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This is a rip off of the story "Ed" told in the TV show "Northern Exposure", but it has always been one of my favorites from that show.

sharkjacobs 3y ago
I don't know exactly when that episode of Northern Exposure aired but this story dates back to 2nd century BCE[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse
- wpietri 3y ago
  That only shows how wily the Chinese are about IP theft, building time-viewing technology 2,000 years ago so that they could rip off American pop culture. Especially clever of them to steal things that sound like ancient parables and plant them in ancient times.
  - keepamovin 3y ago
    That's pretty funny! Thanks for the laugh :)
- tivert 3y ago
  > I don't know exactly when that episode of Northern Exposure aired but this story dates back to 2nd century BCE[1] > [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse That Wikipedia page was created in 2020. Northern Exposure predates that. Going with the OP's theme: if we repeat the GP's comment enough times, over a long enough period, we can change history and then history would really show it to have originated from the "story "Ed" told in the TV show 'Northern Exposure.'"
notacoward 3y ago
Maybe you shouldn't have used "rip off" unless you were absolutely sure that you had the relationship the right way around. And it seems you didn't. There's a lesson to be learned there.
- mega_dingus 3y ago
  Maybe
Etheryte 3y ago
Taoism has its root run back to at least the 4th century BCE, and quite possibly earlier. Even though this specific telling is probably considerably newer, it carries motives that are very common in Taoism in general. Claiming that the story is then a rip-off from a TV show from the 90s is... Well, it's possible, but not very likely.

sharkjacobs 3y ago

I don't know exactly when that episode of Northern Exposure aired but this story dates back to 2nd century BCE[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse

wpietri 3y ago
That only shows how wily the Chinese are about IP theft, building time-viewing technology 2,000 years ago so that they could rip off American pop culture. Especially clever of them to steal things that sound like ancient parables and plant them in ancient times.
- keepamovin 3y ago
  That's pretty funny! Thanks for the laugh :)
tivert 3y ago
> I don't know exactly when that episode of Northern Exposure aired but this story dates back to 2nd century BCE[1] > [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse That Wikipedia page was created in 2020. Northern Exposure predates that. Going with the OP's theme: if we repeat the GP's comment enough times, over a long enough period, we can change history and then history would really show it to have originated from the "story "Ed" told in the TV show 'Northern Exposure.'"

notacoward 3y ago

Maybe you shouldn't have used "rip off" unless you were absolutely sure that you had the relationship the right way around. And it seems you didn't. There's a lesson to be learned there.

mega_dingus 3y ago
Maybe

Etheryte 3y ago

Taoism has its root run back to at least the 4th century BCE, and quite possibly earlier. Even though this specific telling is probably considerably newer, it carries motives that are very common in Taoism in general. Claiming that the story is then a rip-off from a TV show from the 90s is... Well, it's possible, but not very likely.