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seraphima
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6/10/2026, 12:32:15 AM
No word for the color blue
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goyim
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6/10/2026, 5:21:20 AM
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I have dived into this "ancient cultures inability to see blue" and found the answer to be not quite spectacular or mind-blowing as the initial claim sounds. Nevertheless it's a fun thing to think about and even neater to see how language and words shapes our ability to perceive colors and tell them apart. 
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seraphima
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6/10/2026, 9:37:39 AM
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Thanks!!! No, I don’t think there’s any particularly fascinating conspiracy theory but the reasons why given by so many reputable sources are just plain ridiculous. When I read through anicient texts, most of the material is fantastical, yes, but modern people dismiss all of it as folklore or myth. It’s like the ancients, etc. were lying about everything. We know modern interpretations of history can be skewed, to put it lightly, but we automatically think that a huge body of literature is fiction anyway. I mean, medieval texts show humans as part animal a lot. Was everything metaphorical and symbolic back then?
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goyim
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6/10/2026, 10:36:00 AM
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That's a good question and definitely was my problem with biblical texts for awhile was the level of metaphors and symbolism and decoding I felt was needed to convey simple lessons. I believe there's a lot more truth in ancient texts or at least truth in terms of how they saw the world, or were interpreting benign events in these spectacular ways that made it more intriguing and important to the reader who would be likely drawn to believing in magical stories.
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