5 Ancient Predictions That Came True

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  • Опубликовано: 2 май 2024
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  • @pioneercynthia1
    @pioneercynthia1 2 месяца назад +756

    Here's a prediction: within three months, Simon will not remember covering anything he presents in this video.

    • @london5a
      @london5a 2 месяца назад +113

      That's a bald prediction

    • @alangknowles
      @alangknowles 2 месяца назад +28

      That long?! I'll give it a week.

    • @calvinthurston1441
      @calvinthurston1441 2 месяца назад +46

      3 weeks tops! Plus we get a 5 minute tangent about how he vaguely remembers this over on brain blaze!

    • @MrTryAnotherOne
      @MrTryAnotherOne 2 месяца назад +9

      That's okay as long as we remember it.

    • @moffjerjerrod1579
      @moffjerjerrod1579 2 месяца назад +26

      Three hours because he will have finished two other videos

  • @johnkacin1500
    @johnkacin1500 2 месяца назад +94

    I have said this before. But i watched a PBS documentary on The Ice Man many years ago that stated.."That the same mind that could envision a bronze axe could also create a modern computer board". They were not stupid. They just did not have the technologies available to show that they were as smart as us.

    • @kellidinit3725
      @kellidinit3725 2 месяца назад +4

      Historians have never implied they were.

    • @Maibuwolf
      @Maibuwolf 2 месяца назад +10

      Another important thing to consider is just how much we can specialize now. The more successful a society is the more of its population can be specialized workers doing things like experiments or philosophy or whatever. The further back in time you go the more time people had to devote to just simply surviving. Societies change that. You can be a carpenter and just go buy food. Back then though they would have most likely had to do their day job then still commit a lot of time at home to survival. It has a compounding effect. The more they can specialize the faster everything improves. Which leads to yet more specialization and so on.
      No telling how many humans could have been brilliant scientist but lived in a hunter gather tribe and never had time to do much other than try to survive.

    • @feroxsayshello518
      @feroxsayshello518 2 месяца назад +2

      Or as dumb lol

    • @ashfordp676
      @ashfordp676 2 месяца назад

      They were stupid and smelled.

    • @mbisson5816
      @mbisson5816 2 месяца назад +1

      We can't make pyramids like those in Egypt without heavy equipment and steel tools. They were definitely not dumb.

  • @nbarnes6225
    @nbarnes6225 2 месяца назад +181

    It's stories like these that make me even angrier that people think ancient civilizations couldn't *possibly* build pyramids or giant cities in South America or wherever. There have always been philosophers, scientists, tinkers, and thinkers. We're not special just because we're several millenia beyond them.

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy 2 месяца назад +9

      I'm not sure what you are trying to say with "because we're several millennia beyond them." Before the Industrial Revolution, no society was particularly more advanced. Ancient Rome reached 1 million people in the first and second centuries, and no other city did until Paris, just before WW1. So, excepting the last 125 years, there was not a lot of advancement for less than 2 millennia, not "several". And there was an Ice Age 10,000 years ago which wiped out just about all evidence of previous human societies -for 190,000 years of existence. So, I guess you are right to be "angry'", but you need to figure out "several millennia" means before you complain about it.

    • @nbarnes6225
      @nbarnes6225 2 месяца назад +21

      @@squirlmy meaning that clearly people in ancient times had intelligence. Ancient Aliens people like to say "they didn't have the technology to build ____" ... meaning they think people in ancient times lacked intelligence. (And it's honestly racist most of the time.)
      Basically, it's like if people 2000 years from today looked at us and said we're too primitive to have come up with computers, so it must have been aliens.
      But I also see that you'd like to be pedantic, so here you go: The word "several" means more than two but not many. So if I meant 2k-3k years ago (which I did because that's the time frame we land in with the narratives in this video), "several millenia" is the correct phrase. Maybe double check definitions before you tell people they're wrong.
      Ps.. Population size has nothing to do with intelligence or technology. It just means there are enough resources for a given population to survive and expand.

    • @ThailandOutsider
      @ThailandOutsider 2 месяца назад

      I don't believe aliens built the pyramids, but I do believe there are structures, stories and information that is far older than is realised, and this is part of the reason why, yes we were still pretty intelligent back then, but modernly anatomical humans have been around for alot longer than even the last ice age 10/12kyo, so it seam only logical to assume we weren't sitting around banging stones for 100ky or so 🤷🏻

    • @american7169
      @american7169 2 месяца назад +7

      They could have built the pyramids or crazy polygonal walls, but as a stone mason, I can safely say they did not cut those stones using presumed tools. Zero way. The accuracy is beyond what I can produce with modern tech.

    • @user-em2pe3rf4h
      @user-em2pe3rf4h 2 месяца назад

      It wasn't ancient people who built the pyramids and such....it was totally Ancient Aliens who enslaved all bigfoots (bigfeets?) on the planet to do the labor... SCIENCE!!!!

  • @shawn445
    @shawn445 2 месяца назад +155

    As someone fighting a cold right now, i think it is little demons torturing me

    • @gbalfour9618
      @gbalfour9618 2 месяца назад

      There are little demons torturing you, but we call them viruses now.

    • @tanindunn8379
      @tanindunn8379 2 месяца назад +3

      Dude, man up. Fighting a cold...... good God, man, is your period next?

    • @shawn445
      @shawn445 2 месяца назад

      ​@@tanindunn8379I'm sorry, I'm supposed to be happy with having a hard time breathing? Come here and take my germs and you can happily suffer.

    • @shawn445
      @shawn445 2 месяца назад

      @@tanindunn8379 hey, if you want to enjoy being sick, have at it.

    • @AB-un4io
      @AB-un4io 2 месяца назад

      @@tanindunn8379 I love your manly reply!! But I gotta ask? Any hints? What do you do to deal with it when your period cramps feel as if your
      pelvic floor /abdominal wall / inner groin area is being grabbed by two giant hands and squeezed as hard as possible? You know, like while you’re at work? Say, on the phone? Do you just grin and bear it? Do you remove yourself quietly to a restroom until the pain subsides and then carry on? Do you, perhaps, just act as though nothings happening while keeping that warm, inviting, friendly smile on your face and thanking your customers for their patronage, while encouraging them to come visit you again?
      Here’s what I know to be true. Men are usually the biggest boo-hoo-er’s no matter what the injury is or what type / level of pain they’re feeling. They’re the ones that need the
      most…coddling. A man’s stomach ache is ALWAYS much more severe than a woman’s stomach ache, in my experience. I’m as old as dirt. (56 years old) Been married nearly forty years. My husband is one of nine. Seven are “boys.” And if they get a boo boo? It’s always shockingly painful and nearly lethal. 😂😂
      I’ll check back in as I’m eagerly awaiting your reply and hints so a girl can get through their day like a
      man-champ and not a
      man-child. 💁🏻‍♂️👶🏻🍼🩹🏥

  • @hizaleus
    @hizaleus 2 месяца назад +14

    The bluegreen mold that produces penicillin sometimes grows on bread, but more characteristically grows on citrus. The black mold that is the most common on bread does not produce penicillin.

    • @sydhenderson6753
      @sydhenderson6753 2 месяца назад

      The most effective strain was famously found growing on a cantaloupe.

  • @thekwjiboo
    @thekwjiboo 2 месяца назад +138

    "History is full of predictions, much like my face is full of glorious beard. Look at it. Look at the beard. Don't stop. Don't ever stop. This is your life now. Say goodbye to your friends and family, you're a Fact-Boy beard goblin now."

    • @kelleycook2627
      @kelleycook2627 2 месяца назад +1

      Simon is my fantasy football lover!

    • @GonzoTehGreat
      @GonzoTehGreat 2 месяца назад +10

      Because he's bald, when I look at him, I see a shaving brush 😁
      Now I've told you this, i bet you can't unsee it!

    • @mikekolokowsky
      @mikekolokowsky 2 месяца назад +1

      Forget the beard or the chrome dome, the glib UK accent and rapid fire delivery hooked me. I predict in less than a week, I’ll have watched no fewer than two more of Simon’s videos.

    • @blackc1479
      @blackc1479 2 месяца назад +3

      We need to make "fact boy beard goblin" known across Simon's limitless channels

    • @addicted2monster88
      @addicted2monster88 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@GonzoTehGreat You mean one of those for shaving cream?

  • @m.campbell3405
    @m.campbell3405 2 месяца назад +11

    As a father of 4 children all under 10, I can not believe that humans are capable of existing.

    • @friedrichjunzt
      @friedrichjunzt 2 месяца назад +3

      haha, its really a miracle we are here at all 😂

    • @nobodyfamousX
      @nobodyfamousX 2 месяца назад

      I cant believe women can survive the birthing process

  • @Drjtherrien
    @Drjtherrien 2 месяца назад +104

    The Hindu understanding of germ theory unwittingly contributed to the persecution of the Romani in Europe during the plague. We Romani took the Vedic concept of contamination and how to avoid it with us when we left India. It proved to be very helpful in avoiding becoming ill from the plague. However Europeans looked at the way the Romani avoided getting sick and assumed it was due to a pact with the devil.
    BTW, India had the concept that time could flow at different rates - one of the major effects of special relativity - around the same time as their concept of germ theory. It's even used as a plot device in ancient texts such as the Mahabharata.

    • @metalheadblues
      @metalheadblues 2 месяца назад +9

      Hinduism has always been intertwined with science and it's magnificent

    • @borghorsa1902
      @borghorsa1902 2 месяца назад +2

      There is a big difference between a cohesive scientific theory and an observation. Someone has to develop a system out of facts

    • @abhisheksharma-sb3er
      @abhisheksharma-sb3er 2 месяца назад +5

      It's in all human cultures, we definitely didn't understand the concept but can observe things and use our imagination to create those creatures which causes illnesses
      It's like saying single women living in the woods with lots of cats were more intelligent/scientific because cats eats rats and they didn't contract plague
      PS: read about Hiranyagarbha, he mentioned

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 2 месяца назад +3

      I believe the Jews suffered from Europeans as well. The Jews tended to follow their scriptures about keeping their place clean while Europeans didn't. Rats bred and moved around European areas more than Jewish areas, which meant less plague in Jewish areas.

    • @madgrimvicious
      @madgrimvicious 2 месяца назад +1

      where can i read more on this?

  • @michaelsriqui7898
    @michaelsriqui7898 2 месяца назад +62

    "Like most of history it did not go well for the Jews" I have never heard my people's history so succinctly yet accurately summarized 😂.

    • @eddapultstab2078
      @eddapultstab2078 2 месяца назад +15

      Most people today don't understand that until ww2 it was a cool and regular thing to pick on the jews. European history has many dots of that.

    • @jenniferj5324
      @jenniferj5324 2 месяца назад +9

      Sorry about the current college "protests"

    • @ximenam.9236
      @ximenam.9236 2 месяца назад +10

      @@jenniferj5324current protests are not against judaism. they're against the genocide being committed by zionists. be sorry for the innocent lives lost in palestine instead

    • @conscientiousobjector5988
      @conscientiousobjector5988 2 месяца назад +2

      @jenniferj5324
      Walter Guinness
      Nakba
      USS Liberty
      Yigal Amir
      "Ethiopian women in Israel"
      "Zelenskyy's Jews indigenous people of Ukraine law"
      Lebensraum
      Micah 2:2-5
      They do it to themselves. You will understand in time.

    • @conscientiousobjector5988
      @conscientiousobjector5988 2 месяца назад +2

      @eddapultstab2078
      I addressed the victimhood fallacy in a reply to another commenter.

  • @timbrumaghin
    @timbrumaghin 2 месяца назад +9

    Thanks Simon. And team.

  • @tiffanybob922
    @tiffanybob922 2 месяца назад +3

    I love your videos on all your channels. It's nice to watch someone who has like minded thinking. 😊

  • @denniswrande6004
    @denniswrande6004 2 месяца назад +1

    This was such an good video well made an informative and we have so much from the past that is not well understanded and can tell us about the world we live in.

  • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
    @ravenhill_firelord_1968 2 месяца назад +12

    friday night, drinking balieys irish whiskey cream and enjoying this video.

  • @dallingoodrich
    @dallingoodrich 2 месяца назад +3

    In regards to the "big "crunch" falling out of favor, a paper was published recently talking about how they found evidence that the acceleration of the universe has actually slowed down in recent years (cosmically speaking). Granted it's still accelerating, but at a recently slower rate

  • @outsider7658
    @outsider7658 2 месяца назад

    Hello again, the Crew and Simon.
    Enjoyable as always. Jus amazing, that You can dig up, all these facts.
    Keep them coming, we`ll wait.
    from a Finn in Diaspora

  • @gbalfour9618
    @gbalfour9618 2 месяца назад +9

    The first one with the Roman emperor could have been that with a prophecy that said he would be emperor the general could have taken tactical risks he normally wouldn’t have and those risks paid off.
    If you believe you will fail you will fail if you believe you will succeed you succeed far more often

    • @nHans
      @nHans 2 месяца назад +4

      The phrase you're looking for is *_self-fulfilling prophecy._*

  • @martinstallard2742
    @martinstallard2742 2 месяца назад +22

    0:41 the ascension of Empireor Vespasian
    3:07 the atom
    5:32 germ theory
    8:39 the big bang
    10:26 evolution

    • @lolmao500
      @lolmao500 2 месяца назад

      Who would have thought that actual predictions are based on facts and science and not religion, aka the biggest scam in human history... that people still believe in this garbage in 2024 is insane.

    • @philipliethen519
      @philipliethen519 2 месяца назад

      Thank you.

  • @string_fellow_hawk
    @string_fellow_hawk 2 месяца назад

    Good collection .

  • @Graeme_Lastname
    @Graeme_Lastname 2 месяца назад +1

    Just to let you know I really enjoy your presentations. 😀👍

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 2 месяца назад +1

    Nice introduction of informative journy through historical predictions

  • @kenbrown2808
    @kenbrown2808 2 месяца назад +4

    "only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. and I'm not certain about the universe."
    credited to einstein.

  • @charliewhiskey8440
    @charliewhiskey8440 2 месяца назад +3

    My prediction: in 5000 years' time death and tax are still the two unescapable facts of life

  • @ZealPropht
    @ZealPropht 2 месяца назад +2

    It’s so interesting how some of the ideas we subscribe to today had the seeds planted hundreds or thousands of years ago. They might not have been 💯 accurate, but it’s fascinating that early people had the concepts to begin with.

  • @kpspriggs
    @kpspriggs 2 месяца назад +5

    Heres a prediction, in 10000 years no one will believe that we believed what we believe today

    • @serfandterf
      @serfandterf 2 месяца назад +3

      Try 100 years

    • @rodshop5897
      @rodshop5897 Месяц назад

      @@serfandterf Heck, maybe 10

    • @stevenvanhulle7242
      @stevenvanhulle7242 Месяц назад

      @@rodshop5897 I can't believe that some people believe what they believe even today.

  • @Baldevi
    @Baldevi 2 месяца назад +2

    Regarding Creation Myths in Hinduism, read the Rig Veda Mandala 10, Hymn 129, known as the Creation Hymn or Song. This also states that Creation began in a Flash of heart, no mention of the Hiranyagarbha [Hiran/Hiranya = Golden, Garbha loosely means Knowledge or Knowing of "everything,] or Mundane Egg.
    The Rig Veda's chapters are called Mandalas, and the Mandalas contain "hymns" which are meant to be sung in specific metres. The Rig Veda itself is far older than 3,000 years being an Oral tradition that was not meant to be altered or edited but memorized perfectly from teacher to student, as changing it was an offense to the Deva and the Supreme Being. Even removing the religious tone from this expectation of perfect memorization, changing any hymn/verse was a signal that the person relating the vedas did not understand them, so changes would be rejected immediately, unless they could be successfully debated with peers; this was vanishingly rare in occurance.

  • @gareth461
    @gareth461 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for the warning

  • @DadKarma81
    @DadKarma81 2 месяца назад

    Simon, love you man. Respect the beard and keep doing you!

  • @andykaufman7620
    @andykaufman7620 2 месяца назад +1

    It was not dumb luck on the part of Josef. He knew the Roman leaders, and their children well, and used what we call Wisdom, experiential based insight to make what you consider a prediction of the future, but is a use of abductive logic, which is neither deductive or inductive logic, rather a third type of logic which utilizes insight. It is surprisingly effective. This is also how Leucippus constructed his Atomist view too. He did so by use of a Root Insight, similar to how Tesla came up with Alternating Current or Archimedes came up with his insightful theorems and proofs.

  • @Potato-Eye
    @Potato-Eye 2 месяца назад +3

    I predict that simon will keep saying names and words with wild disregard to how they are pronounced in his next video

  • @Cdawg6429o
    @Cdawg6429o 2 месяца назад +1

    Dude how many hours do you work a day, y’all have so much content!

  • @eddiebrown120
    @eddiebrown120 2 месяца назад +2

    It's entertainment; take it for what it's worth. Sheeeeesh!!!

  • @joshuabrooks4941
    @joshuabrooks4941 2 месяца назад

    I get it why this channel’s been so successful.It’s definitely my favorite of Simons “ boring “channels .

  • @QTGetomov
    @QTGetomov 2 месяца назад +2

    Bizarrely it was just yesterday I was thinking about Josephus' survival before being captured.
    Since suicide is forbidden, killing your friends on the orders of your commander is far favourable, so Josephus ordered every third man (or was it fifth, I forget exactly) to kill his neighbour. So was Josephus incredibly lucky to be one of the only two survivors? Or was he just very good at maths under pressure?

  • @davidashby1850
    @davidashby1850 2 месяца назад +4

    Simon needs to up his jacket game. Early af 😉

  • @Megan-sf5vf
    @Megan-sf5vf 2 месяца назад +1

    Interesting!

  • @achyutbharathkumar299
    @achyutbharathkumar299 2 месяца назад +12

    3:07 Kanada also predicted the atom about the same time, as well as molecules
    10:26: also, the Hindu Dashavataram ( the 10 incarnations of vishnu ) is ordered strikingly similarly to evolutionary paths: Fish -> Reptiles -> Mammals ( a boar ) -> Half-man/Half-beast -> dwarf man -> Man

    • @kellidinit3725
      @kellidinit3725 2 месяца назад

      Likely others as well, that we have never heard of.

  • @CyrilleParis
    @CyrilleParis 2 месяца назад +28

    You should have mentionned Jean Perrin, the French physicist who definitely proved in 1909 that the atom existed. He got a Nobel Prize for that!

    • @Richard_the_lionheart75
      @Richard_the_lionheart75 2 месяца назад

      @CherryCola55French a bit strange that lot

    • @CyrilleParis
      @CyrilleParis 2 месяца назад +3

      @@Richard_the_lionheart75 Jean is French for John, if you thing of the name Jean in English, "Jeanne" is probably the best French translation. This kind of misunderstandings is common : for example, the way you pronounce Germain is almost identical to the French Germaine which is the feminine of the masculine Germain (the last syllable of the latter is pronouced with a sound that doesn't exist in English).

  • @elektrosoundwave
    @elektrosoundwave 2 месяца назад +1

    What do you mean we will never know how the universe ends? There is a highly successful restaurant there. It ends in a gnab gib.

  • @tiffanybob922
    @tiffanybob922 2 месяца назад +7

    But but but...why would they ever even think of rubbing the moldy bread on a wound? I feel like this is the BIG question.

    • @tarajh
      @tarajh 2 месяца назад +3

      I'm glad I'm not the only one who got hung up on that!! 😂

    • @nHans
      @nHans 2 месяца назад +13

      Well, they knew that an infected wound caused almost certain death. So, faced with an infected wound, they did everything possible-they literally had nothing to lose. They tried cauterization, amputation, leeches, maggots. They also tried less extreme methods, such as poultices made of-not just mold-but also mud, ash, lye, plant sap, herbs, honey, urine, poop, ... you name it. Clearly, the patients treated with moldy bread had a higher survival rate than others, thereby reinforcing the practice.

    • @tiffanybob922
      @tiffanybob922 2 месяца назад +4

      @@nHans That does make sense. Thank you for the insight. I had never been presented it that way. I appreciate your perspective.

    • @VWHybrid
      @VWHybrid 2 месяца назад +10

      There are other possibilities as well! Bread tends to be absorbent and may, in a pinch, have been used to help stop bloodflow or seepage or as part of a poultice to help close wounds. Bread molds quickly, especially with little to no preservatives, so some of the bread may have been visibly moldy already or grew mold during its use as a poultice material. People notice that moldy bread “works better” and you could start to select for using more moldy bread over time.

    • @tiffanybob922
      @tiffanybob922 2 месяца назад

      @@VWHybrid you HAVE to be fecking me right....

  • @xJoshStrangerx
    @xJoshStrangerx 2 месяца назад +1

    I have been waiting forever for this but i was the 4800 like lets go i saw the 7 turn to a 8 WOOO! Simon love your content man keep up the work. and maybe let the editors have some fresh air from time to time 🤣🤣🤣

  • @hynol
    @hynol 2 месяца назад +3

    I would add Julius Verne predictions. A lot of them.

    • @nHans
      @nHans 2 месяца назад +5

      The video title clearly says *"Ancient,"* so Verne wouldn't qualify. However, if you're interested, there are plenty of other videos on RUclips about sci-fi predictions-including Verne's-that came true.

    • @hynol
      @hynol 2 месяца назад +1

      @@nHans You are right. I forgot about ancient part :).

  • @TexasTimeLord
    @TexasTimeLord 2 месяца назад +2

    While being burned at the stake, the leader of the Knights Templar exclaimed that the Pope and King of France (who unjustly caused his murder) would both die by the end of the year to prove his innocence. They both did.

  • @LegoDork
    @LegoDork 2 месяца назад +1

    We can see galaxies that are farther away than the speed of light would allow due to them having been closer to us when the light left them.
    For all intents and purposes, the universe may as well be infinite, because the laws of physics as we currently understand them, and the bounds they give, have some pretty hard limits. There are certainly things outside of those limits that we can never know.

  • @michaelnoname1518
    @michaelnoname1518 2 месяца назад

    The image said “Older than you think”. I thought Simon was going to say that he is older than we all think he is! 😂

  • @koolkeef
    @koolkeef 2 месяца назад

    That last story is pretty damn wild considering that modern seismologists can't predict earthquakes that far in advance, or at least their ability to is in dispute.

  • @lilmuon
    @lilmuon 2 месяца назад +1

    Hence my reference username to being a Muon with the atoms and the particles beyond what make sense to most humans... Ahhh, science. :3 Thanks, Simon and team!! :D

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden24195 2 месяца назад +2

    I have a few things to comment: First, what about writers of "fiction" who have predicted things that have come to pass, such as Jules Verne who wrote of space travel and complex submarines, or the writers of "The Jetsons" who wrote of television-telephones and the like? Next, the first entry discussed in this video about Yosef ben Matityahu caused me to think of a Christian by the name of John who lived during the time of Rome's prosecution of Christians. This Christian man, John, found himself at one point hiding in exile from the Roman authorities. While in his exile and angry at Roman authority, John wrote a manifesto which predicted the end of the world as was known. This reminds me of a man from more recent history named Ted Kaczynski, who also went into hidden exile and wrote an "end of the world" manifesto. Other than the time span between the two men, the biggest differences resulting from their respective manifestos, Ted Kaczynski's led to his capture, thus ending the terror of the labeled "Unabomber," while the Christian John's manifesto was adopted by past Christian authorities into the Bible and labeled "The Book of Revelations." (Hope you comprehend what I'm getting at here.)
    Finally, the concept of an animal giving birth to a different, or evolutionary evolved animal would answer the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The answer would have to be, "The egg." As the animal preceding the egg would not have been a chicken, so it would have to be the egg from which the chicken emerged.
    (Oh, btw, I find it difficult to comprehend how anything could suddenly exist when nothing existed before. 0 x 0 = 0. I hope this whole comment inspires thoughtful contemplation as opposed to aggressive hostility.) 😉😁

    • @dankubicki2895
      @dankubicki2895 2 месяца назад +3

      I think the Jetsons got a lot of ideas from Nikola Tesla, who predicted modern telephony and electronics. Jules Verne, that guy might have been original, unless he got it from DaVinci. I guess my point is that intellectuals used to be more of artists than they are now.

    • @bunyipdragon9499
      @bunyipdragon9499 2 месяца назад +1

      My eighth grade teacher wasn't happy when I figured out the chicken and the egg thing. I'm not particularly clever, just very logical.

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 2 месяца назад +1

      @@bunyipdragon9499 nice.

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 2 месяца назад +1

      There was actually no evidence that John "was angry" at Roman authorities. His writings tend to be all about the love of Jesus. Also, Revelation used imagery bizarre enough that I believe he saw something beyond our comprehension. If he was writing a work predicting the end of the known world it would have been a little ... less ... difficult to understand WTF he was saying.

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 2 месяца назад

      @@richardthomas5362 fair enough, but I do find it illogical that his bizarre writings which were written while in an exile due to religious persecution, were given the credentials to be included into the Bible as to being the divine plan for the end of the world. A prediction that is still held up as to being "fact" (more or less, depending on who you ask.) I just don't believe it is in humanities best interest to put so much stock into such a questionable source. Please do understand that I do trust the authenticity of Biblical text, but I question the motivations of those who decided what should or should not have been included in the first place as it has become better understood today that there were many nefarious reasons for some things to be included or excluded by the residing authorities/powers of the time.
      (edit: prosecution to persecution)

  • @theonecalleddoc
    @theonecalleddoc 2 месяца назад

    Fact boy, I need more compelling casual criminalist or decoding the unknown!

  • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
    @LiveFreeOrDie2A День назад +1

    So, Anaximander correctly predicted the pseudoscientific fairytale that humans descended from other animals, and that we came from fish. An OG sci-fi writer

  • @geograph-ology4343
    @geograph-ology4343 2 месяца назад +2

    I always thought that a movie on the life of Josephus should be played by a young Woody Allen. A young nebbish is made general and sees the Romans approach, he tells everyone they have to surrender but they balk at the thought. The Romans gain the advantage, and he then tells the survivors they must surrender, and they threaten to kill him. He says "JK" and comes up with a suicide plan where he is guaranteed to survive. He surrenders to the Romans and says he will convince his fellow Jews that the Romans are good guys. It does not work. He exacts a promise from Titus not to destroy the Temple but it gets destroyed. He retires to Rome to write books on how if Jews listened to him, they would be partners in Empire.

    • @testfire3000
      @testfire3000 2 месяца назад +3

      Hahahaha, and I would go watch that movie.

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 2 месяца назад +1

      Woody Allen has some humor which was dryer than the wilderness through which Moses led the Jews for 40 years, looking for a land in the middle east which didn't have oil.

  • @user-ez3oj9oq9e
    @user-ez3oj9oq9e 2 месяца назад +1

    I 👍 the background music

  • @ehegarty2010
    @ehegarty2010 2 месяца назад

    Not one person with a lot of predictions getting one right, but one person out of a lot of people getting one right.

  • @Joy-TheLazyCatLady
    @Joy-TheLazyCatLady 2 месяца назад +1

    They have the best people names in ancient history. I love hearing them all because I am weird like that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @Demo-critus
    @Demo-critus 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for the name check 😂

  • @MultiCappie
    @MultiCappie 2 месяца назад +1

    And who exactly were the twitwaffles who burned all of Anaximander's writings?

  • @helicalactual
    @helicalactual 2 месяца назад

    for the Vedas, you could say that it all collapses into a black hole, then the black holes become Nairi, until there is a stimulus which causes entropy to violently propagate.

  • @brendafulmernickel1218
    @brendafulmernickel1218 2 месяца назад

    Do they believe that I’d sit and seriously watch any of this!? My intuition is greater than they can imagine!

  • @Erevos85
    @Erevos85 2 месяца назад

    That dog in the beginning of the video is *chef's kiss*

  • @Slygrin1
    @Slygrin1 2 месяца назад +1

    Jeez, close the close door!

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 2 месяца назад

    That bit about Anaximander of Miletus is interesting because I had always been confused as to how in the catholic deuterocanonical book The Wisdom of Solomon 19:18-19 it mentions water creatures turning into land creatures and vice versa. This book was written around 200BC at the earliest, so hundreds of years after Anaximander of Miletus lived, but perhaps that's all that remainded of his ideas after the greek-jewish exchange of culture and ideas that took place post Alexander The Great?
    And if anyone is wondering scholars aren't sure of the intended meaning behind Wisdom 19:18-19 so what's written down in english translations of it are purely literal. Although it's suspected that it was utilizing a common analogy for the time (the context seems to imply an analogy that all things change with time, even things we consider unchangable) that's lost its original meaning.

  • @stevencavanagh7990
    @stevencavanagh7990 2 месяца назад

    So I have a theory on the expansion of the Universe.
    the Universe is like an elastic band. before you pick it up it is inert and motion less (Before the Big Bang), when you start to stretch it (The Big Bang), it expands till you are unable to stretch it any further, (the Universe expanding), but if you keep trying to stretch it past this point, one of two things happen,
    1. the Elastic Band snaps back (The Big Crunch)
    2. it Snaps

  • @dedheddred1773
    @dedheddred1773 Месяц назад

    3:50 bros mom is definitely his aunt as well 😂

  • @UNATCOHanka
    @UNATCOHanka 2 месяца назад +2

    Hiranyagarbha = Hiranya + Garbha = Golden + Womb for anyone wondering

  • @user-wc2lu8rs8x
    @user-wc2lu8rs8x 2 месяца назад +2

    Hello? Peter? Is it you I'm looking for?

  • @Lords1997
    @Lords1997 2 месяца назад +1

    To think that 1500yrs ago we knew just about half of what we already know… and that it’s only been the last 200yrs where we’ve started to advance again. With the last 20-50yrs being the most successful so far.

    • @testfire3000
      @testfire3000 2 месяца назад

      Go back in time 100 years and that same statement would be true!

  • @systematic101
    @systematic101 2 месяца назад +2

    I still think the universe could just be in the early stage of expansion. Just like the first fraction of a second of an explosion it’s accelerating. For all we know the deceleration could happen in a few billion years. If it is cyclical I wonder if life in the 2nd half thinks the universe starts at set size and the shrinks?

  • @sremska9
    @sremska9 2 месяца назад +1

    How did the Greeks knew about atoms? Honest question

  • @jonathanhughes8679
    @jonathanhughes8679 2 месяца назад +1

    We really don’t know how old the vedas are. What do I mean ? Also there’s a black hole crunch. What do I mean? Well as enough time goes by and the black holes actually start to eat each other increasing there there gravity and eventually as they come together, faster and faster exerting more and more gravity on space time things will slow and start falling back to the center of gravity and eventually pull everything back into it even swallowing the fabric of the universe. So everything that ever existed will crunch into a singularity and eventually rupture forth,reseeding all of space and time.
    The funniest or most interesting part of this is that it fits the circular universe described by Hinduism. Also this has real implications for humanity because each time it would become a reboot. And every time a new universe starts it’s probably started over in the exact same nature repeating everything next time exactly like this time..

  • @sohrabroozbahani4700
    @sohrabroozbahani4700 2 месяца назад

    We tend to underestimate our ancestors, their world was harsher and a lot more unforgiving, they had to be sharper and keener than us today to make it through, the fact that they managed to figure that much with far less evidence and tools is some proof of their merits.

  • @bobcabot
    @bobcabot 2 месяца назад +1

    that is not really a prediction - rather a conclusion, which logic dictates...

  • @kirillsukhomlin3036
    @kirillsukhomlin3036 2 месяца назад

    - Why do you show old church slavonic (which is about 1000 AD) script upside down at 12:42?
    - It's all Greek to me

  • @EddyFeyen
    @EddyFeyen 2 месяца назад

    Well you convinced me to sup

  • @albertchurchill4845
    @albertchurchill4845 2 месяца назад

    A person can receive information that is otherwise impossible to know. I knew that a vehicle displaying all the signs of making a right turn would drive straight. There was no way I would have guessed; I just knew. I avoided a collision by heeding that thought.

  • @feroxsayshello518
    @feroxsayshello518 2 месяца назад

    The very last prediction about the earthquake could have been as simple as catching on to animals' behavior prior to the earthquake happening, and maybe things are a little less complicated. I'm not sure if I have the idea right, but I heard that a lot of times when we are presented with a multitude of possibilities, the simplest one might be the most realistic choice or answer. I'm probably not saying that right, but I hope I got the meaning across 😅

  • @turtleboy4111
    @turtleboy4111 2 месяца назад +3

    Hail Simon!

  • @TK199999
    @TK199999 2 месяца назад +1

    You did mention the Four Elements of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water and didn't do a refence to the band or Fifth Element movie? What has the RUclipss come too?

    • @feroxsayshello518
      @feroxsayshello518 2 месяца назад

      Not everyone worships the fifth element movie. It's weird and off putting and I grew up watching it. I even have a crush on Mila Jovovich and I STILL can't stand that one. It's not automatically awesome just because someone calls it a cult movie. Sorry 😐

  • @FlapJacks7
    @FlapJacks7 2 месяца назад

    Interesting

  • @stapleman007
    @stapleman007 2 месяца назад

    0:20 One person making a million predictions is equivalent to a million people each making one prediction.

  • @juliemarkham4332
    @juliemarkham4332 2 месяца назад

    Are you related to the artist of Whistler's Mother (McNeill)?

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 2 месяца назад +5

    0:45 - Chapter 1 - The ascension of emperor vespasian
    3:10 - Chapter 2 - The atom
    5:35 - Chapter 3 - Germ theory
    8:45 - Chapter 4 - The big bang
    10:30 - Chapter 5 - Evolution

  • @Owen_Brightblade
    @Owen_Brightblade 2 месяца назад +2

    Simon when I die will you read my eulogy?

  • @akhilsalaria7970
    @akhilsalaria7970 2 месяца назад

    Make video on Indian USBRL Railway project in Himalayas linking KASHMIR to JAMMU and rest of INDIA by train

  • @lazytommy0
    @lazytommy0 2 месяца назад +1

    GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
    like a day ago, i had a thought about "what if simon covered ancient predictions" and i was gonna suggest it lol

  • @markthomas8975
    @markthomas8975 2 месяца назад

    the big freeze is another space expansion thing...I think.

  • @chrishughes2957
    @chrishughes2957 2 месяца назад

    please bring back the brainfood podcast 💙

  • @danbhakta
    @danbhakta 2 месяца назад

    10:33 Looks like the Dos Equis guy. The most interesting man in the world.

  • @TheSokodelic
    @TheSokodelic 2 месяца назад

    Could it be possible that our 3 dimensional existence causes an incorrect perception of the expansion of the universe? Perhaps some quantum extra dimensional calculus is involved whereby the expansion, in reality, is really the universe expanding into itself. Since the universe is supposedly infinite, or theoretically, what we might wish to perceive as a one directional expansion, is inherently flawed.

  • @larryphillips4164
    @larryphillips4164 2 месяца назад

    One day in the great planet of the United States of mars, people will be able to throw their trash into a cabinet and that cabinet will tell you what other trash it needs in order to build certain items for that cabinet to spit out.
    “Trash cabinet”: please see your current list of items I can make with the current materials…

  • @emiliospowerballer1441
    @emiliospowerballer1441 2 месяца назад

    How about opening Timurs tomb? 🤔

  • @stevensmiley7820
    @stevensmiley7820 2 месяца назад

    I dont think the universe expanding quicker really speaks against the big crunch theory because thats just as far as we can see and tell we dont know whats beyond that expanse

  • @tripsaplenty1227
    @tripsaplenty1227 2 месяца назад

    I've always thought Josephus was a Roman mole from the start. His account of his capture is the only one we have and it's pretty convenient he was still alive to surrender. I have no evidence but that's definitely an ancient story that seems untrue.

  • @jedison2441
    @jedison2441 2 месяца назад

    The transition music didn't seem to fit very well, but it still gets the job done.

  • @raehughes6465
    @raehughes6465 2 месяца назад

    Why did the 1st century Roman prediction (Vespasian) show 16th century armies?

  • @danielgreen1124
    @danielgreen1124 2 месяца назад

    Rabbi Nachmanides also posited a big band style origin roughly 1000 years ago.

  • @navneetnair
    @navneetnair 2 месяца назад

    Krimi is the general word for germs in many Indian languages. Also hiranyagarbha is possibly correct as there is definitely more and more support for multiple big bangs. Folks should take more attention of ancient Indian philosophy. Also I’m sure the vaibhashika theory of atomism predated democritus by…

  • @giustinoscalise3177
    @giustinoscalise3177 2 месяца назад

    The problem with disputing the big crunch or the big bounce, is the explaining away the insane amount of superfluids and how they'd react under the pressure.

  • @jennyanydots2389
    @jennyanydots2389 2 месяца назад +3

    Simon sounds hammered up again.

  • @KeithPrince-cp3me
    @KeithPrince-cp3me 2 месяца назад +16

    The Roman architect Vitruvius in his second book on architecture also outlined his theory that humans had descended from animals. In medieval Tibetan it was believed that humans and bears were descended from a common ancestor, replace bears, the concept was a remarkably modern one, replace bear with chimpanzee and you have our current understanding of primate evolution in a nutshell.

    • @yawpitchroll
      @yawpitchroll 2 месяца назад +5

      Humans and bears do have a common ancestor. Go back far enough and humans and insects do too.

    • @1ntwndrboy198
      @1ntwndrboy198 2 месяца назад +5

      The mushroom is closer related to us than plants 😮.

    • @jimmyquinn6984
      @jimmyquinn6984 2 месяца назад +10

      I love ancient intellectuals lmao. “Here’s a book about architecture and also my theory suggesting the existence of evolution. It also has a borscht recipe”

    • @bryn494
      @bryn494 2 месяца назад +1

      Replace bear with bigfoot and ;)

  • @jimmydepersis3130
    @jimmydepersis3130 2 месяца назад +1

    Hey Simon, your door is open. Just a heads-up, that's all.

  • @madgoatking
    @madgoatking 2 месяца назад

    I remember subscribing back when he had no beard..