RE: [escepticos] RV: fin de siglo y milenio

["Marcela Brusa" <medaly@...>]

> 999 CE - As anyone who is anyone knows, this particular date was a
>  grand doozy of apocalyptic wankership, complete with people running
>  about like idiots giving away all their worldly possessions, clogging up
>  the cathedrals and collapsing into fits of Divinely-inspired hysteria
>  with the same disconcerting regularity as politicians running for
>  re-election.

Hombre, sera cuestion de ponerse en la linea de recibo para que todos
aquellos que empiecen a donar "wordly possesions" tengan para donde apuntar.
Algo asi como una reforma agraria voluntaria?
Yo me apunto para un par de possesions. :)))0

Peasants let their fields go fallow, flagellants flogged
>  themselves more fiercely and penitents knocked their knees raw
>  crawling over hill, dale and open sewer on pilgrimages to holy tourist
>  traps. And on the magical date of December 31, frenzied Dark Agers
>  fought for elbow room in Europe's churches and held their collective
>  breath at the stroke of midnight.

Bueno, al menos Times Square no estara tan abarrotado de gente este año.
Si el fenomeno se repite, claro.
Supongo que el abastecimiento de uvas y sidra en los alrededores de la
puerta del sol no se agotara a las cuatro de la tarde como suele sucederle a
los turistas retrasados.

>
>    Which just goes to show you that you shouldn't believe just anyone.
>  The trouble with the above scenario is that it simply didn't happen.
>  Besides the fact that not everybody saw January 1 as the first day of
>  the new year, the vast majority of people back then spent their entire
>  lives in complete (dare I say, even blissful ?) ignorance of "official"
>  dates.


OHHHHH!!!!!!! y yo que estaba por sacar pasajes para irnos a Times Square!!!
a ver caer la manzanita.


 There were no cute theme calendars on any peasant's walls,
>  no watches on their wrists and no clocks on any medieval bank
>  buildings.

Querra decir esto que todavia hay esperanzas de recibir wordly possesions?


Marking time meant being able to say something like, "Oh,
>  aye! Young Enoch, the dung-scraper's son was whelped back 'afore
>  the oxen took with the dropsy an just after ol' mother Meg was burned
>  for witchcraft some two an' twenty seasons past! Ah, kids today... they
>  know not such merry 'tides."

JUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA claro que en middle english, no en el ingles del
siglo XVI que es lo que es esto.

>
>    It is likely that the better ecclesiats were all adither about the
> date,
>  seeing as how they could actually read and would, therefor, be in a
>  position to know something about the biblical Apocrypha that placed
>  the year 1000 as The Big Day. Even so, it was anyone's guess back
>  then just when Jesus' birthdate really was.

Mas o menos lo mismo que hoy, suponiendo un nacimiento real que tambien eso
esta en cuestion.


 So, everyone had a
>  different idea about just when the year 1000 might fall. Not to mention
>  conflicting opinions over whether the date should be calculated from
>  his birth (hence AD 1000) or his crucifixion (AD 1033). In short, it's
>  most likely that any real craziness that took place around the dawn of
>  the first millennium happened between irate priests duking it out over
>  who had really done the math.

Bueno, para ver pelearse a los curas, mejor era quedarse en casa, claro.
En fin, en caso de repartos ya saben, yo me apunte primero.
Marcela