2010, 2553 Or 0

[dutchguest]

Happy New Year.

To avoid needless confusion, calculationwork, computerproblems etc. it would be good if -in a globalising world- everybody would use the same numbering.

There are the following possibilities:

1) Thailand take over the Christian counting completely and so -as a Buddhist country- drop the relation with the Buddha and create a relation with Jezus.

2) The rest of the world slowly becomes Buddhist and take over the Buddhist counting.

3) We start in a post-religious era anew with zero.

Number 1 is probably what is going to happen. Is it also the most desirable?

Or is it a non-topic best to be looked at pragmatically and leave everything as it is, not interfering with the "natural" forces, which means western values and money are ruling the world and are taken for granted?

P.s. I wanted to make a poll but can not put it in that form so I make it an informal poll.

[SeanMoran]

It won't get much easier than today to work out the importance of the number 543 for another 990 years.

In Australia it's 2010 (2553) and here in Thailand it's 2553 (2010)!

Don't you reckon that makes each year so much mopre spectacular?

[dutchguest]

It won't get much easier than today to work out the importance of the number 543 for another 990 years.

In Australia it's 2010 (2553) and here in Thailand it's 2553 (2010)!

Don't you reckon that makes each year so much mopre spectacular?

Sooner or later they will to synchronize for practical reasons I think. And I think it will be the christian counting that will prevail. It won't make things more spectacular, but easyer. Just like McDonalds and American jeans bring more uniformity to the world taking the place of the local food and clothing.

[hhgz]

"Number 1 is probably what is going to happen. Is it also the most desirable?"

Did you have the same concerns last year, or the year before?

[dutchguest]

"Number 1 is probably what is going to happen. Is it also the most desirable?"

Did you have the same concerns last year, or the year before?

No, today is the first time I think about the whole question.

[lazygourmet]

It won't get much easier than today to work out the importance of the number 543 for another 990 years.

In Australia it's 2010 (2553) and here in Thailand it's 2553 (2010)!

Don't you reckon that makes each year so much mopre spectacular?

Sooner or later they will to synchronize for practical reasons I think. And I think it will be the christian counting that will prevail. It won't make things more spectacular, but easyer. Just like McDonalds and American jeans bring more uniformity to the world taking the place of the local food and clothing.

Good to know that -at least- you are thinking!

Regarding the MacDonalds' hamburgers: there are originating from... yes, Hamburg in Germany!

And regarding the American (sic!) jeans "Denim": there are originating from... yes, Nimes in France!

[Thanyaburi Mac]

Happily, tho, the Thai seem to have adopted, for the most part, the Gregorian Calendar with the year starting in January. It used to be confusing when a Thai said they'd be meeting you on the 6th day of the 4th month, for example. Then you had to ask which month, Thai or farang?

n

I note the horoscopes that are used here are a tad different than I'm used to. I'm a Gemini in the U.S., but a Tarus here.

Mac

http://www.thaicultureblogs.com/index.php/the-thai-zodiac

Western Thai

Aries March 21 - April 20 April 13 - May 14

Taurus April 21 - May 21 May 15 - June 14

Gemini May 22 - June 21 June 15 - July 15

Cancer June 22 - July 22 July 16 - August 16

Leo July 23 -August 21 August 17 - September 16

Virgo August 22 - September 23 September 17 - October 16

Libra September 24 - October 23 October 17 - November 15

Scorpio October 24 - November 22 November 16 - December 15

Sagittarius November 23 - December 22 December 16 - January 14

Capricorn December 23 - January 20 January 15 - February 12

Aquarius January 21 - February 19 February 13 - March 14

Pisces February 20- March 20 March 15 - April 12

[dutchguest]

Happily, tho, the Thai seem to have adopted, for the most part, the Gregorian Calendar with the year starting in January. It used to be confusing when a Thai said they'd be meeting you on the 6th day of the 4th month, for example. Then you had to ask which month, Thai or farang?

n

I note the horoscopes that are used here are a tad different than I'm used to. I'm a Gemini in the U.S., but a Tarus here.

Mac

http://www.thaicultureblogs.com/index.php/the-thai-zodiac

Western Thai

Aries March 21 - April 20 April 13 - May 14

Taurus April 21 - May 21 May 15 - June 14

Gemini May 22 - June 21 June 15 - July 15

Cancer June 22 - July 22 July 16 - August 16

Leo July 23 -August 21 August 17 - September 16

Virgo August 22 - September 23 September 17 - October 16

Libra September 24 - October 23 October 17 - November 15

Scorpio October 24 - November 22 November 16 - December 15

Sagittarius November 23 - December 22 December 16 - January 14

Capricorn December 23 - January 20 January 15 - February 12

Aquarius January 21 - February 19 February 13 - March 14

Pisces February 20- March 20 March 15 - April 12

As far as I have understood in the western calender, time reference is the sun, and in Thailand the moon or earth.

The differences are deeprooted and go far back. The sun is associated with the male principle, the moon with the female.

http://www.dirah.org/lunarzodiac.htm

[dutchguest]

It won't get much easier than today to work out the importance of the number 543 for another 990 years.

In Australia it's 2010 (2553) and here in Thailand it's 2553 (2010)!

Don't you reckon that makes each year so much mopre spectacular?

Sooner or later they will to synchronize for practical reasons I think. And I think it will be the christian counting that will prevail. It won't make things more spectacular, but easyer. Just like McDonalds and American jeans bring more uniformity to the world taking the place of the local food and clothing.

Good to know that -at least- you are thinking!

Regarding the MacDonalds' hamburgers: there are originating from... yes, Hamburg in Germany!

And regarding the American (sic!) jeans "Denim": there are originating from... yes, Nimes in France!

I am sorry, I try to stop thinking but sometimes I just can't stop.

Descartes sayd: cogito ergo sum. Buddha went a step further and sayd: only by stop thinking you can free yourself and become enlightened.

And for "American" you may also think "western".

[dumball]

In 1849 , Levi-Straus who was a Bavarian immigrant , invented the denim coveralls for the Calfornian gold rush miners , naming them after the French town of Nimmes .

6years in Germany , never saw a hamburger , favourite food was 'Brot-wurst' , a long sausage rolled over a hot plate and delivered in a short bread roll .

[khundon]

In 1849 , Levi-Straus who was a Bavarian immigrant , invented the denim coveralls for the Calfornian gold rush miners , naming them after the French town of Nimmes .

6years in Germany , never saw a hamburger , favourite food was 'Brot-wurst' , a long sausage rolled over a hot plate and delivered in a short bread roll .

Nimes. not Nimmes please.

From Wikipedia.

Denim is a rugged cotton twill textile, in which the weft passes under two (twi- "double") or more warp fibers. This produces the familiar diagonal ribbing identifiable on the reverse of the fabric, which distinguishes denim from cotton duck. Denim has been in American usage since the late eighteenth century.^[1] The word comes from the name of a sturdy fabric called serge, originally made in Nîmes, France, by the Andre family. Originally called serge de Nîmes, the name was soon shortened to denim.^[2] Denim was traditionally colored blue with indigo dye to make blue "jeans," though "jean" then denoted a different, lighter cotton textile; the contemporary use of jean comes from the French word for Genoa, Italy (Gênes), where the first denim trousers were made.

[mahtin]

6years in Germany , never saw a hamburger

I am a doughnut.

He will never understand.

[planemad]

When considering a global calender, you must remember that Islam is a large player and their current year is is 1431!

[dumball]

6years in Germany , never saw a hamburger

I am a doughnut.

He will never understand.

You call those things hamburgers ? They call themselves Berliners , das sind nicht 'Hamburger ' meine freund !!!(Spelling?) , been a long time , 555 .

I was there many years ago , travelled extensively and nary a one to be seen .