TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agoAncient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?message-squaremessage-square177fedilinkarrow-up1311arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1300arrow-down1message-squareAncient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square177fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months agoAdd to that where people thought bugs and vermin come from. Obviously they spring fully formed for dirt and muck. Even rats come from rotting grain.
minus-squareReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoSounds stupid, but not worse than tiny animals in your blood making you sick (germ theory), or basically anything from cosmology from the Big Bang to dark energy
Add to that where people thought bugs and vermin come from. Obviously they spring fully formed for dirt and muck. Even rats come from rotting grain.
Sounds stupid, but not worse than tiny animals in your blood making you sick (germ theory), or basically anything from cosmology from the Big Bang to dark energy