Political Humor | A Completely Arbitrary Number

I have no tolerance for stupidity. I include superstition to be in the category of stupidity. People are all talking about how today is 6-6-06. Big whoop. I feel the need to put this stupidity in the inferno, where it belongs.

Don’t think it’s stupid? Don’t read on. Come back some other time.

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Still there? OK. First of all, the fact that today is the sixth day of the sixth month is based on our idiotic calendar, which is based on, er… whatever. It used to be that Months were based on the lunar cycle. Then at some point, people decided that a year should accurately synchronize with the actual amount of time that it takes for the earth to rotate around the sun, but we couldn’t have 13 months, even though there are 13 lunar cycles, so we made 12 months, with the wrong number of days in each month..

Some Caesar guy decided to redo the calendar, and add a few months and change a few other things around. So now, our months aren’t even the same length as the lunar cycle. If our months were the same length as a lunar cycle, the sixth day of the sixth month would have been weeks ago.

I would also like to point out that the year is actually 2006. The fact that we use only the last 2 numbers is just lazy. We’ve already had years 6, 16, 66, 666, 1006, 1666. Anything catastrophic happen then? I would think year would be more likely to be significant than 2006. Plus there was the supposed significance of the millenniums, but that’s another topic.

Then there’s the fact that the number we attribute to our year is wrong. It’s supposed to be based on when someone calculated when Jesus was born. The calculation was wrong, but that’s what we base our year number on. So to have any significance, wouldn’t that calculation have to have been, you know, correct?

Then there’s the fact that the number system we use is based on, er, the number of fingers we have, I guess. Trust me when I tell you that math works just as flawlessly, and easily with a base 8 or base 6 that it does with base ten, which we use. Those of you less mathematically inclined may not believe that, but it’s true. Ill just confuse you if I attempt to explain, but The only reason our numerical system makes sense that it is the one it is, is that we have 10 fingers on our hands.

Go ahead, and close your eyes for this part, and plug your ears, and go “Lalalalalalalalalala.” The Book of Revelation IS NOT A PROPHECY! It’s a social commentary on the Roman Empire, as it was at that time. Basically, it’s something that people would do when they didn’t have the ability to openly criticize the empire. They didn’t have a free press.

What people would do is look around and say, there’s got to be some way that these evil people will pay for their malevolence. So they came up with a story about how there would be some sort of divine justice. This would all be shrouded by using beasts, and leviathans, so as to allow for some sort of plausible deniabilty should the authorities come a-knockin’ on the author’s door.

People who read this realized what was being said. They understood that it was about Nero, and the Roman empire, but it left a little bit of an “out” to the author to be able to say, “this is just a fictional story”, or to be able to say, “This is about the distant future. Wayy wayyyy distant future.”

I could go on about why the date (Numerically) today is utterly insignificant, but I won’t. I could fill a book, but it would go in many different directions, and would be really boring too. I hope this wasn’t boring, and I hope it was moderately coherent.

Today is 6-6-2006. *Yawn* Just a day like any other. Today actually is significant, but it is significant because it is the anniversary of D-Day. Thank you to those that made the sacrifice such that I can make such a self absorbed error.