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So what do you beleive should have been left buried or never discovered? Why?

For me it it would be mind reading tech and brainwashing (cultish type).

Portable timepieces. Clocks that could be mounted anywhere or worn on a wrist or in a pocket is source of all evil in the modern world. *nod*

We would have been better off if clocks had remained something that weighed a thousand pounds and had to be mounted on the tops of town halls.

Man-thongs. Eugh.

So what do you beleive should have been left buried or never discovered? Why?

For me it it would be mind reading tech and brainwashing (cultish type).

The suburbs.

The world was much better when industry, scholarship, and business were in cities, and agriculture and the mansions of the leisurely rich were in the countryside. Suburban sprawl where everything is a bland mixture of retail, business, industrial, and residential is a disaster to the American landscape.

But I should point out that so far these are all inventions. Inventions have the capacity to change the world for the worse.

Discoveries are about knowledge. Knowing more is almost never a bad thing. Would a third of Europe have been better off if they had died, but no one ever figured out that it was the same disease? The Jews who were killed in riots as scapegoats would certainly have been better off if it had been discovered that it was because of the parasitic bugs that traveled on rats.

The A-bomb or the A-team.

Cell phones. I don't like the way that people can contact me wherever I am, 24/7.
On the other hand, I do like the way I can contact them. Maybe if there were a one-way cell phone? That's what we need, a one-way phone. And it would be mine.

4E D&D. one of the worst ideas I can think of.

Olives. Damn, they're disgusting. *shudders*

Cell phones. I don't like the way that people can contact me wherever I am, 24/7.
On the other hand, I do like the way I can contact them. Maybe if there were a one-way cell phone? That's what we need, a one-way phone. And it would be mine.
You can always turn it off when you're not calling people...

Olives. Damn, they're disgusting. *shudders*

I allow this crazy talk only because it means more olives for me. ;)

So what do you beleive should have been left buried or never discovered? Why?

That Jesus guy that died nearly 2000 years ago should've been left buried, IMO. Wouldn't've given that Mohammed guy ideas either...

Rolling squid;13226697']4E D&D. one of the worst ideas I can think of.

Me, too. Sort of. I'm sure I'll love it once I see it.

But for now, I'm thinking, "I bought all this shit and now it's useless?"

Fixed.
Try the manual ;)

You can always turn it off when you're not calling people...

Cell phones I don't know how to use. I don't like the way that people can contact me wherever I am, 24/7.
On the other hand, I do like the way I can contact them. Maybe if there were a one-way cell phone? That's what we need, a one-way phone. And it would be mine.

Fixed.

I allow this crazy talk only because it means more olives for me. ;)

Please, eat them all and their young'uns! Wretched... things...

I allow this crazy talk only because it means more olives for me. ;)

*nods8 bow down to our olive overlords. ;):p

mmmmmm.....ovlives.

So what do you beleive should have been left buried or never discovered? Why?

For me it it would be mind reading tech and brainwashing (cultish type).

Absolutely nothing should ever be left undiscovered or buried. Knowledge should not be feared, no matter what it is.

Anything I don't agree with.

Absolutely not. Aside from the fact that it's not possible, there is nothing to fear from knowledge. Only the people who use it should be feared, because they're the ones that can use it for either good or evil.

Portable timepieces. Clocks that could be mounted anywhere or worn on a wrist or in a pocket is source of all evil in the modern world. *nod*

We would have been better off if clocks had remained something that weighed a thousand pounds and had to be mounted on the tops of town halls.I'll see that and even raise it a bit. 1000-lb sundials in the town square, rather than something that would work even in the dark!

Absolutely nothing should ever be left undiscovered or buried. Knowledge should not be feared, no matter what it is.Okay, that's true. But banning the actual use of portable timepieces is something I'd wholeheartedly support! *nod*

Absolutely nothing should ever be left undiscovered or buried. Knowledge should not be feared, no matter what it is.
Absolutely not. Aside from the fact that it's not possible, there is nothing to fear from knowledge. Only the people who use it should be feared, because they're the ones that can use it for either good or evil.
My view, too. Increasing humanity's store of knowledge in every field is good.

I don't think I need to know about the acceptable level of rat feces that goes into my food

I also second LG's idea but go further and ban time keeping all together

most of discovery is out of need rather than curiosity. I'm sure the first time someone ate and artichoke or a clam it was because he was hungry (probally seeing an animal eat it first)

As for undiscovered : War,Murder,Torture these should never have been discovered and expolited.

**exception Olives - I like to drop them into vodka and watch them drowned then chew on there soft bodies and spit out thier pits of hearts. Killing baby olives is just wrong. ***

So what do you beleive should have been left buried or never discovered? Why?

For me it it would be mind reading tech and brainwashing (cultish type).
Tobacco, and booze.

Patriarchy and Agriculture. Woo deep ecology and crazy ecofeminist theories.

I'm only semi-serious... :p

The Arc of the Covenant. Whatever you do DONT look in the box, it will turn your face into wax and then melt it.

What should be left undiscovered...

I know!

What my mates hairy arse looks like *shudder*

I allow this crazy talk only because it means more olives for me. ;)

All yours :)

That the Internet was a series of tubes.

I was fine thinking that there were pixies and faeries running the Internet! *hmph!*

Antediluvian gods with squid-like heads.

So what do you beleive should have been left buried or never discovered? Why?

For me it it would be mind reading tech and brainwashing (cultish type).

Mind-reading tech does not exist, and brainwashing is a side-effect of humanity's status as a social animal.

So what do you beleive should have been left buried or never discovered? Why?
"Alternative" spellings. (Yes, yes, I know, if nobody had started spelling 'alternatively' we'd be stuck the Elk knows where, language-wise)

The content of that container someone left in the fridge at some unreconstructable point of time. Experience should have taught me better than to inspect the interior of containers that appear to have been forgotten in the fridge.

What gelatin is.

What my flatmate looks like when the chronically bulging-till-bursting-point bathrobe actually does surrender to the strain.

Cell phones. I don't like the way that people can contact me wherever I am, 24/7.


On the other hand, the 'off' button on a cellphone or the metaphorical 'ignore' function of one's brain is something we urgently need to unearth.


P.S. This thread does, of course, vitally lack the obligatory Douglas Adams quote: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Mind-reading tech does not exist,

Thats what you think....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7094526.stm

Thats what you think....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7094526.stm

Once they successfully translate the brain pulses into words, then it will exist. At the moment, it does not.

Tobacco, and booze.

I'll agree with tobacco, but without booze much of Europe and Asia would have died of dysentery.

Antediluvian gods with squid-like heads.

Yes, He has been discovered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop#Parallels_in_fiction).

Olives. Damn, they're disgusting. *shudders*

Here I was thinking you were just some snarky, sarcastic Swede with a penchant for hairy chests. Now it turns out you're my soul mate as well. I propose a unification of all anti-olive revolutionaries! Viva la non-olives!