Huit huit huit
Posted By Tracy on August 8, 2008
So today is one of those ‘mystical’ days where the numbers are all the same…. At least in the western world that uses the standard Christian calendar. I personally start counting the years from the creation point 4,789,154,652 years ago. So today is really 3-12-53 and it’s Saturday.
Today also marks the begining of the olymipics in china. This will be something I’ll be missing as I don’t have tv and I’m virtually apathetic towards the whole olympic thing to begin with. Or perhaps it’s the whole national pride put into athletic competition that offends me. I think of myself as a global citizen and I dislike cutting up the world and putting up barriers based upon ancient tribal alliances that matter so very little in the year 4,789,154,653.
But then man is so slow to evolve.
~adieu
If it really is the eighth month, why don’t we call it October?
The number eight is a lucky number in Asian culture generally, not Western not Christian
sadly you missed the point i was trying to make.
8-8-8 is only the gregorian date. according to the julian calendar the date is 2008-07-26. hebrew is 5768-05-07. islamic is 1429-08-05. persian is 1387-05-18. the point is the date is only what we think it is. the measurement of time is a human invention and an arbitrary one at that.
Give me a break?!
You stated that “ancient tribal alliances [...] matter so very little in the year 4,789,154,653″.
Do they really matter so little? Cfr. South Ossetia, Georgia and Russia in the last few days. Ancient tribal alliances got at each other’s throats and left at least 2000 fatalities on each side (FT, today). In Europe (I will skip the Irish civil war), but particularly in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Republics (et altera) are pemanently in conflict, simply beause ancient tribal alliances matter more than anything else.
Blood, creed and race are very much, on the one hand, part of the justification for the “great powers” to invade and, on the other hand, the basis of the strength to fight back honorably. It will never go away. This is part of my fascination with Eastern Europe (my father’s family is Austrian - Hungarian): the ruthlesness of a regime and the relentlessness of a people.
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This is what I was disapponted about.
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