Overnight, your Ancient Coin Collection becomes WORTHLESS

LOL:

An "educated" individual supposedly states the Roman Empire did not exist.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/history-tiktokers-viral-claim-ancient-193234464.html

Signs of the times...

 

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Argh. I was so happy I received my package with 2 coins today. ROMAN EMPIRE DENARII.
I will request a full refund.

 

I thought it seemed too good to be true. Thank Zeus I also have Greek coins!
Just painfully stupid. She looks like she's 14 and has dyed her hair gray to look older and distinguished.

 

Tiktok is packed with people making up garbage for views. Anyone surprised?

Spoiler: spoiler

It's not the first time @momllennial_ has made provocative history-themed videos. In one video posted in late October, she appeared to suggest that the name "Jesus Christ" could be translated to "clitoris healer." In June, she posted a TikTok where she appeared to speculate that Alexander the Great was actually a woman.

 

Twitter & TikTok both are some of the most worthless piles of steaming dung on the internet. I really would love to see them gone.

Neither have any useful purpose.

 

How many 'Mericans are in La-La land these days???

File it in the "alternate facts" category.

 

TikTok is all about getting views. People will make up anything just to get attention, and she succeeded.

Luckily, though, I focus on Greek coins.

 

Check out this one:
https://www.theonion.com/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-1819571808

 

The sad thing is that too many people would believe an article like that.

 

In the 1980s I read a book about Libya by a named Pierre Rossi, "La verte Libye de Kadhafi". Of course it is mere Kadhafi propaganda (but it was published by a serious publishing house). It stated that the Roman Empire never existed, that it was an Arab Carthaginian Empire whose capital, Carthage, was not in Tunisia but in Leptis Magna, Libya. But the medieval Christian monks falsified history by forging all the ancient literature, and invented a so-called Roman Empire in order to justify colonialism...

 

Great timing DR! I suppose we might be concerned that the line between truth and lies is getting harder and harder to distinguish but the fact remains that separating historical fiction from history has been hard for millennia. How many of us have coins that celebrate defeats that were called victories? How many theories in whatever field you have studied have reversed depending on who you have read in your lifetime? Low fat vs Keto? Hard toothbrushes or soft? There have always been books promoting stupidity. The difference now is people who are paid by the word no longer have to write. Who do you trust? Some of us make errors accidentally; others (then, now and tomorrow) know that if you tell a big enough lie, some of the people will believe it and others will think they are better off agreeing with you anyway.

History is less studying what actually happened than it is studying what people believed happened and/or convinced other people it was true.

 

Real OGs will remember this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

 

LOL, I enjoy the Onion. Great humor.

 

These trolls just seek attention, the only thing we can do is not give any response at all, but the media as always, make anything famous for clicks and views!

 

Oh no... I thought the article was real... you just burst my fragile bubble...


LOL, I am just SHOCKED at how many folks are SHEEP and consume all this CRAP! It amazes me.

 

Recently my wife recommended a close friend to try yoga to reduce her stress.

"I'm not going to join a cult," was her response.

And I'm not even going to get started on the more political (even though they shouldn't be) nonsense.

Never underestimate the stupidity of human beings.

 

My collection is already worthless lol.

 

LOL

 

'Never underestimate the stupidity of human beings.'

My science group has decided it was the "stupid dust" that the last comet left in the path of the Earth. We have another one coming soon, so be prepared for Stupid 2.

jim

 

Sad that a scholar will engage in decades of hard work and is lucky if a few people read his or her work, yet this lady can post ridiculous nonsense and have 100K likes—not just “views”— but likes!