Comments by "" (@timogul) on "World of Antiquity" channel.

  1. I remember 20 years ago in college being baffled by this. Just seems like a pointless waste of time and effort. Stick with AD and BC like everyone else in the world. It just seems like it's trying to confuse people, add to their mental workload by breaking established customs arbitrarily. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's not like "CE" doesn't mean "after the birth of Christ as it was at one point understood," that is still the zero point of that scale, so what's the point of renaming it? If the point is to separate it from Christianity, then you would also need to move the start date to something else, like the formation of the Roman Empire, or the coronation of Charlemagne, or the battle of Hastings, or the Declaration of Independence, or whatever. So long as it's still currently "2024," there's no reason to not use "AD." It just means "AD."
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