells time? It’s the Gregorian Calendar. Having replaced the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian was instituted by papal decree in the year AD 1582 and adopted by virtually all nations as the common world standard. Accepted by virtually all nations notwithstanding, the Gregorian Calendar is irksome to New Agers because the whole world marks time based on the Birth of Jesus Christ. And as far as the occultist UN is concerned, that will never do. So why not break and fix it? If the concept of throwing the Gregorian Calendar out to replace it with the World Thirteen Moon 28-day Calendar of Peace isn’t ludicrous enough, calendar challengers say they are basing their reform on "common sense". "By rational discourse and common sense, it has been determined that the Gregorian Calendar does not represent a true or accurate standard of measure or belong to any systematic science of time, and hence, is worthy of reform," states a CRFC resolution from the World Summit on Peace and Time. The usual suspects were on hand when more than one hundred "followers of the World Thirteen Calendar Change Peace Movement" convened at the Costa Rican summit. Letters of acknowledgement were sent to the summit on behalf of UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan; Secretary-General of UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza; His Holiness, the Dalai Lama; and by Jonathan Granoff of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. Dr. Rodrigo Carazo, former President of Costa Rica and founder of the University gave the opening address for Peace. In attendance with Dr. Carazo was Gerardo Bidowski, acting Rector and representative of the then newly appointed President of the University for Peace, Maurice Strong. Seven commissions were set up during a four-day period and participating was former UN assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller, now UP chancellor, who gave a guided tour of the archeology and history o f the site of the University of Peace which was concluded by a walk to his nearby residence. The Thirteen Moon "Natural Time" Calendar is touted as "a universal application of the mathematics and cosmology of the Mayan calendar as deciphered by Dr. Jose Arguelles. Ph.D., and presents a simple yet so profound opportunity to shift our everyday consciousness." Described on his Internet home page as "both a visionary and a prophet", Dr. Arguelles bestowed upon himself the pagan name of, "Valum Votan". In a New Age magazine interview, he said it was "not until after he experimented with LSD that he realized he was a visionary." The final goal is to change the calendar from its present "artificial" 12-month year to a more "natural" 13-month year that more closely parallels the lunar and biological cycles. The results and declarations from the World Summit on Peace and Time have been submitted to the General Assembly of the UN. Wild and weird as it may sound, the Thirteen Moon Natural Time Peace Calendar could replace the Gregorian Calendar, courtesy of future UN resolution. It is, after all, Canadian Maurice Strong and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev who, under the auspices of the UN, are working on an agenda to replace the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter. Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily. Judi can be reached at: cfp@canadafreepress.com. |
Sorry, but 13 just doesn't cut it in metric terms.
March was originally the first month and some of the month names show this--September was the 7th month (Latin septem means seven), October was the eighth month (octo = eight), etc. Later they began to treat January 1st as the beginning of the year.
July and August were called Quintilis and Sextilis before being renamed in honor of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar. Some later emperors had months named for them but the names didn't last.
.. and the thirteenth month shall be known as Smarch.
Lousy Smarch weather, brrr!
Lol, a Festivus for the rest of us!
Simple solution. Why don't we just make it Miller Time.
**Would it be that you are anti-Christian????**
Totally correct, there tech.
**Yes, and if each month begins on Sunday we could have Friday the 13th 13 times every year.**
LOL!
**13 Accounting month-end closes?!! **
It's bad enough with 12, isn't it? Think of inventory too.
**More divisors, as mentioned above.**
Thinking along that line -- what would a half year, a quarterly tax file date, bimonthly, etc. etc.
**Vernal Equinox) New Year; **
What is the "Chinese New Year" based on?
Scary!
It also means 13 mortgage payment per year!
I never thought about it much, but what would happen to birthdays and anniversaries?
I never thought of that. That would suck.
I have no clue...I'm unashamedly Christian/Western biased and have next to no interest in the calendars of other cultures.
LOL! Elegant.
I think the calendar is safe, so we won't have to deal with it!
That's It! And, it gets rid of that whole AM/PM thing, which nobody really likes.
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