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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

PRESERVE ANCIENT LITERATURE

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PRESERVE ANCIENT LITERATURE

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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    In their haste to preserve the scrolls, they tip over some oil lamp and… 🔥

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      It had to happen, because it did happen.

      Unless we’re playing by Back To The Future rules, in which case … I dunno man, whatever gets him to not hook up with his mom.

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    Maybe that’s why so few books survived the fire.

    They were brought to the future and we are in the in between time. * X files music*

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    And they’re mostly versions of people shiting on copper vendors (expanded universe).

  • Lyre@lemmy.ca
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    I appreciate that you have removed gender stereotypes from this meme format

    • Karjalan@lemmy.world
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      Was just about to say this. It’s wild and sad how often it is “women lame. Man smart, strongk” with this format.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        I took most of those as “woman reasonable, men weird”.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      Regular people bad

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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        Regular people bad

        This but unironically

        • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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          The world is far too normal and it’s a travesty. Everyone should be weirder. Go goth! Start a religion! Invent a new gender! Learn everything there is to know about trains. Normal sucks.

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            Goths are pretty normal, they just like a certain music and/or fashion style.

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        I mean, it’s better than women bad, isn’t it?

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    Go grab those Mayan codices before the Spanish could burn them. Hundred of years of history lost, all because of Christian superstition.

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    Someone needs to take out Machiavelli or otherwise prevent him from writing The Prince while we’re in the past. Might not do anything but it could fix a lot if it does

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      Nah, The Prince is just basic government theory.

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        Yes. I read The Prince and I think Machiavelli’s reputation as malevolent and scheming is undeserved. Perhaps he shocked the sensibilities of some by saying the quiet part out loud, but it would be foolish for either a ruler or his subjects to be unaware of that quiet part due to misplaced idealism. This remains true in the present day.

        Edit: I assume that you know this, but I thought that a reply to you was a good place to say it to others.

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      deleted by creator

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    their

    \sigh

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    First stop, Nalanda university. It’s said that when the Mongols burned it, it didn’t stop for a month.

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      Imagine the size of its knowledge base, considering most of its learnings were passed down orally as was the custom of the time in the subcontinent?

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        I don’t wanna :(

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    The Chronicles of St. Mary’s is an entire series of historians “investigating historical events in contemporary time.” Don’t call it time travel. They don’t like that term.

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    So now we know how the library of Alexandria got burnt.

  • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world
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    Why hurry? Why not go back a month or more before the fire to give youself time?

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      You’re still limited by your own lifespan. There’s A LOT of lost knowledge.

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    I would want to see Shakespeare’s lost plays. Though most likely I’d see every Marx brothers performance.

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    Get to da choppa!

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    Or you could just actually observe history as it happened

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