As predicted in the year 1967. Basically a glorified commercial for Philco-Ford, it does reflect the optimism of that time that technology would make life better. Such predictions at that time normally thought technology would change rapidly while our social relationships would remain static. Attempting to peer into the future is always a fools effort, since we are all children of our time, even those of us who are highly critical of our time. The past is a different country and the future is an unknown country that we make day by day by our choices.
Well first off, it wouldn’t be 1999 AD. It would be 1999 CE. It goes down from there.
You sir, are jumping up and down –in golf cleats no less– on a raw, varicella-zoster infected nerve with that CE crap.
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I take your point, but seriously, it is a major pet peeve of mine.
Yes, it’s a raw nerve for me, too. I sometimes think our giving into that was one of the first cases where we made it clear surrender and defeat were an appropriate end result.
Yes, our choices are our destiny. And our choices most often revolve around accommodating ourselves to other peoples choices but must be always in line with what we believe to be God choice for us.
Short drive down to Plymouth this past weekend. We made sure the ocean was still there, seafood take out in a warm car, hiking the shore. Couldn’t help but think of being transported back 500 years, as a alien to an alien country, where people would still be people but context so different.
(1620 – 2020)
400 years sorry, I need a coffee.
Dave WS, Did you notice the sea level has risen six inches since 1620?
Dave and Ernst, I often put the AD after dates. It is my [weak tea] on-line comments ‘wedgie.’
T. Shaw, my boys do that in school unless the profs say otherwise. Usually they don’t get called on it, though when they were still in public school, some of their classes would have a brief ‘this is why we should use BCE/CE in our work’ talk at the start of the year.
Using BCE and CE makes no logical sense. What event divided history? Someone just picked an arbitrary date? You don’t have to believe Jesus was God or that he even existed, but denying that his birth is the basis for the number of the year on the calendar is just denying reality.
George, that was my problem with it. It was enforced intellectual dishonesty. If people want to call a chair a hippo, that’s up to them. But we all shouldn’t be forced to do so. What’s more, Christians shouldn’t join in and say they’ll do the same thing for fear of people calling us meanies.