Poll: 'Anno Domini' in other cultures

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Nickolai77

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I was well aware of the meaning of AD, and, as an atheist and a history student, i stick to using AD personally. It's what i am familiar with, and i think it's a bit pedantic to use CE.

I mean, when i curse i still say "Oh my God!" and call Christmas Christmas...I'm a Westerner, Christianity is part of my culture even if i am not a Christian. For the same reason i use AD.
 

rokkolpo

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Most people don't care since it's accepted as a time measurement.

The Dutch use Voor Christus & Na Christus.
Translation: Before Christ & After Christ.

So for us it's just an acknowledgement that there was someone named Christ 2000 years ago.
Nothing implying that I am Christian.
 

Formica Archonis

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TheIronRuler said:
The definitive lot of you use the phrase 'Anno Domini' when they write down years (in dates), for example this year is AD 2011.
Anno Domini is latin (and also a short version) for 'in the year of our lord'. This implies that Jesus Christ is your lord, and that you are christian.
I put up a Christmas tree and give presents.

I'm an atheist.

Ruminate on that one in your spare time.

TheIronRuler said:
Did you knew what 'Anno Domini' means?
Yes.

TheIronRuler said:
What will you use now?
BC and AD. BCE and CE seems a bit cheap, since it's still based around the incorrectly-guessed birthdate of a specific religious figure, so I just roll my eyes a bit and carry on. It's like the saddest compromise I've ever seen.

TheIronRuler said:
And lastly, Do you like bagels?
Not really.
 

Ghengis John

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TheIronRuler said:
She has a fetish for disregarding christianity, so when in class she use the genesis count.. Is that how you say it in English?
She is one teacher out of many that use the christian calender.
Mind if I ask what you think of that?
 

madriani

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I did not know what AD meant. In my school system, they taught us to use CE and BCE, probably to avoid this debate.

I really love bagel twists with melted cheese and jalapeno bits. I rarely eat regular bagels.
 

SenorNemo

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I knew what Anno Domini meant.

I also know what AD means, and it's not Anno Domini.

It was once Anno Domini, but it's long since lost that meaning to most people and simply became an arbitrary term used in our calendar system. Speaking as an agnostic Jewish-by-culture guy, who happens to write about history quite a bit as well, I have no problem using AD. Maybe there are people out there who still think of it as "Anno Domini," but those people aren't me, and they probably aren't people I'll end up speaking about history with.

Oh, and bagels are fracking AWESOME! Well, quality bagels are, not those crappy bagels you find at most cafeterias and supermarkets and stuff.
 

ZydrateDealer

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1 Yep.
2 AD- I'm not Christian but most people use AD so why not...I'll use CE when I want to be pedantic about being an atheist.
3 Yeah, bagels are nice.

TheIronRuler said:
I think you spell Tzar with a 'z'.
Nope it's an S.
 

Kadoodle

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I'm currently trying to scarf down my entire stash before passover comes and I have to dump em' out.

The bagels I eat are magical. You can nuke em, toast em, thaw em, and they'll taste good no matter what. In fact, you can freeze and reheat them as many times as you like and they'll still taste fresh.


Also, OP, I see what you did there.
 

burningdragoon

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Smokepuddle said:
I always thought a.d. stood for after death.
Not an uncommon misconception there.

I use AD except for when I took history classes in school where CE and BCE were more correct/expected. Although, in reality, I never anything since I am rarely talking about anything before AD/CE anyway.

I am also certainly pro-bagels.
 

Formica Archonis

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Ultratwinkie said:
Its the supposed death. After Death = A.D.
No, as this thread quite neatly shows, it isn't. Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/ad.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01022a.htm

Besides, if it was, then Jesus was born and died on the same day.
 

DanDeFool

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The way I see it, it's the Gregorian Calendar. right? If we want to keep using a calendar system that was developed by a bunch of Christian monks, then I think "Anno Domini" speaks more to their religious beliefs than to ours.
 

dkyros

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Well thank you for that little nugget of knowledge. I will file it under the do not use in a conversation folder right next to ampersand.
And bagels are awesome!
 

Dango

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I did not know that. But I do know that dominus is more commonly translated as "master" rather than "lord".

And I love bagels, especially plain ones with butter.
 

zehydra

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coolkirb said:
zehydra said:
Except even if you use CE and BCE, it doesn't change WHY it's that year in particular.
Cause we dont have a start time of the earth acurate enough for our day/year way of keeping track of history. Also probably haveing to change the date and records of every single thing would be a pain and bug a lot of people, imagine world WWII takeing place in the year 5342 instead of 1939-1945
Makes sense I suppose. That's also why the US never converted to metric.
 

Blue_vision

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Yep, I knew that. Latin, ftw!

I use it too (instead of BCE which is a silly way of seeming plural,) but I do think that a new method of year measurement is needed, as dividing the world between christ and no christ is kind of silly. I think that one constant throughout the world should have some reference to the start of the modern age, perhaps with Year 1 being 1946 or something. If we were in the interest of building a new international calendar, I'd vote for that.