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[daygloparker]

I forgot to mention that today, in Greek Civilization, we were discussing the timeline of political change in Athens during the seventh and sixth centuries BC*, and the second point on the timeline was an attempted coup for tyranny by a guy named CylonI just, you know, FOUND THAT REALLY SORT OF INTERESTING

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[daygloparker]

ACTUALLY, given the fact that classics weren't exactly everyone's thing during the Medieval period, I'm sort of finding references to Apollo interesting as well. And also for that other unspoken thing, don't get me wrong.

AD YAY. OPPRESSION IS AWESOME.

[sarken]

Even my Catholic school started with the BCE/CE thing. It's really annoying because, yes, one extra letter does make that much of a difference when you're trying to write quickly.

[daygloparker]

The article I read once said that it was mainly there to not alienate archeaologists from Asia and India, et al. But then the article said, "If it was BM (Before Mithra), WOULDN'T YOU BE SO OFFENDED??!" and I was all... "um, not really?" So anyway. BCE looks dumb.

[sideofzen]

Fascinating. Huh.

BCE/CE is stupid. Heck, I'm not even religious, I just can't remember it or what it's supposed to mean. JUST LAME.

BC/AD is easy and it's what we grew up with and now I sound like someone really old going 'back in my days, we walked up hill both ways, IN THE SNOW!'

Yes.

[daygloparker]

CE = common era, so BCE means "before the common era." Although, seriously, you could claim that the C is in fact "Christian," making BCE/CE EVEN WORSE than its Latin equivalents.

(WITH NO SHOES ON.)

[wooed]

I had a moment in the feminine hygeine aisle where I thought there was a douche bag brand named Cylon, but it was Gyn-something.

OK, not as cool as a Greek guy named Cylon, but I felt the need to relate.