#Millennial #MillennialGeneration #Millennium

We know that 'Millennials' are the (non-existent!) generation coming-of-age around the year 2000 (A.D.) But then Etymonline.com–telling us that millennial means 'pertaining to the millennium'–defines "The Millennium" as 'the anticipated 1,000-year reign of Christ.'

But are 'Millennials' better-known as "co-rulers with King Christ" or as "self-entitled, rude, lazy, mean, selfish, anti-social, over-sensitive, irresponsible, sheltered, greedy narcissists"?

Either way, there were scientists predicting 'humans would be freed of want, misery and disease; reason and advanced technology would rule; and all would finally be for the best in what would undoubtedly then be the best of all possible worlds'—saying that that would be 'a truly millenial time.'

I don't know if they were thinking of 'Christ coming to rule the Earth' (it was the early `60s), but I'm reminded of 'when Jesus's forefather David ruled Israel'—how it was said that "no one in his kingdom ever went hungry" ... it could be that the scientists were thinking we'd be returned to such a time of abundant prosperity.

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The word “Millennial” carries the scent of “Thousand (see Million) + Year (Annual).”

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Hmm, 'Thousand (see Million)' ... I look at "Million" and see it carries the scent of 'a great thousand'; that makes me think of 'Young Earth Creationist'-Christians who look at The Bible as "evidence" that the Earth is only 6,000 years old—how do they know it's not '6 great thousand' or more?

🤓 ... probably because 'those Christians' usually count "individual lifetimes" (in the "begat-begat-begat"-lineages outlined in the Old Testament, where it'll tell how many 'years'-old the next father was when he had his first son, who became the next father of his son at a certain age, then his son was a certain age when he had a son, who ... etc.)