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What if everything we’re “discovering” and “inventing” now was already known many thousands of years ago? We’re just re-doing what has already been done.

Super article!

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I wonder about that often. If old discoveries or technologies are being "dripped" into reality and everything is simply repeated as in a cycle of civilizations, like wiping and rewriting a hard drive over and over again.

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Or different civilizations rose, became technologically advanced then fell off?

Sumerian texts told of highly advanced scientific methods and known cosmology that we only “discovered” in the last couple centuries. Ancient Egyptian back to Mesopotamian scripts talk of history before the pyramids. Romans did brain and cataract surgeries, never mind their indoor plumbing and heating.

All makes me go hmmm. And read more!

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Damn I wish we could edit replies!!! Or I should stop replying on my phone where I can't see what was written above....

Instead of "or different civilizations..." it should read "yes! Agree with the notion of different civilizations...."

"Like wiping and rewriting a hard drive over and over again". :)

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