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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

So is FB getting more bonkers? I feel like the posts I've been seeing in this community have been crazier and crazier lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Love this logic....I know nothing about history except for 1492.....aliens did 911

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The oldest instances can be found with Ancent North Eurasian descendants and both Indo-Europeans and Native Americans are like 50% descended from ANE. We know that many myths have been proven to go back to them, so why not symbols too.

Memes stick around for way longer than most people think, at least when you look at it through a phylomemetic lens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

This must be the first pre-1492 photograph I've seen. OMG. The ancients ~~invented~~ were gifted photography from aliens!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cause it's an extraordinarily simple symbol that can even be found in the cross section of certain trees. Behind the Bastards did a two parter on the history of this shape and all the names it has had.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Simple symbol? What craziness are you talking about? The next thing you'll tell me is that "humans" are able to come up with a shape of a 3d triangle on their own, in different places, without extraterrestrial help.

I've only seen that kind of innovation with children playing with blocks.

/s

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Not really such a thing as a 3d triangle. The closest it would look like is a d4 dice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They mention transoceanic travel, not aliens. Their mistake is assuming the popular presentation of Columbus being the first transatlantic traveller is accepted as fact by historians.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, parallel development of the swastika as a symbol is very possible. It is also possible that individuals or small groups travelled much greater distances than we typically imagine and shared information such as symbols with others around the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

See the name of the group.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there is some unpublished study that shows that exposing people to absurd posts like this actually radicalizes them or causes them to be more susceptible to being influenced.

Are we MK ultra-liting ourselves by looking at all of this stupidity? I don't know, but I think it's possible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Social media was weaponized in the 2010s and used to spread harmful social contagion ever since. I wrote my thesis on social media as a vector for radicalisation and social contagion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thesis on social media as a vector for radicalisation and social contagion? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of social media? Localized entirely within your Lemmy user?

May we see it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aside from the fact that it'd be very easy to dox this guy if they did, I too would be interested to read it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hmm, yeah hadn't thought of that part.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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What is this ancient symbol? How did so many primitive cultures without writing or trade routes or brains or cell phones create such powerful art? What alien culture could have gifted humankind with this incredible sign of divinity?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Transoceanic sea travel was in fact possible before Christopher Columbus

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

And hitler didn't invent that general symbol.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who knew that the Nazis trademarked a spiral in low res. All the way back in 7,000 BCE

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

In Minecraft no less

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nice theory, but easily debunked because there is no swastika in the last image

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for confirming my eyes. I couldn't see anything in the last image, but wasn't sure if I was just blind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Only because your eyes are biased by reality!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Then explain how food reached all the four corners and seven seas!?!!

/fin

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Questions how people on remote islands use the same symbol as in other places, doesn't question how the people got there.

Logic? Just say no!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's not even that weird a symbol for people to come up with independently. It's not as simple as a triangle, but it's still really simple. It's basically a level two shape after you use up all the basic polygons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And yet...

Edit: The last is my fav because it looks like a snake celebrating that it got arms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You are totally right, their argument has plenty of holes in it. Just pointing out the dumb "If transoceanic sea travel wasn't possible" they debunked themselves without realizing it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Preposterous. Humans are far too stupid to have come up with the triangle on their own. That's as ludicrous as thinking crabs could have evolved naturally. Sideways walking and eyes on stalks? Simple absurdity, they are clearly alien pets of some sort.