From my understanding, according to their solar calendar it is now the year 1385. What do they base that on and why?
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i don't know but my great great ancestor do know them
198071
I don't think it matters what he devil's church thinks about the date...they may have something planned but they cannot determine the future like God can.....this reminds me of the Y2K issue. Everyone thought it was the end of the world...nothing happened....from the devils' church there may be some disturbance, but whatever they do, they are limited by God's overall time plan for the end times...
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I am not sure how everyione figures this is the day of the devil. The number of the beast is 666 not 6/6/2006. Why would anyone think this day is different. The year 06/06/06 was about the time Christ was born.
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It's all arguable was to when it was written. Western scholars dated the time within the time frame of the date given by archeologist and historians of Europe at the time which were fixing all time to fit within Western thought (thus the begining of the world was with the Garden of Eden and there was a year already established that this occured...therefore all other dates that differed from this had to be changed....sadly while most of the Western world has updated its dates, the eastern history is still not been changed in most reference books....and eastern civilizations are very old and to account for this, because Western science says that all civilization began in Egypt and Mesopotamia...and then of course with the Garden of Eden...the dates of eastern civilizations again have been changed and are still not fixed). Thus some say that the Vedas were written down in 5000BCE, some 1500BCE, some in 500BCE, some in 500AD. Basically, it's all still being debated, but atleast scholars now acknowledge that the Rig Veda is the oldest sacred text and ancient literature in existence. That atleast has been agreed upon. Otherwise, just remember when reading anything about eastern religions that the dates will vary. If you speak to easterners who have retained their tradition telling of the time it is usually much closer to what is believed to be accurate (like the birth of Buddha, etc) than what Western scholars currently have set.
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If Earth goes round the Sun in its orbit once we say one year.\n\nIf we use the term year for other planets there will be confusion.\n\nTill a name is suggested, we shall refer the period of rotation of the planet in its orbit about its star as one period of rotation of the planet in its orbit about its star.\n\nOr we can name it as Baba.\n\n“Baba” is the period of rotation of the said planet in its orbit about its star.\n\nTherefore my age in that planet will be 35 babas.
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stardate...\n\nor the Aztec calender they were only off 1 day in 6000 years...
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Try an almanac.  Or maybe there's an almanac.com or something like that.
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The "lunar calendar" argument where "years really are months" is bunk.\n\nProof?  Mahalaleel became the father of Jared when he was 65 years old.  Use the "years to months" formula and you've got Mahalaleel becoming a daddy at the age of 5.\n\nYears means years.
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We will be entering the Age of Aquarius, as refered to in the song. This is determined by what constellation corresponds with where the sun rises on the vernal equinox. (We are currently in the Age of Pisces) Who knew that rock musicians were so aware of astronomy?\n\nPrecession changes the time of year when the earth reaches it's perihelion which is the point where the earth is closest to the sun during its orbit around the sun. Presently we reach perihelion on about Jan. 3, which is during northern hemisphere winter. This has an effect on climate and is likely to be increasing the solar warming during winter while reducing it for summer in the northern hemisphere. Eleven thousand years ago the reverse was true. There is no doubt we are in a long term climate cycle that we are just beginning to understand. \n\nI doubt that the effect will be any more remarkable than in any other year. The cycle is so long (~22,000 years) that the rate of change is likely to insignificant. The one factor that is still not well understood is how these changes may create feedback systems in our climate that may not show up until many years after the changes. We will be moving the perihelion in the direction of having it during  the northern fall season, and since it has been about 20,000 years since the earth has had that position we don't have much of an idea how that will affect climate dynamics between the northern and southern hemisphere or if we will continue to see effects that may be delayed reactions to the change of precession over the last 5,500 years.\n\nCheck out the diagram at NOAA:                  Good question!!
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2/20/1984 \n\nIt'd be nice if people actually READ the actual question before jumping in with facts about the Pisces sign.  The question is asking about D.O.B. not characteristics.
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There are even today many different ways of figuring out time. For example this weekend, on 29th Jan the chinese new year starts. It is Year 4703 by the Chinese calendar. And it is the jewish year 5677.\nAnd even the christian calendar has been modified a couple of times. The gregorian calendar reform was adopted in 1582 but not in England and so also not in the US, they only changed in 1752 (so they lost 11 days).\nWhich year we are in is only relative to what you want to measure. If you want to be more explicit you don't just say B.C. (Before christ) but B.C.E (before the christian era). As long as you can figure out how far apart they are you can easily convert one into the other and allow for changes. \nFor time of the year (month/day) it is probably best to go by a system like now, which is constant with and corresponds to the seasons of the year. So while George Washington was born on the 22nd feb 1732, his parents must have thought it was the 11th when he was born. \nI don't know how far historic dates get modernized to reflect calendar changes.
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Mayan calendar will finish on that date,coz a new age( age of Aquarius) will start,but the significance of that is planetary alignment,it has something to do with the our central sun in the centre of our galaxy,but the significance for us ,,,is photon belt,this is a highly energized photonic band which will radiate towards us,now how ready we are,determines its effect on our planet,the amount of energy which will be radiating towards us,will increase and increase,now if us human beings use this energy to uplift and elevate our consciousness,then the transition towards the fifth dimension will be smooth,on the other hand if we do not use this energy,it will manifest in forms of earth quakes,volcano's,hurricanes and etc.it has a positive purifying effect on those of us whom are in fourth dimension,but for those with the deep connection to present world,the effect will be devastating,that date is the end of the world as we know it,good for some,disaster for others,within next few years when first signs of natural cataclysm strikes,humanity has some serious decisions to make,\npeace.love
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When there was a conversion from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, there had to be a change made to account for the year being out of synch with the actual seasons.  The Julian calendar accounted for a solar year equivalent to 365.25 days, but it is closer to 365.2422 days.  As a result, we were adding too many days.  The Gregorian calendar instituted a change where 3 out of every 4 centuries would *not* be leap years.\n\nThe reform happened in 1582.  Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day following (Thursday) October 4, 1582 (which is October 5, 1582, in the old calendar) would thenceforth be known as (Friday) October 15, 1582.\n\nThe Gregorian Calendar was adopted immediately upon the promulgation of Pope Gregory's decree in the Catholic countries of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland, and shortly thereafter in France and Luxembourg. During the next year or two most Catholic regions of Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands came on board. Hungary followed in 1587. The rest of the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland made the change during 1699 to 1701. By the time the British were ready to go along with the rest of Europe, the old calendar had drifted off by one more day, requiring a correction of eleven days, rather than ten. \n\nThe Gregorian Calendar was adopted in Britain (and in the British colonies) in 1752, with (Wednesday) September 2, 1752, being followed immediately by (Thursday) September 14, 1752.\n\nI think this must be the year that you are referring to... 1752.
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I'm quite sure the last day of the Mayan calender is December 21, 2012.  This is the date of the alien invasion in X-Files canon.  You can find out more information by going to wikipedia.org and doing a search for '2012'.  However, it is more likely than not that the calendar 'ends' because this just happened to be the end of one of their large cycles, and not because they really thought the world was going to end at this time.
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It's called radio-carbon dating.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-carbon_dating
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Looking at astoriods because the whole solar system was formed from the same stuff and the rocked in the Earth is being renewed by subduction a creation zones so you can never tell how old that rock is because it will have been remade many times since the formation of the Earth.\n Radioactive dating not the most accurate but radioactive particles are in everything and they all decay so you can tell how old something is by looking at how much the radioactive particles have decayed \nalso there is carbon dating. You have to set things on fire for this so obviously you cnt do this on everything so it's not terribly accurate \nALSO I'M ONLY 12 YEARS OLD
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Because having the year start in January is relatively recent, and has to do with centering the calendar around Christ. In pagan cultures, like the Greeks who created Astrology, the vernal equinox was the beginning of the new year. This usual fall on or about March 21, so April 1 was the New Year Day. After the calendar change, Christians called all OLD believers fools. Hence "April Fools Day". If you don't believe it, look it up!