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14305909 No.14305909 [Reply] [Original]

Think about all the stories, philosophy and myths from neolithic and paleolithic people that we'll never be able to experience.

I wish we had a time machine

>> No.14305924

>>14305909
Screw the lost neolithic ones, 7 billion stories are lost every 24 hours as people forget their dreams

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>> No.14306075

>>14305924
Yeah, but the dreams we forget each night are a reflection of our daily lives and historical setting (things that we can still experience) while the thousands of epic and unwritten sagas (think about thousands of Iliads and Odysseys) are lost forever.
They could have given us valuable insight into the thoughts and philosophy of countless societies who came before us.

>> No.14306315

>>14305909
no worries. they'll borg us all soon enough

>> No.14306381

>>14305909
Think about how many genius sages of the pre-historic age that we never get to hear or read. Humans have been anatomically modern for 50-35k years I believe, and recorded history is what, 5-6k years? 2-3k B.C.? Seems very likely that, considering the other tens of thousands of years, there were some big brain dudes we’ll never know about.

>> No.14306403

>Damascius lived for awhile in Harran, writing an epitaph for a woman which read, “I, Zosime, who was before a slave in body only have now gained freedom for my body too.” He never really outgrew his need for rhetoric, and he wrote a no longer extant book of five hundred seventy-two stories similar to the Arabian Nights. He also wrote on the immortality of the soul, mythology and miracles, and the topography of the sacred places.