Wondering about shared interests

I used to have strong interests, but it’s been harder to feel connected to them in recent years.

I’d like to see if anyone else here shares them:

  • physics and cosmology
  • Linux, computers, retro computing
  • history and creativity (prehistoric humanity, Buddhist teachings, gothic/surreal art, drawing)

If any of this overlaps with what you enjoy, I’d like to know what specifically you’re focusing on within it.

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  • prehistoric humanity

    Who isn’t interested in this? I’m no expert but it’s fascinating all the same. 

  • Since it's prehistory, by definition, there's no historical record.

    Which leaves it open to interpretation and speculation based of patchy evidence. Interesting but always subject to revision.

    There's some fanciful stuff out there.

    But the antikythera mechanism, albeit not prehistory, points to more sophistication than some allow.

    People 10,000 or 50,000 were not mentally much different to now. The problem is we have issues to piece it together from what ever scraps survived.

  • That’s interesting, perhaps these ancient accounts of giants were just really tall everyday people but to the observers seemed unearthly and almost alien. I suppose when transport was limited and new cultures/civilisations met others it would have felt like they were worlds apart in some ways. 

  • If you reads some accounts from Greek and Roman sources they do mention how tall some peoples were, such as the Germanic tribes and the Scots too, even today there's a height difference between populations, with shorter people tending to come from around the southern Mediteraean and taller people from the north such as Scandinavia and Germany.

    There is a medical problem that causes people to keep groing taller, it can be treated but not I think easily.

    Many fossils were thought to be of giants, not just dinosaurs, but ice age mega fauna too.

  • I would suppose a giant would be not of this earth in terms of his or her height. If you go with the texts they were not of the highest powers creation and therefore deemed unnatural, impure, immoral and evil. The great flood was the means of mass execution for these half breeds. If the higher power created man in his image perhaps the fallen were the same, they would still need to be able to relate in some way to human beings unless they did so without emotion and only on the higher powers orders. 

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  • I would suppose a giant would be not of this earth in terms of his or her height. If you go with the texts they were not of the highest powers creation and therefore deemed unnatural, impure, immoral and evil. The great flood was the means of mass execution for these half breeds. If the higher power created man in his image perhaps the fallen were the same, they would still need to be able to relate in some way to human beings unless they did so without emotion and only on the higher powers orders. 

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  • That’s interesting, perhaps these ancient accounts of giants were just really tall everyday people but to the observers seemed unearthly and almost alien. I suppose when transport was limited and new cultures/civilisations met others it would have felt like they were worlds apart in some ways. 

  • If you reads some accounts from Greek and Roman sources they do mention how tall some peoples were, such as the Germanic tribes and the Scots too, even today there's a height difference between populations, with shorter people tending to come from around the southern Mediteraean and taller people from the north such as Scandinavia and Germany.

    There is a medical problem that causes people to keep groing taller, it can be treated but not I think easily.

    Many fossils were thought to be of giants, not just dinosaurs, but ice age mega fauna too.