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whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
have you never sit with a bunch of kids in study hall? do they not draw pictures of aliens and spaceships, amongst other things?
why is it so hard to conceive that artistic people had day dreams thousands of years ago? why can't they dream of beings from somewhere else, who will cure all their ills, and take them to a better place? or perhaps the artist is a little paranoid, and sees them destroying us....
until they find an alien corpse, or a spaceship hidden in one of the pyramids....that's all any of this is to me, the fantasies of artists, and the fantasies of the people looking at that art work.
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True but those same kids have been exposed to the idea of what an alien can look like or even the idea of aliens.

Where did all the lore come from? It had to start somewhere.
 
too larry

too larry

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ttystikk said:
There's a theory that the human race had a genetic bottleneck around 75,000 years ago and that one woman has left her mitochondrial DNA in all of us.

There was an enormous caldera volcano that erupted at about the same time, leading to speculation that drastic changes in climate may have precipitated the bottleneck.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

We are apparently genetically closer to Bonobo chimpanzees than the variations that exist within some species. Yet we alone are naked. A population bottleneck would neatly explain this.
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That eruption is used for timing the migration out of Africa across India and to Australia. We were well into India by then if my memory is reliable. {which is a risky proposition}
 
Hotwired

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The only group that mattered was the alien group. They live deep in the earth now and visit us once in a while to steal our females and mate with them :blsmoke:
 
ANC

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I wonder how many times we have been hit back into the technological stone age. Or worse even where children are the only survivors and had to start their people's base with none of the knowledge gained before. Nature has a very harsh unforgiving cycle, there are parts of the deserts that are filled with the skeletons of crabs and fish and mangroves... Turns out it turns into a river delta every few thousand years.
 
too larry

too larry

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ANC said:
I wonder how many times we have been hit back into the technological stone age. Or worse even where children are the only survivors and had to start their people's base with none of the knowledge gained before. Nature has a very harsh unforgiving cycle, there are parts of the deserts that are filled with the skeletons of crabs and fish and mangroves... Turns out it turns into a river delta every few thousand years.
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I can't remember the name, but there was a Steven King novel along those lines. The oil patch was an oil patch. The folks didn't know what all the Exon tankers were for.
 
Hotwired

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I think he finished the last 3 books in a few years and released them in the early 2000's. Once I was finished I put the last book down and said I would never read him again. I was a total fan of his and he could do no wrong. Until those last three books. This is what happens when you don't take the necessary drugs to be creative anymore :blsmoke:
 
too larry

too larry

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Hotwired said:
I think he finished the last 3 books in a few years and released them in the early 2000's. Once I was finished I put the last book down and said I would never read him again. I was a total fan of his and he could do no wrong. Until those last three books. This is what happens when you don't take the necessary drugs to be creative anymore :blsmoke:
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I've tried to read a couple of his books after the hit and run. Not the same writer. I hate it for him, but I just couldn't read it.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

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Hotwired said:
Was first mentioned in Wizard and Glass. When Roland was young and his katet was sent off to another town to "investigate" the people there. They found the first oil patch and the trucks :blsmoke:
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you're right, i keep confusing the names of those books, because he's telling them about susanna
 
Hotwired

Hotwired

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
you're right, i keep confusing the names of those books, because he's telling them about susanna
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Susan Delgado. A girl with reddish hair. Can you name all the "reddish" haired girls that were ever in his books? I used to know stuff like that. Knowing King, there might be one in each, and it's usually the heroine. He also always picks the girls who play in his movies and tv shows. They almost always have reddish hair or dyed red. I'll go out on a limb and say that's why almost all his shows fail. I mean he used Traci Lords in The Tommyknockers. I only KEPT watching it because I thought I'd get to see some boobies. I was very disappointed. Not with Traci, but the whole show :blsmoke:
 
ttystikk

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ANC said:
I wonder how many times we have been hit back into the technological stone age. Or worse even where children are the only survivors and had to start their people's base with none of the knowledge gained before. Nature has a very harsh unforgiving cycle, there are parts of the deserts that are filled with the skeletons of crabs and fish and mangroves... Turns out it turns into a river delta every few thousand years.
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Civilisations have risen and fallen throughout human history. Some have fallen due to internal failures, others due to natural disasters or invasion by outsiders.

We just live in the latest one. I hesitate to say greatest because even though our achievements have allowed us to create great works, develop amazing technologies and learn about our deepest history, we seem bent on a willful refusal to learn and apply the lessons so plainly written in these discoveries.

Maybe it's a blessing to die before the end of the current civilisation. Maybe all our efforts to build a limitless future are futile against the worst impulses of human nature.

But I must spend my efforts in the attempt. Conscience would not let me rest otherwise.
 
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