BC vs BCE?

[uhhh_i_forgot]

How about...

BSGNJMHEWSCC?
(Before Some Guy Named Jesus May Have Existed Whom Some Consider Christ)

*quickly writes down on paper to use on next history essay* I love it.

 

[vajradhara]

Namaste all,

interesting discussion.

i've seen the usage of B.C.E. in more academic fields, the common literature seems to still use B.C.

of course, myself and a whole great group of beings are using a slightly different one... we use B.E. to represent "Buddhist Era"

in in our calendar, the year is 2551.

metta,

~v

 

[Mocca]

Namaste all,

interesting discussion.

i've seen the usage of B.C.E. in more academic fields, the common literature seems to still use B.C.

of course, myself and a whole great group of beings are using a slightly different one... we use B.E. to represent "Buddhist Era"

in in our calendar, the year is 2551.

metta,

~v

Sweet! What historical or religous event is your date based off of?

 

[Blackguard_]

Sweet! What historical or religous event is your date based off of?

The death of the Buddha most likely. His birth maybe?

 

[Mocca]

Maybe his Enlightenment.

 

[DailyBlessings]

The death of the Buddha most likely. His birth maybe?

His death. Or rather the Paranibbana of Buddha- the death of one who has reached total enlightenment is different.

 

[Moros]

BC makes it sound like nothing worthwhile happened before the Nazarene came along.

I'm apathetic about popular usage of BC/AD and pro BCE/CE in academia.

 

[Lynden1000]

I use BCE and CE in adademic writing, but in daily conversation I use BC and AD. The "average joe" simply isn't going to understand what the hay I'm talking about if say BCE or CE.

 

[Isis-Astoroth]

Lets face it, the entire world bases its dating system to BC. We're in the year 2006, the whole world bases itself on that system, yes the chinese have their new years, as do some religions and other calenders, but the world works on BC, on the system that came from dating everything from christ's birth. What BC stands for doesn't really matter, but to start switching to BCE is just stupid. Yes, BCE is used in some places, but the world wouldn't necessarily function any better if everything was dated off BCE, the change would just confuse timelines and people in general. I'm not Christian, but I see nothing wrong with using BC. BCE just seems to be an unnecessary confusion to me.