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El_Johns

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13. I don't think we really know how it was when women ruled the world.

Sat Dec 28, 2013, 01:18 AM

Dec 2013

Actually, I don't think we really know much. Today I was talking to someone 20 years younger about blue laws when I was young, & everything being closed on Sunday. He basically didn't believe me. Then he said today's people (like I'm not one of today's people) couldn't live that way after I told him the slower pace of life was actually very nice.

I think our imaginings about the past are filtered through so many veils they're pretty much useless. Like the difference between imagining another country & really living there.

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Kick. nt LumosMaxima Dec 2013 #1

That second link was hard to read. Vashta Nerada Dec 2013 #2

They are the product of their culture, and almost all of the world's dominant cultures Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #6

All the world's dominant cultures whathehell Dec 2013 #8

Consider that this state of idiocy only came about after the desert god of death gained popularity. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #10

I don't think we really know how it was when women ruled the world. El_Johns Dec 2013 #13

Human beings have been in a "state of idiocy", you might say, since time immemorial whathehell Dec 2013 #15

depressing. Matariki Dec 2013 #3

That is pretty depressing. And possibly not that far off in some cases el_bryanto Dec 2013 #4

ITA. Probably similar responses would come up in many countries. nt raccoon Dec 2013 #7

this would be the point. and this would be why we discuss it. to understand it is not the monster seabeyond Dec 2013 #9

These animals won't understand it until it Ilsa Dec 2013 #5

Absoutly disgusting smirkymonkey Dec 2013 #11

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sick bastards Skittles Dec 2013 #14

That was scary treestar Dec 2013 #16