- 17 Oct 2008 09:21
#1662116
Just did some quick math, and Jesus was alive less than a century prior to 1 billion minutes ago.
1 day = 1,440 minutes.
1 year = 525,960 minutes
1,000,000,000 minutes = 1,901 years
1,902 years ago was 107 A.D.
Jesus died in 33 AD, just 74 years prior to that.
The dude's math wasn't so far off. The point was that it's a fuckton of time. Using famous dates that crudely approximate it was just a rhetorical device.
1 day = 1,440 minutes.
1 year = 525,960 minutes
1,000,000,000 minutes = 1,901 years
1,902 years ago was 107 A.D.
Jesus died in 33 AD, just 74 years prior to that.
The dude's math wasn't so far off. The point was that it's a fuckton of time. Using famous dates that crudely approximate it was just a rhetorical device.
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