> In a message dated 98-12-10 02:37:57 EST, you write:
>
> << BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) are the UNchristian
> equivalents of BC and AD, correct?
> >>
>
>
> you are correct Sir....
>
> and yes it does make much more sense to live in the present... "those who live
> in the past are forced to repeat it" I believe is the cliche... there is alot
> of truth in those words.... cliched as they might be....
>
For this very reason I prefer to refer to the present as time 0, and
relate from there (yesterday, tomorrow, last week, next year, etc.).
It is as phenomenologically valid as choosing some quasi-historical
baseline (say, birth) and figuring from there (see John M.
McTaggart's A and B series, in his work "The Nature of Existence")