October 22 is the 295th day of the year
October 22 is also Setting Orange, The Aftermath 3, 3184 YOLD (discordian)

THIS is the day, the day of all days. This is the day that time began one thusand nine hundred and eighty-six years ago, 10/22/4004 BCE; followed by the first day of creation on 10/23/4004, according to the most worthy and illustrious Bishop Ussher. This was truly a miracle of the first water. A period before time without all of the religionistas asking "but what came before that?" like they do and would for any other instance of such a "phenomenon". Also missing are all of the cries of "how did/could something (in this case, including god) come from nothing?", "what was there before?" and all of that. In essence, this is the Holy Big Bang and simply by having a migical being tossed into the mix, the shrill assertions that such a concept and period are impossible and/or incomceivable (and tantamount to magic) all vanish. my, my, my.

But, further, where was god today, 4004 BCE, and all prior days? If time did not exist, then nothing else did either. Deus ex machina, poof!, behold god from nothing!, like a petty, jealous, self-righteous, tyrannical jack-in-the-box. How in the hell did this ever become dogma? And this wasn't just Ussher, many others, cognoscenti capable of reading the great big book of magik, mysteries, and monsters arrived at closely similar timetables. Well, that, my child, is yet another mystery best left to our betters to worry about, and that is fine with me, since it frees up my time to ponder the real world.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid,
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On this day in the real history of the real world (after time began):

451 – The Council of Chalcedon adopted the "Chalcedonian Creed" dealing with god's kid as a hybrid, or something like that. (This relates back to a second instance of deus ex machina, some sort of lesser bang or somesuch, which produced an entity of indeterminate or multifaceted species, nature, character and type).
1707 – Four British navy shiop ran aground on the Isles of Scilly. This led to the first Longitude Act of 1714 offering a prize to anybody who could reliably determine where ships at sea actually were.(hint: the pre-satellite solution depended upon precise chronometers, see 4004 BCE)
1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump, over Paris, no less.
1844 – Millerites, the followers of one William Miller, awaited the end of the world and the second coming of Christ during today's "Great Anticipation". October 23, 1844 was, of course, the "Great Disappointment". Presumably, their savior slept in that era, or something. I personally suspect that this is a Schrödinger's cat type of phenomenon, since the object of their adoration is allegedly both deceased and yet alive, as well as both human and other, and nobody is able to look into the box because the earth long ago left the volume of space that it was in back when all that shit went down. (see 4004 BCE and 451 CE)
1884 – The British Royal Observatory was adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. (see 1707 CE, and, of course, 4004 BCE because it is really all about time and timekeeping)
1934 – Feebs shot and and killed a bank robber named Pretty Boy Floyd. This is in here so I can play a song
1957 – The first admitted or acknowledged US casualties in the war to prevent elections in Vietnam.
1962 – JFK announced that the US had discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba nad would be implementing a blockade of the island.
1966 – The Supremes became the first all-female group to have a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
1981 – The FLRA voted to decertify PATCO for having the temerity to represent its members and call a strike.

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Born this day in:

1811 – Franz Liszt, pianist and composer
1821 – Collis Potter Huntington, robber baron known for bribery and corruption. Robbed you with a fountain pen.
1844 – Louis Riel, founder of Manitoba, martyr of the Metis, resistance fighter.
1870 – Lord Alfred Douglas, Bosie, author and poet
1882 – N. C. Wyeth, painter and illustrator
1919 – Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, and playwright
1920 – Timothy Leary, psychologist and author
1928 – Clare Fischer, pianist, composer and arranger
1929 – Dory Previn, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1942 – Bobby Fuller, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1942 – Annette Funicello, rodentophile actress and singer
1945 – Eddie Brigati, singer and songwriter
1949 – Stiv Bators, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1952 – Greg Hawkes, musician

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Died this day in:

1906 – Paul Cézanne, painter
1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, businessman, folk hero
1973 – Pablo Casals, cellist and conductor
1986 – Jane Dornacker, actress, songwriter, traffic reporter and singer who wrote "don't touch me there".
1989 – Ewan MacColl, singe, songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright.
1995 – Kingsley Amis, novelist and poet.

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

International Stuttering Awareness Day
Clean Up the Earth Day
INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
National Knee Day
National Nut Day
National Color Day
Eat a Pretzel Day

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Music goes here, iirc

And Time Began

Longitude Act

Millerites

Pretty Boy

The Supremes

Dory Previn

Bobby Fuller

Eddie Brigati

Jane Dornacker

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picture: Project 366 #135: 140512 All Together Now, by Pete

It's an open thread, so do your thing

!! Nobody caught it yet, but it is 6022 years since time began, not 1986 !!