What do B.C and A.D mean referring to the recording of time? Are there any other terms used?

Question

It seems incredibly unprofessional that time and history would be recorded through mythologies, so its not really believable when people say it means, "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini" (which is translated as "In the year of the lord"). Are there other terms used to "calculate" time other than those two, and do they actually mean something different? It doesn't sound right to address time and dates in history by such unreliable and untrustworthy fables, in biased ways especially. Why not use Ra, Buddha, Allah, Krishna, Hades and Zeus, or Apophis to pin time. There must be more professional and scientific terms other than "Before Christ"(if that's what B.C even means) and "Anno Domini". Please provide the link if you do find something. Thanks in advance for those who're helpful.

Answer 1

Oh, grow up. Scholars have been using "Before Common Era" and "Common Era" for decades to address exactly the concerns that you are so drunkenly spluttering about as if nobody had ever though of this before. How old are you, about 5?



And learn how to punctuate abbreviations, you illiterate fuckbag. There are periods after BOTH letters in those abbreviations, not just after the first one.

Answer 2

Yes, B.C. is for "Before Christ" and A.D. is for "Anno Domini." I don't know why Latin is used for one but English for the other.



Anyhow, a trend in recent decades is to use BCE instead of B.C. and CE instead of A.D. BCE stands for "Before the Common Era" and CE stands for "of the Common Era." The years are the same as with the B.C./A.D. system, but these abbreviations make no reference to any religious belief or event, so they are more accepted outside of a Christian context.

By that system, this year is 2015 CE. Julius Ceasar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BCE.

Answer 3

In actuality, BC - originally incepted in ancient Greece - really means "Before Cronus".



You may know of the 'myth' of the man Cronus, aka the 'God of time' - he was not so much a god as he was an inventor - who is the first documented human to start the regular daily physical documentation process of history and local events leveraging papyrus rather than the storytelling and memorization processes which had long proceeded Cronus's 'invention'.



This 'de facto' measure allowed for the creation of other inventions, including such VERY important things as written rule and law - establishing precedence, the written story - entertainment, philosophy - and also introduced much more practical uses such as long distance travel and seafaring navigational methods - as the documenting of historical accounts made it possible for vessels covering long distances no longer risked going in circles and were able to map the terrain as they went alond - as they retained records of their daily movement.



This made mapping possible, and actually is in fact what built up modern civilization.



Interestingly enough, AD - means "Anno Domini" - or directly translated from latin - means "Year of Rule", as rules and laws and precedence were also codified using Cronus's historical methods.



In the crusades - the Christian and Pagan culture later came to manipulate the meaning to refer to "Year of Our Lord", but the translation to "After Death", a misnomer at best (as Jesus is documented as having died in 31AD, which would make the term After Death not make any semse, would it?), outlines the lack of awareness early Christians had of the importance of documenting events and the use of any form of calendar.



BC and AD marks the transition period in human's history where historical record-keeping began to occur outside of spoken record - with written and preservable materialistically based records - where storytelling and oration as a mechanism of preservation of history no longer was the primary forms of 'remembering our past'.



BC = Before Cronus

AD = Year of Rule (When historical recordkeeping started being written)

Answer 4

Huh

Answer 5

What Is Bc And Ad

Answer 6

that is what they mean.



but the more commonly used modern term is BCE--before common era. and CE--common era

Answer 7

and UC stands for Universal Century

Answer 8

Before Christ and After Death. [of Christ].