• Troy
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    1 year ago

    Admittedly, it was more than 500 years after this Christ character, as you so amusingly notate, that they even started counting. And the concept of zero as a number was in place by then. The concept of zero as nothingness, or void, is much older. So really, the index from 0 or 1 debate is now at least 1500 years old ;)

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      1 year ago

      While I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek when I said “that Christ character”, I was also trying to be accurate: there are people who believe Christ was 100% made-up (and lots of others who don’t of course), and I don’t know enough about it to say for sure.

      Personally, I’m an agnostic atheist, so I’d need to see some actual evidence before I could honestly say I believe he did exist, but I’m not gonna say I know he didn’t exist either.