Re: We are currently neither in the the new Millenium nor the new Century (and won't be until 2001)... what I meant was that this current forum page is on the 100th Vault archive (or whatever it's called)! :D (nm)

Posted by Goodsport from adsl-216-102-199-185.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on January 11, 2000 at 17:22:21:

In Reply to: Re: We are currently neither in the the new Millenium nor the new Century (and won't be until 2001)... what I meant was that this current forum page is on the 100th Vault archive (or whatever it's called)! :D (nm) posted by Hopkins on January 11, 2000 at 17:02:50:

: : . I disagree because the new millennium must necessarily begin after the previous one thousand year period has been completed. Starting from ground zero, the first year of the millennium was completed on December 31, Year Zero, or, in other words, on January 1, Year 1, exactly one year had been completed. Following this logic, the first century was complete as of January 1, A.D. 100, the first millennium as of January 1, A.D. 1000, and the second millennium as of January 1, 2000. In other words, January 1, 2000 will commence the third millennium.

: This counting comports with how we count our own life spans. We celebrate our first birthday, not on the day we are actually born, but on the day that we have completed one year of our lives. When we turn one-year-old, we have lived exactly one year. Or, by analogy, when our world turns 2000, it will have "lived" for two thousand years, and will have, therefore, completed two millenniums and be ready to enter the third.

There is absolutely no such thing as a Year Zero... there cannot be. The first 365 days after Christ's birth was considered Year One (and please spare me the "we don't exactly know when Christ was born" theory - we are speaking from information currently known to us). Therefore, Years 1-1000 is the first thousand years (Millenium), Years 1001-2000 the second Millenium... and the new Millenium begins on January 1, 2001.

To use a simpler example, suppose there are ten cars parked on a street. To count how many cars there are, you don't point to the first car and say "That's Car Zero", then point to the second car and say "That's Car One", and so on. By doing that, you will have counted only nine cars (0-9).

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: : : . I disagree because the new millennium must necessarily begin after the previous one thousand year period has been completed. Starting from ground zero, the first year of the millennium was completed on December 31, Year Zero, or, in other words, on January 1, Year 1, exactly one year had been completed. Following this logic,  the first century was complete as of  January 1, A.D. 100, the first millennium as of  January 1, A.D. 1000, and the second millennium as of January 1, 2000. In other words, January 1, 2000 will commence the third millennium.

: : This counting comports with how we count our own life spans. We celebrate our first birthday, not on the day we are actually born, but on the day that we have completed one year of our lives.  When we turn one-year-old, we have lived exactly one year. Or, by analogy, when our world turns 2000, it will have "lived" for two thousand years, and will have, therefore, completed two millenniums and be ready to enter the third.

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: There is absolutely no such thing as a Year Zero... there cannot be.  The first 365 days after Christ's birth was considered Year One (and please spare me the "we don't exactly know when Christ was born" theory - we are speaking from information currently known to us).  Therefore, Years 1-1000 is the first thousand years (Millenium), Years 1001-2000 the second Millenium... and the new Millenium begins on January 1, 2001.

: To use a simpler example, suppose there are ten cars parked on a street.  To count how many cars there are, you don't point to the first car and say "That's Car Zero", then point to the second car and say "That's Car One", and so on.  By doing that, you will have counted only nine cars (0-9).

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