-Caveat Lector-
Yes, doom saying is an historical phenomenon. I hear tell
that a particularly hard year for our advanced simian race
was the year 1666. That, incidentally, was also the year
that light was first intentionally broken down into its
component parts, then recombined to form white light. The
spectrum, naturally revealed in rainbows, was explained by
Newton in 1666. Light Bringer.
Tenorlove wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> The Y1K Crisis
> By Ashleigh Brilliant (www.ashleighbrilliant.com)
> Canterbury, England. A.D. 999:
>
> An atmosphere close to panic prevails today throughout Europe as the
> millennial year 1000 approaches, bringing with it the so-called "Y1K
> Bug," a menace which, until recently, hardly anyone had ever heard of.
> Prophets of doom are warning that the entire fabric of Western
> Civilization, based as it now is upon monastic computations, could
> collapse, and that there is simply not enough time left to fix the
> problem.
> Just how did this disaster-in-the-making ever arise? Why did no one
> anticipate that a change from a three-digit to a four-digit year would
> throw into total disarray all liturgical chants and all metrical verse
> in which any date is mentioned? Every formulaic hymn, prayer, ceremony
> and incantation dealing with dated events will have to be re-written to
> accommodate three extra syllables.
> All tabular chronologies with three-space year columns, maintained for
> generations by scribes using carefully hand-ruled lines on vellum
> sheets, will now have to be converted to four-space columns, at
> enormous cost. In the meantime, the validity of every official event,
> from baptisms to burials, from confirmations to coronations, may be
> called into question.
> "We should have seen it coming," says Brother Cedric of St. Michael
> Abbey, here in Canterbury. "What worries me most is that THOUSAND
> contains the word THOU, which occurs in nearly all our prayers, and of
> course always refers to God. Using it now in the name of the year will
> seem almost blasphemous, and is bound to cause terrible confusion. Of
> course, we could always use Latin, but that might be even worse -- The
> Latin word for Thousand is Mille, which is the same as the Latin for
> mile. We won't know whether we're talking about time or distance!"
> Stonemasons are already reported threatening to demand a
> proportional
> pay increase for having to carve an extra numeral in all dates on
> tombstones, cornerstones and monuments. Together with its inevitable
> ripple effects, this alone could plunge the hitherto-stable medieval
> economy into chaos.
> A conference of clerics has been called at Winchester to discuss the
> entire issue, but doomsayers are convinced that the matter is now one
> of
> personal survival. Many families, in expectation of the worst, are
> stocking up on holy water and indulgences.
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