Re: Anybody got any thoughts on what might happen on 06/06/06?

hot-ham-and-cheese@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Robert Sturgeon wrote:

On 29 May 2006 06:23:50 -0700,
hot-ham-and-cheese@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


Mark Trudgill wrote:

The message <4479E38F.9ECA7DC7@xxxxxxxxx>
from Norris <n_powell524@xxxxxxxxx> contains these words:


"Veszpertin - The Psychedelic Pope ~..~ His Most Enlightened Highness"
wrote:

I've no doubt that ENESSA QUA ONNICA will become activated
which could result in the Earth being destroyed by fire as 'The
Bible' predicts.

Obviously you haven't heard what Pope Gregory did to the calendar.

If it's really prophesy inspired by god, surely he would have had the
foresight to take that into account?

Unfortunately, the new calendar was not inspired by God.

How can you possibly know that???


Did they end up moving Christmas and Easter?



Nope. Easter is, in theory, a few days after the Passover feast, which, IIRC, is the determined by the first full moon after the spring equinox.

For the Roman Catholic Church, it's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, just to have Good Friday on a Friday and Easter on a Sunday.

Christmas is, ultimately, the celebration of the winter solstice.
Christians claimed it as the birth of Jesus, ( to compete with other solstice celebrations) even though the Biblical description of his birth shows it must have been sometime in the spring.

Neither has anything to do with calendar dates.

The Gregorian calendar, and the shifting of dates, was to correct the cumulative error in the Julian Calendar. The shifts in dates were set so that it stayed seven days from Sunday to Sunday, even during the shift (Thursday 14 September 1752 followed Wednesday 2 September 1752 when Great Britain switched to the Gregorian Calendar.)
If we still used the Julian Calendar, the first day of spring would be sometime in early April (5th or 6th, I think).


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