So your in the year 500 ce.... island in the sea of time time!

[Flubber]

Everything within 50 feet ??

Well that includes my entire house and a good chunk of my neighbor's house ( which is good since he has an insane number of hand tools.) I have ample food for several months and enough propane to keep myself cooking (on the BBQ) for a while. I also should have a couple of rifles and shotguns since my neighbor is a hunter. I also have 4 functioning motor vehicles each with a full tank but my area is heavily wooded so I can't get far anyway.

I also have a bunch of books on human anatomy and nursing ( my wife's) which are much more useful than mine on law LOL. I only wish I had bought an encyclopedia and retained my boy scout handbook

[Richelieu]

nm

[Richelieu]

I'll be dead in a week.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
edit: misread.

500 ce, the allobroges (burgundians) were here, and the city was just about to be conquered and reconquered by the franks (534) and incorporated into the Merovingian Dynasty.

not much wiggle room.

That's an opportunity that I won't be likely to have in Colorado. Too bad, I've got enough weapons to outfit a squad and enough ammo to rewrite French history.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


CE = Common Era, replacement for AD
BCE = Before Common Era, replacement for BC

Why?

What's wrong with BC and AD?

[Richelieu]

Refers to religion. Only Christians are OK with it as we've seen in the numerous and frequently violent demonstrations held througout the world over the last months.

[MikeH]

Well changing the names doesn't change the fact that the changeover is based on a Christian concept does it?

[MikeH]

Have there been violent demonstrations over the use of BC and AD? Really? Don't people have better things to demonstrate violently about?

If I had never heard of it then certainly most britains wouldn't have. Seems like Political Correctness gone mad again.

[Richelieu]

Mike.

[Cyclotron]

Nah, they just started using "Common Era" because nobody could remember what AD stood for.

[MikeH]

Ah, so it's an ignorant American thing. Shoulda known.

[Ecthy]

Anno Domini, Before Christ

[Japher]

What's an ignorant American thing?

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Richelieu
Refers to religion. Only Christians are OK with it as we've seen in the numerous and frequently violent demonstrations held througout the world over the last months.

I am not ADAMANTLY against it but given the choice, I prefer to discuss my chronology not in refference to Christs fictitious birth(not that he was not born he was, just proboably VERY likley not in 0 ce heh).

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Vesayen
I am not ADAMANTLY against it but given the choice, I prefer to discuss my chronology not in refference to Christs fictitious birth(not that he was not born he was, just proboably VERY likley not in 0 ce heh).

You're funny.

You're still referencing Christ's birth, whether you call it CE, AD, or ADHD.