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| | Blather Archives: About that Millennium. . . |
 | | He's quick to ram home the understanding that the millennium is not something that will happen in a couple of years time -- that the millennium is an arbitrary period of 1000 years, not an event that will take place on some December 31st. |
 | | Gould expands on this, explaining that if each decade has to have 10 years (in the case of Dionysius, that goes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10), and every century is to have 100 years, year 100 becomes stuck in that century, and the dawn of a new century is on January 1st 101. |
 | | A pleasant read, but I fear that the only people who will read 'Questioning the Millennium' are already wearing their 'I am a Millennial Cynic' t-shirts, where as those who would benefit the most from a brief perusal have been happily whisked along in the pre-millennial stampede of hope and faith. |
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