Predicting the future

The demarcation between 2017 and 2018 is nothing but an imaginative fabrication that doesn’t link, or sync up with any natural occurrence or historical event, and is merely a counting convenience. Julius Caesar’s calendar, established in AUC 708 (1 January 45 BC) is an arbitrary mess that we struggle with through with a mnemonic poem (30 days hath September,…). Think of how simple it would be to have 10 months with 36 ½ days each. Nonetheless, we do have this demarcation point and use it to celebrate (or lament) the past 12 months, and anticipate (or fear) the next. Those