I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC
"1. hujus rei gratia ego Paulus vinctus Christi Jesu pro vobis gentibus
2. si tamen audistis dispensationem gratiæ Dei quæ data est mihi in vobis
3. quoniam secundum revelationem notum mihi factum est sacramentum sicut supra scripsi in brevi
4. prout potestis legentes intellegere prudentiam meam in mysterio Christi
5. quod aliis generationibus non est agnitum filiis hominum sicuti nunc revelatum est sanctis apostolis ejus et prophetis in Spiritu
6. esse gentes coheredes et concorporales et conparticipes promissionis in Christo Jesu per evangelium
7. cujus factus sum minister secundum donum gratiæ Dei quæ data est mihi secundum operationem virtutis ejus
8. mihi omnium sanctorum minimo data est gratia hæc in gentibus evangelizare ininvestigabiles divitias Christi
9. et inluminare omnes quæ sit dispensatio sacramenti absconditi a sæculis in Deo qui omnia creavit
10. ut innotescat principibus et potestatibus in cælestibus per ecclesiam multiformis sapientia Dei
11. secundum præfinitionem sæculorum quam fecit in Christo Jesu Domino nostro
12. in quo habemus fiduciam et accessum in confidentia per fidem ejus
13. propter quod peto ne deficiatis in tribulationibus meis pro vobis quæ est gloria vestra
14. hujus rei gratia flecto genua mea ad Patrem Domini nostri Jesu Christi
15. ex quo omnis paternitas in cælis et in terra nominatur
16. ut det vobis secundum divitias gloriæ suæ virtute corroborari per Spiritum ejus in interiore homine
17. habitare Christum per fidem in cordibus vestris in caritate radicati et fundati
18. ut possitis conprehendere cum omnibus sanctis quæ sit latitudo et longitudo et sublimitas et profundum
19. scire etiam supereminentem scientiæ caritatem Christi ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei
20. ei autem qui potens est omnia facere superabundanter quam petimus aut intellegimus secundum virtutem quæ operatur in nobis
21. ipsi gloria in ecclesia et in Christo Jesu in omnes generationes sæculi sæculorum amen" Epistula ad Ephesios, 3
Some flags in the horizon, some clouds hiding and proclaiming the bright...