[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Mon May 16 15:57:16 UTC 2005

steven l. rubenstein wrote:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/BCE-CE_Debate

OMG, not again.

You know, I've always found this AD vs. CE debate extremely stupid. 
Like, as if renaming "AD" to "CE" would immediately, suddenly and 
magically remove all connections with any religion! Guys, it's still the 
number of years after Jesus' birth, whether you like it or not.

Also, some people in this discussion have drawn parallels between this 
and imperial units of measurement. HELLOOOO?! It's not really like you 
need to *convert* between the two, you know?! Or maybe I just somehow 
missed that 1 year CE is actually equivalent to 3.573495764 years AD?

Have you thought that there may be alien civilisations out there? Using 
our Earth year as measurement of time is POV!!

Head-shaking,
Timwi