Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization

Haaretz ^ | Sep 10, 2019 | Philippe Bohstrom

[Poison Pill]

as soon as I see BCE, I quit reading.

Why?

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[stockpirate]

Bump

[goldbux]

Any civilization that doesn’t change its default type font from Times New Roman to a more readable sans-serif font is doomed.

[salmon76]

Liberalism?

[yarddog]

It is an obvious slap at Christians.

[SauronOfMordor]

One possibility. It could be that Minoan civilization’s upper classes taxed their productive people so much, that when Greek cities arose, the skilled Minoan craftsmen left for other places with less of a tax burden

[SunkenCiv]

No, it's not, it's an obvious use of a dating system common to non-Christians, such as the Israeli source of the story. So knock it off.

[Poison Pill]

It is an obvious slap at Christians.

It's an Israeli publication. The writers and primary readership are Jewish. Why would you expect them to use Christian nomenclature?

[BigEdLB]

It’s a Jewish website. That is how BC is always expressed

[yarddog]

Yes it is and you are right. It is used by people who are not Christians but don’t want to create their own system. They use the Christian system but want to dis them at the same time.

And yes it is intended to be.

Sort of like a person who doesn’t like Greeks but uses their alphabet and refers to it as the common letters.

[yarddog]

Because they use a Christian system. If they don’t want to use a system created by Christians then create their own system.

Don’t use it then make a point of dissing them by calling it something else.

[yarddog]

Jews say before Christ by changing it to a meaningless phrase?

[yarddog]

I would bet money that Disraeli never said BCE.

[SunkenCiv]

You should have mentioned what an ignorant bigot you are, I wouldn't have bothered with a reply. I'd be surprised if you don't put the very same wheel to work in the very same rut in many a science and history topic here on FR, because that's what trolls do.

[Poison Pill]

If they don’t want to use a system created by Christians then create their own system.

Every culture has a dating system. Most of them are older than the Gregorian system which only goes back to the 16th Century. The world standardized on the Gregorian system for ease of communication. That's a compliment to us, not a slap in the face.

[jjotto]

That’s a safe bet considering Disraeli was an Anglcan, although CE was in scholarly use by then, first as ‘Common Era of Christ’.

[rollo tomasi]

Common era was used by 16th-18th Christian scholars as well. The Vulgaris Aerae means common era/vulgar era (different meaning used today) or “our Christian Era”. The fact that they are using the Gregorian calendar and thinking they side-step the Christian aspects of notation is hilarious in my opinion.

On topic, Mycenaeans, how, gradual and maybe instances of opportunities to exploit.

[Rastus]

They should do a movie called National Lampoon’s Vacation Time where the Griswolds time-travel and accidentally wreak havoc everwhen they go.

[rollo tomasi]

A Jewish person using AD may believe they are breaking the First Commandment