The Joke is on everybody that uses BCE because they don't want to be religious. BCE is actually used to put a very fine date on the division between one era and the next. The joke is: BCE means Before Christ's Execution. Christ lived to be 34 years old, so BC doesn't really work. BCE puts a fine stamp on it.
@@HopefulPessimist BC; Jesus' coming from Heaven/birth on earth. However, I rather appreciate your take on it. I SAW/MET Him, so I KNOW Him well & I AM BEYOND grateful to Him; ETERNALLY!😉😁😍😂 Bless you for your stand for Jesus. I pray you are born again IN Him. Blessings in Jesus!🙋 💔👣👣💖
I was always taught BC and AD in school and at university. Literally only found out about BCE and CE in my mid twenties. Will of course continue to use BC and AD. It is part of our history and I'm not ashamed of my faith.
I'm an American Jew, and have ALWAYS used "B.C." and "A.D.". I have NO objection to them, any more than I do the names of the months or days. it's ALWAYS been "B.C." and "A.D." in my lifetime, I'm gonna keep using them. And NEVER be ashamed of your faith. G_d bless!
I remember reading a book on religion. In the intro it explictly said that it would be using CE and BCE for the remainder of the book. Due to its popularity in academia. Near the end of the book the author refers to CE as christian Era. Seeing how the CE and BCE is an attempt to secularize the calendar i find it massively funny that he would do that.
Robespierre in the French Revolution tried to change the whole calendar and dating system also to fit into the political correctness of the French Revolution. It sort of fell apart, of course, when he himself went to the guillotine for failing to understand a newer version of political correctness. The revolution will always eat its own. Changing history for the sake of politics is seldom a useful thing.
laertes104 Hence secularization. It is removing a Christian system for years that is so old that it is universal and replacing it with secular gibberish. This is nothing more that a secular attempt to remove any trace of religion from the public square that is led by left wing academics. As for your argument that it does not fit, how can a system that has tracked years for over 2,000 years not fit? A proven way of tracking years that has proven itself for centuries is not fit to track years? It does not fit in the secular mind because it is not secular.
It reminds humanity that this foolishness called christianity was not always believed by people and the crap that every body not believing it is going to hell is nonsense because it means every one born before 0 CE ended by default in hell.
Hræð Af framhliðinni BOVINE SCAT. In those cases you are not using BC or AD but rather the dating system in use in the area at the time and any reference to BC or AD is a secondary time reference. But hey if you want change for the sake of change let’s start using BAB and AAB with 1945 AD being the key transition year. aAB is for.After the Atom Bomb
How about we base our calendar on something we know for sure when it happened, like the launch of Sputnik 1 or the first time Colossus ran its first program? I think the first artificial satellite or the first computer are important-enough markers for history which we know for sure when they happened.
VAMobMember It offends me as a transgendered, transspecied, transaged, transrace, transethnic, attack helicopter gender non binary, species non conforming lion-bear-bird feminist to reference god because it offends me to use BC-AD so i use BCE-CE to not offend anyone.
No one Here I’m going to assume that like me you are an American so I ask you where in the US Constitution does it State you have the right to NOT be offended?
I was discussing BC/AD & BCE/CE with a good friend of mine. He hates religious people (not his best trait) and he was happy that they were trying to push the Christian-less Common Era. Even he admitted eventually it was stupid when he realized you can call it what you want but the common era is based on Christ's life. That dating system dominates the world. It's human history. If you try to eliminate all religious references from dates you'll have to rename most of the days of the week since they're named after Norse gods (Thor's Day anyone?) Religion is part of history, not antithetical to it.
I've used BCE and CE for at least 10 years. It makes more sense to me. The calendar has a Christian origin, yes, but nowadays is used by many people who are not Christian. In many ways it has become the default calendar of much of the world. The year is by convention, tradition. Not any particular event. Originally yes it was meant to count from the birth of Jesus, but it turns out that was inaccurate, with him likely being born in 6 or 4 BCE. So I find it kind of silly to keep using BC and AD when the Lord being referred to was not born on the day 1 BC(E) ended and 1 CE/AD began. I don't see it as 'PC', but as making the calendar truely universal.
Except it's not based on Christ's life. It's based off an arbitrary starting point that one random dude thought might line up with Christ's life, but we now think he missed by a good few years. Really, I think it's much more honest and accurate to just acknowledge the arbitrary nature of the dating system and call it the Common Era.
ImMaxi, I just think it makes something self explanatory in need of an explanation. A thousand years from now if a kid wants to know what the common era was based on you need to explain Christianity. (And every kid will need to know.) Using BC and AD doesn't make a person Christian. If I'm going to meet someone on Friday it doesn't mean I worship Freya. Most of the world tracks years by an event roughly 2000 years ago. It's always going to be relevant. It's history. Arabic numerals don't convert anyone to Islam. If people eventually find Christianity so loathsome they can't stand to number the years thus, start a new system. Don't pointlessly try to rename it.
I used to use BCE and CE, because I was told it sounded more "academic". I eventually realized it was just somebody's microaggression against people of a different religion so I dropped the practice and now use the original. Incidentally, I still call Wednesday by that name even though I don't worship Odin.
Renaming the era to avoid mentioning the christian god, is like renaming the planets to avoid the roman gods. (I'm an atheist and a biologist and use b.c.e. and c.e. on a regular basis but it still is kinda silly.)
Oh shit! Ijust saw ACDC's wiki- Brian Johnson, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd have all gone, now? It's basically just The Angus Young Band, now. I mean, Angus is a legend, but that's kinda sad...
I had no idea that CE was that old. I'm in my 30's now and love reading and watching documentaries about ancient civilizations and I haven't seen the terms B.C.E and CE until maybe 3 or 4 years ago.
I thought that too, but the video explains that the "BC" time is actually about 30 years off. If you believe in Jesus, he would have been born in 30BC.
Well, given the fact that the first "Year of our Lord" misses Jesus' birth by a good few years, you could just as easily argue that CE and BCE are the much more securely founded versions of AD and BC.
I learned BCE and CE during school...elementary, middle, and high school, etc. We didn't use the other ones so BCE and CE are the ones that are more "natural" for me to use.
@@loliraki Besides the first two days, every day of the week is named after a Norse God, and many of the months are named after Greek/Roman gods, the planets of the solar systems are also named after Greco/Roman gods. How come nobody makes a fuss about this, or wants to rename every month and day of the week bc it has a religious origin? There seems to be a bias against things of Christian origin Christianity has been the most impactful faith ever and Jesus the most impactful figure, it does make sense to base our dating system on his life when those two facts are considered so I don’t see any issue unless we rename everything with a religious origin.
I like that you tell us what book(s) you used to help write your scripts. Please keep doing that. I haven't had an opportunity to explore further yet, but it is nice knowing I can find out by going back and reviewing the video. :o)
I have to say, this ce bce crap has pissed me off to no end since the "modern idiots began using it!' IT shows a lack of respect for tradition, and goes against everything I learned in school back in the 50's and 60's!
Ian Macfarlane, I think he was aiming at TIFO. Funny thing is that their statement, as written, is correct. The way it's worded they used "learn" correctly and to say teach is wrong. They are speaking from the viewers point of view. I feel sorry for people that are so angry. It's sad.
I graduated from a public high school in California in 1994 and the first time I ever heard BCE and CE (versus BC and AD) was after high school and probably after 2000. I always figured it was adopted by woke leftist PhDs who didn't want to make any reference to Christianity. The Jewish usage makes complete sense, and is understandable, but I don't think BCE/CE was used in a widespread manner by educators and/or historians in the US until about the beginning of the 21st century. I still suspect it was some ACLU type that caused it (the same people that make us say "holiday tree" rather than Christmas tree.)
As a side job I tutor History and a few other subjects at the high school and college level. I continue to tutor and teach the proper AD/BC dating conventions. About two years ago a teacher threatened to fail a student of mine on an exam for not using what is now the Politically Correct CE/BCE conventions. This despite a perfect score of 100%. One of my contractual agreements with parents who hire me is that I will attend teacher conferences. I've attended many over the years When the teacher learned that I was the student's tutor and her parents had scheduled a conference that I was going to attend the teacher withdrew the failing grade and passed the student with the well earned 100%. It benefits my side profession to also be a rare/antique book collector. Mainly History books. Teachers know that I come armed with over fifteen decades of accumulated knowledge on the subject. They on the other hand have their copy/paste government issued text book as their only defense. I respect teachers....most of them. Far too many are caving into the pressures of this Politically Correct Post Modern Era by teaching their students Revisionist History full of misconceptions, bias and outright lies. These are teachers for which I lack respect.
As I watch n listen to another interesting TIFO, there is a fly that won't leave me alone. Why do flys do that? Why do they come back to something that wants to kill them?? Why are they so f**kin annoying!!!!!!
Could start from when we carbon based lifeforms first stood upright, or learned to communicate with auditory sound, except no one had the brains or skill to note when that was.
OneGenericName Yeah, and such moments are quite arbitrary. We might as well start from when for the first time a carbon based life form started to lick its private parts... if we actually knew when that was.
The atom bomb is a pretty good epoch for a calendar, imo. It's a pretty important event in human history. That, or just take the Unix epoch from computing.
having studied history, I never came across CE or BCE until the 1990s, and I think it is an American thing rammed onto us. If the Americans cannot figure out Metric, then we don't want their stinkin newfangled dating system.
3:33 "Six to four B.C" sounded like 624BC ... which confused me at first as the listener. I suggest the speaker use "between 6 AND 4 B.C" so that there is no confusion to the listener.
What I find fascinating is that the whole world adopted this b.c and a.d. It shows how the existence of Christ was so influential that many empires adopt this standard.
exactly, there's a lot of videos on youtube that explain the differences, but very few that explain how BCE and CE are attempts to remove God from our culture. But that's just my opinion.
I've taken some swipes at Simon on this show because I think some segments are boring. But here's what's up: Simon and his crew just keep going and powering through. Because remember only I find some segments boring from my perspective. Simon gives it his all every time and he's not bullshiting you and I appreciate that. If you put down your sword every time someone didn't like something you would never get anywhere.
I always mouth along with the "Hello I'm Simon Whistler. you're watching the today I found out UA-cam channel. In the video today we're looking at [title of video]" and I kinda freaked out a little at the change. But I like it; it's smoother
In Dutch, the words for BC literally mean "before Christ" (like in English) while the words for AD literally mean "after Christ". So it doesn't really emphasise the "our lord" thing, it just says before and after Christ
They're not air tight because they're usually made fairly cheaply. So the water turns to water vapor and escapes through gaps. But since it's sealed to some degree it takes longer than usual. Some snow globes have a little tab that you can remove at the bottle, just for this reason, and you can refill them
Well, I learned long ago if you can't explain something simply enough then 2 reasons arise: 1) You do not know it well enough your self by side-stepping and generalizing more then specifying, or 2) Your aim to answer became lost in an attempt to share everything you studied alongside that particular information ignoring others' peace of mind to feed your own frenzied.
In portuguese we use AC/DC (Antes de Cristo / Depois de Cristo), so when the hard rock band "AC/DC" came about, people in Portugal thought they meant Before Christ / After Christ. It was only later, in the 1990's that we found out about the english initials for "Corrente Alternada / Corrente Contínua" C.A. / C.C. in portuguese, but spelled AC/DC in english. So for a few decades, the common folks of Portugal thought the AC/DC rock band had a religious name. :-) We didn't have internet back then... :-)
In English, that would be Alternating Current or Direct Current, or the conflict between Edison and Tesla, absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with time or religion.
@Werner Boden - As a young child, growing up in the rural deep-South, I was taught that BC was "Before Christ" and AD was "After Death", which confused me. If it's BC up until his birth and then AD after his death, how do you refer to dates during his lifetime? When I got a little older, I was told that AD *actually* stood for "Anno Domini" which they said meant (and I kid you not) "After the Resurrection", but that still didn't make sense to me, because it left the same 'gap' between BC and AD. Thankfully, I was a voracious reader, so I was eventually able to dig up the truth, which is that both BC and AD refer to a very early estimate of the birth of Jesus, and that "Anno Domini" actually means "In the year of our Lord". I also learned that not only is there no 'gap' between BC and AD, but that there's not even a year 0, which means that 1 BC is followed immediately by 1 AD, which seems a little weird, but still makes more sense than what I had been taught.
The guy in the video attempts to explain why those who don't believe in Christ are justified in using non-Christian time lines to designate historical events. Another attack by the Left on Christians.
So there are no left wing Christians? So the invention of the CE/BCE system wasn't by Christians? You do understand that this is a squabble between Christians? That other religious/cultural groups have their own dates?
+domehammer "Common Era" just means "the same years that everybody else uses." As in, it's the same BC/AD years, just under a different name so some people don't get offended.
Honestly it's just a further sign of people burying their morality, and avoiding religion at all costs. Because religion means living our life with guidelines and self control, instead of being able to do whatever we want treating each other poorly and leading a selfish, toxic, and self centered life.
Yeah, when you dig down into it, this is actually the mechanism used to sell secularism. No self control, no personal responsibility, just blind hedonism with all that pesky judgement removed. Atheists think they are "enlightened", when really they are just degenerates.
Are you suggesting atheists don't have morality? You know, the people who actually think about their morality instead of reading a 2,000 year old book and automatically assuming it's true (even though it can be manipulated to mean a lot of different things)?
@@kierandouble6414 Not all morality is equal. You have objective morality, which boils down to anything that ensures that we will fulfil our natural purpose, whether that be biological (the procreation of healthy offspring) or spiritual (personal growth), is good. Whilst anything that disrupts us in achieving our natural purpose, is bad. An example of objective morality is that it is wrong to murder your own (healthy) offspring, or to allow them to die by your negligence, this is true of all healthy animals. Objective morality is universal to all human beings, and indeed all species of animal. Subjective morality is that which applies to anything else, and differs depending on the individual. Equality between the sexes is an example of subjective morality, as it is not evident in nature, is not essential to ensure the propagation of this or any species, and is not common to all peoples and societies, nor ever has been at any time in history. A moral life is one in which you actively pursue personal growth, that which benefits your health, longevity and your capacity to be of value to your spouse/offspring to ensure that life goes on after you are gone. An immoral one, is one in which you actively engage in activites that harm yourself, or others, mentally, physically and/or spiritually. An example of this is hedonism, where you pursue blind pleasure for pleasure's sake (be it drugs/sex/alcoholism/video game escapism), an entirely selfish existence that does not serve your natural purpose. What Chase Null is referring to is that modern atheists have a tendency to try to undermine objective morals (by say supporting planned parenthood: the wholsesale extermination of unborn babies) whilst declaring that subjective morals (like a woman's "right" to abort a child) are actually universal, and therefore objective morals. This is the turning of objective morality on its head. And so it seems, that without a set of guidelines (like those outlined in religious teachings) people will start to pervert, and even directly invert, morality so that the set of "morals" a secular society are left with, are often the opposite of what is observed in the natural world. We may not need a 2000 year old book, necessarily. But it seems we do need to be reminded of right and wrong.
@@leokocyte8943 There is no such thing as objective morality. That's invention to prop up human beliefs. There is no "natural purpose" to human life. We are animals, nothing more. To suggest otherwise is pure and utter arrogance of the highest level. Killing your offspring is not objectively wrong, it's subjectively wrong. It's not logical. More to the point, if you need to be told it's wrong, then it is quite clear you have no morals to begin with. You cannot "actively pursue personal growth" if you cannot use your brain or logic. It's not logical to harm yourself or to be hedonisitic, and I pity the person that needs to be told this. Religion can and does help people overcome these problems, but it can also be the cause of them (my religion could be hedonistic, after all, if you do not use logic to decide morality. I could tell my followers that alcohol and sex were the only things that mattered. This would have as much 'moral value' as anything in the Bible. Or I could say that murder was right because my god said so. This would be absurd and wrong, of course, but if you surrender your rational abilities to religion and arbitrary guidelines, you have no right to object to this). The idea that Christians, who have long supported systems designed to benefit the individual over society, can lecture anyone about selfishness is ridiculous. Religious guidelines are arbitrary and decided by history or politicians. They cannot be logically argued one way or another. The result is never ending conflict and an inability to discuss moral questions in a logical manner, which helps absolutely no one, including religious people. Saying we needed to be "reminded of right and wrong" suggests that there was some idealised period in history where this was the case. When was this?
@Chase Null - If my religion is the only thing stopping me from treating other people poorly, then I've got some serious problems that I need to address. There are kind, compassionate religious people and there are selfish, mean-spirited religious people -- just like there are kind, compassionate non-religious people and selfish, mean-spirited non-religious people. Seriously, I'm not disputing the benefits that religion can have, but it clearly doesn't guarantee moral, ethical behaviour -- nor does its absence automatically result in a lack of morals and ethics.
We tend to think of our year-numbering system as having been in general use, in Europe and the Europeanized Americas, at least, since the early centuries A.D. In fact, there were all kinds of year-numbering systems flying around, based on such-and-such a monarch's reign, or the founding of some nation, etc. Even after general adoption of our current system of year numbers, there was the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in Oct. 1582 by the Vatican, which, because that was *after* the Protestant Reformation, was adopted by some of Europe (the countries that remained Catholic) and ignored by the rest (those that became Protestant). And for historians dealing with older writings from places and times where myriad other calendars were in use, and which even had varying start-dates for the year, it was still a headache keeping orders of events straight. Thus it was that historian Joseph Scaliger introduced in 1583, a system of numbering days that could act as a sort of 'universal language' of dates, and to which all the other calendars could be corresponded. He called this system, Julian Day Number, and it was based on a year in the distant past, in which all three of the common historical cycles - Roman indiction cycle of 15 years, the Metonic cycle of 19 years (in which solar and lunar cycles come back into sync), and the 28-year cycle in which the Julian calendar repeats (leap-years and days-of-the-week) - were last in sync. This turned out to be Jan. 1, 4713 B.C. (Julian Calendar); and the JD cycle length is thus 15·19·28 = 7980 years, so the current cycle won't end until A.D. 3266. The JD system has been adopted by astronomers, with the further convention that the "start" of each such day is noon UT, and fractions of a day are given in decimal, for ease of computation. E.g., right now, 2017 Sep 20 Wed, 7:45 pm EDT = 2017 Sep 20 Wed, 23:45 UT = JD 2,458,017.48958 to the nearest 100,000th of a day (which is slightly less than a second).
A couple of years ago I was at a Museum in Wisconsin and they used BP (Before Present). PC has infected academia in Wisconsin. BC is based on a fixed point in time. BP could mean three days ago. I'll stick with BC.
Any Hoot, what are you talking about? B.P is based on the 1st of January 1950 because it was a good round number, and the idea was established in 1954 to use for carbon dating. Scientists around the world (usually in archaeology/geology or something) use it for events that happened in the past. It isn't about being "PC".
Sounds funny, but it's probably a more correct and traditional pronunciation since the word is spelled Christian (Chris-ti-an). But we more often hear it pronounced as something like "kris-chen."
I'd be really interested in seeing an episode exploring how different organisms experience pain, if there are some species which don't feel pain at all, and if there are organisms you'd expect not to feel pain which actually do.
Any proper historian uses BC AD and understands that the calendar is based off religion. I'm an atheist but I find CE and BCE offensive due to it political correctness and how it's disrespectful to people who are religious. No one has got offended by AD BC. Go on, ask a Muslim or anyone else if they are offended
rickysmyth they did secularized the term for non christians that was forced to use the system. It doesn't really hurt anybody whichever you use so i think it is a win win. I guess.
rickysmyth: Thank you, Ricky. Good sense and a good IQ can be found outside of the faith. We appreciate your sensible approach, and will not bother you about our differences in belief.
I'm a Christian and I don't really care that they took the Christ out of it. The way I see it is that we should recognize historical context when we teach it, but Christ isn't always relevant (i.e. talking about dates of Chinese dynasties which developed without Abrahamic faiths, but we still use our calendar for reference). I have a strong conviction that Church and State need to be kept as separate as possible, and this is just another way of doing it (because public schools teach these things). The State should protect people having faith but shouldn't be run based on those principals. In a multi-cultural world, we need secular morality to hold us together. And those that have faith in the same God already seek each other out. We don't need the government to put it on our money or in our schools or within our dating system for that
I don't understand why you think this is political correctness. Or why it's about offensiveness. CE and BCE are gaining popularity because they're generic, which is what you need in a system used by 7.2 billion people with a myriad of different religions and languages. It's hard enough explaining to non-english speakers what the words mean without also needing to try and explain a latin term in the process.
rickysmyth as a Christian I thank you for your understanding. Just because we don't agree doesn't mean there isn't common ground. I feel some things can be changed for the better to be fair to all ideas. But some, like the dating system should be left the way they are. The next thing you know the ultra PC crowd will be petitioning to restart the calendar with some new date. Like N Korea did.
It isn't to give Christians the finger. It's because custom demands that this is the dating system everyone uses, so we've adapted it to be a system that includes everyone. It doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense to refer to Jesus if you're talking about ancient Chinese history, but on the other hand, nobody will know when anything is if you simply refer to it as "the 48th year of the Tang dynasty." So CE & BCE are compromises. You don't have to change the system that the whole world is used to, & you don't have to domineer over everyone in the world with constant references to Christianity.
Let's be clear: nobody *really* cares about this shit. Scholars use BC & BCE interchangeably giving absolutely no thought to it at all. Christians getting upset over this is like Fox News getting upset over Starbucks cups. It's petty & stupid & only shows the most pathetic side of "Christianity".
Zoidberg..... admit you enjoy giving the finger to everyone who disagrees with you, not just Christians. Calling yourself Dr. indicates academic bullshit here...... most college people are excellent at bullshittery since that's what they do for a living.
Dr. Zoidberg If nobody really cares about this shit, then why was it changed in the first place and so much effort put into implementing it everywhere (it is required at some universities)? It's petty & stupid & only shows the most pathetic side of atheists.
"Why was it changed in the first place," Because post-enlightenment & post-industrialization, we realized how nice it would be to have a globally universal accounting of time, so folks modified it to BCE to reflect the idea of a "common era" for all mankind. Taking a previously existing system is MUCH easier than inventing a new one out of whole cloth (as the French found out)... that's what the Christians did, too. It's not about atheism or attacking Christianity or any nonsense like that. It's about having a universal model for everyone to use equally.
I find it incredibly fascinating just how many people throughout how many years spent an incredible time discussing and figuring out dates etc.. about something and someone that may not have existed in the first place. Not to mention how many wars and how many people died over something and someone whom probably didn’t even exist, something ya can’t see, touch, or hear.. absolutely fascinating.
regalia I’m going to assume (unfortunately) that you’re not joking. Which I suppose can be considered admirable to some people. But to make that comparison is simply ludicrous. That’s an extremely false narrative and you shouldn’t purvey that type of inaccurate information. However, even I know the futility of this argument. Once someone “believes” there’s no changing minds. So I guess all I have to say is, good luck with that.
Uh dude virtually ALL historians Christian, atheist, agnostic or otherwise all agree that Jesus lived and was crucified. This is about as concrete historical fact as Alexander the Great or Aristotle living. Like you can say you don’t think Jesus existed, which is your right, but don’t act like it’s a legitimate position that any actual historians take seriously.
I am relieved that am not the only one who felt this way. I prefer someone who talks in a relaxed way. Listening to him made me feel like I lost my ability to understand the language. In my case it is because I am a sloth in every language I can speak. i think i just called myself dumb
I have a similar question, one concerning years. Why, when listing year spans in AD/CE (such as the reign of Diocletian) do you put the later date first? It seems counterintuitive and it's not the first time I've seen you do this.
I hate BCE/CE. It’s like naming inches and yards centimeters and meters to claim you’ve adopted the metric system. “Common era” is a meaningless designation. What is the common era? If we want to change our dating system then fine but let’s actually find a reasonable and logical point and designation. The first written record is my suggestion.
I have a question that may have been answered but I am unaware of it. Does a vehicle being pulled on its own tires add to the odometer like it does when being driven?
Ah I think I got it but it seems that when I went to school it was just BC and AD which made it simple thanks again for these daily bits of great knowledge at times my mind don't like it because it has to work but the rest of me enjoy it stay safe
Excellent video my friend. You covered just about everything. I would add that the most pressing reason that CE and BCE are being more widely used is that it goes along with the religious ecumenical movement, bringing religions together. As well as the New World Order movement, bringing governments together. So in order to do this we need to remove everything that would offend other religions, and chose a more neutral way of dating. Just for the record I am against changing our dating system. Thanks again for a great video.
Agreed! I also feel that this may be another mandela affect for myself however. I'm well read and always seeking new knowledge, I'm 52 and have only just heard of these abbreviations in the last two days. Not to mention they just fired C E R N up over the full moon again, things change each times but its strange how only some seem to sense or notice the changes....imho
@@genaborgelt9930 These terms are becoming much more popular in the academia. And we all know who controls that. Our uncle Sam of course. The same uncle who did away with school prayer, and any form of Bible reading in public schools. And under Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. This taking control of the public schools away from the local community; and opening the door to the National Education Association. A Union; and we all know what unions love to do. Control people
@@genaborgelt9930 Boa noite, Gena! Não é Efeito Mandela. Não é surpresa só alguns notarem as mudanças. Eu escrevi um texto sobre isso durante a Pandemia, mas não se limita à este período. 1 - *A Estratégia da Distração* O elemento primordial do controle social é a estratégia da distração, que consiste em desviar a atenção do público dos problemas importantes e das mudanças que são decididas pelas elites políticas e econômicas, mediante a técnica do dilúvio ou inundação de contínuas distrações e de informações insignificantes. A estratégia da distração é igualmente indispensável para impedir o público de interessar-se pelos conhecimentos essenciais na área da ciência, economia, psicologia, neurobiologia ou cibernética. “Manter a atenção do público distraída, longe dos verdadeiros problemas sociais, cativada por temas sem importância real. Manter o público ocupado, ocupado, ocupado, sem nenhum tempo para pensar; de volta à granja como os outros animais” (citação do texto ‘Armas Silenciosas para Guerras Tranquilas’). 2 - *Criar problemas e depois oferecer soluções* Este método também se denomina “Problema-Reação-Solução”. Cria-se um problema, uma “situação” prevista para causar certa reação no público, a fim de que seja este quem exija medidas que se deseja fazer com que aceitem. Por exemplo: deixar que se desenvolva ou se intensifique a violência urbana, ou organizar atentados sangrentos, a fim de que o público seja quem demande leis de segurança e políticas de cerceamento da liberdade. 3 - A Estratégia da Gradualidade. Para fazer com que se aceite uma medida inaceitável, basta aplicá-la gradualmente, com conta-gotas, por anos consecutivos. Dessa maneira as condições socioeconômicas radicalmente novas (neoliberalismo) foram impostas durante as décadas de 1980 e 1990. Estado mínimo, privatizações, precariedade, flexibilidade, desemprego massivo, salários que já não asseguram rendas decentes, tantas mudanças que provocariam uma revolução se fossem aplicadas de uma vez só. 4 - A Estratégia de Diferir. Outra maneira de fazer com que se aceite uma decisão impopular é a de apresentá-la como “dolorosa e necessária”, obtendo a aceitação pública, no momento, para uma aplicação futura. É mais fácil aceitar um sacrifício futuro do que um sacrifício imediato. Primeiro porque o esforço não é empregado imediatamente. Logo, porque o público, a massa, tem sempre a tendência a esperar ingenuamente que “tudo irá melhorar amanhã” e que o sacrifício exigido poderá ser evitado. Isto dá mais tempo ao público para se acostumar com a ideia da mudança e aceitá-la com resignação quando chegar o momento. 5 - *Dirigir-se ao público como a criaturas de pouca idade* A maioria da publicidade dirigida ao grande público utiliza discursos, argumentos, personagens e entonação particularmente infantis, muitas vezes próximos à debilidade, como se o espectador fosse uma criatura de pouca idade ou um deficiente mental. Quanto mais se pretende enganar o espectador, mais se tende a adotar um tom infantil. Por que? “Se alguém se dirige a uma pessoa como se ela tivesse 12 anos ou menos, então, em razão da sugestão, ela tenderá, com certa probabilidade, a uma resposta ou reação também desprovida de um sentido crítico como a de uma pessoa de 12 anos ou menos". 6 - Utilizar o aspecto emocional muito mais que a reflexão. Fazer uso do aspecto emocional é uma técnica clássica para causar um curto-circuito na análise racional, e, finalmente, no sentido crítico dos indivíduos. Por outro lado, a utilização do registro emocional permite abrir a porta de acesso ao inconsciente para implantar ou injetar ideias, desejos, medos e temores, compulsões, ou induzir comportamentos. 7 - Manter o público na ignorância e na mediocridade. Fazer com que o público seja incapaz de compreender as tecnologias e os métodos utilizados para seu controle e sua escravidão. “A qualidade da educação dada às classes sociais inferiores deve ser a mais pobre e medíocre possível, de forma que a distância da ignorância planejada entre as classes inferiores e as classes sociais superiores seja e permaneça impossível de ser alcançada para as classes inferiores (ver ‘Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas’)”. 8 - Estimular o público a ser complacente com a mediocridade. Promover a crença do público de que é moda o fato de ser estúpido, vulgar e inculto. 9 - Reforçar a auto culpabilidade. Fazer crer ao indivíduo que somente ele é culpado por sua própria desgraça devido à insuficiência de sua inteligência, de suas capacidades, ou de seus esforços. Assim, em vez de se rebelar contra o sistema econômico, o indivíduo se menospreza e se culpa, o que gera um estado depressivo, cujo um dos efeitos é a inibição da ação do indivíduo. E sem ação não há revolução! 10 - *Conhecer os indivíduos melhor do que eles mesmos se conhecem* No decurso dos últimos 50 anos, os avanços acelerados da ciência geraram uma crescente brecha entre os conhecimentos do público e aqueles que possuem e utilizam as elites dominantes. Graças à biologia, à neurobiologia e à psicologia aplicada, o “sistema” desfrutou de um conhecimento avançado do ser humano, tanto de forma física como psicológica. O sistema conseguiu conhecer melhor o indivíduo comum do que este conhece a si mesmo. Isto significa que, na maioria dos casos, o sistema exerce um controle maior e um grande poder sobre os indivíduos, maior que o dos indivíduos sobre si mesmos. Noam Chomsky. filósofo, ativista, autor e analista político estadunidense. É professor emérito de Linguística no MIT e uma das figuras mais destacadas desta ciência no século XX. Reconhecido na comunidade científica e acadêmica por seus importantes trabalhos em teoria linguística e ciência cognitiva. Uma técnica de controle mental em massa que é usado por essas organizações de elite todo o tempo é o "problema-reação-solução". Um problema é secretamente criado (pelos Governastes do Mundo) e alguém é culpado pelo problema. O culpado pode ser uma guerra, uma desvalorização da moeda, dívida interna, ou um colapso governamental. *Para algumas pessoas da sociedade, pode ser qualquer coisa. Mas de fato, a mídia é usada para estimular a tal ponto a opinião pública em relação ao fabricado problema que o público grita "Algo precisa ser feito!" Nesse ponto, aqueles que criaram o problema, oferecem abertamente a solução como um meio de conseguir o que eles queriam desde o princípio.*
Thanks for explaining what BCE means. For years I was wondering what BCE meant. This morning I was watching The Universe series and again the mentioned BCE and I thought "That's it I am going to google what does BCE mean" and find out what the heck BCE stands for once and for all. I searched and google showed a link to your video so I clicked on it. Now I know. I can go back to my science show.
These terms mean exactly the same thing. The difference is that BCE/CE had to be created in a spirit of political correction because the Jews were offended by any reference to Jesus.
Has anyone noticed that the term BCE actually defines the period in terms of what it is not, i.e. not the Common Era. This follows the example of books being non-fiction, defined by what they are not rather than what they are. To be logical, the BCE era should be the uncommon era (UE). By the way what does the "common" in common era mean? Is it an era lacking any distinction or merit or dominated by coarse vulgarians?
I had no idea how or when they came up with the odd-sounding Common Era before I watched this video, so I've learned something. Isn't that the definition of a good video (of the instructional variety ..)? Thanks!
Except the Human Era was chosen for two reasons. First as a rough approximation of the date of us coming together as a civilization instead of scattered tribes thanks to the temple. It also roughly approximates the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epochs, aka the end of the last ice age. But mostly it's for ease of transition and usage. All our notable history occurs in the Holocene Epoch, smaller numbers are earlier, there's no odd transition to negative 5/6th of the way through our history, there's actually a year 0 so the mathematics quits being silly because some monks didn't like the "blasphemous arab zero" which actually came from India. All other date systems occur after this one, so conversion is made easier. But the single most important thing is that it makes transitioning simple. Just add a 1 at the beginning of the year now and you're using the Human Era (or Holocene Epoch) calendar. I expect that once we colonize Mars, we'll switch to a new calendar system that marks our status as a spacefaring species and this whole thing will be moot. But oh well.
@Bellyriaa - Given how angry some people get over CE/BCE, I can only imagine how many heads would explode if we actually started using the HE system. 😯
You must be older. If you'd been to school in the past 10-15 years, you would have been taught that BCE/CE is correct and BC/AD is not supposed to be used anymore. I still use it, though. Pretty sure most people do.
Always was BC now BCE . Why more political correctness . Cant anyone keep things the same . I may be a Muslim and I'm fed up with changes . Jesus if he existed wasn't born on year 0 I'm sure of that but we have had 2000 years using BC and AD why have we the rite to change it
I thought I would learn why the terminology was changed within the last 20 years. We had a system of measurement that was suddenly changed to protect a small faction of people from being insulted or being afraid. Political correctness brought forth this change that has no effect on the past but attempts to put a smile on the faces of 6 or 7 people who managed to cause disruption in the other 300 million of us.
SMOBY44 there are 7 billion people on this planet and the majority are not Christian. It’s not even the biggest religion and there is conflict within and between religions. It’s important that academics maintain impartiality.
Political correctness means NOTHING can stay the same. Everything offends someone so everything must be changed on a regular basis. Consistency is the mother of oppression! Revolution and then anti-revolution, and then revolution again!
jhg66466 yes social progress requires revolution and revision through a societal discourse which should certainly include those who feel what ever aspect, value or component of society being challenged needs no challenge.
@jhg66466 - You do realise that the use of CE/BCE has nothing to do with "politically correctness", right? I mean, you're literally commenting on the video that explains where the term came from and it wasn't because anyone was "offended" by BC/AD.
Perfect timing. I've become a bit obsessed with ancient Rome recently and the dates are a bit all over the place. Of course I could've just looked it up but Today I Found Out came to the rescue.. Edit: by teaching me about christian persecution??
Small correction. Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity. He never converted himself until his deathbed, and even that may be more myth than fact.
If you found that video fascinating check out this video and find out How the Modern Calendar Came to Be:
ua-cam.com/video/vPUseCtqvlU/v-deo.html
The Joke is on everybody that uses BCE because they don't want to be religious.
BCE is actually used to put a very fine date on the division between one era and the next.
The joke is:
BCE means
Before Christ's Execution.
Christ lived to be 34 years old, so BC doesn't really work.
BCE puts a fine stamp on it.
@@HopefulPessimist
BC;
Jesus' coming from Heaven/birth on earth.
However, I rather appreciate your take on it. I SAW/MET Him, so I KNOW Him well & I AM BEYOND grateful to Him; ETERNALLY!😉😁😍😂
Bless you for your stand for Jesus. I pray you are born again IN Him. Blessings in Jesus!🙋
💔👣👣💖
@HangGonnaSec Huey
BCE, that's what it means, Before Christ's Execution
@@HopefulPessimist Christ was born, according tp Matthew, after AD 4, and according to Luke, before 6 BC.
@@HopefulPessimist JESUS was 33 years old when He was crucified.
I was always taught BC and AD in school and at university. Literally only found out about BCE and CE in my mid twenties. Will of course continue to use BC and AD. It is part of our history and I'm not ashamed of my faith.
I'm an American Jew, and have ALWAYS used "B.C." and "A.D.". I have NO objection to them, any more than I do the names of the months or days. it's ALWAYS been "B.C." and "A.D." in my lifetime, I'm gonna keep using them. And NEVER be ashamed of your faith. G_d bless!
Wait..what? Was that a bet or dare to see how fast you can give as much info as possible? Lol
Stagger Lee all his energy is oozing out of his egghead skull. Maybe he is flapping his wings in an attempt to cool down?!?
GBTGD!!
I remember reading a book on religion. In the intro it explictly said that it would be using CE and BCE for the remainder of the book. Due to its popularity in academia. Near the end of the book the author refers to CE as christian Era. Seeing how the CE and BCE is an attempt to secularize the calendar i find it massively funny that he would do that.
Francis Lai honestly I don’t think anyone cares, Athiest or Christian.
Robespierre in the French Revolution tried to change the whole calendar and dating system also to fit into the political correctness of the French Revolution. It sort of fell apart, of course, when he himself went to the guillotine for failing to understand a newer version of political correctness. The revolution will always eat its own. Changing history for the sake of politics is seldom a useful thing.
Who wrote this book on religion? Consider the source.
laertes104 Hence secularization. It is removing a Christian system for years that is so old that it is universal and replacing it with secular gibberish.
This is nothing more that a secular attempt to remove any trace of religion from the public square that is led by left wing academics.
As for your argument that it does not fit, how can a system that has tracked years for over 2,000 years not fit?
A proven way of tracking years that has proven itself for centuries is not fit to track years?
It does not fit in the secular mind because it is not secular.
It reminds humanity that this foolishness called christianity was not always believed by people and the crap that every body not believing it is going to hell is nonsense because it means every one born before 0 CE ended by default in hell.
I’m sticking with BC and AD till someone gives me one HELL of a reason not to
Hræð Af framhliðinni BOVINE SCAT. In those cases you are not using BC or AD but rather the dating system in use in the area at the time and any reference to BC or AD is a secondary time reference. But hey if you want change for the sake of change let’s start using BAB and AAB with 1945 AD being the key transition year. aAB is for.After the Atom Bomb
How about we base our calendar on something we know for sure when it happened, like the launch of Sputnik 1 or the first time Colossus ran its first program? I think the first artificial satellite or the first computer are important-enough markers for history which we know for sure when they happened.
VAMobMember It offends me as a transgendered, transspecied, transaged, transrace, transethnic, attack helicopter gender non binary, species non conforming lion-bear-bird feminist to reference god because it offends me to use BC-AD so i use BCE-CE to not offend anyone.
No one Here I’m going to assume that like me you are an American so I ask you where in the US Constitution does it State you have the right to NOT be offended?
VAMobMember you should grow up, the world is evolving, have you noticed
Had no idea CE was that old, thought it was much newer
I was discussing BC/AD & BCE/CE with a good friend of mine. He hates religious people (not his best trait) and he was happy that they were trying to push the Christian-less Common Era. Even he admitted eventually it was stupid when he realized you can call it what you want but the common era is based on Christ's life. That dating system dominates the world. It's human history. If you try to eliminate all religious references from dates you'll have to rename most of the days of the week since they're named after Norse gods (Thor's Day anyone?) Religion is part of history, not antithetical to it.
I've used BCE and CE for at least 10 years. It makes more sense to me. The calendar has a Christian origin, yes, but nowadays is used by many people who are not Christian. In many ways it has become the default calendar of much of the world. The year is by convention, tradition. Not any particular event. Originally yes it was meant to count from the birth of Jesus, but it turns out that was inaccurate, with him likely being born in 6 or 4 BCE. So I find it kind of silly to keep using BC and AD when the Lord being referred to was not born on the day 1 BC(E) ended and 1 CE/AD began.
I don't see it as 'PC', but as making the calendar truely universal.
Except it's not based on Christ's life. It's based off an arbitrary starting point that one random dude thought might line up with Christ's life, but we now think he missed by a good few years. Really, I think it's much more honest and accurate to just acknowledge the arbitrary nature of the dating system and call it the Common Era.
Please tell us more stories where you're proven right and virtuous.
Stefan, no. You barely deserved one.
ImMaxi, I just think it makes something self explanatory in need of an explanation. A thousand years from now if a kid wants to know what the common era was based on you need to explain Christianity. (And every kid will need to know.) Using BC and AD doesn't make a person Christian. If I'm going to meet someone on Friday it doesn't mean I worship Freya. Most of the world tracks years by an event roughly 2000 years ago. It's always going to be relevant. It's history. Arabic numerals don't convert anyone to Islam. If people eventually find Christianity so loathsome they can't stand to number the years thus, start a new system. Don't pointlessly try to rename it.
I knew what BCE and CE meant, but I hadn't known it essentially has such a long history of use in some form. Interesting.
What do b c e mean in the bible
How about the difference between C and CE on a calculator haha. That's what I thought this video was when I clicked it 😂😂
I just had to go and search that myself
Clear and clear everything
Love
C is for Clear All, CE for Clear Entry.
LMAO ,,Now that is Funny lololol
I used to use BCE and CE, because I was told it sounded more "academic". I eventually realized it was just somebody's microaggression against people of a different religion so I dropped the practice and now use the original. Incidentally, I still call Wednesday by that name even though I don't worship Odin.
Micro aggression. Nothing compared to the torment the "different" religions caused.
Yeah, Abel, maybe don't be a bigot.
Renaming the era to avoid mentioning the christian god, is like renaming the planets to avoid the roman gods.
(I'm an atheist and a biologist and use b.c.e. and c.e. on a regular basis but it still is kinda silly.)
But what comes after ACDC
Airbourne.
C.C.R.
A7X
Oh shit! Ijust saw ACDC's wiki- Brian Johnson, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd have all gone, now? It's basically just The Angus Young Band, now. I mean, Angus is a legend, but that's kinda sad...
Beavis good one
I had no idea that CE was that old. I'm in my 30's now and love reading and watching documentaries about ancient civilizations and I haven't seen the terms B.C.E and CE until maybe 3 or 4 years ago.
Same. Im 30 now
AD/BC Merry Christmas
BCE/CE Happy Holidays!
So basically, CE and BCE are the politically correct versions of AD and BC.
Francois Lacombe yes
Only if you think political correctness is a basically good idea.
If not, CE and BCE are the more accurate version.
;)
I thought that too, but the video explains that the "BC" time is actually about 30 years off. If you believe in Jesus, he would have been born in 30BC.
Well, given the fact that the first "Year of our Lord" misses Jesus' birth by a good few years, you could just as easily argue that CE and BCE are the much more securely founded versions of AD and BC.
varana312 PC isn't good. Also accurate according to what?
If you slowed down a few words-per-minute, it would be easier to understand what you are saying!!!!
I agree! I mean, I love Simon and all of his channels, but on this particular subject, I am more confused than I was before :-/
Totally agree. He lost me quickly. WAY too fast.
Pj Strong you can slow down the video ya know
man, glad Im not the only one! I was really starting to feel dumb!
Put on subtitles
Im not religious but im sticking with BC and AD because it looks better. Do we change our calender too? What bout our years?
ok.... no nothing changes and if you watched vid you would know its not new, its 17th century terminology
@@HappyTimez1000 I quite literally don't care. It's new in it's popular usage.
Don't forget the planets
I learned BCE and CE during school...elementary, middle, and high school, etc. We didn't use the other ones so BCE and CE are the ones that are more "natural" for me to use.
I never heard of BCE and CE until maybe 2005 or so. Seemed so out of place, but I think it was the History channel that was using it.
Because of political correctness. Lefties always make shit worse.
@@loliraki They really do.
@@loliraki Besides the first two days, every day of the week is named after a Norse God, and many of the months are named after Greek/Roman gods, the planets of the solar systems are also named after Greco/Roman gods. How come nobody makes a fuss about this, or wants to rename every month and day of the week bc it has a religious origin? There seems to be a bias against things of Christian origin
Christianity has been the most impactful faith ever and Jesus the most impactful figure, it does make sense to base our dating system on his life when those two facts are considered so I don’t see any issue unless we rename everything with a religious origin.
@Poggers guy Sorry but I’m not you I wouldn’t give the slightest f**k now go cry about religion somewhere else.
I like that you tell us what book(s) you used to help write your scripts. Please keep doing that. I haven't had an opportunity to explore further yet, but it is nice knowing I can find out by going back and reviewing the video. :o)
I have to say, this ce bce crap has pissed me off to no end since the "modern idiots began using it!' IT shows a lack of respect for tradition, and goes against everything I learned in school back in the 50's and 60's!
@Jerry Ericsson - If by "modern idiots" you mean "people in the 1830s", since that's when CE/BCE started being used.
@@cScottD bullshit. by whom? a few atheists.
@Jerry Ericsson I agree with you it piss me of too.
etmeyutub dude he literal told you who was using it in the 1830’s in the video
When you thought you were going to learn about dates, but learn about persecution of Christians.
cadr003 same
It goes to show that this channel can pack many facts into one elegantly
Extreme density of information and learning more interesting stuff than you expected when you clicked is kind of our thing. ;-)
well, the whole reason for the religiously charged nomenclature was to be a fuck you to the people persecuting them
Ian Macfarlane, I think he was aiming at TIFO. Funny thing is that their statement, as written, is correct. The way it's worded they used "learn" correctly and to say teach is wrong. They are speaking from the viewers point of view. I feel sorry for people that are so angry. It's sad.
I graduated from a public high school in California in 1994 and the first time I ever heard BCE and CE (versus BC and AD) was after high school and probably after 2000. I always figured it was adopted by woke leftist PhDs who didn't want to make any reference to Christianity. The Jewish usage makes complete sense, and is understandable, but I don't think BCE/CE was used in a widespread manner by educators and/or historians in the US until about the beginning of the 21st century. I still suspect it was some ACLU type that caused it (the same people that make us say "holiday tree" rather than Christmas tree.)
I'll use BCE and CE when we change the names for the days of the week and the months of the year to names that don't reference pagan gods.
I know right??
As a side job I tutor History and a few other subjects at the high school and college level.
I continue to tutor and teach the proper AD/BC dating conventions.
About two years ago a teacher threatened to fail a student of mine on an exam for not using what is now the Politically Correct CE/BCE conventions. This despite a perfect score of 100%.
One of my contractual agreements with parents who hire me is that I will attend teacher conferences. I've attended many over the years
When the teacher learned that I was the student's tutor and her parents had scheduled a conference that I was going to attend the teacher withdrew the failing grade and passed the student with the well earned 100%.
It benefits my side profession to also be a rare/antique book collector. Mainly History books.
Teachers know that I come armed with over fifteen decades of accumulated knowledge on the subject. They on the other hand have their copy/paste government issued text book as their only defense.
I respect teachers....most of them. Far too many are caving into the pressures of this Politically Correct Post Modern Era by teaching their students Revisionist History full of misconceptions, bias and outright lies.
These are teachers for which I lack respect.
Thanks
Love this dude, keep up the good work man.
he is a brain washed piece of shit
It amazes me the variety you chose to show us - I am really loving your series
As I watch n listen to another interesting TIFO, there is a fly that won't leave me alone. Why do flys do that? Why do they come back to something that wants to kill them?? Why are they so f**kin annoying!!!!!!
Todd Dougherty yes please answer this!
Good question! Is there a good answer, however? I'm guessing not.
they like to mock you. "Haha! You missed! You missed! Hey! Hey! Oooh! Strike 2! Guess whose still here~!"
Desperadox23 I don't think I smell special, but my girl says I smell sexy (aftershave), maybe it's a female fly. Good guess... lol
Ilitsa Samariya , well put. I can almost hear them. Lol
to the point bro. well explained. good work.
I had wondered about this. Thank you. I still prefer BC & AD.
We could pull a Kelvin and just start counting from the estimated beginning of the universe.
Greetings from the year 13.799.000.000 ± 21.000.000
Haha, that's great, but I believe counting from the construction of Gobekli Tepe is already enough. So, happy 12,017-ish.
Could start from when we carbon based lifeforms first stood upright, or learned to communicate with auditory sound, except no one had the brains or skill to note when that was.
OneGenericName Yeah, and such moments are quite arbitrary. We might as well start from when for the first time a carbon based life form started to lick its private parts... if we actually knew when that was.
I bought a calendar based on the "Human Era", which starts 12017 years ago. It's easy to remember, and you never have to count backwards :)
The atom bomb is a pretty good epoch for a calendar, imo. It's a pretty important event in human history. That, or just take the Unix epoch from computing.
Excellent,, as, always.
having studied history, I never came across CE or BCE until the 1990s, and I think it is an American thing rammed onto us. If the Americans cannot figure out Metric, then we don't want their stinkin newfangled dating system.
@tandem compound - You're off by about 160 years. CE/BCE starting being used around the 1830s.
3:33 "Six to four B.C" sounded like 624BC ... which confused me at first as the listener. I suggest the speaker use "between 6 AND 4 B.C" so that there is no confusion to the listener.
AD should always come before the numerical year. So one should write AD 2017 instead of 2017 AD
amazing how many people get that mixed up.
Thanks, nerd.
What I find fascinating is that the whole world adopted this b.c and a.d. It shows how the existence of Christ was so influential that many empires adopt this standard.
i get the feeling its more you want other people to draw that conclusion....
exactly, there's a lot of videos on youtube that explain the differences, but very few that explain how BCE and CE are attempts to remove God from our culture. But that's just my opinion.
Very informative. Thanks!
I've taken some swipes at Simon on this show because I think some segments are boring. But here's what's up: Simon and his crew just keep going and powering through. Because remember only I find some segments boring from my perspective. Simon gives it his all every time and he's not bullshiting you and I appreciate that. If you put down your sword every time someone didn't like something you would never get anywhere.
I always mouth along with the "Hello I'm Simon Whistler. you're watching the today I found out UA-cam channel. In the video today we're looking at [title of video]" and I kinda freaked out a little at the change. But I like it; it's smoother
Don't forget about the Human era calendar, which starts in 10,000 BCE and is meant to include most of the history of civilization.
In Dutch, the words for BC literally mean "before Christ" (like in English) while the words for AD literally mean "after Christ". So it doesn't really emphasise the "our lord" thing, it just says before and after Christ
Interesting. You know, I'm fine with BC and AD. I may be an atheist, but I don't care as long as we all understand what year we're talking about.
Fascinating, captain.
How does the water in a snowglobe evaporate? Where does the water go?
They're not air tight because they're usually made fairly cheaply. So the water turns to water vapor and escapes through gaps. But since it's sealed to some degree it takes longer than usual. Some snow globes have a little tab that you can remove at the bottle, just for this reason, and you can refill them
Well, I learned long ago if you can't explain something simply enough then 2 reasons arise: 1) You do not know it well enough your self by side-stepping and generalizing more then specifying, or 2) Your aim to answer became lost in an attempt to share everything you studied alongside that particular information ignoring others' peace of mind to feed your own frenzied.
"Hey, Michael here"
In portuguese we use AC/DC (Antes de Cristo / Depois de Cristo), so when the hard rock band "AC/DC" came about, people in Portugal thought they meant Before Christ / After Christ.
It was only later, in the 1990's that we found out about the english initials for "Corrente Alternada / Corrente Contínua" C.A. / C.C. in portuguese, but spelled AC/DC in english.
So for a few decades, the common folks of Portugal thought the AC/DC rock band had a religious name. :-)
We didn't have internet back then... :-)
In English, that would be Alternating Current or Direct Current, or the conflict between Edison and Tesla, absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with time or religion.
I always hought AD meant After Death , but now it's Anno Domini, the year of the Lord (birth ?)
@Werner Boden - As a young child, growing up in the rural deep-South, I was taught that BC was "Before Christ" and AD was "After Death", which confused me. If it's BC up until his birth and then AD after his death, how do you refer to dates during his lifetime? When I got a little older, I was told that AD *actually* stood for "Anno Domini" which they said meant (and I kid you not) "After the Resurrection", but that still didn't make sense to me, because it left the same 'gap' between BC and AD.
Thankfully, I was a voracious reader, so I was eventually able to dig up the truth, which is that both BC and AD refer to a very early estimate of the birth of Jesus, and that "Anno Domini" actually means "In the year of our Lord". I also learned that not only is there no 'gap' between BC and AD, but that there's not even a year 0, which means that 1 BC is followed immediately by 1 AD, which seems a little weird, but still makes more sense than what I had been taught.
Thank you so much for explaining it well.
I really detest the BCE/CE system.
I cannot stand it because it makes zero sense. Who decides what counts as common era?
The guy in the video attempts to explain why those who don't believe in Christ are justified in using non-Christian time lines to designate historical events. Another attack by the Left on Christians.
True, Joe Wojcik, the left lives to be offended and to destroy free speech. Their communist roots still look to PRAVDA for the truth.
So there are no left wing Christians? So the invention of the CE/BCE system wasn't by Christians? You do understand that this is a squabble between Christians? That other religious/cultural groups have their own dates?
+domehammer "Common Era" just means "the same years that everybody else uses." As in, it's the same BC/AD years, just under a different name so some people don't get offended.
And here I was hoping for some mention of Augustus Caesar, the first roman emperor who ruled from 27 BC/BCE until his death in 14 AD/CE.
Honestly it's just a further sign of people burying their morality, and avoiding religion at all costs. Because religion means living our life with guidelines and self control, instead of being able to do whatever we want treating each other poorly and leading a selfish, toxic, and self centered life.
Yeah, when you dig down into it, this is actually the mechanism used to sell secularism.
No self control, no personal responsibility, just blind hedonism with all that pesky judgement removed.
Atheists think they are "enlightened", when really they are just degenerates.
Are you suggesting atheists don't have morality? You know, the people who actually think about their morality instead of reading a 2,000 year old book and automatically assuming it's true (even though it can be manipulated to mean a lot of different things)?
@@kierandouble6414 Not all morality is equal. You have objective morality, which boils down to anything that ensures that we will fulfil our natural purpose, whether that be biological (the procreation of healthy offspring) or spiritual (personal growth), is good. Whilst anything that disrupts us in achieving our natural purpose, is bad. An example of objective morality is that it is wrong to murder your own (healthy) offspring, or to allow them to die by your negligence, this is true of all healthy animals.
Objective morality is universal to all human beings, and indeed all species of animal. Subjective morality is that which applies to anything else, and differs depending on the individual. Equality between the sexes is an example of subjective morality, as it is not evident in nature, is not essential to ensure the propagation of this or any species, and is not common to all peoples and societies, nor ever has been at any time in history.
A moral life is one in which you actively pursue personal growth, that which benefits your health, longevity and your capacity to be of value to your spouse/offspring to ensure that life goes on after you are gone. An immoral one, is one in which you actively engage in activites that harm yourself, or others, mentally, physically and/or spiritually. An example of this is hedonism, where you pursue blind pleasure for pleasure's sake (be it drugs/sex/alcoholism/video game escapism), an entirely selfish existence that does not serve your natural purpose.
What Chase Null is referring to is that modern atheists have a tendency to try to undermine objective morals (by say supporting planned parenthood: the wholsesale extermination of unborn babies) whilst declaring that subjective morals (like a woman's "right" to abort a child) are actually universal, and therefore objective morals. This is the turning of objective morality on its head.
And so it seems, that without a set of guidelines (like those outlined in religious teachings) people will start to pervert, and even directly invert, morality so that the set of "morals" a secular society are left with, are often the opposite of what is observed in the natural world. We may not need a 2000 year old book, necessarily. But it seems we do need to be reminded of right and wrong.
@@leokocyte8943 There is no such thing as objective morality. That's invention to prop up human beliefs. There is no "natural purpose" to human life. We are animals, nothing more. To suggest otherwise is pure and utter arrogance of the highest level. Killing your offspring is not objectively wrong, it's subjectively wrong. It's not logical. More to the point, if you need to be told it's wrong, then it is quite clear you have no morals to begin with. You cannot "actively pursue personal growth" if you cannot use your brain or logic. It's not logical to harm yourself or to be hedonisitic, and I pity the person that needs to be told this. Religion can and does help people overcome these problems, but it can also be the cause of them (my religion could be hedonistic, after all, if you do not use logic to decide morality. I could tell my followers that alcohol and sex were the only things that mattered. This would have as much 'moral value' as anything in the Bible. Or I could say that murder was right because my god said so. This would be absurd and wrong, of course, but if you surrender your rational abilities to religion and arbitrary guidelines, you have no right to object to this).
The idea that Christians, who have long supported systems designed to benefit the individual over society, can lecture anyone about selfishness is ridiculous. Religious guidelines are arbitrary and decided by history or politicians. They cannot be logically argued one way or another. The result is never ending conflict and an inability to discuss moral questions in a logical manner, which helps absolutely no one, including religious people. Saying we needed to be "reminded of right and wrong" suggests that there was some idealised period in history where this was the case. When was this?
@Chase Null - If my religion is the only thing stopping me from treating other people poorly, then I've got some serious problems that I need to address. There are kind, compassionate religious people and there are selfish, mean-spirited religious people -- just like there are kind, compassionate non-religious people and selfish, mean-spirited non-religious people. Seriously, I'm not disputing the benefits that religion can have, but it clearly doesn't guarantee moral, ethical behaviour -- nor does its absence automatically result in a lack of morals and ethics.
We tend to think of our year-numbering system as having been in general use, in Europe and the Europeanized Americas, at least, since the early centuries A.D.
In fact, there were all kinds of year-numbering systems flying around, based on such-and-such a monarch's reign, or the founding of some nation, etc. Even after general adoption of our current system of year numbers, there was the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in Oct. 1582 by the Vatican, which, because that was *after* the Protestant Reformation, was adopted by some of Europe (the countries that remained Catholic) and ignored by the rest (those that became Protestant). And for historians dealing with older writings from places and times where myriad other calendars were in use, and which even had varying start-dates for the year, it was still a headache keeping orders of events straight.
Thus it was that historian Joseph Scaliger introduced in 1583, a system of numbering days that could act as a sort of 'universal language' of dates, and to which all the other calendars could be corresponded. He called this system, Julian Day Number, and it was based on a year in the distant past, in which all three of the common historical cycles
- Roman indiction cycle of 15 years, the Metonic cycle of 19 years (in which solar and lunar cycles come back into sync), and the 28-year cycle in which the Julian calendar repeats (leap-years and days-of-the-week)
- were last in sync. This turned out to be Jan. 1, 4713 B.C. (Julian Calendar); and the JD cycle length is thus 15·19·28 = 7980 years, so the current cycle won't end until A.D. 3266.
The JD system has been adopted by astronomers, with the further convention that the "start" of each such day is noon UT, and fractions of a day are given in decimal, for ease of computation.
E.g., right now,
2017 Sep 20 Wed, 7:45 pm EDT = 2017 Sep 20 Wed, 23:45 UT = JD 2,458,017.48958
to the nearest 100,000th of a day (which is slightly less than a second).
A couple of years ago I was at a Museum in Wisconsin and they used BP (Before Present). PC has infected academia in Wisconsin. BC is based on a fixed point in time. BP could mean three days ago. I'll stick with BC.
Any Hoot, what are you talking about? B.P is based on the 1st of January 1950 because it was a good round number, and the idea was established in 1954 to use for carbon dating. Scientists around the world (usually in archaeology/geology or something) use it for events that happened in the past. It isn't about being "PC".
Good one - I’ve wondered about this for years.
"Chrissss-ti-yans"
Sounds funny, but it's probably a more correct and traditional pronunciation since the word is spelled Christian (Chris-ti-an). But we more often hear it pronounced as something like "kris-chen."
I'd be really interested in seeing an episode exploring how different organisms experience pain, if there are some species which don't feel pain at all, and if there are organisms you'd expect not to feel pain which actually do.
So ... do you use shampoo when you take a shower?
Yes you use shampoo even when bald because other soaps dry out the skin and it turns flakey. At least for most people lol
I always wanted to know this!!!
Any proper historian uses BC AD and understands that the calendar is based off religion. I'm an atheist but I find CE and BCE offensive due to it political correctness and how it's disrespectful to people who are religious. No one has got offended by AD BC. Go on, ask a Muslim or anyone else if they are offended
rickysmyth they did secularized the term for non christians that was forced to use the system. It doesn't really hurt anybody whichever you use so i think it is a win win. I guess.
rickysmyth: Thank you, Ricky. Good sense and a good IQ can be found outside of the faith. We appreciate your sensible approach, and will not bother you about our differences in belief.
I'm a Christian and I don't really care that they took the Christ out of it. The way I see it is that we should recognize historical context when we teach it, but Christ isn't always relevant (i.e. talking about dates of Chinese dynasties which developed without Abrahamic faiths, but we still use our calendar for reference). I have a strong conviction that Church and State need to be kept as separate as possible, and this is just another way of doing it (because public schools teach these things). The State should protect people having faith but shouldn't be run based on those principals. In a multi-cultural world, we need secular morality to hold us together. And those that have faith in the same God already seek each other out. We don't need the government to put it on our money or in our schools or within our dating system for that
I don't understand why you think this is political correctness. Or why it's about offensiveness. CE and BCE are gaining popularity because they're generic, which is what you need in a system used by 7.2 billion people with a myriad of different religions and languages. It's hard enough explaining to non-english speakers what the words mean without also needing to try and explain a latin term in the process.
rickysmyth as a Christian I thank you for your understanding. Just because we don't agree doesn't mean there isn't common ground. I feel some things can be changed for the better to be fair to all ideas. But some, like the dating system should be left the way they are. The next thing you know the ultra PC crowd will be petitioning to restart the calendar with some new date. Like N Korea did.
I came here only for the comments and was handsomely rewarded. A Jerry Springer show - youtube style. Back to my life...
Are we in AD 2017??
Technically, yes.
Mukesh Goyal No PCE 2017
I'm from the future. I'm in AD 2019
I've got one maybe two episodes for you what is s.o.s the code for help short for and where did the term mayday when calling for help come from
Important thing to know is that bce and ce are what secular academic types are using to give Christians the finger
It isn't to give Christians the finger. It's because custom demands that this is the dating system everyone uses, so we've adapted it to be a system that includes everyone. It doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense to refer to Jesus if you're talking about ancient Chinese history, but on the other hand, nobody will know when anything is if you simply refer to it as "the 48th year of the Tang dynasty."
So CE & BCE are compromises. You don't have to change the system that the whole world is used to, & you don't have to domineer over everyone in the world with constant references to Christianity.
Let's be clear: nobody *really* cares about this shit. Scholars use BC & BCE interchangeably giving absolutely no thought to it at all.
Christians getting upset over this is like Fox News getting upset over Starbucks cups. It's petty & stupid & only shows the most pathetic side of "Christianity".
Zoidberg..... admit you enjoy giving the finger to everyone who disagrees with you, not just Christians. Calling yourself Dr. indicates academic bullshit here...... most college people are excellent at bullshittery since that's what they do for a living.
Dr. Zoidberg
If nobody really cares about this shit, then why was it changed in the first place and so much effort put into implementing it everywhere (it is required at some universities)? It's petty & stupid & only shows the most pathetic side of atheists.
"Why was it changed in the first place,"
Because post-enlightenment & post-industrialization, we realized how nice it would be to have a globally universal accounting of time, so folks modified it to BCE to reflect the idea of a "common era" for all mankind. Taking a previously existing system is MUCH easier than inventing a new one out of whole cloth (as the French found out)... that's what the Christians did, too.
It's not about atheism or attacking Christianity or any nonsense like that. It's about having a universal model for everyone to use equally.
I find it incredibly fascinating just how many people throughout how many years spent an incredible time discussing and figuring out dates etc.. about something and someone that may not have existed in the first place. Not to mention how many wars and how many people died over something and someone whom probably didn’t even exist, something ya can’t see, touch, or hear.. absolutely fascinating.
Jacqu'e Carey what’s even more fascinating is all the evidence is there till this day and yet people think it doesn’t exist.
Nam Huynh Really.. evidence such as..?
regalia I’m going to assume (unfortunately) that you’re not joking. Which I suppose can be considered admirable to some people. But to make that comparison is simply ludicrous. That’s an extremely false narrative and you shouldn’t purvey that type of inaccurate information.
However, even I know the futility of this argument. Once someone “believes” there’s no changing minds.
So I guess all I have to say is, good luck with that.
Uh dude virtually ALL historians Christian, atheist, agnostic or otherwise all agree that Jesus lived and was crucified. This is about as concrete historical fact as Alexander the Great or Aristotle living. Like you can say you don’t think Jesus existed, which is your right, but don’t act like it’s a legitimate position that any actual historians take seriously.
Lord, have mercy! Can you talk any faster???
I am relieved that am not the only one who felt this way. I prefer someone who talks in a relaxed way. Listening to him made me feel like I lost my ability to understand the language. In my case it is because I am a sloth in every language I can speak. i think i just called myself dumb
Great video
This video was published Sep 19, in the year of our Lord, 2017.
I have a similar question, one concerning years. Why, when listing year spans in AD/CE (such as the reign of Diocletian) do you put the later date first? It seems counterintuitive and it's not the first time I've seen you do this.
I hate BCE/CE. It’s like naming inches and yards centimeters and meters to claim you’ve adopted the metric system.
“Common era” is a meaningless designation. What is the common era?
If we want to change our dating system then fine but let’s actually find a reasonable and logical point and designation. The first written record is my suggestion.
I have a question that may have been answered but I am unaware of it. Does a vehicle being pulled on its own tires add to the odometer like it does when being driven?
in puerto rico i was thought using bc and ad, instead of bce and ce
because you come from a Catholic culture like me. you know, what these liberal elite assholes look down on.
In other words, these dates were BGB before George Burns.
Ahh, I see what you did there! Very clever :)
I've grown up with ad and bc, and when I heard bce and ce were becoming widespread I was disgusted
Ah I think I got it but it seems that when I went to school it was just BC and AD which made it simple thanks again for these daily bits of great knowledge at times my mind don't like it because it has to work but the rest of me enjoy it stay safe
Excellent video my friend. You covered just about everything. I would add that the most pressing reason that CE and BCE are being more widely used is that it goes along with the religious ecumenical movement, bringing religions together. As well as the New World Order movement, bringing governments together. So in order to do this we need to remove everything that would offend other religions, and chose a more neutral way of dating. Just for the record I am against changing our dating system. Thanks again for a great video.
Agreed! I also feel that this may be another mandela affect for myself however. I'm well read and always seeking new knowledge, I'm 52 and have only just heard of these abbreviations in the last two days. Not to mention they just fired C E R N up over the full moon again, things change each times but its strange how only some seem to sense or notice the changes....imho
@@genaborgelt9930 These terms are becoming much more popular in the academia. And we all know who controls that. Our uncle Sam of course. The same uncle who did away with school prayer, and any form of Bible reading in public schools. And under Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. This taking control of the public schools away from the local community; and opening the door to the National Education Association. A Union; and we all know what unions love to do. Control people
@@genaborgelt9930 Boa noite, Gena! Não é Efeito Mandela. Não é surpresa só alguns notarem as mudanças. Eu escrevi um texto sobre isso durante a Pandemia, mas não se limita à este período.
1 - *A Estratégia da Distração*
O elemento primordial do controle social é a estratégia da distração, que consiste em desviar a atenção do público dos problemas importantes e das mudanças que são decididas pelas elites políticas e econômicas, mediante a técnica do dilúvio ou inundação de contínuas distrações e de informações insignificantes. A estratégia da distração é igualmente indispensável para impedir o público de interessar-se pelos conhecimentos essenciais na área da ciência, economia, psicologia, neurobiologia ou cibernética. “Manter a atenção do público distraída, longe dos verdadeiros problemas sociais, cativada por temas sem importância real. Manter o público ocupado, ocupado, ocupado, sem nenhum tempo para pensar; de volta à granja como os outros animais” (citação do texto ‘Armas Silenciosas para Guerras Tranquilas’).
2 - *Criar problemas e depois oferecer soluções*
Este método também se denomina “Problema-Reação-Solução”. Cria-se um problema, uma “situação” prevista para causar certa reação no público, a fim de que seja este quem exija medidas que se deseja fazer com que aceitem. Por exemplo: deixar que se desenvolva ou se intensifique a violência urbana, ou organizar atentados sangrentos, a fim de que o público seja quem demande leis de segurança e políticas de cerceamento da liberdade.
3 - A Estratégia da Gradualidade.
Para fazer com que se aceite uma medida inaceitável, basta aplicá-la gradualmente, com conta-gotas, por anos consecutivos. Dessa maneira as condições socioeconômicas radicalmente novas (neoliberalismo) foram impostas durante as décadas de 1980 e 1990. Estado mínimo, privatizações, precariedade, flexibilidade, desemprego massivo, salários que já não asseguram rendas decentes, tantas mudanças que provocariam uma revolução se fossem aplicadas de uma vez só.
4 - A Estratégia de Diferir.
Outra maneira de fazer com que se aceite uma decisão impopular é a de apresentá-la como “dolorosa e necessária”, obtendo a aceitação pública, no momento, para uma aplicação futura. É mais fácil aceitar um sacrifício futuro do que um sacrifício imediato. Primeiro porque o esforço não é empregado imediatamente. Logo, porque o público, a massa, tem sempre a tendência a esperar ingenuamente que “tudo irá melhorar amanhã” e que o sacrifício exigido poderá ser evitado. Isto dá mais tempo ao público para se acostumar com a ideia da mudança e aceitá-la com resignação quando chegar o momento.
5 - *Dirigir-se ao público como a criaturas de pouca idade*
A maioria da publicidade dirigida ao grande público utiliza discursos, argumentos, personagens e entonação particularmente infantis, muitas vezes próximos à debilidade, como se o espectador fosse uma criatura de pouca idade ou um deficiente mental. Quanto mais se pretende enganar o espectador, mais se tende a adotar um tom infantil. Por que? “Se alguém se dirige a uma pessoa como se ela tivesse 12 anos ou menos, então, em razão da sugestão, ela tenderá, com certa probabilidade, a uma resposta ou reação também desprovida de um sentido crítico como a de uma pessoa de 12 anos ou menos".
6 - Utilizar o aspecto emocional muito mais que a reflexão.
Fazer uso do aspecto emocional é uma técnica clássica para causar um curto-circuito na análise racional, e, finalmente, no sentido crítico dos indivíduos. Por outro lado, a utilização do registro emocional permite abrir a porta de acesso ao inconsciente para implantar ou injetar ideias, desejos, medos e temores, compulsões, ou induzir comportamentos.
7 - Manter o público na ignorância e na mediocridade.
Fazer com que o público seja incapaz de compreender as tecnologias e os métodos utilizados para seu controle e sua escravidão. “A qualidade da educação dada às classes sociais inferiores deve ser a mais pobre e medíocre possível, de forma que a distância da ignorância planejada entre as classes inferiores e as
classes sociais superiores seja e permaneça impossível de ser alcançada para as classes inferiores (ver ‘Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas’)”.
8 - Estimular o público a ser complacente com a mediocridade.
Promover a crença do público de que é moda o fato de ser estúpido, vulgar e inculto.
9 - Reforçar a auto culpabilidade.
Fazer crer ao indivíduo que somente ele é culpado por sua própria desgraça devido à insuficiência de sua inteligência, de suas capacidades, ou de seus esforços. Assim, em vez de se rebelar contra o sistema econômico, o indivíduo se menospreza e se culpa, o que gera um estado depressivo, cujo um dos efeitos é a inibição da ação do indivíduo. E sem ação não há revolução!
10 - *Conhecer os indivíduos melhor do que eles mesmos se conhecem*
No decurso dos últimos 50 anos, os avanços acelerados da ciência geraram uma crescente brecha entre os conhecimentos do público e aqueles que possuem e utilizam as elites dominantes. Graças à biologia, à neurobiologia e à psicologia aplicada, o “sistema” desfrutou de um conhecimento avançado do ser humano, tanto de forma física como psicológica. O sistema conseguiu conhecer melhor o indivíduo comum do que este conhece a si mesmo. Isto significa que, na maioria dos casos, o sistema exerce um controle maior e um grande poder sobre os indivíduos, maior que o dos indivíduos sobre si mesmos.
Noam Chomsky. filósofo, ativista, autor e analista político estadunidense. É professor emérito de Linguística no MIT e uma das figuras mais destacadas desta ciência no século XX. Reconhecido na comunidade científica e acadêmica por seus importantes trabalhos em teoria linguística e ciência cognitiva.
Uma técnica de controle mental em massa que é usado por essas organizações de elite todo o tempo é o "problema-reação-solução". Um problema é secretamente criado (pelos Governastes do Mundo) e alguém é culpado pelo problema. O culpado pode ser uma guerra, uma desvalorização da moeda, dívida interna, ou um colapso governamental.
*Para algumas pessoas da sociedade, pode ser qualquer coisa. Mas de fato, a mídia é usada para estimular a tal ponto a opinião pública em relação ao fabricado problema que o público grita "Algo precisa ser feito!" Nesse ponto, aqueles que criaram o problema, oferecem abertamente a solução como um meio de conseguir o que eles queriam desde o princípio.*
Dude, talk about going on a wild tangent
Did you Learned'st've's
is 305BCE and 305BC same?
Do other languages have an equivalent to the ABC song?
Thanks for explaining what BCE means. For years I was wondering what BCE meant. This morning I was watching The Universe series and again the mentioned BCE and I thought "That's it I am going to google what does BCE mean" and find out what the heck BCE stands for once and for all. I searched and google showed a link to your video so I clicked on it. Now I know. I can go back to my science show.
These terms mean exactly the same thing. The difference is that BCE/CE had to be created in a spirit of political correction because the Jews were offended by any reference to Jesus.
Has anyone noticed that the term BCE actually defines the period in terms of what it is not, i.e. not the Common Era. This follows the example of books being non-fiction, defined by what they are not rather than what they are. To be logical, the BCE era should be the uncommon era (UE). By the way what does the "common" in common era mean? Is it an era lacking any distinction or merit or dominated by coarse vulgarians?
I will never again, assume I already know the answer...
if only the rest of Humankind could come to this epiphany.
I had no idea how or when they came up with the odd-sounding Common Era before I watched this video, so I've learned something. Isn't that the definition of a good video (of the instructional variety ..)? Thanks!
yeah because "before christ" sounds super not odd......
BCE = Before Christ's Era
CE = Christ's Era
In my opinion. This is a great VDO. However, it may contain a little too much info. As the result, the main idea was somewhat less visible.
Could always just use the HE system and go 12017 and not worry about extra letters before or after
I was looking for this... Human Era FTW!
Bellyriaa kurzgesagt enlightened me of such a year counting method and I use it on work and documents, even have an he calender
The issue is that if another artifact is found we could suddenly be in 15233
Except the Human Era was chosen for two reasons. First as a rough approximation of the date of us coming together as a civilization instead of scattered tribes thanks to the temple. It also roughly approximates the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epochs, aka the end of the last ice age.
But mostly it's for ease of transition and usage. All our notable history occurs in the Holocene Epoch, smaller numbers are earlier, there's no odd transition to negative 5/6th of the way through our history, there's actually a year 0 so the mathematics quits being silly because some monks didn't like the "blasphemous arab zero" which actually came from India. All other date systems occur after this one, so conversion is made easier.
But the single most important thing is that it makes transitioning simple. Just add a 1 at the beginning of the year now and you're using the Human Era (or Holocene Epoch) calendar.
I expect that once we colonize Mars, we'll switch to a new calendar system that marks our status as a spacefaring species and this whole thing will be moot. But oh well.
@Bellyriaa - Given how angry some people get over CE/BCE, I can only imagine how many heads would explode if we actually started using the HE system. 😯
Good job.
As a Christian man I can never understand why people hate others based on their faith.
Especially Christian seems to be targeted. Just think about if it's other religion
Holy shit... My head is spinning and won't stop !!
BCE? Never heard of it. BC AD, yes.
You must be older. If you'd been to school in the past 10-15 years, you would have been taught that BCE/CE is correct and BC/AD is not supposed to be used anymore. I still use it, though. Pretty sure most people do.
I studied art history in college and we used BC/AD... Then people use CE and I got confused...
Two Mewtwos in Too-toos Yeah the Public School System is fucking garbage.
The first time I heard "BCE" was in a world religions class, and it really makes sense for that situation.
Always was BC now BCE . Why more political correctness . Cant anyone keep things the same .
I may be a Muslim and I'm fed up with changes . Jesus if he existed wasn't born on year 0 I'm sure of that but we have had 2000 years using BC and AD why have we the rite to change it
There is so much information in this video that I don't think there was any information in this video
I thought I would learn why the terminology was changed within the last 20 years. We had a system of measurement that was suddenly changed to protect a small faction of people from being insulted or being afraid. Political correctness brought forth this change that has no effect on the past but attempts to put a smile on the faces of 6 or 7 people who managed to cause disruption in the other 300 million of us.
SMOBY44 there are 7 billion people on this planet and the majority are not Christian. It’s not even the biggest religion and there is conflict within and between religions. It’s important that academics maintain impartiality.
Political correctness means NOTHING can stay the same. Everything offends someone so everything must be changed on a regular basis. Consistency is the mother of oppression! Revolution and then anti-revolution, and then revolution again!
jhg66466 yes social progress requires revolution and revision through a societal discourse which should certainly include those who feel what ever aspect, value or component of society being challenged needs no challenge.
@jhg66466 - You do realise that the use of CE/BCE has nothing to do with "politically correctness", right? I mean, you're literally commenting on the video that explains where the term came from and it wasn't because anyone was "offended" by BC/AD.
Perfect timing. I've become a bit obsessed with ancient Rome recently and the dates are a bit all over the place. Of course I could've just looked it up but Today I Found Out came to the rescue..
Edit: by teaching me about christian persecution??
*A.D.* 4eva!
great vid!
Small correction. Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity. He never converted himself until his deathbed, and even that may be more myth than fact.
false!! how can he legalize what he is not convince about in a non democratic state????
@@thetruth5742 because democracy is a meme, Republicanism is superior.