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AliveInHim Wrote: Jan 06, 2010 10:55 PM

I am anything but tech-savvy so will trust you on that one! :)

As to birth-point well taken, that's how the Chinese calculate it, but you have to admit that in this country it isn't done that way, especially over the last thirty-some years. Imagine the *ahem* chaos that would result from formally adopting THAT calculation! ;)

Speaking of calendars women the world over use the lunar month to monitor their cycles.

Other than the Bible which also uses the following to mark time; lunar phases, solstices and seasons, are there other possible explanations for the seven-day week, the four-week month, etc?

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Let's Give it a Rest

Reader Alert: This was the column I was going to write before the Tighty-Whitey-Bomber messed up everyone's holiday week. If you're looking for blood-boiling rhetoric, this edition of MULLINGS isn't going to be it.

Back to blood-boiling rhetoric on Friday. Maybe.

I have been thinking about scales. Time scales, temperature scales, even metaphysical scales.

We are now in the year 2010. I don't want to revisit the argument which states that, because there was no year zero, this is not the first year of the second decade of the 21st century.