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Tue Feb-12-08 09:24 PM
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What item(s) found by distant future archeologists would most likely give a false idea of us now? |
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Just wondering...I mean, what if the only surviving record of our existence is Jack Chick tracts?
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:28 PM
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1. it'll be something plastic, or cigarette butts. those never decay. n/t |
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:29 PM
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Wed Feb-13-08 12:10 AM
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17. maybe they'll confuse the album covers with Hall and Oates n/t |
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:30 PM
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3. Bush's flight suit.... |
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:30 PM
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Seriously... what will people in the future think of these strange ring-shaped things they find with hinges on the back? :P
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:37 PM
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5. Obviously some kind of throne. |
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Made of porcelain. Possibly used as a sacrificial altar. :D
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:48 PM
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9. Motel of the Mysteries has already addressed this possibility: |
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:49 PM
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:52 PM
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11. you need to read that book, if you have not already done so. |
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:38 PM
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Tue Feb-12-08 11:43 PM
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14. Hell, shell casings, for that matter. |
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Put the two together and they'd figure it out pretty quick, though.
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:39 PM
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7. George Bush's cranium. |
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:40 PM
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They'd get a really wrong idea about religion and human behavior more generally if that's all they had to go on.
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:59 PM
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12. A friend and I had this discussion many years ago |
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Edited on Tue Feb-12-08 10:02 PM by NV Whino
In the back seat of her ancient Volkswagen were a couple of giant baby bottles. She had used them to feed some orphaned calves. We had a good laugh over what future archeologists might think finding not only the over sized baby bottles, but the funny looking car.
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Tue Feb-12-08 10:45 PM
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13. would jack chick tracts really give a false idea of us now? |
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if by "us" you mean the usa or the world as a whole as opposed to snotty elitist "us" who get a kick out of snickering at the stupid people?
the distant future archeologists are probably going to be more interested in how joe sixpack lived and his stupid shit religious beliefs than in the boring old secular humanist/atheist beliefs, i mean, we just don't have all those cool and colorful rituals
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I've often imagined the audible gasps, as they unearth the shriveled crispy mummified remains.....with perky breasts!
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