In all the hubbub surrounding the significance of 06-06-06 on the calendar, what is so blantantly absent from the conversation is the observation that a date is simply a man-made construct.
Nature does not measure time, per se. Simply, nature just is. The sun rises, the sun sets, no days, weeks, months or years are assigned to specific events by nature. Yes, the earth does revolve around the sun in a specific time period (year) and revolves on its axis in a specific time period (day). But man chooses to assign the names and the numeric references.
If man wanted, today could be December 15, 1234. Or August 126, 45,649. Frankly, 2006 happened billions of years ago. In fact, 2006 occurred, well, 2006 years after the big bang began yielding. Nature does not celebrate designations in time. As the German writer Thomas Mann noted, "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
06-06-06? Just man-made assignments of time. Oh, and have a great day!
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