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The complete timeline: from a gathering in Palestine to the year being 2026. How an obscure monk's Easter calculation replaced Rome's calendar with one anchored to a birth in Bethlehem — and why nobody has been able to change it since.
A counterfactual: assuming the story of Jesus and the twelve apostles happened, what would be different today if it hadn't? The answer touches everything from hospitals to the calendar to the concept of a person.
Post #140 claimed the twelve apostles functioned as a 66-channel network. The scriptures show it. Specific passages where the channels are visible — the arguments, the private conversations, the splits, the repairs.
Jesus chose twelve. Not seven. Not a hundred. Twelve. The number connects the oldest coordination problem to the most consequential organizational decision in history.
Everything tends toward disorder when you add people. Monuments get built anyway. The question isn't coordination — it's why anyone carries stones at all, and how we learned to make each other do it.
The same exercise on a different date. October 24 collects structures — treaties, bridges, markets, barriers — and the question of whether any of them hold.