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That library could have had anime in it. The fires set anime back thousands of years
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Guyver posted:Not the history of losers who got their libraries burned down. The funny thing is that historians will remember the bit about the library, but no one will ever remember this thread. (Yes yes library of congress etc)
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Mar 7, 2022 19:23
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well ancient texts help me get a high score in vibeo game? I think not
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Mar 7, 2022 23:12
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The earliest recorded conversation is a pair of cave scrawlings from one caveman to another. The first complains that hunting mammoth is completely unfair and it’s impossible to move out of the way in time when they try to crush you. The reply is short, merely indicating that he should try getting good at it.
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Mar 7, 2022 23:22
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The SA forums surviving for a thousand years, even partially, would be an insanely enormous boon to those historians if we're still around doing history. Imagine getting market gossip instead of only glorious biographies, diss tracks of the people with glorious biographies, religious philosophy, and maybe a letter. Imagine getting 10000000000000x as much talk about X event as we currently get. I'd drop my life savings and sell my cat to get a recording of SA but it's the Marius-Sulla feud period as talked about by commoners everywhere in the empire. What was their closest equivalent to DBZ?
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Mar 7, 2022 23:57
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“They were a strange people, for whom it seems stairs had some sort of deep ritual importance”
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I believe these people were what were called "losers"
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Mar 8, 2022 00:21
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Guyver posted:Why do you assume dirt farmers are stupid? Well you're the one who said nothing of value was lost. So why do you think they are?
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The go-onslaw u-ldedgay venerated many spirits but the greatest fell into seven categories: The four allies: A'aanimay, Bisi o Gey-ming, Baying Geigh Do-Krame, and Lyst The two foes: Dayundarzh and Seihir-kes-spammu The one: fyad It is suspected that their greatest tenets are what gave us so much of their culture: isolation to dark places to commune with the gods at their alters, and absolute celibacy so as to devote everything. They were preserved, and had few connections to drive them from their holy places as climatepocalypse reigned on the surface. Together the schools of the seven great gods gave rise to the distinct cult's sevenfold glyph, so well-known to layman and archaeologists alike 
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Little is known about their gods, the specifics of the pantheon seeming to have been in constant flux, but among what appears to be their chief deities mention can often be see of a great goat-god that nevertheless had the body of a man.
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Mar 8, 2022 01:38
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There are legends of numerous trickster spirits impersonating the god, but they can always be identified by a wise man who knows to look for the sacred ring that only the true divinity possessed.
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Mar 8, 2022 01:41
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Ancient forum texts speak of a mysterious self abasement ritual that involves carrying a device called a printer to a woman's house. The purpose of this is not known, except that anthropologists can conclude that it was not a fertility rite.
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Mar 8, 2022 01:50
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christmas boots posted:(Yes yes library of congress etc) Jokes on you, libraries cant gently caress
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Mar 8, 2022 01:59
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Atticus_1354 posted:Well you're the one who said nothing of value was lost. So why do you think they are? Why would I need scrolls from the hellenistic to tell me about dirt farmers when we have perfectly good ones now?
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Mar 8, 2022 02:22
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It is suspected that their greatest tenets are what gave us so much of their culture: isolation to dark places to commune with the gods at their alters, and absolute celibacy so as to devote everything. Consider the fable of the man and his printing press - he toiled in the hot summer sun to deliver it into a maiden, only to be struck with terror at the sight of her undergarments. The maiden and her beau enjoyed the fruits of the man’s labor and laughed at his plight. The moral? Pledge not your heart and soul for another, lest you carry a heavy load across the land.
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The significance of the ring is unknown, though it is noticeably missing in several of the carvings.
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Goatse is funny, making hilarious jokes about goatse is lovely poo poo.
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Mar 8, 2022 06:42
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Shakespeare's comedies are loving terrible. The only decent parts of any Shakespeare comedy is when a goofy character gets to do goofy poo poo, like Dogberry or Bottom. Otherwise it's all just mistaken-identity, bedtricks, and people generally just being oblivious and dumb. They're not funny. Also: Edgar Allen Poe's comedies are not funny! His comedies are as though the pun had just been discovered and he wanted to capitalize on it. Professor Tarr and Doctor Feather?? That story where he literally loses his breath? Jesus loving christ. Absolutely love both writers' non-comedic stuff though. Oh yeah, and also, The Importance of Being Ernest. Why does every community theatre need to do this play twice a year? Goddammit there are better Wilde plays than this. Oohh but I MUST marry a man who is Earnest but what if he isn't ERNEST you know this word EARNEST SOUNDS LIKE THE NAME ERNEST Not one joke about nests in ears, though 
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We should judge old comedies less harshly because weed hadn’t been invented yet, so they couldn’t have known what could be funny or not.
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The Importance of Being Earnest is pretty funny though, even though the pun is probably the weakest joke
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Scrollschat: The lack of written records is why you think ancient civilizations were basically automoton cavemen. Modern humans have been around for 200,000 years, and they were probably smarter than us because their brains weren't rotting from childhood. Pre-agrarian humans probably had more leisure time than us too
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A goon, IT project manager and proud socialist: Heh, why would I care what ignorant peasant dirt farmers think about anything 
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Mar 8, 2022 22:53
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Socialists being condescending and ignorant of the labor classes is hardly unique to goons.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Scrollschat: The lack of written records is why you think ancient civilizations were basically automoton cavemen.
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nothing to learn about them from stuff they wrote down eh
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Mar 8, 2022 23:37
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Guyver just doesn't want anyone to see the scrolls since the ancient dirt famers got his rear end and wrote something absolutely devastating about him in there.
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You'd learn plenty but it's worthless.
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Mar 8, 2022 23:39
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Gaius Marius posted:Socialists being condescending and ignorant of the labor classes is hardly unique to goons. Yeah it's specific to Americans.
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Quite the display of logical fallacies, for certain. The fact is that we don't presently have those texts, so any value we could gain from them (including no value) is entirely speculative. On the other hand, we can learn about the topics of those texts from the catalog of the library and other references. While I'm no historian, there should be surviving works that suggest or reference some of that content. Do not conflate the lack of documents now with missing documents then. For example, there's no way to disprove that all Egyptian ideas were direct copies of an earlier collection of texts or stories. This suggests some influence on ancient civilizations by prehistoric man, but it's hard to judge the worth of texts, stories, songs, or artifacts, without a measurable correlation between those things or a written record of their worth at the time. Considering the business of the Internet is porn, a 57 volume of ancient gods' orgies would probably sell well.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah it's specific to Americans. so do you make other kinds of posts or, like richard ayoade, do you just make the same one over and over again?
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christmas boots posted:so do you make other kinds of posts or, like richard ayoade, do you just make the same one over and over again? The guy is obsessed with americans I think, without exaggeration, over half his posts are about america Waking up in the morning seething about americans Imagine reading moby dick but the pequod is a computer desk, ahab is a fat guy somewhere in east britain, and the white whale is a nebulous half-formed idea of a nation thousands of miles away
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He's from Sweden
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That's what I said
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I'm never wrong tho.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm never wrong tho. As an American, I hereby formally acknowledge the correctness of most of the slams and jokes at our expense. But I also, as an American, retain the right to suddenly succumb to an attack of patriotism and call in an airstrike on 3D Megadoodoo's last known location.
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Gaius Marius posted:He's from Sweden Oh, that makes sense then
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The world should be a kinder place and it is upsetting that we are told to suck it up and deal with it, instead of demanding that things get easier for other people alongside ourselves.
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Josef bugman posted:The world should be a kinder place and it is upsetting that we are told to suck it up and deal with it, instead of demanding that things get easier for other people alongside ourselves. all part of God's great plan
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hawowanlawow posted:all part of God's great plan Stuff like this also feels unfair. I wish I could see things how religious people do.
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You can! Just attribute actionable disparity to unactionable concepts to reconcile why good things don't happen. Can't do the good thing until the intentionally vaguely defined concept is solved. Boom, clear concience
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