2007-05-23 14:37:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Using various cheeses.
Mostly Blue, but sometimes Stilton and Gorgonzola.
2007-05-23 14:40:00 · answer #1 · answered by Clauzilla 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Close to the same as is is today. There were some differences in calculating the year, but it was accurate to within no more than 30 days of the year that we use today.
The issue is not about how they calculate age, but how did they live so long? The environment for one was completely different than today. Other writings besides Biblical writings talk about the ancients living for very long periods of time, upwards of a thousand years.
Scientists today still dont know what triggers the aging process. We Know that diet, stress, living standards, and environmental conditions degrade it, but we should STILL live longer, as the human body constantly re-generates its self.
It is our own arrogance that says we are the more 'enlightened' and 'evolved' generation, when we have NO CLUE about extremely ancient culture. Actually, I think we have DE-VOLVED.
The first humans on this planet developed the wheel, music, art, metallurgy. We are only ADDING to what they already discovered.
A study of the Bible shows that we truly HAVE NOT evolved. We still steal, rape, and murder like we did back then, but now it is WORSE, we have new and better ways of killing each other.
And we call ourselves enlightened.
2007-05-23 21:56:05 · answer #2 · answered by fortheimperium2003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a good question. I don't know if it was a widespread practice to keep accurate birth and death records--that is, what day, month, and year a person was born or died--since writing wouldn't have been widespread. They may have just kept track of general age; for example, a person was so many winters or summers old. Anything more than that probably wasn't necessary in day-to-day living. Even nowadays, in many countries and cultures it simply isn't done. Someone I know said her Mexican boyfriend had to write to his town of birth (in Mexico) for a birth certificate and they basically just made one up, since his actual birth date had never been recorded.
2007-05-23 21:53:20 · answer #3 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likey, they used the lunar cycle or something very similar. Someone with an age of 900 years would really be only about 70-75 years old, which is much more believable.
2007-05-23 21:42:12 · answer #4 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Age twas given when the calenders were given ...this is only my perspective and there is no age there is only the "eternal now" "..humans invented time and the calender " the age" to and as religion to get us caught up in beliefs ...religion twas invented by control perceived as the illuminati...
per choice
http://www.eckharttolle.com/ The Power of Now
or google, calenders ...illuminati
we are now with the Gregorian calender...prior to that twas Roman Calender (Ceaser) ...2012 we will have no calenders is what is predicted...
regards K,E.I.1.
2007-05-23 21:50:10 · answer #5 · answered by Kolleen Emerald 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A day to God is 1000 years, like if someone was 900 that would be 90 to us. God also told Adam that man wouldn't live upon the earth one day before he would flood it.
During the time of Jesus if you made it to forty you've lived a long time.
2007-05-23 22:00:49 · answer #6 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont understand the question. Documents and records were kept and preserved like they are today. Also, knowing how to add and subtract helped.
2007-05-23 21:47:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same
2007-05-23 21:49:46 · answer #8 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
40 was a lifetime and 20 was half a lifetime
2007-05-23 21:42:40 · answer #9 · answered by Itachi-Sama Luuuuver...!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first guy flat out wins.
2007-05-23 21:44:31 · answer #10 · answered by meissen97 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋