Someone just asked me a question that really managed to get me thinking....

Exactly how much do we really know about life and the world around us?

1500 years ago, everyone knew that the earth was the center of the universe and that all the sun, moon, and all the stars in the heavens all rotated around it. This was common knowledge that was taught in all the schools and universities, and even the most advanced minds knew this as an absolute fact...until further reasearch later on proved this to be wrong.

1000 years ago everyone knew that the world was flat. This too was common knowlege that was taught in all the schools and universities throughout the known world. Many sailors feared to sail too far out to sea from fear of falling over the edge and into infinity. This was a fact that was known to one and all in the civilized world.. until further reaserch later on proved this to be wrong.


Now.. given this information, imagine that someone in our society today managed to develop a time machine. A machine that was designed to travel 1000 years into the future. Once a time traveler from our day in age reached this point in our future, imagine how much information about the world we know today as fact.. will be proven to be wrong. :(

Quote: Knowledge is infinite. The more we learn, the more we relize just how ignorant we really are - Albert Einstien

I think about this all the time, in away it is a curse, because it causes everything to be questioned. In another way it is very good because it has taught me to try and keep an open mind.

Yes, that's true.

Personally I would rather go BACK in time than go foreward.
It'd be nice to finally solve some of the world's mysteries....like, who was Jack the Ripper?

Originally posted by rendova
, who was Jack the Ripper?

He was a potato farmer from Utah, he had 10 wifes and 39.5 children, this in turn caused him to go nutz. He moved but it didn't help he still had to pay child support, so he went on a killing spree. Allthough it didn't help with his finance it did help relieve pressure. :D

LOL, you've SOLVED it!!
Detective, my hat is off to you!!!:)

Now they need to make a movie about this....like there hasn't been a million movies about Jack already.

Did you hear that some people think he was the Queen's grandson??

To say that everyone knew the earth was flat is not quite correct, but I know what you mean. Here is an interesting link summarizing beliefs of the ancient Greeks:

http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit2/measearth.html

You're right, Sedan. Most educated people knew the earth wasn't flat. They were even able to calculate its circumfrence with a fair degree of accuracy.

Remember Woody Allen's film, Sleeper in which scientists had discovered that smoking was good for you.

LOL, who could forget the Orgasmatron?

I never forget the orgasmatron. All hail the orgasmatron.

Sleeper was made when Woodey Allen was still funny and not pretentious. He had some really funny movies; Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex, Sleeper, Bananas, even, Zelig.

"Make everything as simple as possible. Not simpler."--diss, from some Einstein who, despite all his "space is curved" shit never wuz able ta invent the hoola hoop...



:(

The Hula Hoop Song by Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs 1958

Hula hoop, hula hoop, anyone can play the hula hoop
Hula hoop, hula hoop, anyone can play from three to a hundred and ten

hoop-hoop hoop-hoop
hoop-hoop hoop-hoop

From LA to New York, from Georgia to Duluth
Everyone is playing with the hula hoop
ared ones and the green ones, yellow, white, and blue

Young and old, rich or poor, are spinning them, too

Hula hoop, hula hoop, everyone is playin with the hula hoop
Look at them spin, trying to win
Anyone can play from three to a hundred and ten
hoop-hoop hoop-hoop
hoop-hoop hoop-hoop

Oh, what fun to see them run and to see them play
Tryin to keep the hula hoop from, ah, slippin away Now if they flop when they should sway, it would fall to the ground
Then again, once again, the hoop spins around
and round

Hula hoop, hula hoop, everyone is playin with the hula hoop
Look at them spin, trying to win
Anyone can play from three to a hundred and ten
hoop-hoop hoop-hoop
hoop-hoop hoop-hoop

Hula hoop, hula hoop, everyone is playin with the hula hoop
Look at them spin, trying to win
Anyone can play from three to a hundred and ten
hoop-hoop hoop-hoop

hoop-hoop hoop-hoop

Strangely, I find the song relevant to the thread. So much has changed just within our lifespans I can't imagine what people 500 years from now will think of us.

I waas fifteen when the Hula Hoop became popular and I loved it. It caused girls to sway their hips and gyrate in a sexual fashion and I just sat and watched and watched and lusted and lusted. Then some old lady would try and destroy the mood.

There's SOME who might ENTERTAIN havin' sex with an ol' lady gyratin' a hewla hewp...



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By the by, I couldn't but HELP THINK what diss thread might be all about before I dove in?



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