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2012-10-22 06:15 4176825 Anonymous (11.jpg 1024x609 82kB)
Does anyone else ever think about how long their digital trail will last? Their physical trail? And how much of it? What if, a thousand years from now, they see your name in some records. And they pause, and think for a second. And they realize that this name represents a person. Someone who actually lived, who experienced the joy and heartache and terror and contentedness of that life, who went to bed countless nights and woke up countless mornings and went about their countless days, until one day one of those things didn't happen. For a split-second, they see your name and they see your life. How does that make you feel? Surprisingly enough, inspired by pic related

1 min later 4176842 Anonymous
>>4176825 all those dead accounts on facebook man. that creeps me out most of all.

1 min later 4176843 Anonymous
They only see the mask and not the real thing.

2 min later 4176847 Anonymous
I don't see happening right now with people who lived decades before me. Only the names of the famous people remain, for peasants like myself I doubt that my tril will last more than 3 minuets after the last person who knew me dies

5 min later 4176880 Anonymous
>>4176825 Well, the question is: did you ever felt that for someone who lived a thousand years ago ? Their lives were quite different, and I bet it will be quite different also in a thousand years. I personally don't feel i have something in common with the ancient Greeks... But I guess there is a few people that will greatly marked the history of men, and I believe it will not be hte good ones... I think Hitler for instance will remembered a looong time.

6 min later 4176896 Anonymous
>>4176847 But Zyzz lives on!

9 min later 4176924 Anonymous
Damn, OP, that gave me a hard feel. I've never paused to consider that. So interesting. I've never even seen living people in that way. I think you just made me develop some empathy.

10 min later 4176932 Autharitus
>>4176843 There is no real thing. Reality is what we perceive, i.e the mask.

10 min later 4176935 Anonymous
God sees everything, OP. For every action you will be held to account. I am fully aware that not only God sees, but at the end of time EVERYONE will see that I have spent years fapping to fantasies of being turned into a human pony and ridden around and brutalised, and finally cannibalised by females. All that matters is that you do the right thing from this point on.

15 min later 4176979 Anonymous
>tfw my children will track down my history fucking hate cached pages, last thing i need is my tech savvy grandkids and children looking up my past deeds daddy this post says you liked pegging your ass wtf?

16 min later 4176999 Anonymous (1346794263153.jpg 2300x2300 412kB)
>>4176935 >God Really now?

20 min later 4177025 Anonymous
>>4176825 I think about this all the time. I explored an abandoned zoo on Belle Isle yesterday and kept thinking about that as I was investigating all the crap everywhere trying to figure out how it fits together/how it got that way.

25 min later 4177082 OP here
>>4176880 I have. It's sobering. There was this one thing, a dude from medieval Europe who'd doodled on the inside of his book. It was something like a stick figure of himself shooting a bullseye or swinging a sword or something. That half-minute, half-minded exercise is all we know of this person, and yet we know that they must have lived a decade and a half, maybe more, at that point, and probably years longer. A full life. And I'm black. So I wonder what kind of life my ancestors lived. It's crazy. You want to reach out and touch them, bridge that connection across eons through your common humanity. Then again, we're products of our eras, and nothing more.

29 min later 4177112 Anonymous
>>4177082 >And I'm black. So I wonder what kind of life my ancestors lived. It's crazy. Flinging shit at each other and swinging off of trees. Same as today.

31 min later 4177131 Anonymous
>>4177082 you seem like a cool guy op. this is just a hunch, but i feel like we once met on /r9k/ and talked for a few hours on xbox live >>4177112 >>>/b/

32 min later 4177141 Anonymous (1338519644290.jpg 474x343 162kB)
>>4176935 GET A GUY OF THIS LOAD

33 min later 4177146 Anonymous
>>4177082 >And I'm black. So I wonder what kind of life my ancestors lived. Slavery.

34 min later 4177156 Anonymous
>>4177131 >stating facts makes you a kiddie that needs to go to /b/ cute

35 min later 4177167 Anonymous
>>4176880 >I think Hitler for instance will remembered a looong time. Not really, not anymore than Genghis Khan or Napoleon.

38 min later 4177196 Anonymous
>>4177167 That's a pretty good run. Shame though, he'd last longer if he raped jew whores or impanted his seed in superior German women in the breeding program.

41 min later 4177222 Anonymous
>>4177082 Well, there you are, you made me thinking OP. It shows that it is not necessarily for the greatest thing that we are going to be remembered. But sometimes little details will make our future generation to think about our lives... >>4177167 Well, we should compare the number of papers written about Hitler, and those written about Napoleon. (Although i'm pretty sure Hitler has the most). But still, Napoleon did invade half of Europe, as well as Gengis-Khan did with Asia, but Hitler did start a World War, and by his willing, killed million of innocent citizens.

42 min later 4177235 OP here
>>4177131 Unfortunately, I'm a man of limited means and, therefore, only a PS3. I have played through Journey quite a few times, though, so we might have chirped at each other once or twice. >>4177112 >>4177156 Go to bed, you have school in the morning. >>4177146 Well, yes, I knew that. Farther back. I'm almost certainly from an area of sub-Saharan Muslim scholarship. Africa before colonialism was a pretty interesting place. Before yurop dropped in, both America and Africa were more advanced, socially and economically, than they were until about 50ish years ago. The tribal paradigm we're familiar with was a Mad Max-style destruction of the existing order, as per the kind of destabilization a powerful interloper tends to bring.

46 min later 4177271 Anonymous
>>4177167 >Not really, not anymore than Genghis Khan or Napoleon. Sooooo absolutely everyone will know his name and a litany of facts about his life for the rest of time? How the fuck is that 'not really'?

49 min later 4177286 Anonymous
>>4177222 >Well, we should compare the number of papers written about Hitler Unfair comparison, think about the availability of media during both person's tenures. Napoleon was the 1800's "Hitler", there was also a World War (mainly because the world was Europe) >but Hitler did start a World War, and by his willing, killed million of innocent citizens. Even if the Holocaust is true, it pales in comparisons to Genghis Khan's atrocities.

50 min later 4177296 Anonymous
>>4177271 Maybe I misunderstood the post I quoted, but the way Hitler is demonized now and has a billion tv shows about him everyday probably won't be the case in 50 or so years when no one will even care.

52 min later 4177316 Anonymous
>>4177235 >can only resort to insults Stop making blacks look bad.

53 min later 4177326 Anonymous
>>4177286 >the availability of media during both person's tenures That's why I took papers, there were both available at the time, plus there's the common period from 1945 to today were anyone can write about any of those two. >Even if the Holocaust is true You really are going to doubt it ? >Genghis Khan's atrocities He is mainly "famous" for burning everything to the ground after his passage. The rest of the atrocities were awfully common for the I'm afraid. In terms of death, Hitler and Gengis-Khan can't really compare.

54 min later 4177330 Anonymous
>>4177316 hahah holy fucking shit man, that's the worst post i've ever seen on 4chan. haha, oh wow. >>>/b/ seriously this time.

55 min later 4177346 Anonymous
>>4177235 How have you played Lost Odyssey if you have no 360?

58 min later 4177371 OP here
>>4177346 My friend had it. I really liked the ad for it, and some of the music I found on Youtube, but I never really got to play it myself. I watched a few of the text stories of Kaim's life, though. Manly tears. >>4177316 >Insulting black people >Complaining about receiving insults in kind You are a bad troll and you should feel bad. Away with you.

59 min later 4177381 Anonymous
>>4177330 >butt frustrated monkey chimps out

1 hours later 4177390 Anonymous
>>4177371 Well what in the fuck did you think your ancestors were doing? Being useful? Africa is a god forsaken wasteland

1 hours later 4177411 Anonymous
>>4177381 i'm white, killa.

1 hours later 4177449 Anonymous
>>4177326 >You really are going to doubt it ? Depends what version of it you are speaking of. Many crimes the Germans allegedly committed against jews were also attributed to them in WW1, including the six million figure Except no one really cared >He is mainly "famous" for burning everything to the ground after his passage. The rest of the atrocities were awfully common for the I'm afraid. So putting a region into the dark ages for 700-800 years is a common atrocity (Russia, the entire middle east)? Genghis Khan, unlike Hitler, personally participated in slaughter and other more "festive" atrocities. Read more about the mongol horde, it wasn't just burning everything down in their path (such comments indicate a lack of knowledge in a particular subject). They couldn't have managed such a wide and complex tribute system if they burned everything down. Also keep in mind the world populations for that time, Genghis Khan's horde killed almost 40 million people, which relatively pales in comparison to the entire losses of WW2 (this includes Stalin's atrocities); 2.2% vs ~11%

1 hours later 4177468 OP here
>>4177381 You really do need to go to bed. I'm ignoring you now. >>4177390 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kingdoms_in_pre-colonial_Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu Contrary to popular belief, history is not just Rome -> Dark Ages -> Enlightenment -> Murrika. All kinds of cool and crazy shit was happening everywhere. I tend to drift to Africa for obvious reasons, but I hear East Asian history is a clusterfuck of awesomely epic proportions. And of course, we know almost nothing about the development of North American civilization. We know they had huge cities, complex social systems, trade, etc, and not much else. Anyone who could tell us is dead.

1 hours later 4177476 Anonymous
>>4177468 >You really do need to go to bed. I'm ignoring you now. I just got up, chimp.

1 hours later 4177488 Anonymous
>>4177468 quit being a dick OP

1 hours later 4177498 Anonymous
>>4177235 I hope you realize that slavery doesn't = Europeans. Arabs were enslaving blacks for thousands of years, and they still do. Most sub Saharan "empires" were built off trade with Arabs.

1 hours later 4177705 OP here
>>4177498 Plantation-style slavery is a Western invention. I do know about the Arab slave trade; it was brutal in its own way, but not based so strictly on heredity and whatnot (no Curse of Ham moral justification). I don't know why you put "empires" in quotes; they were empires in every sense of the word. I know people look at Rome or Great Britain as the preeminent examples of the concept of an empire, but that's very much like saying the sales of CoD or Halo are the best examples of FPS sales, period. Most are smaller and somewhat short-lived.

1 hours later 4177778 Anonymous
>>4177705 They are in quotes because they were trading centers for the arabs and failed to accomplish much on their own.

1 hours later 4177816 OP here
>>4177778 But they also maintained some amount of military leverage and cultural and economic hegemony over the areas within their purview. Hence, empire.

1 hours later 4177942 Anonymous
I think in the future finding old harddrives and digging through them to see what's on them will be a popular hobby >some guy's face 100 years from now when he finds 500GB of anime and hentai on my old HD from the early 2000s

2 hours later 4178025 Anonymous (bluh.png 207x202 88kB)
>>4177942 You forgot your face. I've provided a suitable alternative.

2 hours later 4178035 Anonymous
>>4177942 >assuming it will last long enough on magnetic support Obviously, this is something we need to worry about

10 hours later 4180678 Anonymous
>>4178035 of course, it's a virtual hard drive.created in the great archiving of 2060.

12 hours later 4181206 Anonymous (ted-bundy-06.jpg 595x682 111kB)
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER! FOR-E-EV-ER-R-R-R....!

12 hours later 4181383 Anonymous
OP is a redditfag and a nigger. All his opinions are null and void

13 hours later 4181896 Anonymous
>>4177816 Hence why I put it into quotes, they are technically an empire but in the traditional sense, they are not.

13 hours later 4181934 OP Here
>>4181896 But they are in the traditional sense, too. They just don't rival the top 10-ish empires, which are outliers. More analogies: it's like saying basketball players exhibit "traditional human height."

15 hours later 4182960 Anonymous
>>4181934 But they aren't. They are over-glorified arabic trade centers.

17 hours later 4184002 OP Here
>>4182960 But they were. I don't understand why everyone has this intense desire to deny that Africa had legitimate civilization. What do you lose in that characterization?

17 hours later 4184020 OP Here
>>4182960 And Songhai was not Arab. It was Muslim, but it was ruled and populated by sub-Saharan Africans.

17 hours later 4184043 Anonymous
>>4184020 > Muslim That just proves it was a trading center for Arabs. >>4184002 Because they only discovered things such as windmills and the wheel very recently.

18 hours later 4184825 OP Here
>>4184043 I can't tell if you're stupid or prideful. Half of western -- as in, sub-Saharan -- Africa is Muslim. But they're black, and they have been for millennia. Just like Southeast Asia isn't suddenly Arab just because they're Muslim too.

23 hours later 4187392 Anonymous
>>4184825 You stupid nigger, if you have problems understanding that the sub saharan nigger civilizations were used as sub saharan trade centers for the Arabs (hence the niggers became islamic) you should check your nigger privilege.

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