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Everything's mythology, one way or the other. By turning some other arbitrary point into the new calendar year 0, you will mythologize it.
by AlgorithmicTime 5y ago
Everything's mythology, one way or the other. By turning some other arbitrary point into the new calendar year 0, you will mythologize it.
- gxt 5y agoDo you mythologize SI units?
- anon_123g987 5y agoTechnically, many of them are named after famous scientists, so the possibility is certainly there. Who knows what people will think of our Lord Kelvin 10,000 years later. Maybe eventually we will have to change those names, too, if they become dirty, rightfully or not.
- gxt 5y agoDo you really need a burner account for this conversation?
- anon_123g987 5y agoTrue, but people don't commit crimes against humanity in the name of any arbitrary mythologies, only certain ones. We shouldn't propagate those kind of myths any further.