If you mean our present yearly calendar system, GfS...yeah...that is dated according to the life of Jesus. I guess the Romans made that decision after Constantine converted to Christianity, did they? And the Romans got to call the shots, and we're still going by their system. I would think that's how it happened.

I wonder what people were basing the calendar on prior to that? For instance, there was clearly a time when the year 53 B.C. wasn't called 53 B.C.   ;-) I wonder what it was called then?

People mostly get caught up in the illusion, as you say.

For instance, Kat is (I think) mistaking Riginslinger's dislike of Obama for "racism" when it's simply his dislike for Obama's whole candidacy, period, because he is convinced that Obama can't win the election and he thought that Hillary could win it. He was for Hillary, and he remains for Hillary. It's not unusual for people to maintain such loyalties. I was for Kucinich and/or Ron Paul, and I remain for Kucinich and/or Ron Paul (but they never had a chance against the Duopoly because they wouldn't be its compliant puppets).

Thus Riginslinger has been opposed to Obama from the start, not because Obama is Black, but because he honestly thinks that a Black man such as Obama simply can't win the election in the present context of America as America exists today...and he probably thinks that Obama lacks substance and experience.

But what if Obama AND McCain AND Palin AND Biden would all end up being compliant pawns of the same controlling forces anyway once they were elected?

Then what?

In Rome, the imperial order rules. The leaders' faces change. Some leaders are definitely worse than others, but the Empire rules until it falls.