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NeoGreen

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Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:17 AM Apr 2019

Anachronism [View all]

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...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronism


Anachronism
An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, "against" and χρόνος khronos, "time" ) is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, or customs from different periods of time. The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a plant or animal, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period in time that is placed outside its proper temporal domain.

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Behavioral and cultural anachronism
The intentional use of older, often obsolete cultural artifacts may be regarded as anachronistic. For example, it could be considered anachronistic for a modern-day person to wear a top hat, write with a quill, or carry on a conversation in Latin. Such choices may reflect an eccentricity or an aesthetic preference.

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How anachronistic is it, in this day and age, to assume you can acquire positive/ethical morality from Bronze Age philosophies that were poorly translated and transcribed in the Iron Age and perpetually re-transcribed by hand during the Dark Ages?

How long will it be until that cultural norm goes the way of chattel slavery?

How long until religion becomes a full-on cultural anachronism?
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Anachronism [View all] NeoGreen Apr 2019 OP
Are humans still humans? guillaumeb Apr 2019 #1
Citation needed. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #7
There can be no citation because the proposition is undefined. marylandblue Apr 2019 #9
It's defined implicity. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #14
Those seem undefined as well. marylandblue Apr 2019 #15
I know, right? Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #17
Perhaps for you. eom guillaumeb Apr 2019 #18
And anyone else who isn't hopelessly credulous. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #20
We do a lot of things differently than back then. marylandblue Apr 2019 #8
Your examples are poor. MineralMan Apr 2019 #10
Here's something that's different: we've learned a lot from each other. trotsky Apr 2019 #21
Well, perhaps. It's diverting to come to the Religion Group. MineralMan Apr 2019 #22
Not a well thought out response. Voltaire2 Apr 2019 #19
It is a delusion to even think that an appeal to some invisible all-powerful being that we project vlyons Apr 2019 #2
If you had enough faith, prayer would work for you. LuvNewcastle Apr 2019 #4
Faith is nothing but wishful thinking vlyons Apr 2019 #6
It's a crutch. LuvNewcastle Apr 2019 #11
I like Top Hats Cartoonist Apr 2019 #3
Indeed they do. Here's one hatmaker who offers MineralMan Apr 2019 #13
I also like Derby Hats Cartoonist Apr 2019 #16
It will probably never go away since it seems able to adapt marylandblue Apr 2019 #5
We can hope that someday it will be a vestigial tradition, like the army's sabers. Pope George Ringo II Apr 2019 #12
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