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Kosmo Gallion
Sep 13, 2013
obviously they didn't know our lord Jesus would come into the world yet, so how did everyone tell what day or year it was? and if months like july and august are named after Roman emperors what did they call them before those emperors are born? and what did they do in cool places like ancient China?

makes you think

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gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
they used the mayan calendar

John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts
BCE

Rags to Liches
Mar 11, 2008

future skeleton soldier


VoxIsMyCowboy posted:

obviously they didn't know our lord Jesus would come into the world yet, so how did everyone tell what day or year it was? and if months like july and august are named after Roman emperors what did they call them before those emperors are born? and what did they do in cool places like ancient China?

makes you think

normally they would date from the beginning of the rulers reign, so you'd get forty years or so of one guy then twenty years of another one. dunno how they kept it all together though.

as far as months went, stuff like harvest festivals, equinoxes, and solstices took the place of the whole month thing basically

well, hope I helped, not really my expertise though

newbinator
Nov 14, 2014

Get your shit together, and put it in a backpack, all your shit, so it's together. And if you gotta take it somewhere, take it somewhere. You know? Take it to the shit store and sell it. Or put it in a shit museum, I don't care what you do, you just gotta get it together.
Get your shit together.
The A.D. terminology was coined five hundred years after the death of Jesus, assuming he actually existed. One thousand years later a pope incorporated it into the calendar he introduced, the Gregorian calendar which we still use today.

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

VoxIsMyCowboy posted:

obviously they didn't know our lord Jesus would come into the world yet, so how did everyone tell what day or year it was? and if months like july and august are named after Roman emperors what did they call them before those emperors are born? and what did they do in cool places like ancient China?

makes you think
The Chinese calendar is still kinda a thing and is like about 120 years off AD IIRC.

concerned mom
Apr 22, 2003

by Lowtax
Grimey Drawer
The only calendar worth a drat is one with chocolate behind each window op

SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


VoxIsMyCowboy posted:

obviously they didn't know our lord Jesus would come into the world yet, so how did everyone tell what day or year it was? and if months like july and august are named after Roman emperors what did they call them before those emperors are born? and what did they do in cool places like ancient China?

makes you think

God told them when Jesus was coming stupid.

Shasta Orange Soda
Apr 25, 2007
it was called Untitled Caveman Comic Strip by Johnny Hart

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



tuesday

praxis
Aug 1, 2003

Shasta Orange Soda posted:

it was called Untitled Caveman Comic Strip by Johnny Hart

Set 10,000 years in the future. MIND. BLOWN. JOHNNY HART IS A GENIUS.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

Shasta Orange Soda posted:

it was called Untitled Caveman Comic Strip by Johnny Hart

Opposite
Mar 31, 2009

Wait...what?

you-so-craycray posted:

The A.D. terminology was coined five hundred years after the death of Jesus, assuming he actually existed. One thousand years later a pope incorporated it into the calendar he introduced, the Gregorian calendar which we still use today.

Actually the Gregorian calendar was created to set in order the year according to the Julian calendar with the astronomic year since there was an 11 minute delay added yearly between the two. So the Gregorian calendar regulated the spring equinox with the phase of the moon used for determining the Easter celebration. There are some backwater Christians that still use the old style and that sets the bar on how backwater can a Christian get.

Joust
Dec 7, 2007

No Ledges.
GTBOP

Robbie Fowler
May 31, 2011
they called it gently caress you op voted 1 :gas:

Motorola 68000
Apr 25, 2014

"Don't be nice. Be good."

concerned mom posted:

The only calendar worth a drat is one with chocolate behind each window op

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.
Now.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
It's like 7500 in the Hebrew calendar.

Explains a lot.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



concerned mom posted:

The only calendar worth a drat is one with chocolate behind each window op

advent calendars are completely my poo poo

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
They called it "holy poo poo we suck where are all the cool video games and anime"

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Shinjobi posted:

They called it "holy poo poo we suck where are all the cool video games and anime"

They still say that today because anime is fuckin terrible you're an adult stop watching cartoons.

dirty shrimp money
Jan 8, 2001

Shinjobi posted:

They called it "holy poo poo we suck where are all the cool video games and anime"

Befo Comico

Joust
Dec 7, 2007

No Ledges.
I hope there's no new christ and we have to start over at 1 again.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



B.B.C.

Otto von Ruthless
Oct 1, 2014

redshirt posted:

It's like 7500 in the Hebrew calendar.

Explains a lot.

Is that why the Jews have all those off-world colonies and hyper intelligent robots?

Rapman the Cook
Aug 24, 2013

by Ralp

VoxIsMyCowboy posted:

obviously they didn't know our lord Jesus would come into the world yet, so how did everyone tell what day or year it was? and if months like july and august are named after Roman emperors what did they call them before those emperors are born? and what did they do in cool places like ancient China?

makes you think

Uh, people didnt exist before Jesus.

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



made me think op tyvm

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
byobbc4

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
just "time" or "days" op

Sir John Feelgood
Nov 18, 2009

Every year was Year of the human being.

AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope

vyst posted:

advent calendars are completely my poo poo

I thought that was chocolate

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

bbc

before bc

Libelous Slander
May 1, 2009

... you're just creepy ...

vyst posted:

They still say that today because anime is fuckin terrible you're an adult stop watching cartoons.

im gonna watch archer and there is not a god drat thing anybody can do about it

Rags to Liches
Mar 11, 2008

future skeleton soldier


Libelous Slander posted:

im gonna watch archer and there is not a god drat thing anybody can do about it

this post is a good post

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
eh archer is kinda

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:
christ wasnt born because he didnt exist

sorry about your bad life choices, op

flerp
Feb 25, 2014
A couple years ago

Hefty Leftist
Jun 26, 2011

"You know how vodka or whiskey are distilled multiple times to taste good? It's the same with shit. After being digested for the third time shit starts to taste reeeeeeaaaally yummy."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita

the real question is what did they call AUC before the founding of rome OP

Lightanchor
Nov 2, 2012
That's why everybody was so sure he was the son of God

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Otto von Ruthless
Oct 1, 2014

A misanthrope posted:

christ wasnt born because he didnt exist

sorry about your bad life choices, op

historians pretty much think he did

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