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morfe M
morfe Jul 31, 2003 17:24:58
Replying to TomBo

I've lived in a council block and watched 2 years pass by in as many minutes (to my memory), then again, I've spent a week walking the land, and it has seemed like a month. Time is an abstract concept. We are born, we die, inbetween is an experience? I can't believe that ancient people's were any more conscious of their life being short than we are?

F FourWinds
FourWinds Jul 31, 2003 18:20:57
Replying to morfe

We are separated from death by sterile hospitals and less and less accidents caused by Ugg not a being very good aim with his spear.

Certainly, the 'ancients' would have been much more aware of death. We have butchers to do our culling, we don't see that. The kill would have been part of everybodies very, very harsh life.

Infant mortality would have been frighteningly high. More death in child birth. It wasn't a walk in the woods sniffing bluebells was it?

Life was fragile and short and they would have known it far more than we do.