[Countyline]

Quite an interesting thread. Thank you for posting it and keeping it going.

Amazing isn't it how the mist of time manages to obscure what has gone on before? We deduce so much from a few fragments and make an attempt to connect it to other surmised theories.

How can it be, we are so blind in our day to the millions, peoples, knowledge, civilizations, Gods, practices, what their fate was and what caused their demise? The past is a
huge puzzle with the majority of the pieces missing.


Do we not contrive to make things fit a preconceived hypothesis?

We place time capsules around today thinking they will be found at some future point. In the more enlightened peoples and some were truly genius; do you suppose they too left time capsules for us or future (to them) finders?

Completely fascinating.

[Tax-chick]

It's interesting not only how little we know (firmly) about the distant past, but also how little we often know about the recent past.

For example, the son of Louis L'Amour, the Western writer, is trying to write a biography of his father, but is having trouble putting together a complete narrative. There are periods of years at a time where L'Amour simply disappeared - in the South Pacific, maybe into Russia, and sometimes even in the Midwest. In the books that have been printed recently, there are notes from the son asking for information ... "He might have been here in these years, he might have been calling himself this name, or that name, I think he mentioned a ship called Something, or maybe that was later ..." And all this in the 20th century.