12-11-2019, 03:15 AM
(12-11-2019, 02:46 AM)guohua Wrote:(12-11-2019, 02:43 AM)Ninurta Wrote: It's all down to Sumerian astronomy and their base-6 counting system. That's why we have a 12 month year, a 24 hour day, a 360 degree circle, and so on. All of those numbers are multiples of 6, going all the way back to the Sumerian base-6 counting system, derived from their earliest astronomy.
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Yup, it all goes back to the Sumerians. So, if the date 12-12-2019 was to have any real significance, you'd have to replace the year 2019 (relatively modern Christian numbering) with whatever the Sumerian equivalent would be in order to find out what it is. Then you would have to start dividing stuff by 6 until you got to the lowest common denominator.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’