Would you support changing the CE/BCE calendar to something else?

I love "Modernism" as an ever-receding historical era. Except NP eras are really located on history tbf.

no eras, fucking autocorrect

all years should just be given as number of years + or - relative to the present one

so 2017 would be -1 but next year it would be -2

just work out when the universe began and count from there. welcome to 13799131678 everyone.

let's not forget about how it would change the way we listen to songs like 1999.

let's just roll it back thirty years or so so we can listen to 1999 with the same kind of anticipation we used to

I just hate the mimsy use of BCE/CE, whereby they keep on using the BC/AD system, but try to pretend there's no Christian connection by making use of an utterly dull and basically meaningless new phrase.

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison)

I understand this if you take the point of view that they ("they") are trying to maintain a Christocentric calendar but hiding that fact so there's no pushback. However, seeing as the calendar isn't going to change any time soon, isn't it better to change the terminology so you're not forcing non-Christians to talk about years in very overtly Christian terms?

Also it's not that new, Common Era phraseology stems from around the 18th century.

just work out when the universe began and count from there. welcome to 13799131678 everyone.

years are too solar-centric, we should be planning for when we've gone intergalactic.

there are some really good ideas in this thread