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re: The idea that the destruction of The Library of Alexandria set knowledge back centuries
Posted on 9/14/24 at 3:48 pm to Tiger1242
Posted on 9/14/24 at 3:48 pm to Tiger1242
I always went to the library at Louisiana College when I had to do papers in high school.
It wasn’t worth crossing the river to go to Ellick.
It wasn’t worth crossing the river to go to Ellick.
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Posted on 9/14/24 at 3:50 pm to Tiger1242
Thats why no one knows how to use tTraffic circle.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 4:48 pm to OMLandshark
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Let’s say we lost all knowledge from the internet and didn’t get the internet back for 1300 years. That’s roughly what happened there.
This is why is still have a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica from 1985, an old Gray’s Anatomy, a bunch of DVDs, and a giant record collection.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 4:51 pm to Tiger1242
Are we talking about the one in Louisiana.....or the other one in Virginia
Posted on 9/14/24 at 4:58 pm to PhillyTiger90
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You could say the Mongols destroying The House of Wisdom in Baghdad was just as destructive especially to the Middle East
Muslims have been using this as an excuse for their own backwardness for 800 years now.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 4:58 pm to OMLandshark
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Let’s say we lost all knowledge from the internet and didn’t get the internet back for 1300 years. That’s roughly what happened there.
One could only wish something like this would happen.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 5:08 pm to Tiger1242
It 100% set human intellect back hundreds of years.
We would have all of the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Plutarch, Xenophon, and hundreds of others had it not burned down
We would have all of the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Plutarch, Xenophon, and hundreds of others had it not burned down
Posted on 9/14/24 at 5:16 pm to Tiger1242
Good fiction novel mostly about the Alexandria library - this author researches her subjects meticulously.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 5:32 pm to Roaad
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Blacks were the Japanese, the first Brits, and the Vikings
Saw some people online talking about Buddha being black. Add the first Buddhists to your list
Maybe it's just anecdotal, but a lot of these claims seem to come from black people that were raised in Western nations.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 5:33 pm to BayouBlitz
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Like people who claim the original Damascus steel is better than what we have today. Dumb.
Today we have Chinese steel. You sure you want to stick with this?
Posted on 9/14/24 at 6:12 pm to Tiger1242
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The idea that the destruction of The Library of Alexandria set knowledge back centuries
Apparently there was a fire that burned down the library at the University of Alabama a while back, that was quite a tragedy as 1000s of books were lost, nearly half of which hadn’t been colored in yet.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 7:41 pm to Tiger1242
Just wait ‘til Middleton goes.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 7:48 pm to biglego
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Muslims have been using this as an excuse for their own backwardness for 800 years now.
Didn't realize you needed a library to transfer the knowledge of not fricking your sister and children.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 8:21 pm to chryso
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The Pantheon in Rome was built 2000 years ago. It has a domed roof. In the 1500s a big church was built in Florence but the domed roof was not finished for over 100 years because nobody knew how to do that any more.
This is again incorrect.
It’s not that people didn’t know how to do it, it’s that people didn’t do it for reasons of wealth, time, manpower etc…
Also, I dk how this has anything to do with the library at Alexandria, in fact it proves my point.
People don’t build domes, blame books that were destroyed in a library on a different continent than where the most famous dome was built
Posted on 9/14/24 at 8:33 pm to athenslife101
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But I don’t think it was necessarily what you’re thinking of. Like there are histories missing. And cookbooks. And travel logs. And philosophies. And some science. Things like that.
That is not my understanding - the Library at Alexandria was the centerpoint of intellectual conversation and advancement. Scribes were not that interested in documenting Aunt Judy's gumbo recipe.
It is my understanding it was more like the meeting place for the "Mensa"-equivalent and supported the documentation of their theories, conclusions, and explanations.
Posted on 9/14/24 at 9:35 pm to DiamondDog
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Didn't realize you needed a library to transfer the knowledge of not fricking your sister and children.
Exactly. Just an excuse that western apologist historians happily latch on to
Posted on 9/15/24 at 4:45 am to Tiger1242
UFND
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Posted on 9/15/24 at 6:13 am to Tiger1242
I bet some of this shite is neatly tucked away in the Vatican Archives.
Posted on 9/15/24 at 7:24 am to Roaad
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Blacks were the Japanese, the first Brits, and the Vikings Black Africans built everything, invented everything, and wrote everything. That is why Sub-saharan Africa is basically Wakanda, and not a total shithole.
The library at Alexandria was built by Egy…
Nevermind.
Posted on 9/15/24 at 7:39 am to Roaad
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Blacks were the Japanese, the first Brits, and the Vikings
Lmfao
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