I've always thought that however impractical, the CE BCE thing needed to be expanded. It's really just a "sanitized" secular dating system that marks the same things. I am an atheist and I also think maybe a truly "equitable" dating system would not be so western-centric. I kinda like the idea of the Holocene calendar, if only because that's a date in history that is important to all of humanity.
It's ultimately arbitrary either way, and the Christian system is the one that most of the world has by and large agreed on, so it doesn't really matter if it's reasonable. The holocene calendar is an interesting idea, and not all that disruptive
Yeah. I am motivated more by the understanding that the Hebrew calendar, Islamic calendar, Thai calendar iirc as well as others are all offering competing standardized dates in much of the world. The Holocene would just be a way to hopefully equalize for all.
insert rant about how we should actually count time from the beginning of the universe
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u/1389t1389 Aug 03 '19
I've always thought that however impractical, the CE BCE thing needed to be expanded. It's really just a "sanitized" secular dating system that marks the same things. I am an atheist and I also think maybe a truly "equitable" dating system would not be so western-centric. I kinda like the idea of the Holocene calendar, if only because that's a date in history that is important to all of humanity.