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That’s an incredible verse: we underestimate the wisdom of the ancients sometimes.

• telchior 5y ago
  On the contrary, it's incredibly common for people to want to believe that the ancients were somehow better or wiser than we are, or marvel over supposedly impossible feats (see: pyramids, Greek fire, occasionally semi-correct guesses about the nature of the universe). They were just people like us; right sometimes, wrong much more often, but in their case, lacking the tools to verify most ideas.
• coffeefirst 5y ago
  This is downvoted but it's also true. It's really impressive what they were able to build and figure out with the tools available too them. (This isn't a great example, but let's put that aside.) Now, they also believed the mind was porous and spirits could flow in and out of your head, that you could predict the future by looking at bird patterns, and other nonsense. But then again, have you talked to any Wellness enthusiasts lately? So yeah, this is pretty cool, but it's also a warning. Everything people did a few centuries or a millennia ago is still in human nature.