There’s an old saying that I believe was coined around 18BC,
which is especially cool seeing as coins hadn’t been invented yet, and this
saying was on my mind all day today, even though my mind isn’t old, unless you
are comparing it to a day spa, which obviously hasn’t been there very long at
all, you know cause so many of them open I assume the old ones go away:
‘You can train someone to build trains, but you can’t build
someone to train builds’.
I have always loved this quote. Not just because it proves the
ancient Babylonians predicted the invention of the train. Nor because it proves
that the ancient Babylonians knew that when trains were eventually invented
people could be trained to build them. Which is in itself an amazing insight.
But what makes me really love this quote is that it proves that the Ancient
Babylonians also accurately predicted the lack of invention of builds. That’s
incredible.
I mean think about it. Anyone can predict stuff that will one
day definitely be invented, watch I’ll do it now:
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Flying submarines.
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Swimming airplanes.
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Marineplane Flys.
That’s easy.
But try coming up with something that will definitely never be
invented, it’s tough, watch I’ll do it now:
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Humans made out of abandoned carnivals.
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Really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, salty snot.
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Stanauption.
Will those all definitely never ever be invented? Who the hell
knows? I don’t know what future humans will be made of? But I’m sure we’ll run
out of skin, blood, bones and pig hearts eventually. I don’t know how much salt
people are snorting these days? But I am sure however much people are doing the
salt is really, really salty. And what even is stanauption? It could be
anything. It could even be an alternative to day spas, which will really make
most of them younger than my mind older than them.
Yep, ancient Babylonians, they sure knew what they were doing.
Ps. if stanauption ends up being an alternative to coins, I
totally want a cut.
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