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To: Texas Fossil

So much for *ignorant* ancient peoples.

they put us to shame continually what with what they were able to do without the technology and heavy equipment we depend on so highly.

2 posted on 04/09/2023 11:40:17 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)

3 posted on 04/09/2023 11:42:34 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)

4 posted on 04/09/2023 11:47:56 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)

I know someone into that who Ancient Alien thing. Seeing the old stone structures, Pyramids, etc. they conclude people back then could not have done it.
I keep telling them they cannot fathom how intelligent and ingenious they were.

It’s an insult to those peoples to conclude that a flying saucer must have showed up and done it for them.

6 posted on 04/09/2023 11:53:11 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)

"So much for *ignorant* ancient peoples."

The assumption of ignorance in ancient people is a characteristic of an unenlightened society. We have a bad habit of dismissing tradition that may have arisen for legitimate reasons.

33 posted on 04/09/2023 1:40:46 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)

they put us to shame continually what with what they were able to do without the technology and heavy equipment we depend on so highly.

There was a sci-fi writer a while back, wish I could remember his name, might have been Asimov, who wrote an entire story based on this. The idea was that with too much stuff available, people had a harder time finding good solutions because they were trying to incorporate all the things they had into their solutions rather than limiting it to only what was necessary.

The first example was an experiment where people were stuck on one side of a room with an electrified floor and had two planks, a length of rope, and some other stuff to construct something to allow them to get across within a time limit. Everybody spent so much time trying to make shoes or something out of both boards that they failed the time limit, except the one guy who ignored the second board, attached the rope to the one board and bunny-hopped his way across. It was a better solution hidden by the overabundance of other resources.

Anyway, just a random recollection spurred by your comment.

36 posted on 04/09/2023 1:55:27 PM PDT by fr_freak

1900 years is a long time. What happened to all of the other Roman concrete?

44 posted on 04/09/2023 2:38:08 PM PDT by Vermont Lt

They were as modern then as we are today, but without refrigeration or air conditioning. Imagine.

55 posted on 04/09/2023 5:27:17 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)

58 posted on 04/09/2023 7:22:39 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)

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